Let an installation seed and lock user settings

The first two thirds of #207. A school wanting "warn about outside senders"
on for three thousand pupils cannot ask three thousand pupils, and the
reporter is right that this is a company policy rather than a preference.

Two powers, and the difference between them is the whole request. `defaults`
seed an account that has never had settings of its own and can be changed
afterwards like anything else -- a starting point, not a rule. `enforced` are
reapplied on every load and cannot be changed at all.

Enforced controls stay visible and go dead, with a line saying why. The issue
asked for that by name: a control that is simply missing reads as a bug to
somebody who has used ihasmail without a policy.

The lock is in the settings store rather than only on the controls. There is
one door -- `update` -- and putting it there means an imported settings file,
a settings file synced from a device that predates the policy, and a control
somebody adds later and forgets to check are all covered by construction.
Reset goes back to the installation's answer rather than to ihasmail's, so it
cannot be a way around a policy either.

Configured by environment variable or by a file, because ihasmail's own
production runs read-only with no volume: an installation that cannot mount a
file can still set a variable. Keys this build does not have are dropped, the
same rule an imported settings file already gets -- a policy written against a
newer ihasmail must not put a setting nothing reads into everybody's synced
settings file. Malformed JSON stops the server rather than quietly doing
nothing, since a policy that silently did not apply is indistinguishable from
the feature not working.

Tier three -- enforcing a setting once while still letting readers change it
afterwards -- is not here. It needs a decision the reporter and I have not
made yet, and it is the only part that stores anything new.

Refs #207.
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@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import { disableWebPush, enableWebPush, webPushActive } from "@/lib/webpushEnabl
import { supportsEmailPush, webPushAvailable } from "@/lib/webpush";
import { toast } from "@/ui/toast";
import { t } from "@/lib/i18n";
import { isEnforced } from "@/lib/settingsPolicy";
export function NotificationsSettings() {
const s = useSettings((st) => st.settings);
@@ -76,7 +77,7 @@ export function NotificationsSettings() {
: t("Your mail server can wake this browser, but will not include the sender or subject. Your browser still has to be running.")
}
/>
<Switch checked={s.notificationSound} onChange={(v) => update({ notificationSound: v })} label={t("Play a sound for new mail")} />
<Switch locked={isEnforced("notificationSound")} checked={s.notificationSound} onChange={(v) => update({ notificationSound: v })} label={t("Play a sound for new mail")} />
<div className="row mt-16">
<button className="btn" onClick={() => { showNotification(t("ihasmail test"), { body: t("This is what a new-mail notification looks like.") }); playNewMailSound(); }}>{t("Test notification")}</button>
</div>