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20 months agopop3: remove untouched rows on QUIT/disconnect
Eric Wong [Wed, 10 Aug 2022 06:00:53 +0000 (06:00 +0000)]
pop3: remove untouched rows on QUIT/disconnect

Some POP3 clients may connect and never retrieve messages nor
trigger deletes.  In that case, save some storage by removing
unused rows from the `deletes' and `users' tables.

21 months agoimapd|nntpd: drop ->base_url preload
Eric Wong [Mon, 8 Aug 2022 23:53:11 +0000 (23:53 +0000)]
imapd|nntpd: drop ->base_url preload

It was never useful for IMAP, and NNTP hasn't needed it since:
1bf653ad139bf7bb (nntp+www: drop List-* and Archived-At headers, 2020-12-10)

21 months agoimap: mailboxes list across listeners
Eric Wong [Mon, 8 Aug 2022 23:53:10 +0000 (23:53 +0000)]
imap: mailboxes list across listeners

Since IMAP mailbox lists are tied to the PublicInbox::Config
object, we can share them the same way the config object is
shared when an -imapd or -netd instance has multiple listeners.

This ought to reduce memory use and startup time when binding
multiple sockets which share a common config file.

21 months agodaemon: cleanup internal data structures
Eric Wong [Mon, 8 Aug 2022 23:53:09 +0000 (23:53 +0000)]
daemon: cleanup internal data structures

This avoids dangling {''} entries in $xnetd and
%tls_opt hashes.  Furthermore, we can safely undef
%tls_opt once it's associated with each $xnetd object.

21 months agodaemon: use per-listener SIG{__WARN__} callbacks
Eric Wong [Mon, 8 Aug 2022 23:53:08 +0000 (23:53 +0000)]
daemon: use per-listener SIG{__WARN__} callbacks

This allows "-l $ADDRESS?err=/path/to/err.log to isolate normal
warn() (and carp()) messages for a particular listen address to
track down errors more easily.

21 months agodaemon: use default address + well-known ports for scheme
Eric Wong [Mon, 8 Aug 2022 23:53:07 +0000 (23:53 +0000)]
daemon: use default address + well-known ports for scheme

This ensures the "bound $URL" diagnostic message at startup
always shows the URL scheme handled if not relying on socket
inheritance.

This also avoids duplicate/unused data structures when binding
sockets ourselves, as bound socket names can expand from short
names to longer names (e.g. "0:119" => "0.0.0.0:119").

21 months agoREADME: recommend AUTH=ANONYMOUS on IMAP URLs
Eric Wong [Mon, 8 Aug 2022 23:16:48 +0000 (23:16 +0000)]
README: recommend AUTH=ANONYMOUS on IMAP URLs

public-inbox-imapd prioritizes AUTH=ANONYMOUS clients, nowadays,
since it's a good heuristic for legitimate client traffic.

21 months agoimap: prioritize AUTH=ANONYMOUS clients
Eric Wong [Mon, 8 Aug 2022 23:16:47 +0000 (23:16 +0000)]
imap: prioritize AUTH=ANONYMOUS clients

...by deprioritizing clients using a username + password.

As IMAP provides AUTH=ANONYMOUS for designating anonymous
access, we'll rely on it as a heuristic for favoring "good"
clients.  Clients using a username + password seem to (more
often than not) be malicious and looking for info which doesn't
belong in public inboxes.

This copies the technique used by WWW + -httpd to deprioritize
expensive mbox.gz downloads.

21 months agoimap: only give AUTH=ANONYMOUS clients prefetch
Eric Wong [Mon, 8 Aug 2022 23:16:46 +0000 (23:16 +0000)]
imap: only give AUTH=ANONYMOUS clients prefetch

Looking at IMAP traffic on public-inbox.org, it seems there is a
fair amount of traffic coming from malicious clients assuming
the IMAP server is compromised and searching for private
information.  Since AUTH=ANONYMOUS clients are more likely to
be legitimate clients looking for publicly-archived mail,
give them priority.

21 months agoimap: limit ibx_async_prefetch to idle git processes
Eric Wong [Mon, 8 Aug 2022 23:16:45 +0000 (23:16 +0000)]
imap: limit ibx_async_prefetch to idle git processes

This improves fairness while having no measurable performance
impact for a single uncached IMAP client (mutt) opening a folder
for the first time.

I noticed this problem with the public-inbox.org IMAP server where
a few IMAP clients were unfairly monopolizing the -netd process.

21 months agodaemon: dedupe PublicInbox::Config objects by pathname
Eric Wong [Fri, 5 Aug 2022 08:29:54 +0000 (08:29 +0000)]
daemon: dedupe PublicInbox::Config objects by pathname

This means all Inbox, Git, Over, Msgmap, Search objects also get
deduplicated if they belong to the same config file, reducing
memory and FD usage.  This helps save memory and improve cache
hit rates in -netd setups where NNTP, IMAP, HTTP, and POP3
servers run in the same process.

InboxIdle was the only bit which needed adjustment, but there
may be other bugs lurking despite all tests passing.

21 months agowww: gzip_filter: avoid errors after ->write failure
Eric Wong [Thu, 4 Aug 2022 20:08:21 +0000 (20:08 +0000)]
www: gzip_filter: avoid errors after ->write failure

->zflush must return a string to its caller, not undef.
Additionally, {http_out} may be deleted on ->write if ->close
recurses.

This should fix the following errors:
  Use of uninitialized value $_[1] in string eq at PublicInbox/HTTP.pm line 211.
  E: Can't call method "close" on an undefined value at GzipFilter.pm line 167.

Fixes: a6d50dc1098c01a1 (www: gzip_filter: gracefully handle socket ->write failures, 2022-08-03)
21 months agoview: avoid intermediate array when streaming thread
Eric Wong [Thu, 4 Aug 2022 08:17:03 +0000 (08:17 +0000)]
view: avoid intermediate array when streaming thread

We can rely on auto-vivification to avoid an intermediate
array for the map result.

21 months agofeed: avoid unnecessary map loop in non-over path
Eric Wong [Thu, 4 Aug 2022 08:17:02 +0000 (08:17 +0000)]
feed: avoid unnecessary map loop in non-over path

We can bless objects while doing the initial insertion to avoid
extra the extra map iteration and temporary array(s).  Fewer ops
means memory savings for the likely case of ->over users, too.

21 months agoimap: ensure_slices_exist: drop needless map and array
Eric Wong [Thu, 4 Aug 2022 08:17:01 +0000 (08:17 +0000)]
imap: ensure_slices_exist: drop needless map and array

We can reduce ops and temporary objects here by folding the
stringification into the `for' loop and push directly into the
{mailboxlist} array; relying on autovivification to turn it into
a noop for the initial population.

21 months agolei_overview: remove pointless map {} op
Eric Wong [Thu, 4 Aug 2022 08:17:00 +0000 (08:17 +0000)]
lei_overview: remove pointless map {} op

We can rely on //g and autovivification, here.

21 months agoisearch: mset_to_artnums: avoid unnecessary ops
Eric Wong [Thu, 4 Aug 2022 08:16:59 +0000 (08:16 +0000)]
isearch: mset_to_artnums: avoid unnecessary ops

We can use DBI's selectcol_arrayref directly (as we do in other
places) to avoid unnecessary arrays and ops on our end.

21 months agoover: get_xref3: modify rows in-place
Eric Wong [Thu, 4 Aug 2022 08:16:58 +0000 (08:16 +0000)]
over: get_xref3: modify rows in-place

There's no need to create two intermediate arrays when we can
modify the existing arrayref.

21 months agohttp: coerce SERVER_PORT to integer
Eric Wong [Thu, 4 Aug 2022 08:16:57 +0000 (08:16 +0000)]
http: coerce SERVER_PORT to integer

This may save a few bytes with many connected clients.
Noticed while working on the JMAP endpoint.

21 months agoTODO: remove done items, adjust/add/abandon some
Eric Wong [Thu, 4 Aug 2022 07:23:49 +0000 (07:23 +0000)]
TODO: remove done items, adjust/add/abandon some

public-inbox-pop3d (and -netd) gives us POP3 support, and
it seems to work.  Proxy support can come independently,
probably after JMAP.

public-inbox-netd provides the multi-protocol "super server"
which allows code memory savings.  Work is ongoing to further
reduce memory use...

Automatically updating on TLS cert and key changes on
inotify/EVFILT_VNODE won't be done, since (IMHO) there's too
much risk of inadvertent updates on incomplete changes.
My same train-of-thought applies to auto-reloading on config
file changes: an admin may save a file halfway through a
multi-step change and auto-reloading can be too surprising and
break things.

I don't think lei+FUSE will be as portable or useful as a
local IMAP server (and maybe JMAP, eventually); but r/w IMAP
support would be nice..

Finally, git SHA-256 repo support will need to be taken into
account.

21 months agodaemon: handle per-listener options on inherited, well-known ports
Eric Wong [Thu, 4 Aug 2022 06:27:39 +0000 (06:27 +0000)]
daemon: handle per-listener options on inherited, well-known ports

We must not clobber already-parsed per-listener options when
handling inherited sockets which are well-known.  Unfortunately,
this isn't easy to test in a non-intrusive way for regular
users.

21 months agoimapd: use nntpd_cache to speed up startup/reload time
Eric Wong [Wed, 3 Aug 2022 20:03:57 +0000 (20:03 +0000)]
imapd: use nntpd_cache to speed up startup/reload time

ConfigIter was still too slow despite being fair.  The addition of
ART_MIN in ALL->misc means it can be used as a startup/reload cache
for -imapd, too.

This results in a ~3x faster startup for -imapd with 50K inboxes.

21 months agonntp: speed up group listings via ->ALL->misc
Eric Wong [Wed, 3 Aug 2022 20:03:56 +0000 (20:03 +0000)]
nntp: speed up group listings via ->ALL->misc

By taking advantage of the new ART_MIN/ART_MAX value in MiscIdx,
we can avoid the overhead of opening per-inbox msgmap DB files.
The result gives us a ~40 speedup with 50K newgroups.

21 months agomiscidx: index inbox min/max article numbers
Eric Wong [Wed, 3 Aug 2022 20:03:55 +0000 (20:03 +0000)]
miscidx: index inbox min/max article numbers

This will be used to speed up NNTP group listings and IMAP startup
with thousands of inboxes.

21 months agonntpd: do not delete newsgroup name from inbox object
Eric Wong [Wed, 3 Aug 2022 20:03:54 +0000 (20:03 +0000)]
nntpd: do not delete newsgroup name from inbox object

While PublicInbox::NNTP doesn't use it, config sharing inside
public-inbox-netd will mean inbox objects also get shared.

21 months agodaemon: reload TLS certs and keys on SIGHUP
Eric Wong [Wed, 3 Aug 2022 08:06:03 +0000 (08:06 +0000)]
daemon: reload TLS certs and keys on SIGHUP

This allows new TLS certificates to be loaded for new clients
without having to timeout nor drop existing clients with
established connections made with the old certs.  This should
benefit users with admins who expire certificates frequently (as
encouraged by Let's Encrypt).

21 months agowww: simplify GzipFilter->zflush callers
Eric Wong [Wed, 3 Aug 2022 07:59:12 +0000 (07:59 +0000)]
www: simplify GzipFilter->zflush callers

->zflush can take a buffer arg, so there's no need to
make a separate call to ->translate in some cases.

21 months agods: use ->dflush to distinguish from ->zflush
Eric Wong [Wed, 3 Aug 2022 07:59:11 +0000 (07:59 +0000)]
ds: use ->dflush to distinguish from ->zflush

->zflush is already for GzipFilter in PublicInbox::WWW,
while we use DEFLATE for NNTP and IMAP.  This ought to
make the code easier-to-follow.

21 months agowww: gzip_filter: update a few comments
Eric Wong [Wed, 3 Aug 2022 07:59:10 +0000 (07:59 +0000)]
www: gzip_filter: update a few comments

A few things I noticed while reviewing and evaluating
the PSGI code for JMAP support.

21 months agowww: gzip_filter: gracefully handle socket ->write failures
Eric Wong [Wed, 3 Aug 2022 07:59:09 +0000 (07:59 +0000)]
www: gzip_filter: gracefully handle socket ->write failures

Socket ->write failures are expected and common for TCP traffic,
especially if it's facing unreliable remote connections.  So
just bail out silently if our {gz} field was already clobbered
during the small bit of recursion we hit on ->write failures
from async responses.

This ought to fix some GzipFilter::zflush errors (via $forward
->close from PublicInbox::HTTP) I've been noticing on
deployments running -netd.  I'm still unsure as to why I hadn't
seen them before, but it might've only been ignorance on my
part...

Link: https://public-inbox.org/meta/20220802065436.GA13935@dcvr/
21 months agodaemon: share FDs for identical log paths
Eric Wong [Mon, 1 Aug 2022 21:24:47 +0000 (21:24 +0000)]
daemon: share FDs for identical log paths

We rely on the %logs hash for SIGUSR1 log reopening.  Without this sharing,
some FDs would be hidden inside its respective {HTTP,IMAP,POP3}D
object and not reopened on USR2

21 months agodaemon: allow listening on well-known ports based on protocol
Eric Wong [Mon, 1 Aug 2022 21:24:46 +0000 (21:24 +0000)]
daemon: allow listening on well-known ports based on protocol

This allows admins to use "-l nntp://0.0.0.0/" to bind on port 119
without specifying ":119" on the CLI.

21 months agodaemon: add diagnostics about inherited/bound listeners
Eric Wong [Mon, 1 Aug 2022 21:24:45 +0000 (21:24 +0000)]
daemon: add diagnostics about inherited/bound listeners

These are helpful for diagnosing configuration problems,
as well as a bug (to be fixed in the following commit).

21 months agodaemon: require absolute cert/key paths with --daemonize
Eric Wong [Mon, 1 Aug 2022 21:24:44 +0000 (21:24 +0000)]
daemon: require absolute cert/key paths with --daemonize

This is preparation for supporting loading new certs on SIGHUP.

21 months agodaemon: support per-listener env, .psgi, out, err
Eric Wong [Mon, 1 Aug 2022 21:24:43 +0000 (21:24 +0000)]
daemon: support per-listener env, .psgi, out, err

This allows memory savings by allowing multiple, completely
unrelated-PSGI apps to run within the same process as IMAP,
NNTP, and POP3.

21 months agohttpd: make internals slightly more generic
Eric Wong [Mon, 1 Aug 2022 21:24:42 +0000 (21:24 +0000)]
httpd: make internals slightly more generic

This brings the HTTP server closer to the IMAP/NNTP/POP3
implementations and eliminates package-wide globals in
PublicInbox::HTTPD.  The end goal is to be able to host
completely different PSGI applications on different listen
ports.

21 months agosolver: avoid deprecation warnings in git 2.36.0+
Eric Wong [Sat, 30 Jul 2022 09:38:24 +0000 (09:38 +0000)]
solver: avoid deprecation warnings in git 2.36.0+

git deprecated core.fsyncObjectFiles in favor of core.fsync
with 2.36.0+, while GIT_TEST_FSYNC was added in 2.35.0.  So
use the environment variable since it's been supported slightly
longer than the new configuration knob.

21 months agotests: maintainer test for using mpop
Eric Wong [Fri, 29 Jul 2022 20:41:04 +0000 (20:41 +0000)]
tests: maintainer test for using mpop

This ought to be a good stress test to ensure our POP3
implementation works against the POP3 client I've found.

21 months agodoc|www: flesh out POP3 documentation for servers and users
Eric Wong [Fri, 29 Jul 2022 20:41:03 +0000 (20:41 +0000)]
doc|www: flesh out POP3 documentation for servers and users

Hopefully it makes sense to new users deploying or using POP3...

21 months agodoc: httpd: document GIT_HTTP_MAX_REQUEST_BUFFER
Eric Wong [Thu, 28 Jul 2022 08:10:31 +0000 (08:10 +0000)]
doc: httpd: document GIT_HTTP_MAX_REQUEST_BUFFER

We've always shared this environment with git-http-backend(1)
(but don't (yet) support http.maxRequestBuffer anywhere)

21 months agowww: drop --subject from "git send-email" instructions
Eric Wong [Fri, 22 Jul 2022 20:18:09 +0000 (20:18 +0000)]
www: drop --subject from "git send-email" instructions

Apparently, --subject doesn't work[1] with "git send-email" in
this context.  So drop the CLI arg and add a note to tell the
user to set a "Subject:" line in their response body, instead.

[1] I'm not sure if --subject ever worked as I thought it would,
    or if it's a regression.  In either case, there are current
    versions of git where it doesn't, so just tell users to use
    the currently supported method.

Link: https://80x24.org/lore/git/CAC4O8c-Tf11CpwuRudyrpXv5bGshuyEenV9kKrs0zRWER-+yHA@mail.gmail.com/
21 months agoadd xt/mem-nntpd-tls maintainer test
Eric Wong [Sat, 23 Jul 2022 15:52:09 +0000 (15:52 +0000)]
add xt/mem-nntpd-tls maintainer test

This ensures memory usage is reasonable when DEFLATE and TLS are
enabled.  It's also our only coverage for NNTP COMPRESS since
Net::NNTP has yet to implement compression support:

https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=129967

21 months agodsdeflate: shorten scope of initial buffer
Eric Wong [Sat, 23 Jul 2022 15:52:08 +0000 (15:52 +0000)]
dsdeflate: shorten scope of initial buffer

There's no need to keep the initial buffer alive in package-wide
scope once it's replaced by `$next' in ->write or ->zflush.

21 months agoxt/mem-imapd-tls: update aliases to DSdeflate subs
Eric Wong [Sat, 23 Jul 2022 15:52:07 +0000 (15:52 +0000)]
xt/mem-imapd-tls: update aliases to DSdeflate subs

Fixes: 23af251dd607c4e7 (imap+nntp: share COMPRESS implementation, 2022-07-23)
21 months agonntp: use substr to check for trailing CRLF
Eric Wong [Sat, 23 Jul 2022 06:13:07 +0000 (06:13 +0000)]
nntp: use substr to check for trailing CRLF

Regexps consume more CPU cycles and memory, and aren't
necessary here since we just converted the entire buffer
to CRLF.

21 months agopop3: reduce memory use while generating the mailbox cache
Eric Wong [Sat, 23 Jul 2022 06:12:16 +0000 (06:12 +0000)]
pop3: reduce memory use while generating the mailbox cache

While the cache itself is relatively compact for 50K messages,
generating it was inefficient due to our schema and Over.pm APIs
being designed for NNTP.  While we won't change our schema for
now, we can choose better DBI APIs to use and limit our ephemeral
memory use.

This amounts to a 60% reduction in memory usage and a 5-10%
speedup against org.kernel.vger.git.0:

{
echo 'USER '$(uuidgen)'@org.kernel.vger.git.0'
echo PASS anonymous
echo STAT
echo QUIT
} | nc $HOST $PORT

21 months agoimap+nntp: share COMPRESS implementation
Eric Wong [Sat, 23 Jul 2022 04:41:55 +0000 (04:41 +0000)]
imap+nntp: share COMPRESS implementation

Their code was nearly identical to begin with, so save some
memory in -netd and disk space for all of our tarball/distro
users, at least.

And I seem to have used multiple inheritance successfully, here,
maybe...

21 months agonntp: resolve inboxes immediately on group listings
Eric Wong [Sat, 23 Jul 2022 04:41:54 +0000 (04:41 +0000)]
nntp: resolve inboxes immediately on group listings

This prevents potential races between SIGHUP config reloads
while gigantic group listings are streaming, allowing us to
avoid many invalidation checks.

This also reduces send(2) syscalls and avoid Perl internal pad
allocations in a few places where it's not beneficial.  There
might be a slight (0.5%) speedup, but I'm not sure if that's
down to system noise, power/thermal management, or other users
on my VM.

21 months agods: share long_step between NNTP and IMAP
Eric Wong [Sat, 23 Jul 2022 04:41:53 +0000 (04:41 +0000)]
ds: share long_step between NNTP and IMAP

It's not actually used by our POP3 code at the moment,
but it may be soon to reduce memory usage when loading
50K smsg objects into memory.

21 months agonntp: inline CRLF in all response lines
Eric Wong [Sat, 23 Jul 2022 04:41:52 +0000 (04:41 +0000)]
nntp: inline CRLF in all response lines

This brings NNTP closer to POP3 and IMAP implementations
to allow CoW avoidance on constants.

21 months agonntp: listgroup_range_i: remove useless `map' op
Eric Wong [Sat, 23 Jul 2022 04:41:51 +0000 (04:41 +0000)]
nntp: listgroup_range_i: remove useless `map' op

No need to iterate through the array twice; and this even seems
a hair faster than what I got with commit 726d6e71aee5d974
(nntp: small speed up for multi-line responses, 2020-12-04)

21 months agods: move requeue_once
Eric Wong [Sat, 23 Jul 2022 04:41:50 +0000 (04:41 +0000)]
ds: move requeue_once

It's the same subroutine everywhere.

21 months agods: move no-op ->zflush to common base class
Eric Wong [Sat, 23 Jul 2022 04:41:49 +0000 (04:41 +0000)]
ds: move no-op ->zflush to common base class

More deduplication, and POP3 never needed it.

21 months agods: support greeting protocols
Eric Wong [Sat, 23 Jul 2022 04:41:48 +0000 (04:41 +0000)]
ds: support greeting protocols

We can share some common code between IMAP, NNTP, and POP3
without too much trouble, so cut down our LoC.

21 months agonntp: remove more() wrapper
Eric Wong [Sat, 23 Jul 2022 04:41:47 +0000 (04:41 +0000)]
nntp: remove more() wrapper

Using PublicInbox::DS->msg_more directly can avoid unnecessary
CoW memory traffic since there's no appending "\r\n".

21 months agonntp: start adding CRLF to responses natively
Eric Wong [Sat, 23 Jul 2022 04:41:46 +0000 (04:41 +0000)]
nntp: start adding CRLF to responses natively

With IMAP and POP3, I've started to embed CRLF into constant
response codes to avoid triggering CoW and extra memory traffic
in Perl.

The end goal is to enable more code sharing between IMAP, NNTP,
and POP3 inside one -netd process.

21 months agonntp: pass regexp to split() callers
Eric Wong [Sat, 23 Jul 2022 04:41:45 +0000 (04:41 +0000)]
nntp: pass regexp to split() callers

Current implementations of Perl5 don't have optimizations for
single-character field separators.

21 months agopop3: drop File::FcntlLock requirement for FreeBSD and Linux
Eric Wong [Thu, 21 Jul 2022 05:36:12 +0000 (05:36 +0000)]
pop3: drop File::FcntlLock requirement for FreeBSD and Linux

I know Linux has a stable ABI for this, and FreeBSD seems to,
too (*BSDs don't have stable syscall numbers, though).
I suspect this is safe enough for all *BSDs.

This is stricter than the MboxLock one since we use exact byte
ranges with these locks.

21 months agowww: note "x=m" and "t=1" (mis)use for GET requests
Eric Wong [Wed, 20 Jul 2022 22:57:07 +0000 (22:57 +0000)]
www: note "x=m" and "t=1" (mis)use for GET requests

We require "x=m" (requests for mboxes) to be POST requests to
avoid unnecessary traffic from crawlers.  "t=1" only collapses
threads in the summary view, which isn't normally accessible
from <form> elements.

This also fixes the missing "[summary|nested]" element when
"x=m" is used.

21 months agogcf2: avoid excessive checks for unlinked files
Eric Wong [Wed, 20 Jul 2022 18:01:28 +0000 (18:01 +0000)]
gcf2: avoid excessive checks for unlinked files

We were misusing the timer and not expiring it before checking
for unlinked files.  Now, we check for unlinked files every 60s,
instead.

21 months agopop3: advertise STLS in CAPA if appropriate
Eric Wong [Wed, 20 Jul 2022 09:24:13 +0000 (09:24 +0000)]
pop3: advertise STLS in CAPA if appropriate

This is documented in RFC 2595, and POP3 clients may rely on
seeing "STLS" in CAPA output to initiate TLS negotiation.

21 months agonetd: setup TLS bits for well-known STARTTLS ports
Eric Wong [Wed, 20 Jul 2022 09:24:12 +0000 (09:24 +0000)]
netd: setup TLS bits for well-known STARTTLS ports

Unfortunately, I can't think of an easy way to test this in
our test suite since binding these ports are privileged and
are often in use, anyways.

21 months agopop3: TOP requests do not expire messages
Eric Wong [Wed, 20 Jul 2022 09:24:11 +0000 (09:24 +0000)]
pop3: TOP requests do not expire messages

RFC 2449 only documents "EXPIRE 0" behavior for RETR requests
which fetch the whole message.  TOP requests only fetch
the headers and top $N lines of the body, so it's probably
harmful for deletions to be triggered in those cases.

21 months agopop3: implement IN-USE from RESP-CODES (RFC 2449)
Eric Wong [Wed, 20 Jul 2022 09:24:10 +0000 (09:24 +0000)]
pop3: implement IN-USE from RESP-CODES (RFC 2449)

This may help clients communicate to users if they're
making parallel connections or if we have server bugs.

21 months agopublic-inbox-pop3d - a mostly read-only POP3 server
Eric Wong [Wed, 20 Jul 2022 09:24:09 +0000 (09:24 +0000)]
public-inbox-pop3d - a mostly read-only POP3 server

Old account expiry has not been implemented, but it seems to
work well with both mpop(1) and getmail(1).  The strictness of
mpop was particularly helpful in ironing out bugs in our
implementation of (dreaded) message sequence numbers.

"EXPIRE 0" (RFC 2449) can theoretically save numerous "DELE"
commands, but that's untested by real-world clients.  mpop
supports PIPELINING which is effective in hiding latency,
and the core networking functionality is already well-tested
from our NNTP and IMAP implementations.

Configuration requires "publicinbox.pop3state" to point to
a directory writable by the otherwise read-only daemon.
See public-inbox-pop3d(1) manpage for more usage details.

21 months agonetd: load modules for well-known ports
Eric Wong [Wed, 20 Jul 2022 01:22:04 +0000 (01:22 +0000)]
netd: load modules for well-known ports

When inheriting well-known ports from systemd (or similar),
we can auto-load the proper *D.pm file based on the port number
without requiring command-line args.

load_mod also gets fixed to use its argument, instead of implicit
$1 since that won't work for our well-known.

21 months agolei note-event: inline note_event_arm_done
Eric Wong [Tue, 19 Jul 2022 22:42:53 +0000 (22:42 +0000)]
lei note-event: inline note_event_arm_done

This was a single-caller sub since 47d4e53734820b4e
(lei_mail_sync: rely on flock(2), avoid IPC, 2021-09-18)
and unlikely to be used further, so inline it and save
a few KB of memory.

21 months agolei: avoid deadlock on inotify/EVFILT_VNODE wakeups
Eric Wong [Tue, 19 Jul 2022 22:42:52 +0000 (22:42 +0000)]
lei: avoid deadlock on inotify/EVFILT_VNODE wakeups

Enqueuing "note-event" requests from the DS event loop must
not wait on workers being able to drain the queue quickly
enough.  Thus we make the SOCK_SEQPACKET writes nonblocking
and rely on the lei-daemon event loop to enqueue writes.

This is a unique problem for "note-event" since it reuses
workers in between commands, while most lei commands currently
fork off new workers.

21 months agosearchidx: skip "delta $N" sections for base-85
Eric Wong [Tue, 19 Jul 2022 02:36:04 +0000 (02:36 +0000)]
searchidx: skip "delta $N" sections for base-85

I don't deal with binary patches ever, so I failed to notice
binary deltas are supported in addition to the more common
literals.

A quick check of apply.c in git.git confirms "delta" and
"literal" are the only binary patch classes we can expect.

22 months agotest_common: avoid uninitialized warning on readlink
Eric Wong [Sat, 9 Jul 2022 08:08:57 +0000 (08:08 +0000)]
test_common: avoid uninitialized warning on readlink

Of course, waiting for inotify to become active can't rely on
inotify, so we need to do a busy loop here, instead...

22 months agoimap: STATUS: count messages properly
Eric Wong [Fri, 8 Jul 2022 11:36:37 +0000 (11:36 +0000)]
imap: STATUS: count messages properly

This only affects the rarely-used STATUS command, our message
count was consistely zero due to misusing ->imap_exists.

Noticed while implementing POP3 server.

22 months agolei: track seen messages to note duplicates
Eric Wong [Thu, 7 Jul 2022 09:40:30 +0000 (09:40 +0000)]
lei: track seen messages to note duplicates

This may help track down deduplication or other bugs in lei
which lead to occasionally missing messages.

Link: https://public-inbox.org/meta/CAL_JsqJH8xx_2NyZffNsRXbGXiv3kjmCETvKXt3Yfb0uToLm9Q@mail.gmail.com/
22 months agolei_xsearch: simplify lei/store import check
Eric Wong [Thu, 7 Jul 2022 09:40:29 +0000 (09:40 +0000)]
lei_xsearch: simplify lei/store import check

There's no need to check for two fields when one will suffice.

22 months agotree-wide: Fix typo accomodate
Uwe Kleine-König [Fri, 1 Jul 2022 14:06:18 +0000 (16:06 +0200)]
tree-wide: Fix typo accomodate

This was pointed out by the Debian package linter "lintian".

22 months agotree-wide: Fix typo likelyhood
Uwe Kleine-König [Fri, 1 Jul 2022 14:04:20 +0000 (16:04 +0200)]
tree-wide: Fix typo likelyhood

This was pointed out by the Debian package linter "lintian".

22 months agosearchthread: delete children early while ordering
Eric Wong [Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:02:53 +0000 (08:02 +0000)]
searchthread: delete children early while ordering

This allows us to free up some memory sooner rather than later
in case ordersub is expensive.

22 months agosearchthread: remove + inline single-use cast sub
Eric Wong [Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:02:52 +0000 (08:02 +0000)]
searchthread: remove + inline single-use cast sub

No point in wasting several kilobytes of memory for a single-use
one-line sub.

22 months agodoc: lei-q: regenerate for patchid: help
Eric Wong [Wed, 22 Jun 2022 07:47:59 +0000 (07:47 +0000)]
doc: lei-q: regenerate for patchid: help

22 months agosearch: add help for patchid: prefix
Eric Wong [Tue, 21 Jun 2022 10:37:50 +0000 (10:37 +0000)]
search: add help for patchid: prefix

Noticed-by: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
22 months agosearch: do not index base-85 binary patches
Eric Wong [Mon, 20 Jun 2022 19:27:30 +0000 (19:27 +0000)]
search: do not index base-85 binary patches

Base-85 binary patches generated by git lead to many false
positives, so skip over gibberish words which may occur in them.
To avoid regressions in search results, continue to allow
searching for exact size matches (via "literal $SIZE") and the
phrase "GIT binary patch" for the mere presence of a binary
patch.

22 months agosearch: support "patchid:" prefix (git patch-id --stable)
Eric Wong [Mon, 20 Jun 2022 19:27:29 +0000 (19:27 +0000)]
search: support "patchid:" prefix (git patch-id --stable)

This allows easy searching via patch-id from a git commit.

Currently, abbreviations are not supported, and it seems
needless to support them since AFAIK (git) doesn't generate
nor resolve abbreviated patch-ids anywhere.

22 months agosearchidx: use regexp as first arg for `split' op
Eric Wong [Mon, 20 Jun 2022 19:27:28 +0000 (19:27 +0000)]
searchidx: use regexp as first arg for `split' op

Current implementations of Perl5 don't have optimizations for
single-character field separators (unlike another non-Perl5 VM
I'm familiar with).

22 months agot/spawn: Find invalid PID to try to join its process group
Thiago Jung Bauermann [Fri, 10 Jun 2022 15:39:18 +0000 (12:39 -0300)]
t/spawn: Find invalid PID to try to join its process group

In the container used to build packages of the GNU Guix distribution, PID 1
runs as the same user as the test so this spawn that should fail actually
succeeds.

Fix the problem by going through different PIDs and picking one that
either doesn't exist or we aren't allowed to signal.

22 months agoAdd EditorConfig file
Thiago Jung Bauermann [Fri, 10 Jun 2022 15:51:43 +0000 (12:51 -0300)]
Add EditorConfig file

This allows several editors to automatically use the correct settings when
editing public-inbox files.

[ew: add to MANIFEST, too]

23 months agoview: do not escape first `@' in mailto: URLs
Eric Wong [Thu, 9 Jun 2022 17:53:53 +0000 (17:53 +0000)]
view: do not escape first `@' in mailto: URLs

It's probably not a perfect match for RFC 6068 atm, but perfect
is the enemy of good.

Reported-by: Moritz Poldrack <moritz@poldrack.dev>
Link: https://public-inbox.org/meta/CKJSWGSZFKMX.3VUSIYE955Z9X@Archetype/
23 months agoimapd: update comment for PublicInbox::ConfigIter
Eric Wong [Fri, 13 May 2022 00:40:38 +0000 (00:40 +0000)]
imapd: update comment for PublicInbox::ConfigIter

config enumeration was split out to a separate class a long time ago.

23 months agoimap: remove unused args_ok sub
Eric Wong [Fri, 13 May 2022 00:40:37 +0000 (00:40 +0000)]
imap: remove unused args_ok sub

Noticed while reviewing pieces for POP3.

2 years agodaemon: fix uninitialized variable
Eric Wong [Sun, 8 May 2022 22:10:31 +0000 (22:10 +0000)]
daemon: fix uninitialized variable

And also replace an unnecessary substitution (s///) op with a
match (m//).

Fixes: 93a7b219d58aad86 ("public-inbox-netd: a multi-protocol superserver")
2 years agodoc: add missing "be" for --key description
Eric Wong [Sat, 7 May 2022 00:10:07 +0000 (00:10 +0000)]
doc: add missing "be" for --key description

Link: https://public-inbox.org/meta/87levfv7hs.fsf@kyleam.com/
Noticed-by: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
2 years agopublic-inbox-netd: a multi-protocol superserver
Eric Wong [Thu, 5 May 2022 10:52:15 +0000 (10:52 +0000)]
public-inbox-netd: a multi-protocol superserver

Since we'll be adding POP3 support as our 4th network protocol;
asking admins to run yet another daemon on top of existing
-httpd, -nntpd, -imapd is a maintenance burden and a waste of
memory.

The goal of public-inbox-netd is to be able to replace all
existing read-only daemons with a single process to save memory
and reduce administrative overhead; hopefully encouraging more
users to self-host their own mirrors.

It's barely-tested at the moment.  Eventually, multiple
PI_CONFIG and HOME directories will be supported, as are
per-listener .psgi config files.

2 years agolei import: add label completions (+L:$LABEL)
Eric Wong [Mon, 2 May 2022 18:10:07 +0000 (18:10 +0000)]
lei import: add label completions (+L:$LABEL)

This can probably be added for "lei q", too, but we typically
import first.  Labels can probably be made persistent on a
per-folder basis in the future.

2 years agolei_view_text: remove all CR before LF
Eric Wong [Mon, 2 May 2022 09:04:02 +0000 (09:04 +0000)]
lei_view_text: remove all CR before LF

This deals with CR-CR-LF messages, matching the HTML change in
7ee3643af9b72cad (view: remove all CR before LF, 2022-02-11)

2 years agolei refresh-mail-sync: filter NNTP(S) from --all
Eric Wong [Sat, 30 Apr 2022 21:29:30 +0000 (21:29 +0000)]
lei refresh-mail-sync: filter NNTP(S) from --all

We currently do not support refresh from NNTP since deletes are
rare with public-inbox NNTP servers; but traditional Usenet
servers do delete/expire messages and we should probably support
that at some point.

2 years agolei: improve diagnosis of errors from children
Eric Wong [Sat, 30 Apr 2022 21:04:12 +0000 (21:04 +0000)]
lei: improve diagnosis of errors from children

Not 100% sure what's going on, but maybe this helps.

2 years agolei: move to v5.12 to avoid "use strict"
Eric Wong [Sat, 23 Apr 2022 22:03:41 +0000 (22:03 +0000)]
lei: move to v5.12 to avoid "use strict"

Socket.pm still loads strict.pm, unfortunately, which hurts
startup time; but we'll save some LoC this way.

2 years agoMakefile.PL: various updates for new versions
Eric Wong [Sat, 23 Apr 2022 22:03:40 +0000 (22:03 +0000)]
Makefile.PL: various updates for new versions

We'll still stick to v5.10.1, mainly, but use v5.12 in a few places...

2 years agopublic-inbox 1.8.0 v1.8.0
Eric Wong [Sat, 23 Apr 2022 08:15:18 +0000 (08:15 +0000)]
public-inbox 1.8.0

2 years agodoc: update 1.8 WIP release notes
Eric Wong [Wed, 6 Apr 2022 00:19:21 +0000 (00:19 +0000)]
doc: update 1.8 WIP release notes

2 years agolei: commit store on interrupted partial imports
Eric Wong [Thu, 21 Apr 2022 11:59:06 +0000 (11:59 +0000)]
lei: commit store on interrupted partial imports

This change prevents lingering shard and git-fast-import
processes from remaining after interrupted "lei import" (and
similar).  It also reduces the likelyhood of data-loss in case
of subsequent abnormal termination of the daemon.

I think this is the least surprising way to handle users
prematurely aborting imports or other similar operations which
write to lei/store and will result in reduced bandwidth waste
for users with intermittent connections.  This is because the
lei/store processes may be shared by parallel "lei import"
callers, and commits done by any "lei import" caller will
inevitably trigger writes for all of them.

2 years agosyscall: golf + more idiomatic buffer initialization
Eric Wong [Mon, 18 Apr 2022 09:50:04 +0000 (09:50 +0000)]
syscall: golf + more idiomatic buffer initialization

While `vec' is useful for user-supplied buffers to avoid excess
memory traffic, but provides no benefit when we need to allocate
our own buffers as we do in nodatacow_fh, since Perl can't elide
memset(ptr, 0, len).  So just use the idiomatic `"\0" x $LEN' here.