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fix(instance-admin): enable SMTP test emails - #405
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Performance (perf:) — measurable improvement
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Surface
API (apps/api/)
UI (apps/web/)
Database migration (apps/api/migrations/)
Background jobs (RabbitMQ / queue)
Instance settings / Admin UI
Infra / Docker / CI
What changed
Added an instance-admin-only endpoint that sends a test email using the currently submitted SMTP form values without persisting them.
Refactored SMTP sending so the same delivery logic supports stored and temporary settings.
Made SMTP authentication optional, allowing unauthenticated SMTP servers such as local Mailpit.
Enabled the Email settings page’s test button once host, port, and sender address are valid.
Added loading, success, and accessible error feedback for test-email requests.
Why this approach
The test uses the current form values, so an administrator can verify a new SMTP configuration before saving it. The recipient is the signed-in instance admin’s own email address, avoiding an arbitrary-recipient or open-relay-style endpoint. Test email delivery is synchronous and does not depend on RabbitMQ.
Database / migrations
No schema changes.
Added apps/api/migrations/NNNNNN_<name>.up.sql AND matching .down.sql
Migration is idempotent / safe to re-run on a fresh DB
Migration applied cleanly via database.RunMigrations on startup
Breaking changes
No
Yes — described below
Test plan
npm --prefix apps/web run typecheck
npm run validate (root) — typecheck + lint + prettier + go vet + go test
go test ./... — currently blocked locally because Testcontainers cannot use the configured rootless Docker environment on Windows.
Manual smoke test of the affected flow:
Verify the test button is disabled for incomplete or invalid SMTP settings.
Send a test email to local Mailpit without SMTP authentication.
Send a test email to a Mailpit instance configured with SMTP username/password authentication.
Verify a failed SMTP connection produces a safe error message.
Verify testing works before saving, then save and test again.
Screenshots / recordings (UI changes)
To be added after the manual UI smoke test.
Before
After
Disabled test button in every state
Enabled test button with loading, success, and error feedback
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New Features
Instance administrators can send a test email to their account address using SMTP settings without saving them.
Supports TLS, SSL, or no security, with optional SMTP credentials.
Validates the host, sender address, and port before sending, and displays progress plus success or error feedback.
Bug Fixes
SMTP test-email attempts now time out when the mail server does not respond, rather than waiting indefinitely.
Corrects canceled-state labels for installations that missed the earlier correction.
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The PR adds an instance-admin SMTP test-email flow. The API validates submitted settings and sends a message to the authenticated user. The mail sender handles SMTP security modes and timeouts. The PR also updates migrations for Slack table creation and cancelled-state values.
Adds an authenticated test-email endpoint. It validates submitted settings, sends to the authenticated user’s email, and returns validation or delivery errors.
Instance-admin test controls apps/web/src/api/types.ts, apps/web/src/services/instanceService.ts, apps/web/src/pages/instance-admin/InstanceAdminEmailPage.tsx, apps/web/src/i18n/locales/en/translation.json
Adds the request type and service method. The page validates SMTP fields, submits test emails, disables conflicting actions, and displays sending, success, and error states.
sequenceDiagram
participant InstanceAdminEmailPage
participant instanceSettingsService
participant SendTestEmail
participant SendWithSMTPSettings
participant SMTPServer
InstanceAdminEmailPage->>instanceSettingsService: Submit SMTP test settings
instanceSettingsService->>SendTestEmail: POST test-email request
SendTestEmail->>SendWithSMTPSettings: Send message to authenticated user
SendWithSMTPSettings->>SMTPServer: Connect and submit message
SMTPServer-->>SendWithSMTPSettings: Return SMTP response
SendTestEmail-->>InstanceAdminEmailPage: Return success or error
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Possibly related issues
Devlaner/devlane#402 — The SMTP sender now omits authentication when the username is empty.
Possibly related PRs
Devlaner/devlane#408 — It changes the same SMTP security-mode and authentication behavior, and includes the same migration updates.
Suggested reviewers:martian56
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 44ba3
Rolling back the Slack migration on an upgraded installation could delete existing channel links. Fix the rollback before merging.
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The email handler, SMTP delivery refactor, UI service, page feedback, and related tests support Issue #403. The changes also add unrelated migration work: they renumber the Slack migration as 000014 a…
Remove the Slack migration renumbering and the cancelled-state migration from this pull request, or move them to a separate pull request.
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Docstring coverage is 18.18% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 22 functions across 8 files. (4 skipped: …
Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check
The title is concise, follows Conventional Commits, and clearly identifies the main change: enabling SMTP test emails in Instance Admin.
Description check
The description covers the change, rationale, affected surfaces, tests, rollout, AI use, and checklist. It is mostly complete, but it states 'No schema changes' even though migration files changed, an…
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Issue #403 requires a usable button after required SMTP fields are filled and a real test email through the configured settings. The page enables the action for valid host, port, and sender values. Th…
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The description covers the change, rationale, affected surfaces, tests, rollout, AI use, and checklist. It is mostly complete, but it states 'No schema changes' even though migration files changed, and screenshots are still pending.
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Issue #403 requires a usable button after required SMTP fields are filled and a real test email through the configured settings. The page enables the action for valid host, port, and sender values. The authenticated endpoint sends the current unsaved values to the signed-in admin. Shared SMTP delivery supports authenticated and unauthenticated servers. SMTP tests cover the delivery security modes and failure behavior.
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Explanation
The email handler, SMTP delivery refactor, UI service, page feedback, and related tests support Issue #403. The changes also add unrelated migration work: they renumber the Slack migration as 000014 and add 000015 to correct cancelled state data. These migrations do not support the Instance Admin email test flow. The SMTP security changes are connected to reliable delivery through the configured settings, but the migration changes are not.
Resolution
Remove the Slack migration renumbering and the cancelled-state migration from this pull request, or move them to a separate pull request.
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In `@apps/api/internal/handler/instance.go`:
- Around line 684-690: Move the SMTP test-delivery logic out of SendTestEmail
into the instance email service, exposing a service method that accepts the
required configuration and recipient inputs and performs
mail.SendWithSMTPSettings. Update SendTestEmail to invoke that service and
retain only request binding and HTTP response handling, preserving the existing
error behavior.
In `@apps/api/internal/mail/mail.go`:
- Line 88: Update SendWithSMTPSettings and its caller to accept and propagate
c.Request.Context(), then make sendMailWithConfig use context-aware dialing and
enforce bounded SMTP read/write deadlines in both smtp.SendMail and TLS
branches. Preserve the existing 502 response when the context or SMTP operation
times out.
- Line 101: Update SendWithSMTPSettings so auth is nil when both cfg.Username
and cfg.Password are empty, while preserving smtp.PlainAuth for provided
credentials. In the port-465/SSL branch, call client.Auth only when auth is
non-nil; continue passing auth through smtp.SendMail for the other path.
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Route SMTP test delivery through an application service.
The apps/api/ guidance defines the layering rule as “handler → service → store” and describes handlers as HTTP-shape code that binds requests, calls services, and returns JSON. SendTestEmail instead performs SMTP delivery by calling mail.SendWithSMTPSettings directly. Move this operation into an instance email service, then call that service from the handler.
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In `@apps/api/internal/handler/instance.go` around lines 684 - 690, Move the SMTP
test-delivery logic out of SendTestEmail into the instance email service,
exposing a service method that accepts the required configuration and recipient
inputs and performs mail.SendWithSMTPSettings. Update SendTestEmail to invoke
that service and retain only request binding and HTTP response handling,
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🟠 Major · Enforce STARTTLS when security is "TLS". · apps/api/internal/mail/mail.go:152-153
152-153: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Analyzed with Security Review | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Security Misconfiguration
Reachability: External Exploitability: Difficult CWE:CWE-319 — Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
Enforce STARTTLS when security is "TLS".
sendMailWithConfig does not use security to require STARTTLS. It calls smtp.SendMail, which sends without encryption when the server does not advertise STARTTLS. Use an explicit SMTP client flow that requires STARTTLS and returns an error when it is unavailable.
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In `@apps/api/internal/mail/mail.go` around lines 152 - 153, Update
sendMailWithConfig to handle security == "TLS" through an explicit SMTP client
flow that connects, requires the server to advertise STARTTLS, upgrades the
connection with STARTTLS, and returns an error when STARTTLS is unavailable;
preserve the existing smtp.SendMail path for non-TLS security modes.
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In `@apps/api/internal/mail/mail.go`:
- Around line 152-153: Update sendMailWithConfig to handle security == "TLS"
through an explicit SMTP client flow that connects, requires the server to
advertise STARTTLS, upgrades the connection with STARTTLS, and returns an error
when STARTTLS is unavailable; preserve the existing smtp.SendMail path for
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There is currently no shared client-side email format validation elsewhere; the other fields rely on native type="email" validation and server-side validation. Extracting this into a helper function is not warranted for a single use case.
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In `@apps/api/internal/mail/mail.go`:
- Around line 180-187: Update the SMTP send flow around client authentication
and Mail to reject TLS mode when the server does not advertise STARTTLS; return
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Reachability: External Exploitability: Moderate CWE:CWE-319 — Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
Reject TLS-mode servers that do not advertise STARTTLS.
The test-email endpoint accepts Security: "TLS" and passes it to the SMTP sender. When STARTTLS is absent, the sender continues authentication and delivery over the plaintext connection. Return an error for TLS mode instead.
Proposed fix
if ok, _ := client.Extension("STARTTLS"); ok {
if err := client.StartTLS(&tls.Config{ServerName: host}); err != nil {
return err
}
+ } else if strings.EqualFold(strings.TrimSpace(security), "TLS") {+ return fmt.Errorf("SMTP server does not support STARTTLS")
}
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In `@apps/api/internal/mail/mail.go` around lines 180 - 187, Update the SMTP send
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does not advertise STARTTLS; return an error before authentication or delivery,
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One related behavior remains in #404: this sender still upgrades to STARTTLS whenever the server advertises it, regardless of the security setting. Selecting “None” can therefore still negotiate TLS and fail certificate verification when the connection host is an IP. The PR description says it supports “no security”; please consider honoring None explicitly or clarifying the setting semantics. This is why #404 remains open.
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One additional behavior from open issue #404 remains in this SMTP refactor: for every non-SSL setting, this branch runs STARTTLS whenever the server advertises it. That means Security: "None" still starts a TLS handshake, so an IP-hosted relay with a DNS-only certificate fails exactly as reported. Please make the security-mode switch explicit: TLS requires and upgrades with STARTTLS (and errors if unsupported), None skips STARTTLS, and SSL keeps implicit TLS. A local SMTP regression test should assert that None emits no STARTTLS command. Reviewed with Codex (AI-assisted).
Migration 000013 is already used by the cancelled-state migration.
Assign Slack integration version 000014 to allow migration loading and database-backed tests.
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Honor None by skipping STARTTLS and require a successful STARTTLS upgrade for TLS.
Keep SSL on implicit TLS and cover the wire behavior with local SMTP probes.
ClosesDevlaner#404
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Installs that applied the Slack migration as 000013 would re-run it as
000014 and fail on CREATE TABLE; use IF NOT EXISTS (the integrations
insert already uses ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING). Those installs also never
ran 000013_fix_cancelled_state_group, so re-apply that idempotent
correction as 000015.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Resolve mail.go by keeping Devlaner#408's explicit security handling (TLS
requires STARTTLS, None skips it, SSL is implicit TLS) together with
this branch's context-aware dialing and deadlines.
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The PR renames the released Slack migration from 000013 to 000014. An installation that already applied the old migration can therefore run 000014 with slack_channel_links already present. Because the up migration skips creation but the down migration drops the table, rollback can delete existing channel links.
🐛 Suggested fix
-DROP TABLE IF EXISTS slack_channel_links;
DELETE FROM integrations WHERE provider = 'slack';
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Reviewed again: merged #408 into this branch so TLS now requires STARTTLS and None skips it (resolves the plaintext-fallback finding and the #404 concern), keeping your context/deadline handling. Endpoint is instance-admin gated and only sends to the signed-in admin's own address. Fine to keep the inline port validator. Thanks!
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Summary
Adds a working “Send test email” action to Instance Admin → Email. Instance admins can test the current SMTP form values before saving them.
Linked issues
Closes #403
Type of change
fix:) — corrects broken behaviorfeat:) — user-visible new capabilityrefactor:) — no behavior change, internal onlyperf:) — measurable improvementdocs:) — README / CLAUDE.md / planning docs onlytest:) — adds or corrects testschore:) — deps, tooling, CI, formattingstyle:) — visual / theming polish onlySurface
apps/api/)apps/web/)apps/api/migrations/)What changed
Why this approach
The test uses the current form values, so an administrator can verify a new SMTP configuration before saving it. The recipient is the signed-in instance admin’s own email address, avoiding an arbitrary-recipient or open-relay-style endpoint. Test email delivery is synchronous and does not depend on RabbitMQ.
Database / migrations
No schema changes.
apps/api/migrations/NNNNNN_<name>.up.sqlAND matching.down.sqldatabase.RunMigrationson startupBreaking changes
Test plan
npm --prefix apps/web run typechecknpm run validate(root) — typecheck + lint + prettier + go vet + go testgo test ./...— currently blocked locally because Testcontainers cannot use the configured rootless Docker environment on Windows.Screenshots / recordings (UI changes)
To be added after the manual UI smoke test.
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