feat: verify email addresses before creating an account - #736
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Email/password signup no longer creates a user straight away. The submitted details are parked on a PendingSignup node together with a hashed, single-use token, and a confirmation link is mailed out. Opening the link is what creates the User and establishes the browser session, so a freshly verified visitor is already logged in and never has to type their credentials a second time. Because an unconfirmed address is simply absent from the account graph there is no email_verified flag to check at each call site, and no way to hold a session for an unverified account. Mail delivery goes through a new api/mail.py transport seam that picks console, a file outbox or SMTP from the environment. MAIL_OUTBOX_DIR deliberately takes precedence over MAIL_SERVER so a test run cannot quietly mail real addresses; the Playwright suite reads the link back out of that outbox. Resends are throttled per address and capped, and the resend endpoint answers identically whether or not the address is pending. Closes #217 Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to This change makes email verification the gate for account creation and session establishment, but the current head can generate verification links from an attacker-controlled origin and can leave an address unusable if account setup fails partway through; expired pending signups also retain password hashes indefinitely. These security and account-creation risks should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Browser
participant LoginModal
participant AuthAPI
participant EmailVerification
participant MailTransport
Browser->>LoginModal: Submit email signup
LoginModal->>AuthAPI: POST /signup/email
AuthAPI->>EmailVerification: Create pending signup
EmailVerification->>MailTransport: Send six-digit code
Browser->>LoginModal: Enter code
LoginModal->>AuthAPI: POST /signup/email/verify
AuthAPI->>EmailVerification: Consume code
AuthAPI-->>Browser: Create account and session
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Pull request overview
This PR implements a verify-before-account-exists email/password signup flow in QueryWeaver: signup stores details in a PendingSignup record and emails a single-use token; opening the link creates the User and establishes the browser session. This closes #217’s core security gap without introducing a persistent “unverified user” state.
Changes:
- Added backend support for pending signups + verification/resend endpoints and a mail transport seam (console/file/SMTP).
- Updated frontend auth UI to support email signup, “check your inbox” state, resend flow, and
?verified=toast handling. - Added/updated unit tests and Playwright E2E setup to exercise the real mail-outbox verification flow.
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tests/test_mail.py |
Unit tests for console/file/SMTP transports and header-injection refusal. |
tests/test_email_verification.py |
Unit tests for pending-signup issuance, throttling, single-use consume, and mail content escaping. |
tests/test_email_signup.py |
Reworked tests for 202 “pending signup”, verification redirect outcomes, and resend endpoint behavior. |
tests/test_auth_status.py |
Verifies /auth-status returns providers even for anonymous visitors. |
README.md |
Documents verify-before-create behavior and mail configuration knobs. |
Makefile |
Cleans Playwright mail outbox (e2e/.mail/). |
e2e/tests/auth.setup.ts |
Updates Playwright auth setup to sign up then complete verification via the outbox. |
e2e/logic/api/mailbox.ts |
Adds helper to read .eml outbox and follow verification links in E2E. |
e2e/logic/api/apiResponses.ts |
Extends E2E API typings for providers and pending signup responses. |
app/src/types/api.ts |
Adds AuthProviders and SignupResult types. |
app/src/services/auth.ts |
Adds signupWithEmail, loginWithEmail, and resendVerification service methods. |
app/src/pages/Index.tsx |
Shows toasts for ?verified= outcomes and refreshes auth on success. |
app/src/contexts/AuthContext.tsx |
Tracks providers from /auth-status and exposes refreshAuth. |
app/src/config/api.ts |
Adds email auth endpoints (login/signup/resend). |
app/src/components/modals/LoginModal.tsx |
Adds email signup/login form, post-signup waiting state, and resend UI. |
api/routes/auth.py |
Implements new /signup/email, /verify/email, /signup/email/resend flow and reports providers in /auth-status. |
api/mail.py |
Adds outbound mail module with console/file/SMTP transports; async send via thread. |
api/auth/email_verification.py |
Adds PendingSignup store and token issuance/refresh/consume logic. |
AGENTS.md |
Documents the new email verification flow and mail transports. |
.gitignore |
Ignores the E2E mail outbox directory. |
.github/workflows/playwright.yml |
Sets MAIL_OUTBOX_DIR so E2E can complete signup verification. |
.github/wordlist.txt |
Adds new terms for spellcheck. |
.env.example |
Documents new mail + verification environment variables. |
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19-23: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winUnit tests read configuration from the ambient environment. Both new test modules exercise code that reads
os.getenvat call time, and neither module clears the full set of variables it depends on. A developer shell that exports any of them changes the assertions, and in theMAIL_PORT=465case the SMTP tests attempt a real network connection instead of using the patchedsmtplib.SMTP.
tests/test_mail.py#L19-L23: extend_clean_mail_envto also deleteMAIL_PORT,MAIL_USE_TLS,MAIL_TIMEOUT_SECONDS, andMAIL_DEFAULT_SENDER.tests/test_email_verification.py#L15-L15: add an autouse fixture that deletesEMAIL_VERIFICATION_TTL_HOURS,EMAIL_VERIFICATION_RESEND_SECONDS, andEMAIL_VERIFICATION_MAX_SENDS.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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415-416: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winHash the password after the throttle decision.
_hash_passwordruns 100,000 PBKDF2 iterations on the event loop thread. Line 415 runs it beforestart_pending_signupreportsthrottledorexhausted, so every refused request on this unauthenticated endpoint still pays the full cost. Read the throttle state first, or move the hashing into a worker thread.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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PendingSignupthat is never redeemed.
expires_atis only inspected insideconsume_pending_signup. A signup whose link is never opened keeps its node, includingpassword_hash, indefinitely. The module docstring states there is "nothing to clean up beyond an expiring node", but no expiry job exists. Volume grows with every abandoned or bot-driven signup, and the retained password hash is personal data with no defined retention.Add a periodic delete of
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In `@api/auth/email_verification.py`:
- Around line 174-179: Update start_pending_signup and refresh_pending_signup to
replace the separate _read_send_state/_throttle/read-write flow with one
conditional atomic FalkorDB query that permits sending and increments the
counter only when last_sent_at and send_count allow it; treat an empty query
result as a refusal, and preserve the existing refusal behavior otherwise.
In `@app/src/components/modals/LoginModal.tsx`:
- Line 117: Update the resend cooldown logic in the signup response flow to use
result.retryAfterSeconds when provided, falling back to RESEND_COOLDOWN_SECONDS
otherwise. Keep the existing setCooldown behavior and ensure the
backend-configured interval controls the resend state.
- Line 129: Update the resend handler around AuthService.resendVerification to
catch rejected requests, display the failure toast, and reset the 60-second
cooldown when the transport request fails; preserve the existing success
handling for resolved requests.
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In `@api/auth/email_verification.py`:
- Line 200: Implement cleanup for expired PendingSignup nodes, using expires_at
as the expiration criterion. Add a periodic deletion task or an indexed startup
sweep that removes records whose expires_at is earlier than the current time,
while preserving consume_pending_signup behavior for valid signups.
In `@api/routes/auth.py`:
- Around line 415-416: Update the signup flow around start_pending_signup so
throttled or exhausted requests are decided before invoking _hash_password; only
hash the password for requests that pass the throttle decision, while preserving
the existing pending-signup behavior.
In `@tests/test_mail.py`:
- Around line 19-23: In tests/test_mail.py lines 19-23, extend the
_clean_mail_env autouse fixture to delete MAIL_PORT, MAIL_USE_TLS,
MAIL_TIMEOUT_SECONDS, and MAIL_DEFAULT_SENDER. In
tests/test_email_verification.py line 15, add an autouse fixture that deletes
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- Fold the resend throttle into the issuing write. Checking first and writing after let two concurrent requests both pass the check and both send while the counter advanced once; a single Cypher query is atomic and writes to one graph are serialised. A refused write is followed by a read that only explains the refusal. - Sanitise the console mail transport's log line, so a name or address carrying a newline cannot forge log entries. - Drop the two empty except blocks in favour of explicit fallbacks. - Keep the signed-in user when /auth-status is unavailable: an outage has not said the session ended. - Start the resend cooldown only when the backend accepted the request, and take its length from the backend's own interval, which both accepted responses now report. - Let the logout e2e test accept the email form as a login option. OAuth buttons only appear when OAuth is configured, and CI configures none. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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app/src/pages/Index.tsx:179
- The
existsverification outcome can be returned when the email address already has an account under any provider (e.g. Google/GitHub). Telling the user to "Sign in with your email and password" is misleading in that case and may send them down a path that cannot work.
description: "Sign in with your email and password.",
app/src/components/modals/LoginModal.tsx:170
- The modal hard-codes "expires after 24 hours", but the verification TTL is configurable (
EMAIL_VERIFICATION_TTL_HOURS). This can become inaccurate in deployments that override the TTL.
The link works once and expires after 24 hours. Until you open it, no account exists.
app/src/pages/Index.tsx:189
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failedverification outcome is used for several backend failure modes, including cases where the account may already have been created but the session/password write failed. "Please try signing up again" can be incorrect (signup would then return 409); the message should be actionable for both states.
description: "Please try signing up again.",
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- Line 179: Update the email-verification confirmation flow around the
credential writer so it never copies PendingSignup.password_hash into the new
email identity. Require the browser redeeming the verification link to provide
and set the password only after mailbox verification, while preserving the
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A resend rotated the token and advanced the counter before the mail was handed to a transport, so a delivery failure charged the user for a send and invalidated the link they were already holding -- while the endpoint still answered 202, because saying otherwise would tell an anonymous caller whether the address is pending. The write now returns the link it displaced, and a failed send restores it: the counter is refunded and the previous token_hash and expiry go back. last_sent_at is deliberately left where the failed attempt put it, so retries stay one per interval and a broken transport cannot be hammered. The revert matches on the hash it wrote, so it is a no-op if another request has since issued a link of its own. Signup already discards the whole pending record when its first send fails, so only the resend path needed this. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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_refuse_verification_send()always reportsretryAfterSeconds/Retry-Afteras the fullresend_interval_seconds(), even when the last send was less than that interval ago. That makes the client wait longer than necessary and makes theRetry-Afterheader inaccurate.
Consider returning the remaining wait (e.g., max(1, interval - elapsed)), which likely requires exposing last_sent_at (or a computed retry_after_seconds) from start_pending_signup() / _classify_refusal() in api/auth/email_verification.py.
wait = resend_interval_seconds()
return JSONResponse(
{"success": False,
"error": "A verification email was just sent. Please wait a moment before "
"requesting another.",
"retryAfterSeconds": wait},
status_code=status.HTTP_429_TOO_MANY_REQUESTS,
headers={"Retry-After": str(wait)},
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api/mail.py:218
send_mail()writes to the file outbox synchronously inside an async function. IfMAIL_OUTBOX_DIRis enabled under load, the blocking filesystem write can stall the event loop and slow unrelated requests.
Consider offloading the outbox write to a worker thread (same pattern as the SMTP send).
directory = outbox_dir()
if directory:
return _write_to_outbox(message, directory)
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693-694: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winBroken Authentication (CWE-346): Origin Validation Error
Reachability: External · Exploitability: Moderate
Use a configured canonical origin for verification links.
When
OAUTH_BASE_URLis unset,_build_callback_urlusesrequest.base_urlwithout host validation. An untrustedHostheader can place the bearer verification token in the emailed link.Use a fixed, validated public origin instead of an inbound request header.
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693-694: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winSecurity Misconfiguration (CWE-319): Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
Reachability: Internal · Exploitability: Difficult
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An emailed confirmation link can be opened by whoever receives it, so a stranger could submit someone else's address with a password of their choosing and let the victim's single click create the account. Replace the link with a six-digit code that has to be typed back into the form that started the signup: the person who fills in the form is then the only one holding both halves, and receiving the mail doubles as proof of the address. The pending record now stores a hash of the code and a guess counter. The counter is incremented and the limit enforced inside the same write, so concurrent attempts cannot slip past it, and the record is destroyed once the budget runs out — a short code is only safe while the attempts are few. A resend issues a fresh code and a fresh budget; a failed send puts the displaced code and its spent guesses back. GET /verify/email is gone, replaced by POST /signup/email/verify. Every refusal returns one identical 400 so the endpoint says nothing about which addresses are pending. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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- Around line 560-568: Make verify_email atomic across PendingSignup deletion,
User/Identity creation, and _set_mail_hash: persist the password hash as part of
identity creation, or roll back the newly created User and Identity whenever
_set_mail_hash raises HTTPException, so failed creation leaves no identity that
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The mail module, the signup route, the .env example and the e2e response type were all still describing the flow the previous commit replaced. These comments are the only place the security property is written down next to the code that implements it, so a stale one is worse than none. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Verification spent the code, created the User and Identity, and only then
stored the password in a second query. A failure in that second query left
an account that could not be logged into -- no password to check -- and
could not be signed up for again, because the address now belongs to an
account and signup answers 409. The code was already spent, so there was
no way forward for that address at all.
The password now goes in with the identity: ensure_user_in_organizations
takes an optional password_hash and sets it in the ON CREATE branch of the
same MERGE. Only ON CREATE, so this can never overwrite the password of an
identity that already exists. A failed write now leaves nothing behind and
the address is still free.
_set_mail_hash went with it. It was the only caller, and its MERGE keyed
identities on {provider_user_id, email} while every other write keys them
on {provider, provider_user_id} -- a second pattern for the same node that
no longer has a reason to exist.
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The spellchecker has no possessive for "else" and no entry for "unconfigured": the first is reworded, the second is a real word the wordlist was missing. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Without a relay, mail is only logged in development; anywhere else the send is refused. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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- The resend endpoint docstring says it "Always answers the same way once the address is well-formed", but the handler returns a 503 when the auth store is unreachable. That’s still not an address-existence oracle, but the wording is currently inaccurate and could mislead future changes/tests that assume a guaranteed 202.
"""Re-send a signup verification code.
Always answers the same way once the address is well-formed. Whether it has
a signup awaiting confirmation, an account already, or nothing at all is not
something an unauthenticated caller gets to learn from this endpoint -- and
that includes the rate-limit state, which would otherwise answer the same
question a beat later.
The revert restored the code, expiry and attempts, but issuing a code also rewrites the ticket, the name and the password hash. Restoring a subset left a record nobody submitted: the ticket stayed rotated, so the delivered code was unusable in the browser holding it, and restoring only the ticket would have been worse still -- that browser's code would then have confirmed an account under the password of whoever made the send that failed. The issuing queries now return properties(p) as it stood before the write, and the revert is SET p = $previous, which also drops properties the send added and cannot fall behind a change to what issuing a code writes. last_sent_at is then pushed back to now, so the budget is refunded without letting a broken transport be retried faster than the interval. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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api/mail.py:146
_build_message()guards against CR/LF header injection in the recipient address, but it does not apply the same guard to theFromaddress derived from environment (MAIL_DEFAULT_SENDER/MAIL_USERNAME). A misconfiguration (or hostile env) could still inject extra headers viaFrom, sinceEmailMessagewill accept the raw string. Consider validatingfrom_addrthe same way astoand using the validated value when setting the header.
if not to or any(char in to for char in "\r\n"):
raise ValueError("Recipient address contains a line break")
message = EmailMessage()
message["From"] = default_sender()
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Re-reviewed at 662832e. All five findings from my previous review are fixed, and the fixes are better than the minimum each one asked for.
| # | Finding | Fix |
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| 1 | Exhausted send budget permanently locked an address | _SEND_GUARD's stale term + _COUNT_SEND restarting the budget on an expired record |
| 2 | Re-submission replaced password_hash (pre-hijacking) |
Session-held ticket; _CONSUME_CODE now requires code and ticket, so a stranger's re-submission can no longer be redeemed by the address's owner |
| 3 | Console mail transport was the production default | console_transport_allowed() gates it behind an explicit APP_ENV=development; otherwise the send fails and the route rolls back |
| 4 | Failed send discarded an already-delivered code | Signup path now reverts when issue.displaced and only discards a record it created |
| 5 | 429 leaked pending-signup state; missing hit the wrong branch |
_signup_accepted answers refusals and successes identically; the throttled/exhausted/missing flags are gone entirely |
Two things I checked rather than assumed:
- The new Cypher actually runs.
properties(p),SET p = $previousand thestaleCASE are all FalkorDB-supported — I ran_START_SIGNUP,_REVERT_SENDand the expired-record path against a live instance.SET p = $previousdoes drop the properties the send added (confirmed:code_hash/ticket_hash/expires_atare gone after a revert), which is what the comment claims and what makes the field-by-field version unnecessary. - The ticket closes finding 2 rather than moving it. The attacker holds the ticket but not the code; the owner receives the code but no longer holds a matching ticket. Neither can complete the signup, so the residual is the availability nuisance the module docstring already owns up to, not an account under someone else's password.
uv run pytest tests/test_email_verification.py tests/test_email_signup.py tests/test_mail.py — 84 passed. pylint 10.00/10 on the four changed backend files.
Two non-blocking notes inline.
Redeeming deleted the record before it looked at the expiry, so a code typed a minute too late took the pending signup with it. That undid the recovery path the send budget relies on: the budget only resets because an expired record is still there to be refreshed, and a user whose code had just lapsed was pushed back to the start of signup instead of the resend button that was in front of them. The delete is now conditional on the record being live, inside the same write that reads it, so an expired code reports itself as expired and leaves the record alone. A late but correct code no longer spends one of the small number of wrong guesses either. A record with no expiry at all fails the comparison and so is not deleted, which is the safe direction. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
The unit tests assert on the Cypher as text, which cannot tell whether FalkorDB agrees with it. Every subtle bug in this flow so far has been in what a query does rather than in what it says: SET p = $map replacing the map, a FOREACH deleting on only one branch, a NULL comparison. These tests run the real queries against a throwaway graph and read the record back, so the next one of those fails here. Each test gets its own client. The one in api.extensions is built at import and pools connections against whichever event loop first used it, which the per-test loop then closes underneath it. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Picking up the suppressed finding from the last review ( Checked it rather than assumed, and the risk it describes cannot occur. Same for The failure mode is also already the one we want. Adding a No change. |
Closes #217.
What changed
Email/password signup no longer creates a user straight away. The submitted details are parked on a
PendingSignupnode together with a hashed, single-use six-digit code, which is mailed to the address. Typing that code back into the signup form is what creates theUserand establishes the browser session, so a freshly verified visitor is already logged in and never has to type the credentials they just chose a second time.A code rather than an emailed link, because the code has to come back through the session that submitted the form. A link is a bearer credential: anyone who receives it can act on it, so a stranger could submit your address with a password of their choosing and your single click would create an account they knew the password to. With a code the attacker never receives it and the victim has no form open to type it into, so the person who fills in the form is the only one who ever holds both halves. It also removes the URL that mail scanners and link-preview bots silently fetch.
Because an unconfirmed address is simply absent from the account graph, there is no
email_verifiedflag to check at each call site, and no way to hold a session for an unverified account. That is why two of the three UI items in the issue (the unverified banner, the resend prompt for a logged-in-but-unverified user) do not appear here — that state cannot exist.OAuth (Google/GitHub) is untouched; verification applies to the email/password form only, which stays behind
EMAIL_AUTH_ENABLED.Backend
api/mail.py(new) — a transport seam that picks console, a file outbox or SMTP from the environment.send_mailnever raises.api/auth/email_verification.py(new) — thePendingSignupstore: issue, refresh, consume, discard, plus the message bodies. The code is compared by SHA-256 hash, andconsumebinds the record's properties before deleting it, so single use is structural rather than a check. Wrong guesses are charged against a per-record attempt budget; the counter is incremented and the limit enforced inside the same write, so concurrent guesses cannot race past it, and the record is deleted the moment the budget runs out. That budget, not the six digits, is what makes a short code safe: total guesses are bounded byEMAIL_VERIFICATION_MAX_SENDS×EMAIL_VERIFICATION_MAX_ATTEMPTS(25 by default, out of 1,000,000).api/routes/auth.py—POST /signup/emailanswers202withpending: true;POST /signup/email/verifyredeems the code, creates the account and signs the browser in;POST /signup/email/resendalways answers202so it cannot be used to probe which addresses are pending. Every verification refusal — wrong code, expired code, no such signup, malformed address — returns one byte-identical400./auth-statusnow reportsprovidersin both branches.api/auth/user_management.py—ensure_user_in_organizationstakes an optionalpassword_hashand stores it in theON CREATEbranch of the identityMERGE. The account and the password it is logged into with are one write, so a failure cannot leave an account nobody can log into and nobody can sign up for again.Frontend
LoginModalgrew a signup mode gated onproviders.email_auth_enabledand a "check your inbox" state: a six-digit numeric input (autoComplete="one-time-code"), a submit button, and a cooldown-gated resend.Notable choices
MAIL_OUTBOX_DIRtakes precedence overMAIL_SERVER. Nobody sets that variable by accident, and a test run that quietly mails real addresses is a worse failure than one that quietly does not. The Playwright suite reads confirmation codes back out of that outbox.$to\Z.$also matches before a trailing newline, which is a header-injection hole now that the address actually reaches a mail header._build_messagerejects CR/LF in the recipient as a second line of defence.Configuration
New (all optional, documented in
.env.example):MAIL_SERVER,MAIL_PORT,MAIL_USE_TLS,MAIL_USERNAME,MAIL_PASSWORD,MAIL_DEFAULT_SENDER,MAIL_TIMEOUT_SECONDS,MAIL_OUTBOX_DIR,EMAIL_VERIFICATION_TTL_MINUTES,EMAIL_VERIFICATION_MAX_ATTEMPTS,EMAIL_VERIFICATION_RESEND_SECONDS,EMAIL_VERIFICATION_MAX_SENDS. With none of them set, codes are logged to the console, so local development works out of the box.Testing
tests/test_mail.py,tests/test_email_verification.py(both new) and a rewrittentests/test_email_signup.py; 659 unit tests pass.make lintclean (pylint 10.00/10, no ESLint errors).setupproject was run against a live server: all three test users signed up, the code was read from the outbox, verification created the account and the session, and a second run logged the same users in with the password they had chosen.Co-authored-by: Copilot 223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com
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