Nothing advertises the legacy protocols while they are off (LP-7)

While the switch is off, the answers that tell a mail app where to connect
stop offering what the switch closed, so a new phone or desktop app is not
sent to a port that is shut or a sign-in that will be refused:

- Thunderbird-style autoconfig (/mail/config-v1.1.xml and its other
  paths) and Outlook autodiscover leave out IMAP, POP3 and SMTP
  submission.
- PACC (/.well-known/user-agent-configuration.json) offers JMAP, CalDAV,
  CardDAV and WebDAV, and no IMAP, POP3, SMTP or ManageSieve. The document
  is rendered once per configuration load, so the JMAP-only version is
  rendered beside it and chosen per request; the _ua-auto-config digest in
  the suggested zone follows, since it hashes the same document.
- The suggested zone publishes _imap, _imaps, _pop3, _pop3s, _submission
  and _submissions with target "." -- "not offered", RFC 6186 section 3.4 --
  the spec's decision, rather than dropping them: a client that looks is
  told, and an automatically managed zone replaces the old records instead
  of leaving them behind.
- It also drops the TLSA records for ports 993 and 995. A TLS pin for a
  port the switch has closed advertises a service that is not there.
  Submission's 465 keeps its record: the SMTP lock keeps that port open.

The switch is read per answer, as sign-in reads it, so every node agrees
the moment it turns. Inbound mail, MX records and the JMAP, CalDAV and
CardDAV answers are untouched.

tests/e2e/legacy_protocols.py checks all four on a running server: with the
switch on they offer IMAP, POP3 and SMTP (the control); while it is off
they offer none of them and every legacy SRV name has target "."; and once
it is back on, autoconfig and the zone read as they did before. All checks
pass.
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@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@
//! a legacy protocol is refused before any password is looked at, so a
//! listener that exists by mistake still lets nobody in.
//!
//! And nothing advertises what is closed (LP-7): client configuration and
//! the suggested DNS records leave the legacy services out, or mark them as
//! not offered, while the switch is off.
//!
//! Nothing here touches the host's firewall, NAT port-forwards or any proxy
//! (LP-20). The server stops answering; what still routes the port is the
//! operator's to reconcile.
@@ -31,6 +35,7 @@ use inbuxa_features::security::{
listeners,
protocol_policy::{self, ProtocolPolicy, SavedListener},
};
use registry::schema::enums::ServiceProtocol;
use registry::types::{error::Error, id::ObjectId};
use store::registry::bootstrap::Bootstrap;
@@ -302,6 +307,27 @@ impl Server {
}
}
/// The services mail apps sign in to, which the switch turns off: nothing may
/// offer them while it is (LP-7). SMTP here is submission -- mail apps
/// sending -- since inbound mail is never a configured service.
pub fn is_legacy_service(protocol: &ServiceProtocol) -> bool {
matches!(
protocol,
ServiceProtocol::Imap
| ServiceProtocol::Pop3
| ServiceProtocol::Smtp
| ServiceProtocol::Managesieve
)
}
impl Server {
/// Whether the server-wide switch is off, for the answers that must stop
/// offering legacy services (LP-7). Read per answer, as sign-in reads it.
pub async fn legacy_protocols_off(&self) -> trc::Result<bool> {
Ok(self.protocol_policy().await?.legacy_protocols.is_disabled())
}
}
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;
@@ -349,6 +375,26 @@ mod tests {
assert_eq!(err.value_as_str(trc::Key::AccountName), None);
}
#[test]
fn only_the_services_mail_apps_sign_in_to_are_legacy() {
for protocol in [
ServiceProtocol::Imap,
ServiceProtocol::Pop3,
ServiceProtocol::Smtp,
ServiceProtocol::Managesieve,
] {
assert!(is_legacy_service(&protocol), "{protocol:?}");
}
for protocol in [
ServiceProtocol::Jmap,
ServiceProtocol::Caldav,
ServiceProtocol::Carddav,
ServiceProtocol::Webdav,
] {
assert!(!is_legacy_service(&protocol), "{protocol:?}");
}
}
#[test]
fn the_domain_comes_from_the_name_given() {
assert_eq!(domain_of(&basic("[email protected]")), Some("b.test".to_string()));