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Enabling email on a native box starts agent-box-email.service, then activation cleanup stops its required agent-box-email-source@<user>.service because the renderer omitted the source from its declared units. Systemd consequently stops SMTP, apply fails, and an update can roll back.

Declare enabled email source services alongside the listener so activation starts and verifies them and cleanup only stops removed sources. Add a regression that exercises activation with an enabled and a removed source; it fails on the previous code. Document OpenSMTPD's root ownership requirement for certificate/key files, encountered during the same live setup.

Validation:

• python3 tests/test_email.py (11 passed; regression failed before the fix)
• python3 tests/test_agentbox.py (161 tests, one skipped)
• nix build -L --keep-going .#ci-native --max-jobs 4 --cores 1 --no-link (passed)
• Live native setup: verified STARTTLS certificate, successful delivery to retained bus content, and SMTP rejection of unknown recipients, plus-addressing, and external relay.

No networking defaults change.

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The renderer now includes generated email-source units in its unit list. An activation test checks the enabled and removed source units. The email documentation adds OpenSMTPD certificate ownership guidance.

Changes: Email source activation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track email-source units and verify activation bin/agentbox, tests/test_email.py	Renderer.email adds generated email-source units to t.units. The activation test checks that the enabled Alice unit starts, the removed Bob unit stops, and activation reports no failures.

Email certificate guidance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Document certificate ownership docs/email.md	The documentation says that when the certificate manager is not root, a root-managed renewal hook must validate and copy the matching certificate/key pair into a private mail directory, then restart the mail service. It also states that OpenSMTPD rejects Caddy-owned files.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

• Email events and full-content access on the existing durable spool local-channels#26: This change enables the email-source path discussed in the issue, but does not implement its downstream event contract or full-content access.

Possibly related PRs

• defangdevs/agent-box#929: That PR adds Renderer.email and the per-user source units that this change adds to t.units.

Suggested reviewers: lionello

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 09164

The reviewed change appears ready to merge after normal checks: enabled email sources are retained, removed sources are stopped, and the certificate guidance includes the required file modes.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Documentation-only edits and deletions within survi…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the fix (retaining source services during native apply) and the area (email). It matches the main change: enabled email source services are now declared alongside the listener so activ…
Description check		The description explains the bug (activation cleanup stops the enabled source service because the renderer omitted it from declared units), the fix (declare enabled source services with the listener),…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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The title names the fix (retaining source services during native apply) and the area (email). It matches the main change: enabled email source services are now declared alongside the listener so activation cleanup no longer stops them. It is specific and concise.

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The description explains the bug (activation cleanup stops the enabled source service because the renderer omitted it from declared units), the fix (declare enabled source services with the listener), the regression test, and the OpenSMTPD root-ownership documentation. These match the raw summary of bin/agentbox, docs/email.md, and tests/test_email.py.

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Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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- Around line 25-26: Update the renewal-hook guidance in the OpenSMTPD
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Applied CodeRabbit's finding in 091649b: docs/email.md now states mode 0644 for the certificate and 0600 for the key. Docs-only change. @coderabbitai review

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@defangdevs Confirmed: 091649b changes only docs/email.md. Line 26 specifies certificate mode 0644, and Line 27 specifies key mode 0600. This addresses the reported finding.

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