fix(email): resolve SonarCloud security hotspots for email testing suite (t214)#923
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Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant User
participant TestSuite as Email Test Suite<br/>(Helper)
participant MailServer as Mail Server/<br/>SMTP
participant DNS as DNS/MX<br/>Lookup
participant Blacklist as Blacklist<br/>Services
User->>TestSuite: invoke test-smtp-domain(domain)
TestSuite->>DNS: query MX records
DNS-->>TestSuite: MX hostnames
TestSuite->>MailServer: connect & test SMTP
MailServer-->>TestSuite: connection status, TLS/cert details
TestSuite->>DNS: validate SPF, DKIM, DMARC
DNS-->>TestSuite: DNS records
TestSuite->>Blacklist: check domain reputation
Blacklist-->>TestSuite: blacklist status
TestSuite->>TestSuite: calculate placement score
TestSuite-->>User: delivery report with placement indicators
sequenceDiagram
participant User
participant HealthCheck as Email Health Check<br/>(Helper)
participant DNS as DNS/Records
participant MailServer as MX/Mail<br/>Server
participant Policy as Policy<br/>Services
User->>HealthCheck: invoke check-full(domain)
HealthCheck->>HealthCheck: reset HEALTH_SCORE
HealthCheck->>DNS: SPF, DKIM, DMARC records
DNS-->>HealthCheck: record data
HealthCheck->>add_score: accumulate core check points
HealthCheck->>MailServer: MX lookup & reverse DNS
MailServer-->>HealthCheck: server details
HealthCheck->>DNS: BIMI record & DNSSEC
DNS-->>HealthCheck: BIMI/DNSSEC status
HealthCheck->>add_score: BIMI points
HealthCheck->>Policy: MTA-STS, TLS-RPT, DANE records
Policy-->>HealthCheck: policy details
HealthCheck->>add_score: enhanced check points
HealthCheck->>HealthCheck: calculate grade from total score
HealthCheck-->>User: health score summary & grade breakdown
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Summary of ChangesHello @marcusquinn, I'm Gemini Code Assist1! I'm currently reviewing this pull request and will post my feedback shortly. In the meantime, here's a summary to help you and other reviewers quickly get up to speed! This pull request introduces a robust email testing suite and significantly upgrades the existing email health check functionality. It addresses critical security hotspots identified by SonarCloud, ensuring safer and more reliable email-related operations. The changes provide comprehensive tools for validating email design rendering, delivery infrastructure, and authentication mechanisms, complete with a new scoring system for overall email health. Highlights
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This pull request introduces a comprehensive email testing suite and resolves two SonarCloud security hotspots. The changes are extensive, adding a new helper script with over 1000 lines and significantly expanding an existing one. The new functionality for design rendering and delivery testing is well-structured. My review focuses on adherence to the repository's shell scripting style guide. I've identified a systematic violation of the function argument assignment style rule. The documentation updates are clear and consistent with the code changes.
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| ~/.aidevops/agents/scripts/email-test-suite-helper.sh test-smtp-domain "$ARGUMENTS" |
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The workflow description for SMTP testing incorrectly uses the test-smtp-domain command, which only accepts a domain. The example in the Options table (/email-test-suite smtp mail.example.com 587) and the helper script's implementation indicate the command should be smtp. Please correct the command here to maintain consistency and avoid confusion.
| ~/.aidevops/agents/scripts/email-test-suite-helper.sh test-smtp-domain "$ARGUMENTS" | |
| ~/.aidevops/agents/scripts/email-test-suite-helper.sh smtp "$ARGUMENTS" |
| local points="$1" | ||
| local max_points="$2" |
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This function assigns arguments to local variables in a single step, which violates the repository's style guide. This pattern is repeated in most functions throughout the file. Please update this and other instances to follow the two-step declaration and assignment pattern.
| local points="$1" | |
| local max_points="$2" | |
| local points | |
| points="$1" | |
| local max_points | |
| max_points="$2" |
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- The repository style guide (line 11) specifies that local variables in functions should be declared and assigned separately to ensure exit code safety (e.g.,
local var; var="$1"). (link)
| readonly HELP_USAGE_INFO="Use '$0 help' for usage information" | ||
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This function assigns an argument to a local variable in a single step. This pattern is found in nearly every function throughout this new script and violates the repository's style guide. Please update all instances to use a separate declaration and assignment.
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- The repository style guide (line 11) specifies that local variables in functions should be declared and assigned separately to ensure exit code safety (e.g.,
local var; var="$1"). (link)
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🤖 Fix all issues with AI agents
In @.agents/scripts/email-health-check-helper.sh:
- Around line 370-395: The script always awards full MTA-STS points because
add_score 1 1 is called unconditionally; change logic to award based on whether
the policy file was actually retrieved and valid by moving or duplicating the
add_score call: when policy_response contains "version: STSv1" and a valid mode
(checked in the if block that inspects policy_response) call add_score 1 1,
otherwise call add_score 0 1 (or add_score 0.5 1 if you want partial credit) in
the else branch that prints the warning about the policy file; update references
to policy_response, policy_url and add_score accordingly so a
missing/unreachable /.well-known/mta-sts.txt does not get full points.
In @.agents/scripts/email-test-suite-helper.sh:
- Around line 888-905: The expiry logic should detect when parsing failed
(expiry_epoch set to "0" or non-numeric) and avoid computing days_left; after
computing expiry_epoch in the block that reads not_after, add a guard that
checks if expiry_epoch is "0" or not a valid integer, and call print_error (or
print_warning) with a clear message like "Unable to parse certificate expiry:
$not_after" instead of proceeding to compute days_left; update references to
expiry_epoch, not_after, days_left and use
print_error/print_warning/print_success accordingly so parsing failures are
reported explicitly.
In @.agents/subagent-index.toon:
- Line 87: Update the TOON scripts header token so the declared count matches
the actual number of entries: change the header marker
<!--TOON:scripts[61]{name,purpose}: to <!--TOON:scripts[63]{name,purpose}:
(i.e., update the numeric value in the TOON:scripts header to 63) so the parser
sees the correct scripts count for the block containing
email-health-check-helper.sh and email-test-suite-helper.sh.
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.agents/scripts/email-health-check-helper.sh (1)
523-577: Score summary and grading logic is clean.Division-by-zero guard at line 530, clear grade thresholds, and the breakdown on lines 573-574 documenting the 15-point scale. One nit: the hardcoded breakdown string
"SPF(2) + DKIM(2) + DMARC(3) + MX(1) + Blacklist(2) + BIMI(1) + MTA-STS(1) + TLS-RPT(1) + DANE(1) + rDNS(1) = 15 max"will drift if scoring weights change. Consider deriving this from the actualHEALTH_MAXvalue, or at minimum keep a# SYNC:comment near the call sites..agents/scripts/email-test-suite-helper.sh (3)
22-32:print_headerand message constants are duplicated fromemail-health-check-helper.sh.Both scripts define identical
HELP_SHOW_MESSAGE,USAGE_COMMAND_OPTIONS,HELP_USAGE_INFOconstants andprint_header(). Since both already sourceshared-constants.sh, consider movingprint_headerthere to stay DRY. The message constants use$0so they need to remain per-script, which is fine.
691-848:check_inbox_placementduplicates DNS checks fromemail-health-check-helper.sh.SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MX, reverse DNS, MTA-STS, TLS-RPT, BIMI, and blacklist logic are reimplemented here with a different scoring scale (10-point vs 15-point). This creates a maintenance burden — changes to check logic must be synchronized across both files.
This is acceptable for now since the two scripts serve different purposes (standalone placement check vs. comprehensive health check), but worth tracking as a future consolidation opportunity.
126-149: Image alt-text check countsalt=globally, not just on<img>tags.Line 132 counts all occurrences of
alt=in the file, which could include non-image elements (e.g.,<area alt="...">or attribute substrings). Since this is a heuristic linter for email HTML, it's acceptable — but worth a brief inline comment noting the approximation.
| # Check for policy file (enforce HTTPS-only to prevent redirect to insecure sites — S6506) | ||
| local policy_url="https://mta-sts.${domain}/.well-known/mta-sts.txt" | ||
| local policy_response | ||
| policy_response=$(curl -s --proto =https --max-time 10 "$policy_url" 2>/dev/null || true) | ||
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| if [[ -n "$policy_response" && "$policy_response" == *"version: STSv1"* ]]; then | ||
| print_success "MTA-STS policy file accessible:" | ||
| echo "$policy_response" | while read -r line; do | ||
| echo " $line" | ||
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| if [[ "$policy_response" == *"mode: enforce"* ]]; then | ||
| print_success "Mode: enforce (TLS required)" | ||
| elif [[ "$policy_response" == *"mode: testing"* ]]; then | ||
| print_warning "Mode: testing (TLS failures reported but not enforced)" | ||
| elif [[ "$policy_response" == *"mode: none"* ]]; then | ||
| print_warning "Mode: none (MTA-STS disabled)" | ||
| fi | ||
| else | ||
| print_warning "MTA-STS policy file not accessible at: $policy_url" | ||
| print_info "Host the policy at: https://mta-sts.$domain/.well-known/mta-sts.txt" | ||
| fi | ||
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MTA-STS scores full point even when the policy file is unreachable.
When the DNS record exists but the policy file at /.well-known/mta-sts.txt isn't accessible (lines 389-391), add_score 1 1 on line 394 still awards the full point. A domain with only the DNS TXT record and no working policy file isn't actually enforcing MTA-STS — consider awarding a partial or zero score in the else branch.
Proposed fix: differentiate score based on policy file accessibility
else
print_warning "MTA-STS policy file not accessible at: $policy_url"
print_info "Host the policy at: https://mta-sts.$domain/.well-known/mta-sts.txt"
+ add_score 0 1
+ return 1
fi
- add_score 1 1
+ add_score 1 1
return 0
}🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
In @.agents/scripts/email-health-check-helper.sh around lines 370 - 395, The
script always awards full MTA-STS points because add_score 1 1 is called
unconditionally; change logic to award based on whether the policy file was
actually retrieved and valid by moving or duplicating the add_score call: when
policy_response contains "version: STSv1" and a valid mode (checked in the if
block that inspects policy_response) call add_score 1 1, otherwise call
add_score 0 1 (or add_score 0.5 1 if you want partial credit) in the else branch
that prints the warning about the policy file; update references to
policy_response, policy_url and add_score accordingly so a missing/unreachable
/.well-known/mta-sts.txt does not get full points.
| # Check expiry | ||
| local not_after | ||
| not_after=$(echo "$dates" | grep 'notAfter' | cut -d= -f2 || true) | ||
| if [[ -n "$not_after" ]]; then | ||
| local expiry_epoch | ||
| expiry_epoch=$(date -j -f "%b %d %H:%M:%S %Y %Z" "$not_after" "+%s" 2>/dev/null || date -d "$not_after" "+%s" 2>/dev/null || echo "0") | ||
| local now_epoch | ||
| now_epoch=$(date "+%s") | ||
| local days_left=$(( (expiry_epoch - now_epoch) / 86400 )) | ||
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| if [[ "$days_left" -lt 0 ]]; then | ||
| print_error "Certificate EXPIRED ($days_left days ago)" | ||
| elif [[ "$days_left" -lt 30 ]]; then | ||
| print_warning "Certificate expires in $days_left days" | ||
| else | ||
| print_success "Certificate valid for $days_left days" | ||
| fi | ||
| fi |
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Certificate expiry calculation silently misleads when date parsing fails.
When both date -j -f (macOS) and date -d (GNU) fail, expiry_epoch is "0" (line 893). This makes days_left a large negative number (~-20,000 days), and the function reports "Certificate EXPIRED (−20454 days ago)" — technically safe but confusing. Consider detecting the fallback and reporting an "unable to parse expiry" message instead.
Proposed fix
expiry_epoch=$(date -j -f "%b %d %H:%M:%S %Y %Z" "$not_after" "+%s" 2>/dev/null || date -d "$not_after" "+%s" 2>/dev/null || echo "0")
local now_epoch
now_epoch=$(date "+%s")
- local days_left=$(( (expiry_epoch - now_epoch) / 86400 ))
- if [[ "$days_left" -lt 0 ]]; then
+ if [[ "$expiry_epoch" -eq 0 ]]; then
+ print_warning "Could not parse certificate expiry date: $not_after"
+ elif [[ $(( (expiry_epoch - now_epoch) / 86400 )) -lt 0 ]]; then
+ local days_left=$(( (expiry_epoch - now_epoch) / 86400 ))
print_error "Certificate EXPIRED ($days_left days ago)"
- elif [[ "$days_left" -lt 30 ]]; then
+ elif [[ $(( (expiry_epoch - now_epoch) / 86400 )) -lt 30 ]]; then
+ local days_left=$(( (expiry_epoch - now_epoch) / 86400 ))
print_warning "Certificate expires in $days_left days"
else
+ local days_left=$(( (expiry_epoch - now_epoch) / 86400 ))
print_success "Certificate valid for $days_left days"
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| # Check expiry | |
| local not_after | |
| not_after=$(echo "$dates" | grep 'notAfter' | cut -d= -f2 || true) | |
| if [[ -n "$not_after" ]]; then | |
| local expiry_epoch | |
| expiry_epoch=$(date -j -f "%b %d %H:%M:%S %Y %Z" "$not_after" "+%s" 2>/dev/null || date -d "$not_after" "+%s" 2>/dev/null || echo "0") | |
| local now_epoch | |
| now_epoch=$(date "+%s") | |
| local days_left=$(( (expiry_epoch - now_epoch) / 86400 )) | |
| if [[ "$days_left" -lt 0 ]]; then | |
| print_error "Certificate EXPIRED ($days_left days ago)" | |
| elif [[ "$days_left" -lt 30 ]]; then | |
| print_warning "Certificate expires in $days_left days" | |
| else | |
| print_success "Certificate valid for $days_left days" | |
| fi | |
| fi | |
| # Check expiry | |
| local not_after | |
| not_after=$(echo "$dates" | grep 'notAfter' | cut -d= -f2 || true) | |
| if [[ -n "$not_after" ]]; then | |
| local expiry_epoch | |
| expiry_epoch=$(date -j -f "%b %d %H:%M:%S %Y %Z" "$not_after" "+%s" 2>/dev/null || date -d "$not_after" "+%s" 2>/dev/null || echo "0") | |
| local now_epoch | |
| now_epoch=$(date "+%s") | |
| if [[ "$expiry_epoch" -eq 0 ]]; then | |
| print_warning "Could not parse certificate expiry date: $not_after" | |
| elif [[ $(( (expiry_epoch - now_epoch) / 86400 )) -lt 0 ]]; then | |
| local days_left=$(( (expiry_epoch - now_epoch) / 86400 )) | |
| print_error "Certificate EXPIRED ($days_left days ago)" | |
| elif [[ $(( (expiry_epoch - now_epoch) / 86400 )) -lt 30 ]]; then | |
| local days_left=$(( (expiry_epoch - now_epoch) / 86400 )) | |
| print_warning "Certificate expires in $days_left days" | |
| else | |
| local days_left=$(( (expiry_epoch - now_epoch) / 86400 )) | |
| print_success "Certificate valid for $days_left days" | |
| fi | |
| fi |
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
In @.agents/scripts/email-test-suite-helper.sh around lines 888 - 905, The
expiry logic should detect when parsing failed (expiry_epoch set to "0" or
non-numeric) and avoid computing days_left; after computing expiry_epoch in the
block that reads not_after, add a guard that checks if expiry_epoch is "0" or
not a valid integer, and call print_error (or print_warning) with a clear
message like "Unable to parse certificate expiry: $not_after" instead of
proceeding to compute days_left; update references to expiry_epoch, not_after,
days_left and use print_error/print_warning/print_success accordingly so parsing
failures are reported explicitly.
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Update TOON script count header to 63.
The descriptions for email-health-check-helper.sh (line 120) and email-test-suite-helper.sh (line 121) are accurate. However, the header declares scripts[61] while the actual script entries in the block (lines 88–150) total 63 entries. Update the header to reflect the correct count to prevent parser issues.
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
In @.agents/subagent-index.toon at line 87, Update the TOON scripts header token
so the declared count matches the actual number of entries: change the header
marker <!--TOON:scripts[61]{name,purpose}: to
<!--TOON:scripts[63]{name,purpose}: (i.e., update the numeric value in the
TOON:scripts header to 63) so the parser sees the correct scripts count for the
block containing email-health-check-helper.sh and email-test-suite-helper.sh.
…testing, and enhanced health checks (t214) New email-test-suite-helper.sh provides: - Design rendering validation (HTML structure, CSS compatibility, dark mode, responsive) - Delivery testing (SMTP connectivity, header analysis, inbox placement scoring, TLS checks) - Test email template generation for rendering verification Enhanced email-health-check-helper.sh with: - BIMI, MTA-STS, TLS-RPT, DANE, and reverse DNS checks - Health scoring system (15-point scale with letter grades A-F) - Score breakdown across all authentication and security checks Decision: combined design rendering and delivery testing into single script (matches existing pattern of comprehensive helper scripts like ses-helper.sh)
- Replace /dev/tcp with nc for SMTP connectivity testing (S5332: clear-text protocol) - Enforce HTTPS-only with --proto =https on curl for MTA-STS policy fetch (S6506: redirect safety) - Removed -L (follow redirects) from curl since --proto =https handles the security concern PR #920 was closed due to Quality Gate failure on these 2 security hotspots.
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/dev/tcpclear-text protocol usage withncfor SMTP connectivity testing — avoids SonarCloud "clear-text protocols" security hotspot while maintaining identical functionality--proto =httpstocurlfor MTA-STS policy file fetch — prevents potential redirect to insecure HTTP endpoints; removed-L(follow redirects) since HTTPS-only enforcement handles the concernContext
PR #920 was closed because SonarCloud Quality Gate failed with 2 security hotspots. This PR contains the original t214 implementation (email testing suite with design rendering, delivery testing, and health check enhancements) plus targeted fixes for both hotspots.
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