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ekklesiaandClaude Opus 5 ea28f8aa2e feat: verify email addresses and recover forgotten passwords
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Ekklesia could authenticate a person and, since Pass 1, send a
transactional email — but it had no way to establish that an address
belonged to whoever claimed it, and no way back in for someone who
forgot their password.

A verified address is now a precondition for holding a session. Better
Auth enforces that after the password check and before any session
exists, so an unverified sign-in returns 403 with no cookie. That is why
no "unverified principal" was needed: a correct password on an
unverified address carries exactly the authority of no password, and
/api/v1/principal is unchanged.

Better Auth keeps every token. Ekklesia adds no token table, no hashing,
and no expiry clock. It supplies a recipient, a subject, and two bodies,
and the mail provider supplies everything about SMTP.

Verification and reset links are rebuilt from a validated Dashboard
origin, taking only the token — never the URL Better Auth prebuilds from
a caller-supplied callbackURL — so no request can steer where a
recipient lands. Following a verification link mints no session, because
mail infrastructure dereferences links. Reset revokes that person's
other sessions and leaves managed devices alone.

Recovery answers identically for an address with an account, without
one, already verified, or undeliverable — including when SMTP is broken,
which is why the delivery adapter never throws.

The initial platform owner is the one exception: created already
verified by an operator command with no mail prerequisite, so a fresh
server can be signed in to before a relay exists. Migration 0007 extends
that to owners of installations that already exist. Public signup stays
disabled; verification is not a licence to self-register.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-25 07:21:17 -05:00
ekklesiaandClaude Opus 5 2b4f0afb72 fix: give Doctor the host configuration the runtime receives
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`pnpm doctor` and `startApi` each read their own subset of the same
environment variables, and the subsets had drifted. Doctor never read
`S3_*` or module secrets at all, so a correctly configured installation
was told its object storage was "not configured" and every module
requiring a bucket or a secret was reported blocked -- while the runtime,
from the identical environment, bound those buckets and ran the modules.

Both executables now map the environment through one
`loadHostConfiguration(env)` in Core, which takes the environment as an
argument and never reads `process.env` itself. Validation stays with the
existing per-domain validators, so each caller keeps its own failure
behaviour: startup refuses a rejected value, Doctor reports it as a
sanitized code.

Doctor's storage option becomes raw input like its mail option, so a
half-configured provider is reported as a blocking configuration failure
instead of throwing before a report exists. The outbound-email check --
computed, counted toward the result, but absent from every rendered
section -- is now printed, and the rendered set is asserted against a
real report so a future check cannot go missing the same way.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-24 19:15:49 -05:00
ekklesiaandClaude Opus 5 fa3021e49b feat: add a host-provided outbound email transport
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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]>
2026-08-24 18:37:16 -05:00