SwiftDrop

SwiftDrop, or smtp2swift, receives email messages over SMTP and writes them to a configured OpenStack Swift container where they await further processing by some other process.

It consists of:

• a docker image;
• with a postfix SMTP daemon;
• some glue to make Postfix runnable inside docker;
• and a before-queue filter that stores incoming messages in swift.

The messages end up in Maildir-format inside the cur/ path in the configured Swift container.

Basic usage involves:

• running the docker image;
• sending a message/rfc822 email message over SMTP on port 25;
• seeing the message end up in the Swift container, named something like cur/1567067375.M6337175P228.f87ce1e3553a,S=241, where the first digits are the delivery unixtime.

See run-docker.sh for a sample invocation.

Processing the delivered mail is beyond the scope of this project, but a suggested operation is:

• listing the files in cur/;
• taking the first -- using a key-based global lock to lock that file -- downloading it, and moving it (copy+delete) to processing/;
• doing the processing;
• then -- again, using a lock -- moving it from processing/ to one of done/, failed/ or retry/;
• and using a separate job to delete very old messages.

See swiftq-example.py for sample dequeueing.

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the GPLv3 license.

Configuration

You can configure accounts for SwiftDrop using environment variables in the form SWIFTDROP_<SECTION>_<OPTION>.

You must specify at least one account where SECTION=DEFAULT. The configuration options can be specified using UPPERCASE.

For example, a configuration with one Swift account that distributes incoming mail over an acceptance and a production container, for three distinct e-mail addresses, could be configured as follows:

# Postfix configuration (read by start wrapper and/or confd)
# - postfix hostname, prefer having it resolvable, also used in HELO
MYHOSTNAME=swiftdrop.example.com
# - swiftdrop destinations (see also SWIFTDROP_xxx_RECIPIENTS)
RECIPIENTS='[
  "[email protected]", "[email protected]", "[email protected]"]'
# - forwards to other destinations (postmaster, bounces, ...)
FORWARDS='{
  "[email protected]": "[email protected]",
  "[email protected]": "[email protected]",
  "[email protected]": "[email protected]"}'
[email protected]

# Swiftdrop configuration read by confd
[email protected],[email protected]
SWIFTDROP_DEFAULT_CONTAINER=acceptance
# Swiftdrop configuration as used by swiftclient.Connection
SWIFTDROP_DEFAULT_AUTH_VERSION=3
SWIFTDROP_DEFAULT_AUTHURL=https://keystone-server/v3
SWIFTDROP_DEFAULT_USER=myuser
SWIFTDROP_DEFAULT_KEY=xxx
SWIFTDROP_DEFAULT_OS_OPTIONS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_NAME=project_domain
SWIFTDROP_DEFAULT_OS_OPTIONS_PROJECT_NAME=project
SWIFTDROP_DEFAULT_OS_OPTIONS_USER_DOMAIN_NAME=user_domain

# Swiftdrop configuration for a secondary address;
# note that values from DEFAULT are available here too,
# and need to be overwritten with blanks if they conflict.
# For sanity, the DEFAULT above is the catch-all, and this
# one handles only the "production" address.
[email protected]
SWIFTDROP_PRODUCTION_CONTAINER=production
...

The confd binary will convert the environment to /etc/swiftdrop.ini, among others, during startup. Yielding a config that may look somewhat like this:

[DEFAULT]
recipients = [email protected],[email protected]
container = acceptance
auth_version = 3
authurl = https://keystone-server/v3
user = myuser
key = xxx
os_options_project_name = project
os_options_project_domain_name = project_domain
os_options_user_domain_name = user_domain

[PRODUCTION]
recipients = [email protected]
container = production
...

Completed subtickets

• Docker + Stretch image
• Postfix (3+)
• Python3.5 (comes with postfix install)
• Config of Swift accounts, and mail destinations through ENV
• main.cf config, for relay of desired recipients to Swift
• master.cf config
• Check Swift account (auth) on startup
• Only 2xx incoming mail if it is actually uploaded to Swift (otherwise it sends: 451 4.3.0 Error: queue file write error) by using the before-queue smtpd_proxy_filter
• Describe if/how do we cope with duplicates (email message-id cannot be used as globablly unique value)
• Add example code to dequeue stored mail (if possible with minimal dependencies): see examples/swiftq-example.py
• Opportunistic TLS has been observed to work out of the box.
• Hosting at OSSO in ossoio-k8s + swift2019.
• Allow forwarding of postmaster@ and other names to elsewhere.
• Enlarge message limits to 50MB.

Optional subtickets

• Add basic SPF checks?
• Add DKIM checks?
• Add countermeasures against spam / floods / other malicious stuff.
• Add currently implemented cur/MAILDIR scheme in synopsis at the top.
• Check/fix that SSL is kept up to date (both the ca-certificates -- for swift uploads -- and that postfix SSL snakeoil keys are kept up to date).
• Failures are now logged, but K8S is not scraped: do we need an ERRORMAIL (logging) handler?