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Alex Vandiver 1f0cfd4662 email-mirror: Add a standalone server that processes incoming email.
Using postfix to handle the incoming email gateway complicates things
a great deal:

- It cannot verify that incoming email addresses exist in Zulip before
  accepting them; it thus accepts mail at the `RCPT TO` stage which it
  cannot handle, and thus must reject after the `DATA`.

- It is built to handle both incoming and outgoing email, which
  results in subtle errors (1c17583ad5, 79931051bd, a53092687e,
  #18600).

- Rate-limiting happens much too late to avoid denial of
  service (#12501).

- Mis-configurations of the HTTP endpoint can break incoming
  mail (#18105).

Provide a replacement SMTP server which accepts incoming email on port
25, verifies that Zulip can accept the address, and that no
rate-limits are being broken, and then adds it directly to the
relevant queue.

Removes an incorrect comment which implied that missed-message
addresses were only usable once.  We leave rate-limiting to only
channel email addresses, since missed-message addresses are unlikely
to be placed into automated systems, as channel email addresses are.

Also simplifies #7814 somewhat.
2025-05-19 16:39:44 -07:00
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This directory contains scripts that:

  • Generally do not require access to Django or the database (those are "management commands"), and thus are suitable to run operationally.

  • Are useful for managing a production deployment of Zulip (many are also used in a Zulip development environment, though development-only scripts live in tools/).

For more details, see https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview/directory-structure.html.