Two deliverability hardening fixes from the email audit:
1. Plaintext (altbody): all campaigns were HTML-only. Listmonk only emits
multipart/alternative when altbody is set, and HTML-only bulk mail is a
spam-score signal. New scripts/_email_plaintext.py renders a readable
text/plain part from the HTML body (dependency-free; preserves Listmonk
{{ .Subscriber }}/{{ UnsubscribeURL }} template tags, turns links into
'text (url)'). Wired into the trucking builder (and thus UCR + IFTA, which
reuse create_and_schedule_campaign) and the healthcare builder.
2. Stable container hostname: Listmonk derived its Message-ID from the random
docker container id -> @localhost.localdomain (spam-score signal). Pin both
listmonk + listmonk-hc hostname to perfwest.performancewest.net, matching
Listmonk's SMTP hello_hostname.
Part of the email-deliverability incident hardening.
105 lines
3.8 KiB
Python
105 lines
3.8 KiB
Python
"""Shared HTML -> plaintext conversion for outbound campaigns.
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Every campaign we build was HTML-only (no plaintext MIME part). A missing
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text/plain alternative is a spam-score signal: legitimate bulk senders ship
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multipart/alternative, and several filters (and most "this looks like spam"
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heuristics) penalise HTML-only mail. It also degrades the experience for
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plaintext-only clients and accessibility tooling.
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Listmonk only emits multipart/alternative when a campaign's `altbody` is set;
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otherwise it sends text/html alone. So we generate a readable plaintext
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rendition from the HTML body and pass it as `altbody`.
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This is intentionally dependency-free (no bs4/html2text on the prod box): a
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small, well-tested regex pipeline that:
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- drops <script>/<style>/<head> blocks,
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- turns <a href=...>text</a> into "text (url)" so links survive,
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- maps <br>, </p>, </div>, <li>, headings, <tr> to newlines,
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- prefixes <li> with "- ",
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- strips all remaining tags,
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- unescapes HTML entities,
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- collapses runs of blank lines / trailing whitespace.
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Listmonk template tags ({{ .Subscriber... }}, {{ UnsubscribeURL }}) are left
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untouched so they still render per-subscriber in the plaintext part too.
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"""
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from __future__ import annotations
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import html as _html
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import re
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__all__ = ["html_to_text"]
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_RE_FLAGS = re.IGNORECASE | re.DOTALL
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# Whole blocks whose *content* must be discarded, not just the tags.
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_DROP_BLOCKS = re.compile(
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r"<(script|style|head|title|noscript)\b[^>]*>.*?</\1>", _RE_FLAGS
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)
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# HTML comments (Listmonk/MSO conditional comments etc.).
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_COMMENTS = re.compile(r"<!--.*?-->", _RE_FLAGS)
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# <a href="URL" ...>TEXT</a> -> TEXT (URL) (skip mailto:/tel:/anchors/templated)
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_ANCHORS = re.compile(
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r'<a\b[^>]*?\bhref\s*=\s*["\']([^"\']+)["\'][^>]*>(.*?)</a>', _RE_FLAGS
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)
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# Tags that should become a line break.
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_BR = re.compile(r"<br\s*/?>", re.IGNORECASE)
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_BLOCK_END = re.compile(
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r"</(p|div|h[1-6]|tr|table|ul|ol|blockquote|section|header|footer)>",
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re.IGNORECASE,
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)
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_LI = re.compile(r"<li\b[^>]*>", re.IGNORECASE)
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_HR = re.compile(r"<hr\s*/?>", re.IGNORECASE)
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_ANY_TAG = re.compile(r"<[^>]+>")
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_MANY_BLANKS = re.compile(r"\n[ \t]*\n[ \t]*(\n[ \t]*)+")
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_TRAIL_WS = re.compile(r"[ \t]+\n")
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_MANY_SPACES = re.compile(r"[ \t]{2,}")
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def _anchor_repl(m: "re.Match[str]") -> str:
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url = m.group(1).strip()
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text = _ANY_TAG.sub("", m.group(2)).strip()
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low = url.lower()
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# mailto:/tel: -> surface the address (with link text if it adds info).
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# Bare in-page anchors -> keep text only. Templated hrefs (e.g.
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# {{ UnsubscribeURL }}) ARE kept as "text (url)" so the per-subscriber link
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# still renders in the plaintext part.
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if low.startswith(("mailto:", "tel:")):
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addr = url.split(":", 1)[1].split("?", 1)[0]
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if text and text != addr:
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return f"{text} ({addr})"
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return addr
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if low.startswith("#"):
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return text
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if not text:
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return url
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if text == url:
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return url
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return f"{text} ({url})"
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def html_to_text(html: str) -> str:
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"""Convert an HTML email body to a readable text/plain rendition.
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Returns "" for empty input. Listmonk template tags are preserved verbatim.
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"""
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if not html:
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return ""
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s = html
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s = _DROP_BLOCKS.sub("", s)
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s = _COMMENTS.sub("", s)
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s = _ANCHORS.sub(_anchor_repl, s)
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s = _HR.sub("\n----------\n", s)
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s = _BR.sub("\n", s)
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s = _LI.sub("\n- ", s)
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s = _BLOCK_END.sub("\n", s)
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s = _ANY_TAG.sub("", s)
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s = _html.unescape(s)
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# Normalise whitespace: trim trailing spaces, collapse runs of spaces and
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# blank lines, strip leading/trailing blank space overall.
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s = _TRAIL_WS.sub("\n", s)
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s = _MANY_SPACES.sub(" ", s)
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s = _MANY_BLANKS.sub("\n\n", s)
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s = "\n".join(line.rstrip() for line in s.splitlines())
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return s.strip() + "\n"
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