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Services that need to reach a person hand the message here instead of each carrying a SendGrid key. Email goes to SendGrid, SMS to Twilio; whatsapp and push answer 501 rather than pretending. It binds loopback and the docker bridge only. An authenticated relay on the public internet is an open spam relay the moment the token leaks, and that token is copied into every consumer's environment. The log names a channel, a redacted address and the provider's answer. Never the subject, never the body.
channel-exit
The estate's one way out to a person's inbox or phone.
Services that need to reach a human POST here instead of carrying a SendGrid key of their own. Credentials live in one place, one service can be turned off or rate-limited, and a bug in some worker cannot become a bill.
The contract
POST /send
Authorization: Bearer <CHANNEL_EXIT_TOKEN>
Content-Type: application/json
{"channel": "email|sms|whatsapp|push", "to": "...", "subject": "...", "body": "..."}
| Reply | When |
|---|---|
200 |
the provider accepted it — {"ok": true, "provider_status": 202, "id": "..."} |
400 |
unknown channel, or to is not an email / not E.164, or nothing to send |
401 |
missing or wrong bearer token |
501 |
whatsapp and push — no provider for them in this estate |
502 |
the provider refused or was unreachable; its status is in the body |
503 |
that channel's credentials are not configured here |
GET /healthz needs no token and reports which channels are wired.
The shape is fixed by its first consumer, reminders-service
(app/alerts.py: gateway_sender), which treats any 2xx as delivered.
Two rules
It listens on loopback and the docker bridge, and nowhere else. An
authenticated relay reachable from the internet is an open spam relay the
moment the token leaks — and that token is copied into every consumer's
environment. It gets no 0.0.0.0 binding and no cloudflared route, ever.
It does not log what it was asked to send. The log records channel, a redacted address, the provider's status and message id. Never a subject, never a body, never a credential.
Consumers
From the host: http://127.0.0.1:<CHANNEL_EXIT_PORT>/send
From another container: http://172.17.0.1:<CHANNEL_EXIT_PORT>/send — a
consumer's own 127.0.0.1 is that consumer, so a loopback gateway URL fails
every delivery while looking correctly configured.
Running it
cp .env.example .env && chmod 600 .env # fill in, then
docker compose up -d --build
Every value in .env is required except PROVIDER_TIMEOUT. CHANNEL_EXIT_TOKEN
has no default: the service refuses to start without one rather than coming up
as an unauthenticated relay.
Tests
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt && python -m pytest -q
The suite replaces urllib.request.urlopen with something that raises, so no
test can send a real message however it is written.