Email becomes a DeliveryChannel driven by rules, and the Team pipeline stops being
its own thing. `teamNotify.forumPost` now emits an event; a rule decides who is
mailed, through which template, and how often at most. One walk goes forum write
-> events.emit -> rule -> outbox -> worker -> email channel -> template -> SMTP.
Seven decisions settled by the org lead before any code:
- email only moves; the push tickle and the Discord bridge stay direct calls
- the EVENT carries its access-checked audience, and `members` resolves to it
- the four Team rules are seeded DISABLED, with an admin banner and a note
- team_notification_prefs stays, read by the engine as a scoped preference
- the payload wins and a structural projection fills the gaps
- the digest keeps computing at send time; only its state generalizes
- an unsubscribe token turns off the channel it names, and nothing else
Three defects found while building it:
- `email.button` never absolutized its href, while image and itemList both
did. Every rule-driven CTA would have been a dead relative link, because a
trigger's url variables are validated site-relative by construction.
- Phase 4a enqueued digest-mode recipients for a drain that Phase 6 decided
not to build. An outbox row snapshots the payload and so has none of the
three properties the digest design exists for, including the security one.
- the digest's send-log row carried no address_hash while the instant row
beside it did, which would have made half the mail uncorrelatable in Phase 9.
Also: engagement_digest_state + a replay-safe backfill, engagement_outbox.scope_key,
a v2 unsubscribe token that still verifies v1 forever, and the canonical
/public/engagement/unsubscribe pair with the old /public/teams path kept
permanently — mail is not editable once sent.
Verified with 1464 server tests, 324 client tests, and a live rig (MariaDB +
Mailpit + a real Team) covering the instant mail, the digest, the generic
template, a pre-migration unsubscribe link and the backfill's replay-safety.
Docs: RunicGateway/docs#TBD
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every subject and body moves out of `mailer.js` into `engagement_templates` rows an
operator can edit. A relocation, not a regression: nothing that sends mail today
starts depending on an operator authoring something first.
- `email.*` block family in its own registry, sharing the page family's envelope
walk and validate-then-sanitize order by binding rather than by copy.
- A server-side renderer producing both parts of a multipart message; the text
part is byte-identical to the literals this commit deletes.
- Nine seeded templates, six of them wired now; the seeder's `customized = 0`
guard lives in the UPDATE's own WHERE.
- `renderByKey` falls back to the shipped seed when a row is missing or unusable,
so no failure of the table can stop a password reset.
Also fixes `check:hosts` reading the template key `auth.email-verify` as the
hostname `auth.email`.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Engagement Phase 1 (docs/website/ENGAGEMENT.md §1.2a, §3.1, §3.2). A
subtraction and a replacement in one commit, because leaving the OAuth2
flow half-wired across a release is worse than either end state.
Deleted, per the §1.2a inventory: GET /admin/email/connect/start and
/connect/callback, the connectStart/connectCallback controllers with the
email_oauth_tx signed cookie, the PKCE verifier and CSRF nonce plumbing,
the https://mail.google.com/ scope, the borrowed `google` auth-providers
client, the OAuth2 nodemailer transport with its smtp.gmail.com:465
literals, the refresh-token decrypt in the model, and the client's
Connect Gmail button, redirect banner and six Gmail error strings.
`provider` and `refresh_token_enc` stay as columns under the
additive-only discipline, unread.
Added: a mail transport registry (server/src/engagement/transports) with
`smtp` as the sole registration. `credentialFields` is the single
declaration the admin form renders, the sanitizer filters against, and
the "is it secret" answer comes from, so adding a transport is a
registration rather than four edits. email_config gains transport /
credential_enc (one encrypted JSON blob, since the field list is the
transport's to declare) / reply_to.
All six call sites keep their exact failure contracts: the contact
form's mailto fallback, the invite's copyable link, the reset's generic
200, and sendTeamNotification's never-throws. One deliberate behaviour
change: `enabled` now gates every sender rather than only isConfigured()
— the connect flow used to set it as a side effect, and with a credential
form the toggle has to mean what it says.
Send-test becomes the real verification. Under OAuth2 the sender came
back from Google and was guaranteed to belong to the credential;
operator-typed, it can be refused, so failures name the sender and the
SPF/DMARC reason (§1.2a consequence 2).
G22, the silent degradation: an upgraded deployment backfills to smtp
with no credentials and every sink politely does nothing. The admin
dashboard now warns when the deprecated Gmail token is present and no
replacement credential is, so the one deployment this happens to is told.
A fresh install has never had mail and is not nagged.
Guardrails: new `npm run check:hosts` (§3.2 rule 4) with its own
self-test, wired into pr-checks before the install; routes.manifest and
routes.guards regenerated (-2 routes).
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Retire env-var SMTP basic-auth and send the contact form through Gmail over
OAuth2 (SMTP XOAUTH2), configured in Admin -> Settings -> Email via an in-app
"Connect Gmail" consent flow. Reuses the existing google SSO OAuth client; the
captured refresh token is stored AES-GCM-encrypted (write-only over the API,
never returned), mirroring the auth-provider and Discord-bot secret patterns.
- schema: new email_config singleton table (mirrors bot_config)
- model: emailConfig.{db,model} with encrypted refresh token + getSafe/getWithSecret
- mailer: nodemailer OAuth2 transport (client id/secret from the google provider
row), contact recipient = contact_email setting, mailto: fallback preserved,
plus sendTest()
- routes/controller: /admin/email config, connect start+callback (ssoState CSRF
+ PKCE), test, disconnect
- client: EmailDelivery section on the Settings page + api methods; Settings copy
now spells out that contact_email is the delivery recipient
- docs/env: drop SMTP_*/CONTACT_TO from env examples; update README/BACKEND_DESIGN
- tests: emailConfig.model + mailer suites (8 new; full suite 142 pass)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XKeCQEJZr1AFJN4Bgcmvh3