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Use the worker domain for transactional email From and links - #1712

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Live entitlement and auth mail should come from the worker's public origin, not a leftover heykody.app / heykody.dev APP_BASE_URL.

Why

A stale worker origin still leaked into From and action/asset links when SYSTEM_EMAIL_DOMAIN was unset. Production should send kody@kody.codes with https://kody.codes/… links. Preview should keep links on the preview worker.

Summary

  • resolveTransactionalEmailConfig follows APP_BASE_URL (the worker origin) for links
  • From stays kody@SYSTEM_EMAIL_DOMAIN when that override is set
  • heykody.app / heykody.dev (and LEGACY_SYSTEM_EMAIL_DOMAINS) remap both From and links to SYSTEM_EMAIL_DOMAIN, or kody.codes
  • Entitlement-warning tests now assert kody.codes

Testing

Focused node-unit: sender-config, entitlement-warning emails, password-reset, email template (8 passed).

System recap — extends existing primitives (medium risk)

Mode: recap · Base: main @ 34cdc2c8 · Head: e0930a08

Classification: extends — transactional From and link hosts change when the worker origin is a retired heykody host.

Primitives touched

Primitive Group Impact
app-ui surfaces extends — resolveTransactionalEmailConfig remaps leftover heykody hosts

Change flow

Scheduled entitlement warnings and request-scoped auth mail resolve From and links from the worker origin, remapping retired heykody hosts to kody.codes.

sequenceDiagram
	participant scheduledCron as scheduled-cron
	participant appUi as app-ui
	scheduledCron->>appUi: usage_entitlement_alert send
	appUi->>appUi: resolveTransactionalEmailConfig from APP_BASE_URL
	Note over appUi: heykody.app/dev remap to kody.codes
	appUi->>appUi: From kody@worker-or-system host plus matching links
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Before / after

APP_BASE_URL=https://heykody.app (no SYSTEM_EMAIL_DOMAIN)
  From/links: kody@heykody.app / https://heykody.app/…
  → kody@kody.codes / https://kody.codes/…

APP_BASE_URL=https://kody-pr-N.example.workers.dev SYSTEM_EMAIL_DOMAIN=kody.codes
  From: kody@kody.codes
  Links: preview worker origin
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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Updated transactional and entitlement-warning emails to use the canonical system domain.
    • Ensured email action, billing, usage, and asset links point to the correct application URL.
    • Remapped legacy application domains while preserving local-development request links.
    • Removed URL paths when deriving application hosts for email links.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified email-domain, link-generation, and local-development behavior in setup and contribution guides.

From and links follow the worker origin. A leftover heykody.app or heykody.dev APP_BASE_URL remaps to SYSTEM_EMAIL_DOMAIN, or kody.codes, so live entitlement and auth mail cannot keep the retired hosts.

Co-authored-by: me <me@kentcdodds.com>
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Walkthrough

Transactional email configuration now derives canonical worker origins, remaps legacy hosts to the current system domain, preserves local request-origin links, and updates entitlement-warning email tests and contributor documentation.

Changes

Transactional email host canonicalization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Legacy host remapping contract
packages/worker/src/app/email/sender-config.ts
TransactionalEmailEnv accepts LEGACY_SYSTEM_EMAIL_DOMAINS. The resolver defines legacy hosts and remapping helpers.
Canonical configuration resolution
packages/worker/src/app/email/sender-config.ts
The resolver derives the canonical worker origin, remaps sender and link hosts independently, and preserves local-development request links.
Behavior validation and documentation
packages/worker/src/app/email/*.test.ts, docs/contributing/*.md
Tests cover legacy, preview, custom-path, and canonical domains. Documentation describes production, preview, and local email-link behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e0930

Transactional email links can still point to a retired host when the worker origin includes a trailing dot, which may send users to the wrong origin. The PR is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to normalize this hostname form and add coverage.

Possibly related PRs

  • kentcdodds/kody#643: Related transactional and system email domain derivation and routing changes.
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In `@packages/worker/src/app/email/sender-config.ts`:
- Around line 34-39: Update isLegacyOutboundHost to remove one trailing dot from
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parseLegacyHosts results, and add a regression case covering
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function isLegacyOutboundHost(hostname: string, env: TransactionalEmailEnv) {
const host = hostname.toLowerCase()
if (bakedInLegacyOutboundHosts.includes(host)) {
return true
}
return parseLegacyHosts(env.LEGACY_SYSTEM_EMAIL_DOMAINS).includes(host)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Normalize a trailing dot before matching a legacy host.

new URL('https://heykody.app.').hostname is heykody.app.. It does not match the built-in legacy host list. This keeps links on the retired host when APP_BASE_URL uses a fully qualified hostname.

Strip one trailing dot before the comparison. Add a regression case for https://heykody.app..

Proposed fix
 function isLegacyOutboundHost(hostname: string, env: TransactionalEmailEnv) {
-	const host = hostname.toLowerCase()
+	const host = hostname.toLowerCase().replace(/\.$/, '')

Run npm run validate after the change. As per coding guidelines, npm run validate is the single authoritative local gate.

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function isLegacyOutboundHost(hostname: string, env: TransactionalEmailEnv) {
const host = hostname.toLowerCase()
if (bakedInLegacyOutboundHosts.includes(host)) {
return true
}
return parseLegacyHosts(env.LEGACY_SYSTEM_EMAIL_DOMAINS).includes(host)
function isLegacyOutboundHost(hostname: string, env: TransactionalEmailEnv) {
const host = hostname.toLowerCase().replace(/\.$/, '')
if (bakedInLegacyOutboundHosts.includes(host)) {
return true
}
return parseLegacyHosts(env.LEGACY_SYSTEM_EMAIL_DOMAINS).includes(host)
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In `@packages/worker/src/app/email/sender-config.ts` around lines 34 - 39, Update
isLegacyOutboundHost to remove one trailing dot from the lowercased hostname
before checking bakedInLegacyOutboundHosts and parseLegacyHosts results, and add
a regression case covering https://heykody.app. in the relevant tests.

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🔎 Preview deployed: https://kody-pr-1712.kody-a99.workers.dev

Worker: kody-pr-1712
Platform worker: kody-pr-1712-platform (https://kody-pr-1712-platform.kody-a99.workers.dev)
Runtime worker: kody-pr-1712-runtime (https://kody-pr-1712-runtime.kody-a99.workers.dev)
D1: kody-pr-1712-db
KV: kody-pr-1712-oauth-kv

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Closing: not needed. Production already has SYSTEM_EMAIL_DOMAIN=kody.codes, so live transactional From and links already use kody.codes. Current main already pins links to that sending domain, and this leftover heykody remap is stale plus conflicting after #1714.

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