The ready queue maintainer now tracks for each dispatcher whether it
is making progress. If it exceeds dispatcher_progress_watchdog_timeout
then the task will be aborted and any message(s) it held onto will
be returned to the scheduled queue. This will free up the connection
slot and allow another connection to be attempted, potentially
making further progress.
refs: https://github.com/KumoCorp/kumomta/issues/539
Egress sources can now be configured to auto-suspend when their local
bind address appears unplumbed or when their configured proxy server
appears unreachable. A suspended source is skipped during pool selection
until the configured duration elapses.
We recently investigated an issue where a rocksdb had been damaged by
corrupting/removing SST files (it sounded like this was accidentally
self-inflicted by some backup/orchestration infrastructure) leaving the
system in a silently-broken state: writes just wouldn't make progress
and there were no error messages.
Inspecting the `/var/spool/kumomta/data/LOG` log file (which is a
readable text file) revealed messages like:
```
2026/06/12-14:55:31.884227 2875746 [ERROR] [db/compaction/compaction.cc:262] Unable to load table properties for file 29704 --- IO error: No such file or directory: While open a file for random read: /var/spool/kumomta/data/029704.sst: No such file or directory
2026/06/12-14:55:31.884311 2875746 [ERROR] [db/db_impl/db_impl_compaction_flush.cc:3385] Waiting after background compaction error: IO error: No such file or directory: While open a file for random read: /var/spool/kumomta/data/029704.sst: No such file or directory, Accumulated background error counts: 6363
```
This commit improves the observability in this situation by proactively
checking for error conditions:
1. The store() and remove() operations now use our own polling within
a deadline loop rather than spawning a blocking task and delegating
to rocksdb's blocking interface. This allows us to inspect the
background error count and be cancellable, safely respecting and
caller provided smtp max transaction duration.
2. All read and write operations check for IO and Corruption errors
and immediately latch an error state
3. The metrics monitoring task inspects and track background error
counts and latch us into an unhealthy state when the background
error state appears unhealthy and persistent.
4. Additional metrics are exposed to help monitoring and alerting
While adding integration test coverage for this, I found a typo that
meant that spool errors were ignored in the message crate; they got
silently converted to `true` in all cases rather than just mapping
the success case to a `true`.
Integration tests handle the case where an SST file is corrupted
(truncated) during runtime, as well as starting up when an SST file
is missing. These excercise both the foreground and background
error detection paths.
Wez Furlong