feat: add a host-provided outbound email transport
Ekklesia could authenticate people and pair devices but could not send a single message. Better Auth has been configured with emailAndPassword since ADR 0011 and neither of its mail hooks — sendResetPassword and emailVerification.sendVerificationEmail — was ever implemented, so email verification, password recovery, and invitations were all blocked on the same missing thing. That missing thing is a transport, not a Google Workspace integration. Email is now a host-provided infrastructure service with a provider seam, shaped exactly like object storage: feature code says "send this transactional message" and the provider owns the host, port, TLS, credentials, connection behaviour, and every transport error. No provider's hostname appears anywhere in Core, and a test asserts it. Google Workspace SMTP Relay is the expected first deployment and a compatibility target — the same variables address Microsoft 365, a transactional provider, or a local Postfix. The contract is deliberately tiny: one recipient or a small bounded list, a subject, text and/or HTML, an optional reply-to, and nothing else. There is no `from` field at all — the sender is host configuration, so no feature and no future module can choose who mail appears to come from, which is how a platform otherwise acquires an impersonation primitive. Control characters are refused rather than stripped in addresses, display names, subjects, and reply-to values; writing that rule down was not enough, because the first implementation trimmed an address before checking it and silently accepted a trailing carriage return until a test caught it. Security modes are named rather than inferred from a boolean and a port, which is genuinely ambiguous: `secure: false` on 587 means "connect in the clear and hope STARTTLS is offered". `starttls` sets requireTLS so a stripped upgrade fails the send instead of continuing in plaintext, production refuses `plaintext` outright, and certificate verification has no off switch. Credentials are optional as a pair, because a relay authorized by source IP has neither and requiring them would make the intended production arrangement unconfigurable; half a pair fails loudly. Connection, greeting, and socket timeouts are all explicit — the object-storage pass already showed what a network client on library defaults does to a request. Nothing retries: a failure after the message data has gone out is ambiguous, and retrying it turns one password-reset request into several emails, so this is a single bounded attempt and deliberately not an exactly-once promise. Email stays optional. An installation with no SMTP host is a complete deployment, nothing sends at startup, and constructing the transport opens no socket. There is no POST /api/v1/send-email and no route that touches the provider — an authenticated send endpoint is an open relay with extra steps. Modules get nothing either; services are added one at a time when something real needs one, and nothing does yet. Proven against a real in-process SMTP server rather than a mock: delivery with the host's sender on the wire, authentication and its sanitized refusal, a rejected mailbox distinguished from an outage, a refused connection, a silent server hitting its deadline, and a starttls transport refusing to continue when the upgrade is not offered. No test sends real email and no live credential exists in this repository or in CI. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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`SameSite=Strict`, a display must be served from the same origin as the API — which the platform's
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own `/display/<module-id>` route is.
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## Outbound email
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There is **no HTTP API for it**, deliberately
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([ADR 0037](../architecture/decisions/0037-host-provided-outbound-email.md)). Email is a runtime
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capability trusted server-side features call, not a resource the platform exposes: an authenticated
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send endpoint is an open relay with extra steps, so no route exists and no route file imports the
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mail module. A test asserts both.
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Host configuration is `EKKLESIA_SMTP_HOST`, `EKKLESIA_SMTP_PORT`, `EKKLESIA_SMTP_SECURITY`,
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`EKKLESIA_SMTP_USERNAME`/`EKKLESIA_SMTP_PASSWORD` (optional as a pair), `EKKLESIA_SMTP_FROM_ADDRESS`,
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and `EKKLESIA_SMTP_FROM_NAME`. Absent `EKKLESIA_SMTP_HOST` means this installation sends no email,
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which is a complete deployment. None of these values ever reaches a module, a browser bundle, a
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diagnostic, or an API response. See [Outbound email](email.md).
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## Module HTTP routes
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An installed module's routes (declared via `http.route(...)` in its `register` hook — see
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