docker-mailserver/CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing

This project is Open Source. That means that you can contribute on enhancements, bug fixing or improving the documentation.

1. Issues & PRs
   1. Opening an Issue
   2. Pull Request
2. Coding Style
   1. Bash and Shell
   2. YAML

Issues & PRs

Opening an Issue

Before opening an issue, read the README carefully, use the Documentation, the Postfix/Dovecot documentation and your search engine you trust. The issue tracker is not meant to be used for unrelated questions! When opening an issue, please provide details use case to let the community reproduce your problem. Please start the mail server with env DMS_DEBUG=1 and paste the output into the issue. Use the issue templates to provide the necessary information. Issues which do not use these templates are not worked on and closed. By raising issues, I agree to these terms and I understand, that the rules set for the issue tracker will help both maintainers as well as everyone to find a solution.

Maintainers take the time to improve on this project and help by solving issues together. It is therefore expected from others to make an effort and comply with the rules.

Pull Requests

Submit a Pull-Request

You want to add a feature? Feel free to start creating an issue explaining what you want to do and how you're thinking doing it. Other users may have the same need and collaboration may lead to better results.

The development workflow is the following:

1. Fork the project and clone your fork
   1. Create a new branch to work on
   2. Run git submodule update --init --recursive
2. Write the code that is needed :D
3. Add integration tests if necessary
4. Get the linters with make install_linters and install jq with the package manager of your OS
5. Use make clean all to build image locally and run tests (note that tests work on Linux only)
6. Document your improvements if necessary (e.g. if you introduced new environment variables, write the description in ENVIRONMENT.md)
7. Commit and sign your commit, push and create a pull-request to merge into master. Please use the pull-request template to provide a minimum of contextual information and make sure to meet the requirements of the checklist.
   1. Pull requests are automatically tested against the CI and will be reviewed when tests pass
   2. When your changes are validated, your branch is merged
   3. CI builds the new :edge image immediately and your changes will be includes in the next version release.

Coding Style

Bash and Shell

When refactoring, writing or altering scripts, that is Shell and Bash scripts, in any way, adhere to these rules:

1. Adjust your style of coding to the style that is already present! Even if you do not like it, this is due to consistency. There was a lot of work involved in making all scripts consistent.
2. Use shellcheck to check your scripts! Your contributions are checked by TravisCI too, so you will need to do this. You can lint your work with make lint to check against all targets.
3. Use the provided .editorconfig file.
4. Use /bin/bash or /usr/bin/env bash instead of /bin/sh. Adjust the style accordingly.
5. setup.sh provides a good starting point to look for.
6. When appropriate, use the set builtin. We recommend set -euEo pipefail or set -uE.

Styling rules

If-Else-Statements

# when using braces, use double braces
# remember you do not need "" when using [[ ]]
if [[ <CONDITION1> ]] && [[ -f ${FILE} ]]
then
  <CODE TO RUN>
# when running commands, you don't need braces
elif <COMMAND TO RUN>
  <CODE TO TUN>
else
  <CODE TO TUN>
fi

# equality checks with numbers are done
# with -eq/-ne/-lt/-ge, not != or ==
if [[ ${VAR} -ne 42 ]] || [[ ${SOME_VAR} -eq 6 ]]
then
  <CODE TO RUN>
fi

Variables & Braces

Variables are always uppercase. We always use braces.

If you forgot this and want to change it later, you can use this link. The used regex is \$([^{("\\'\/])([a-zA-Z0-9_]*)([^}\/ \t'"\n.\]:(=\\-]*), where you should in practice be able to replace all variable occurrences without braces with occurrences with braces.

# good
local VAR="good"
local NEW="${VAR}"

# bad -> TravisCI will fail
var="bad"
new=$var

Loops

Like if-else, loops look like this

for / while <LOOP CONDITION>
do
  <CODE TO RUN>
done

Functions

It's always nice to see the use of functions as it also provides a clear structure. If scripts are small, this is unnecessary, but if they become larger, please consider using functions. When doing so, provide function _main.

function _<name_underscored_and_lowercase>
{
  <CODE TO RUN>

  # variables that can be local should be local
  local <LOCAL_VARIABLE_NAME>
}

Error Tracing

A construct to trace error in your scripts looks like this. Remember: Remove set -x in the end. This is for debugging purposes only.

set -xeuEo pipefail
trap '__log_err ${FUNCNAME[0]:-"?"} ${BASH_COMMAND:-"?"} ${LINENO:-"?"} ${?:-"?"}' ERR

SCRIPT='name_of_this_script.sh'

function __log_err
{
  printf "\n––– \e[1m\e[31mUNCHECKED ERROR\e[0m\n%s\n%s\n%s\n%s\n\n" \
    "  – script    = ${SCRIPT:-${0}}" \
    "  – function  = ${1} / ${2}" \
    "  – line      = ${3}" \
    "  – exit code = ${4}" 1>&2

  <CODE TO RUN AFTERWARDS>
}

Comments, Descriptiveness & An Example

Comments should only describe non-obvious matters. Comments should start lowercase when they aren't sentences. Make the code self-descriptive by using meaningful names! Make comments not longer than approximately 80 columns, then wrap the line.

A positive example, which is taken from start-mailserver.sh, would be

function _setup_postfix_aliases
{
  _notify 'task' 'Setting up Postfix Aliases'

  : >/etc/postfix/virtual
  : >/etc/postfix/regexp

  if [[ -f /tmp/docker-mailserver/postfix-virtual.cf ]]
  then
    # fixing old virtual user file
    if grep -q ",$" /tmp/docker-mailserver/postfix-virtual.cf
    then
      sed -i -e "s/, /,/g" -e "s/,$//g" /tmp/docker-mailserver/postfix-virtual.cf
    fi

    cp -f /tmp/docker-mailserver/postfix-virtual.cf /etc/postfix/virtual

    # the `to` is important, don't delete it
    # shellcheck disable=SC2034
    while read -r FROM TO
    do
      # Setting variables for better readability
      UNAME=$(echo "${FROM}" | cut -d @ -f1)
      DOMAIN=$(echo "${FROM}" | cut -d @ -f2)

      # if they are equal it means the line looks like: "user1     other@domain.tld"
      [[ "${UNAME}" != "${DOMAIN}" ]] && echo "${DOMAIN}" >> /tmp/vhost.tmp
    done < <(grep -v "^\s*$\|^\s*\#" /tmp/docker-mailserver/postfix-virtual.cf || true)
  else
    _notify 'inf' "Warning 'config/postfix-virtual.cf' is not provided. No mail alias/forward created."
  fi

  ...
}

YAML

When formatting YAML files, use Prettier, an opinionated formatter. There are many plugins for IDEs around.