Send the read receipt the sender asked for

JMAP has an extension for this -- RFC 9007's MDN/send -- and Stalwart does
not implement it, so ihasmail assembles the RFC 8098 multipart/report itself
and sends it the long way round: raw MIME uploaded as a blob, imported,
submitted. That is also why the receipt lands in Sent, which is where it
honestly belongs.

The plumbing is the easy half. A receipt tells whoever asked that the address
is live and when the message was read, to an address the sender chose, so the
refusals are the feature: nothing marked Auto-Submitted (RFC 3834, or two
servers answer each other forever), nothing carrying Precedence bulk/list/junk
or a List-Id, nothing already acknowledged, nothing that never arrived. A
receipt aimed anywhere other than the sender is offered, but says so first.
There is no "always send" setting, only ask or never.

Sending is recorded with RFC 3503's $mdnsent keyword on the original rather
than remembered locally, so a second look -- or another client entirely --
knows not to ask again. Non-ASCII parts go base64 rather than 8bit, so
nothing rests on 8BITMIME surviving every hop.

Verified against the mock end to end: the blob uploads, the receipt imports
and submits, and the original reads back marked. Not yet exercised against
the live server.
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2026-08-24 22:53:06 -07:00
parent be75a02181
commit 3310149fcc
10 changed files with 570 additions and 4 deletions
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@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ export const FULL_PROPS = [
"header:X-Priority:asText",
"header:Importance:asText",
"header:Auto-Submitted:asText",
"header:Precedence:asText",
"header:Authentication-Results:asText",
];
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@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
import { client, setErrorMessage } from "@/jmap/client";
import type { Email, EmailAddress, Id, SetResponse } from "@/jmap/types";
import { sameAddress } from "@/lib/address";
import { buildMdn, mdnDecision, MDN_SENT_KEYWORD } from "@/lib/mdn";
import { uid } from "@/lib/format";
import { useMail } from "./mail";
/**
* Send the read receipt the sender asked for.
*
* Stalwart has no `MDN/send` (RFC 9007 is not among its capabilities), so the
* report is built as raw MIME and posted the long way round: upload it as a
* blob, import it so it has an id, then submit it like any other message.
*
* Never call this without the user having chosen it for this message --
* `mdnDecision` says whether it may even be offered.
*/
export async function sendReadReceipt(email: Email): Promise<void> {
const mail = useMail.getState();
const accountId = mail.accountId;
if (!accountId) throw new Error("Not signed in");
const decision = mdnDecision(email);
if (!decision.offer || !decision.to) throw new Error("No read receipt is due for this message");
// Answer as whichever identity the message was addressed to, so the receipt
// comes from the address the sender wrote to rather than a default that may
// be a different persona entirely.
const addressed = [...(email.to ?? []), ...(email.cc ?? []), ...(email.bcc ?? [])];
const identity =
mail.identities.find((i) => addressed.some((a) => sameAddress(a.email, i.email))) ?? mail.identities[0];
if (!identity) throw new Error("No sending identity available");
const from: EmailAddress = { name: identity.name || null, email: identity.email };
const host = window.location.hostname || "localhost";
const mime = buildMdn({
email,
from,
to: decision.to,
finalRecipient: identity.email,
reportingUa: `${host}; ihasmail 2.0`,
now: new Date(),
boundary: `==ihasmail-${uid("b")}==`,
messageId: `<${uid("mdn")}.${Date.now()}@${host}>`,
});
const blob = new Blob([mime], { type: "message/rfc822" });
const uploaded = await client.upload(accountId, blob, { type: "message/rfc822" });
// It has to live somewhere to be submitted; Sent is where it honestly belongs.
const sentId = mail.roleId("sent") ?? mail.roleId("archive") ?? mail.roleId("inbox");
if (!sentId) throw new Error("No folder to file the receipt in");
const mdnId = await mail.importEml(uploaded.blobId, sentId, { $seen: true });
if (!mdnId) throw new Error("The server would not accept the receipt");
const res = await client.chain(
[
[
"EmailSubmission/set",
{
accountId,
create: {
s: {
identityId: identity.id,
emailId: mdnId,
envelope: { mailFrom: { email: identity.email }, rcptTo: [{ email: decision.to.email }] },
},
},
},
"s",
],
// RFC 3503's keyword, set on the original rather than remembered locally,
// so a second look -- or another client entirely -- knows not to ask again.
["Email/set", { accountId, update: { [email.id]: { [`keywords/${MDN_SENT_KEYWORD}`]: true } } }, "k"],
],
{ allowErrors: true },
);
const sub = res.get("s")?.[0] as unknown as SetResponse & { __error?: { type: string; description?: string } };
if (sub.__error) throw new Error(setErrorMessage(sub.__error));
if (sub.notCreated?.s) {
// Do not leave an unsent receipt sitting in Sent looking like it went.
void client.call("Email/set", { accountId, destroy: [mdnId] });
throw new Error(setErrorMessage(sub.notCreated.s));
}
markSent(email.id);
void mail.loadMailboxes();
}
/** Reflect the keyword locally so the banner goes at once. */
function markSent(emailId: Id): void {
useMail.setState((s) => {
const cur = s.emails[emailId];
if (!cur) return {};
return { emails: { ...s.emails, [emailId]: { ...cur, keywords: { ...cur.keywords, [MDN_SENT_KEYWORD]: true } } } };
});
}
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@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ export type Density = "comfortable" | "cozy" | "compact";
export type ReadingPane = "right" | "bottom" | "off";
export type ImagePolicy = "ask" | "always" | "contacts";
export type ComposeFormat = "html" | "text";
export type ReadReceiptPolicy = "ask" | "never";
export interface Template {
id: string;
@@ -35,6 +36,13 @@ export interface Settings {
signatureAboveQuote: boolean;
includeQuote: boolean;
requestReadReceipt: boolean;
/**
* What to do when a sender asks for a read receipt. There is deliberately no
* "always": an automatic receipt confirms to whoever asked that the address
* is live and when it was read, which is exactly what a sender who should
* not have that is fishing for. RFC 8098 asks that a person decide each one.
*/
readReceiptPolicy: ReadReceiptPolicy;
confirmDelete: boolean;
desktopNotifications: boolean;
notificationSound: boolean;
@@ -89,6 +97,7 @@ export const DEFAULT_SETTINGS: Settings = {
signatureAboveQuote: true,
includeQuote: true,
requestReadReceipt: false,
readReceiptPolicy: "ask",
confirmDelete: false,
desktopNotifications: false,
notificationSound: false,