Withdraw the key manager, and keep what probing it established
A Settings section for public keys is furniture, not a feature. Nothing in ihasmail signs, encrypts, decrypts or verifies with a key, so the page could only ever tell the reader in its own footnote that adding one does nothing. It is withdrawn on that reasoning -- the same reasoning that closed PR #67, reached again with the code in front of us. So this reverts every user-visible part of it: the section, the lib, the mock handlers, the component and the 261 catalogue strings. Nothing in web/ or server/ differs from main now. What stays is the part that was expensive and is true regardless. The x:PublicKey registry was probed against a live 0.16.20 on 2026-09-05, and the findings are now in KNOWN-ISSUES rather than in a closed pull request -- which is where they sat for the nine days between #67 and this branch, and why the work was done twice. Consolidated into one entry, framed as what Stalwart does rather than what ihasmail offers: - an ordinary user may read and write their own keys, whatever the permissions table says - the registry takes S/MIME certificates as well as OpenPGP keys, and parses both -- confirmed with a real self-signed X.509 certificate, and a malformed one gets its own BER decoding error - a key can parse and still be refused, with different words. A sign-and-certify key -- what `gpg --quick-generate-key` makes -- gets "Could not find any suitable keys", which is not a paste error and must not be shown as one - emailAddresses comes back as {} when empty, an object where a list property should be an array. It type-checks, then throws in join() - a create answers with the id alone; patching `key` is allowed - expiresAt is the registry's field and is not derived from the key ROADMAP now says plainly that key management has been built and withdrawn twice, that the registry is not the obstacle, and that verifying a signature -- which needs only public keys -- is the shortest route to a key being worth having. Encryption at rest moves from "not offered yet" to refused: it is a one-way door, since turning it off does not decrypt what is already there, and that is not a switch to hand an ordinary user however easy it would be to add.
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- **Calendar** — JMAP Calendars / JSCalendar: month/week/day/agenda, recurrence, attendees and free-busy, colour categories
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- **Contacts** — JMAP Contacts / JSContact: address books, groups, full editor, vCard import/export
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- **Files** — JMAP FileNode: browse, upload, download, rename, move, delete
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- **Encryption keys** — publish OpenPGP public keys and S/MIME certificates on the account over Stalwart's `x:PublicKey` registry. Public material only: no private key is stored, requested or sent. Managing them is all it does — nothing signs, encrypts, decrypts or verifies yet, and the page says so
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- **Settings that follow the account**, not the browser — kept in a `settings.json` in the account's own JMAP Files, so ihasmail itself stays stateless
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- **Runs read-only** — one optional write path, and with it switched off the container needs no volume and no writable root. `IMMUTABLE=1` is checked at startup rather than trusted, so a half-applied switch refuses to boot instead of failing quietly. See [Running immutably](#running-immutably)
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- **Nine new interface languages** — German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Ukrainian, Simplified Chinese and Japanese, alongside English and separate from the date-and-time locale. Every one is marked **Beta**: they were made by AI and no native speaker has read them yet, which Settings says plainly, with a link for reporting anything wrong
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