Bendik Aagaard LynghaugandClaude Fable 5.1
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A durable consumer on portal's WORMHOLE stream, each message handed to the host's SMTP as text with an HTML alternative; acked on acceptance, retried after a minute otherwise, left for a newer gdo when the contract version is unknown. `gdo probe <to>` sends one through and waits for the consumer to drain. GDO_TYPST_THEME attaches a Typst PDF. A systemd unit and an installer for one gdo per host. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01L4jrCgLiKKHAEFuZUJjckH
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# gdo
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The transmitter that sends the code through the gate so the iris
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opens. [iris](https://project.uhhm.no/uhhm/iris) keeps bad content
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out of a [portal](https://project.uhhm.no/uhhm/portal) site; gdo
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sends the mail that lets a known person in, and every other mail a
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site's content says to send.
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Portal decides *when* a person hears something and renders the mail:
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`mail:` on a state in `aggregates.yaml` sends when a record enters
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that state, and an invite mails its one-time link built in. It
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publishes each rendered mail on `portal.mail.send` in the `WORMHOLE`
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JetStream stream. gdo holds a durable consumer there and hands each
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message to the host's SMTP. Portal never talks SMTP; gdo never reads
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content; a message survives either of them being down, because the
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stream keeps it.
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## Run
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```
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gdo # the consumer; one per host
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gdo probe kari@example.no # one message through, reports delivery
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gdo --version
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```
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| `NATS_URL` | `nats://127.0.0.1:4222` | credentials in the URL, as portal's own |
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| `SMTP_HOST`, `SMTP_PORT` | `127.0.0.1`, `25` | the host's postfix; no TLS, no auth, localhost only |
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| `SMTP_HELO` | the host's full name | what gdo says in EHLO; a strict server refuses a bare hostname |
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| `GDO_CONSUMER` | `gdo` | the durable consumer's name |
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| `GDO_TYPST_THEME` | unset | a `.typ` file; set, every mail carries a PDF rendered from it |
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Install on a host from a release, as root:
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```
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curl -sfLO https://project.uhhm.no/uhhm/gdo/raw/branch/main/deploy/install.sh
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sudo sh install.sh v0.1.0 'nats://infra:<token>@127.0.0.1:4222'
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```
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That puts the binary in `/usr/local/bin`, the env in `/etc/gdo.env`
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(mode 0600, the one file with a secret), and the unit
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`deploy/gdo.service` enabled and running. Then `gdo probe <you>`.
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## The message
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One JSON object per message, `v: 1`:
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```json
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{ "v": 1, "id": "trafikkmeldinger:<record>:ordnet", "site": "Tomter Vel",
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"from": "Tomter Vel <vel@example.no>", "reply_to": "post@example.no",
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"to": "kari@example.no", "subject": "Ordnet: Svingen ved skolen",
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"text": "…markdown as plain text…", "html": "<!doctype html>…" }
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```
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`id` is the JetStream message id: a transition that fires twice sends
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once. Sent as `multipart/alternative`, text first, so the plain text
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is what every client can read and the HTML is the courtesy. A message
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gdo cannot parse is acked and logged; one with a `v` it does not know
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is left in the stream for a gdo that does; one SMTP refuses is retried
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after a minute, for as long as the stream keeps it (a week).
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## Typst themes
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Plain text is the default and needs nothing. With `GDO_TYPST_THEME`
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set to a `.typ` file and `typst` on the host, gdo runs
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`typst compile` with `--input site=… subject=… text=… to=…` and
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attaches the PDF as `<site>.pdf`. Typst's PDF is dependable; its HTML
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export is not yet mail-grade, so the HTML alternative stays the plain
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one and the theme is the attachment. A theme that fails to render
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costs the attachment, never the mail.
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A minimal theme:
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```typst
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#let site = sys.inputs.at("site", default: "")
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#set page(width: 148mm, height: auto, margin: 18mm)
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#set text(font: "Libertinus Serif", size: 11pt)
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#text(size: 9pt, fill: gray)[#site]
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#v(6mm)
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#heading(sys.inputs.at("subject", default: ""))
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#v(3mm)
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#sys.inputs.at("text", default: "")
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```
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