Sandbox::https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite/pull/14195

HarshMN2345 · 2026-10-07T07:59:17Z

What does this PR do?

Fixes the deletes worker crashing on every job when _APP_EMAIL_CERTIFICATES and _APP_SYSTEM_SECURITY_EMAIL_ADDRESS are empty.

The worker injects the certificates resource for every job. That resource threw while it was created, before the action ran, so bucket file cleanup, project deletion, and domain cleanup all failed and landed in utopia-queue.failed.v1-deletes.

The Let's Encrypt client is now created even when the address is missing. Local certificate files are still removed, because removal does not use the account email. Issuance still throws the same error. That failure is recorded on the rule (status unverified) through the existing issuance-failure path, and the certificate's attempt count is set to the maintenance cap so it is not rescheduled. A generation job whose rule is not issuing is still skipped. No failure email is queued when there is no address.

When that failure happens before the first save, the rule still stores the new certificate. The failure path keeps the document returned by the upsert, which is the row that has the id.

Fixes #14174

Test Plan

tests/unit/Certificates/LetsEncryptTest.php: issuing without an email throws the existing error, including when both environment variables are unset. A certificates address, or the security-address fallback, gets past that check. File removal still deletes the local certificate directory when the client has no email.
tests/e2e/Services/Proxy/CertificatesCustomServerTest.php: a generation job with an empty email, run against the platform database, marks the rule unverified, stores the maintenance attempt cap, links the new certificate, and queues no mail. The rule API then shows that failure and a renew time. A rule that is not issuing is left untouched. The pre-existing DNS checks stay in tests/unit/Workers/CertificatesDomainValidationTest.php.

Ran phpunit tests/unit/Certificates/LetsEncryptTest.php tests/unit/Workers/CertificatesDomainValidationTest.php (8 tests, 16 assertions). The proxy e2e case runs with the Proxy suite.

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Fixes 🐛 Bug Report: Deletes worker fails without a certificate email #14174

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The certificates client was created for every deletes job and threw when no email was configured, so bucket and domain cleanup never ran. Issuance still requires the address. Local certificate removal does not. Fixes #14174

github-actions · 2026-10-07T08:01:33Z

Security rules

No new WARNING or ERROR findings from security rules.

32 existing findings tracked in .semgrep/baseline.json

php.appwrite.guest-write-without-abuse-limit (17)
php.appwrite.permissive-write-permission (8)
php.appwrite.secret-compare-timing (5)
php.appwrite.weak-secret-env-default (2)

Posted by Checks / Rules. Re-runs update this comment in place. Rule details and baseline: .semgrep/README.md.

github-actions · 2026-10-07T08:08:55Z

✨ Benchmark results

Comparing main (before) → cursor/deletes-missing-certificate-email-d21d (after).

Metric	Before	After	Change
🚀 Requests/sec	`204.53`	`202.27`	⚪ `-1.1%`
⏱️ Latency P50	`82.67 ms`	`85.93 ms`	⚪ `+3.9%`
⏱️ Latency P95	`210.51 ms`	`199.62 ms`	🟢 `-5.2%`

Per-scenario breakdown & investigation details

Metrics below reflect the current branch (after). Δ P95 compares against the base.

Scenario	P50 (ms)	P95 (ms)	Requests	RPS	Δ P95 (ms)
API total	`85.93`	`199.62`	`12,540`	`202.27`	`-10.89`
Account	`167.92`	`308.11`	`660`	`11.14`	`-24.38`
TablesDB	`83.39`	`162.47`	`6,820`	`111.5`	`+14.52`
Storage	`77.27`	`167.13`	`3,300`	`56.36`	`-9.25`
Functions	`125.06`	`238.88`	`1,760`	`30.74`	`-23.07`

Top API waits (after)

API request	Max wait (ms)
account.name.update	`552.14`
account.prefs.update	`459.99`
functions.create	`420.89`
storage.buckets.create	`393.94`
functions.delete	`369.76`

Throwing before the rule lookup failed jobs that should be skipped and left a generating rule to be retried. The existing failure path marks the rule unverified, and no mail is queued when there is no address.

A failed issuance stores a low attempt count and a due renew date. Maintenance keeps enqueueing that certificate, and the follow-up job skips it once the rule is unverified, so the count never reaches the cap.

HarshMN2345 · 2026-10-07T09:52:10Z

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hansi-codes · 2026-10-07T09:53:36Z

🟢 Tier S · Ready to merge

Both previously reported issues are fixed, and the reviewed changes have no remaining concrete defects.

Moves the certificate-email requirement from worker resource creation to certificate issuance, allowing deletion cleanup to run without an email configured. Missing-email issuance failures are recorded on the rule, capped against maintenance retries, and do not enqueue notification mail. Adds library and proxy e2e regression coverage.

Verdict	New comments	Fixed	Still open
✅ Approved	0	2	0

📂 Walkthrough · 5

File	Change
`app/worker.php`	Creates the certificate provider without requiring an email at resource resolution.
`src/Appwrite/Certificates/LetsEncrypt.php`	Adds environment-based construction and checks the email when issuing.
`src/Appwrite/Platform/Workers/Certificates.php`	Records missing-email failures, retains the persisted certificate ID, and skips mail without a recipient.
`tests/e2e/Services/Proxy/CertificatesCustomServerTest.php`	Covers failure persistence, API-visible state, mail suppression, and skipped generation.
`tests/unit/Certificates/LetsEncryptTest.php`	Covers email requirements, environment fallback, and email-independent file removal.

✅ Fixed since the last review · 2

~~Retain the newly created certificate on the early failure path~~ · src/Appwrite/Platform/Workers/Certificates.php:317
~~Cover worker behavior through the required e2e surface~~ · tests/unit/Workers/CertificatesDomainValidationTest.php:79

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hansi-codes

🟡 Tier B · 1 blocking finding to address. Summary

A missing email throws before the in-try upsert, and the failure path was reading the id from the unsaved document. Keep the upsert result so the rule stores that certificate. The worker regressions now run in the proxy e2e suite against the platform database. The Let's Encrypt client stays in the unit suite.

cursor · 2026-10-07T10:13:32Z

The missing-email failure now keeps the certificate returned by the upsert, so a rule that did not have one yet stores that certificateId.

The two worker regressions moved to tests/e2e/Services/Proxy/CertificatesCustomServerTest.php and run against the platform database, then the rule API. tests/unit/Certificates/LetsEncryptTest.php still covers the client. The older DNS checks in CertificatesDomainValidationTest are unchanged.

HarshMN2345 · 2026-10-07T10:13:55Z

@hansi-codes review

hansi-codes

🟢 Tier S · Looks good to merge. Summary

fix: keep deletes working when the certificate email is unset

f65c62a

The certificates client was created for every deletes job and threw when no email was configured, so bucket and domain cleanup never ran. Issuance still requires the address. Local certificate removal does not. Fixes #14174

HarshMN2345 added 2 commits October 7, 2026 09:29

fix: record a missing certificate email as a failed issuance

ccc0383

Throwing before the rule lookup failed jobs that should be skipped and left a generating rule to be retried. The existing failure path marks the rule unverified, and no mail is queued when there is no address.

fix: stop rescheduling issuance when the certificate email is missing

c01a788

A failed issuance stores a low attempt count and a due renew date. Maintenance keeps enqueueing that certificate, and the follow-up job skips it once the rule is unverified, so the count never reaches the cap.

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