Prevent signing key leakage in email communications

[moshemorad]

Summary

This PR adds comprehensive regression tests and a critical safety fix to prevent the signing key from accidentally leaking into outgoing emails. The fix enforces keyword-only arguments in the MailSender constructor to prevent parameter order mix-ups that could expose sensitive credentials.

Key Changes

• Safety Fix: Made account_id, cluster_name, and signing_key keyword-only parameters in MailSender.__init__() to prevent accidental parameter reordering that could leak the signing key into platform links
• Regression Tests: Added comprehensive test suite with canary fixtures that verify:
  • Platform links in emails correctly contain account ID and cluster name (not signing key)
  • Signing key never appears in apprise-based email bodies or subjects
  • Signing key never appears in AWS SES email messages (both standard and raw MIME formats)
  • Signing key is absent from email headers, attachment metadata, and all message parts
• Code Cleanup: Updated MailSink to use explicit keyword arguments when instantiating MailSender, improving code clarity and maintainability

Implementation Details

The regression tests use deliberately distinguishable canary values (account-canary-1234, cluster-canary-5678, SIGNING-KEY-CANARY-MUST-NOT-LEAK) to catch any mix-ups between these parameters. The tests cover both standard SMTP and AWS SES delivery paths, including raw MIME message handling with attachments.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01DP1zRdsbKb6YEWPy2R48Se

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Walkthrough

The mail integration now requires keyword-only MailSender configuration arguments. The mail sink passes these arguments explicitly. Mail sink tests validate account and cluster data while checking that signing keys are absent from generated email content.

Changes

MailSender configuration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Keyword-only constructor and call site src/robusta/integrations/mail/sender.py, src/robusta/core/sinks/mail/mail_sink.py	MailSender now requires keyword-only configuration arguments. The mail sink passes the mail destination, account ID, cluster name, and signing key by name.
Email content regression coverage tests/test_mail_sink.py	Added canary fixtures and assertions for Apprise, SES, and raw MIME messages. Tests verify account and cluster data and check that signing keys do not appear in titles, subjects, bodies, headers, filenames, or payloads.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 0a9c2

The PR prevents signing keys from being passed into outgoing email content while adding regression coverage for the affected delivery paths; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the primary safety fix to prevent signing key leakage in email communications.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the keyword-only constructor change, updated call site, and regression tests for preventing signing key leakage.
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