This commit removes the queue_name_for_config_change_purposes_only wart
from inside the readyq machinery. This field had a bunch of caveats
and could in some cases become stale if the originating scheduled
queue had aged out.
It's been replaced by a HashSet of Weak refs back to the associated
scheduled queues so that it is now possible to walk the reverse of
the fan-in graph when we need to.
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.
This commit implements a kumomta-specific message transfer
protocol that is intended to be used to migrate messages
from one kumomta node to another.
The transfer is carried out using an HTTP POST request
to the destination node's http listener.
The request includes the full message metadata and body,
in a compressed form.
An xfer request can be made via `kcli xfer` (and thus also via an HTTP API
endpoint). It works similarly to a rebind operation; you specify the
criteria to be used to match scheduled queues, along with the target
node for the xfer, and kumomta will find matching queues, drain out the
messages, make an adjustment to the metadata to capture current
scheduling information, and then place the messages into an xfer queue.
The xfer queue has hard-coded scheduling queue configuration of its own,
with the base retry interval set to 10 seconds, which should be suitably
aggressive for the intended use case.
You may apply shaping to affect the number of concurrent requests in a
similar way to how TSA shaping is configured.
On the receiving side, the incoming xfer sanity check to prohibit
trying to xfer to itself.
The spool id of the Message is not suitable to be reused verbatim on
another node (spool ids include the local mac address and creation
timestamp information, as well as a random component), so the receiving
side will derive an id that should be suitable for use on that node.
The originating node id and spool id will be preserved in metadata to
aid in tracing.
It is possible for an xfer request to target an existing xfer queue, so
that you can correct/update the target in various circumstances. In that
situation the messages will be "simply" moved from the source queue to
the destination queue.
It is possible to cancel an xfer request via `kcli xfer-cancel` (and
thus also via an HTTP API endpoint). You specify the target queue,
which must be an xfer queue, and it will have its messages drained and
the metadata changes that were applied when the xfer was initiated will
be reversed, allowing the messages to then be reinserted into their
originating queue.
refs: https://github.com/KumoCorp/kumomta/issues/311
We've been hoping that mkdocs-material will ship the much anticipated
search enhancements for some time, but it's time to recognize that
we need to do something to improve the search results with how
things work right now.
This is a big commit that changes the titles of the various pages
from the code-annotated synopsis to just the name of the function.
This makes it much easier now to match things like `kumo.reject`
directly, but `reject` remains awkward to find.
I think this is the best that we can do at this time.
A few functions have been annotated with the `status: deprecated` to
show as deprecated in the toc/nav (shows with a little trash can next
to the name).
It is now possible to trace outbound SMTP sessions, filtering
by a variety of properties.
Details are in `kcli trace-smtp-client --help` and also in
the docs at /reference/kcli/trace-smtp-client.md
refs: #87
Wez Furlong