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# Campaign and Mail Profile Boundary
## Product view
A campaign chooses an authorized Mail profile. It does not define a mail
server. The Campaign module owns recipients, content, attachment rules,
delivery intent, review state, and delivery evidence. The Mail module owns the
SMTP/IMAP endpoints, encrypted credentials, connection tests, profile policy,
and runtime transport adapters.
The persisted campaign contract is therefore deliberately narrow:
```json
{
"server": {
"mail_profile_id": "stable-mail-profile-id"
}
}
```
No `server.smtp`, `server.imap`, `server.credentials`, credential-inheritance
override, or password is valid campaign JSON.
## User journey
1. A Mail administrator creates and tests a reusable profile in Mail.
2. A campaign author opens **Mail settings** and selects one profile available
for the campaign's tenant, owner, and policy context.
3. Campaign stores only the stable profile identifier.
4. Validation asks Mail to authorize the active profile and returns only
availability flags plus opaque Mail-owned transport revisions. Reading that
summary does not decrypt credentials.
5. Build stores the profile identifier, delivery policy, job manifest, and
non-secret transport revisions as execution evidence. It stores no
resolved host, username, password, or other transport material.
6. A delivery worker invokes one Mail-owned effect operation. Mail re-authorizes
the profile, resolves credentials, compares the expected transport
revision, checks policy, and sends or appends without returning transport
material to Campaign. If the selected profile or its non-secret transport settings
changed after build, delivery stops until the campaign is revalidated and
rebuilt. A password rotation that leaves the transport identity unchanged
does not invalidate the build.
7. Mail returns only Campaign-owned envelope addresses, counts, sanitized
refusal classifications/status codes, or the selected Sent folder. Raw
server banners, provider bytes, host details, and credentials never enter
Campaign attempts or public evidence.
Non-dry Campaign report email currently fails closed. It must not bypass the
durable job/effect model through a direct SMTP call. Re-enabling it requires the
Mail-owned idempotent outbox, attempt, unknown-outcome, and reconciliation path
tracked in
[`govoplan-mail#17`](https://git.add-ideas.de/add-ideas/govoplan-mail/issues/17).
Report generation and dry-run validation remain separate from an external
effect; recipient-level exports require recipient-export authorization.
Campaign authors need `mail:profile:use` in addition to the relevant Campaign
permission. Profile visibility remains governed by Mail policy and campaign
owner context.
## Legacy versions and migration
Older versions can contain inline SMTP/IMAP settings or credentials. GovOPlaN
does not delete or rewrite those stored audit records automatically:
- API responses omit all legacy transport fields and secrets and expose a
`mail_profile_migration_required` marker.
- validation, build, queue, retry, and delivery fail closed with an actionable
profile-migration error;
- unrelated edits cannot silently scrub the legacy fields;
- an editable version is migrated only through an explicit Mail-settings save
with an authorized profile; and
- a locked version remains unchanged. Creating its editable successor records
the migration while retaining the locked source as audit evidence.
Legacy execution snapshots are likewise retained for audit but cannot be used
for delivery. Revalidate and rebuild an editable profile-only version. Removing
the remaining live and backup secret copies requires the separately approved
remediation in
[`govoplan-campaign#77`](https://git.add-ideas.de/add-ideas/govoplan-campaign/issues/77).
## Operator checks
Before live delivery, confirm that:
- the profile is active and still authorized for the campaign owner;
- SMTP and optional IMAP profile tests pass;
- validation and build occurred after the latest transport-identity change;
- append-to-Sent is enabled only when the selected profile has IMAP; and
- reports show the profile-bound snapshot revisions and delivery outcomes,
never credentials or resolved transport configuration.