An account using a unique address per service, on a server with an alias
domain, ends up with every local part twice over and a From picker
nobody can use -- while only ever sending from a handful (#73).
Identities can now be hidden from that picker, from Identities &
signatures. Hiding is presentation only: the identity still exists,
still receives, and stays listed and editable, the way an unsubscribed
folder is still a folder. That framing is mbunkus's own, and it is the
right one -- this is a UI preference, not a change to the account.
Three things it refuses to do, because a sender picker with nothing
usable in it is worse than a cluttered one:
- it will not hide the identity a draft is already using, which would
leave the select with no matching option and move the From line
under the writer
- it will not hide the default, which is what a new draft starts on;
the button is disabled there and says why
- if every identity is somehow hidden -- reachable only through
settings sync, since the UI will not do it -- they are all offered
again
The setting syncs, so the picker looks the same on every device, which
follows from DEVICE_KEYS being a list of exceptions rather than a list
of what travels.
Verified against the mock with four identities and one hidden: the
picker offers the other three, the hidden address is gone from
composing, the default's hide button is disabled, and the row says the
identity still receives.
Opening a conversation with several unread messages showed them all
expanded, each with its unread bar. The moment the auto-mark-read timer
fired, every one of them collapsed except the last, and the bars
vanished -- so the messages you had just been given were taken away
again, and the only record of which ones they were went with them (#69).
Both came from the same place: expansion and the bar were derived from
`$seen`, live. Marking read on the server changed what the view thought
it was looking at.
Marking read is not the problem. Opening a thread is the signal that you
are reading it, and mbunkus was explicit that turning the setting off is
not the answer he wants. What was wrong was letting a change *this view
caused* alter its own shape underneath the reader.
The thread now remembers which messages were unread when it was opened,
and uses that for expansion and for the bar. The set only grows while a
thread is open -- a message arriving unread joins it -- and is discarded
on the way to another thread. The server still gets marked read on the
timer, exactly as before, and the message list still updates.
It is accumulated during render rather than in an effect. It is derived
purely from the messages already in hand and adding an id twice does
nothing, while an effect would repaint a frame later -- which is the
flicker this exists to remove.
Verified against the mock with markReadDelay at 0, the harshest setting,
where the timer fires immediately: six seconds after opening a
three-message thread, the server reports all three seen while the view
still shows all three expanded with their bars. Before, two of the three
would have collapsed in the first instant.
Two complaints in #71, one cause. Deleting from the keyboard left
`focusId` pointing at a row that was no longer in the list, and nothing
moved it.
The confirmation appearing "every other message": `targetIds()` falls
back to the focused id, so the second `#` re-targeted the message the
first one had just deleted. The optimistic update had already moved that
message into Deleted Items, so it read as a permanent delete -- and a
permanent delete always confirms, whatever "Confirm before deleting" is
set to. The dialog was correct about the message it was asked about; it
was asked about the wrong one.
`k` jumping to the top: `moveFocus` reads `ids.indexOf(focusId)`, which
was -1 for the departed row, and -1 is treated as "before the first
row". Adding -1 to that clamps to 0.
Both explain why the mouse was fine: clicking sets focus to a row that
exists.
Focus now moves to whatever slid into the deleted row's place, honouring
"After archiving or deleting" -- the row below by default, the one above
when set to newer -- and clears when the folder empties. `moveFocus`
also no longer reads a missing row as index 0; it falls back to where
the list thinks it is.
Verified in the browser against the mock, since arithmetic tests cannot
prove the wiring: with confirmation off, two deletes in a row both go
through silently, focus stepping e4 to e5 to e6 as rows close up; then
`k` moves up exactly one instead of to the top of the list.
The From picker's drop-down rendered a light background under light
text, unreadable in any dark theme (#70).
A native <select>'s popup is painted by the browser from the element's
own colours, not the page's. `.from-select` is deliberately transparent
so it sits flush in the composer's From line, which left the popup with
no background of its own: the browser drew a light one while the text
kept the app's light foreground.
Fixed by styling `option` rather than the control, so the popup gets a
background without the closed select gaining a box. Verified: the select
stays transparent, the options are now --bg-elev on --fg, which is
12.5:1 where it was light on light.
Scoped to every select rather than this one. Nothing in the app styled
options anywhere, so this was not one broken dropdown but the first one
anybody happened to open in the dark -- and the next transparent select
would have arrived with the same bug.
Adding a filter from a message reported success while the script on the
server never held more than two rules (#76). Rules were being destroyed,
and the confirmation was a lie.
Three links, each defensible alone:
1. load() recorded a *failed* blob fetch as `contents[id] = ""`.
2. sieveToRules("") returns [] -- "this script has no rules", which is
indistinguishable from "we could not read this script".
3. Saving rewrites the whole script from that baseline, so every rule
already in it was deleted. The write itself succeeded, which is why
the UI said so.
No fetch failure was even required: rules() did `contents[id] ?? ""`, so
a script whose content had not loaded yet read as empty too. And
saveScript cached the content it had just written and then called
load(), which replaced the whole map -- discarding it if the refetch
came back short.
The fix is to keep "unknown" and "empty" apart at every step:
- a failed fetch leaves the key absent rather than storing ""
- load() merges rather than replacing, so a reload cannot throw away
what saveScript just wrote
- rules() returns null for content it does not have, which every
caller already treats as "do not touch this script"
- saveRules refuses outright when the baseline is unknown. Refusing is
recoverable; overwriting is not.
rules() now also reports whether the script was read, because "written
by hand" and "could not be read" want different advice -- one is
permanent, the other is a reload away, and telling someone the wrong one
sends them hunting for a problem they do not have.
Ruled out on the way: the rule codec round-trips fine, eight rules in
and eight out. sieveToRules reads the `# rule:` JSON comments rather
than parsing Sieve, so the generated script's shape was never the issue.
Signing in with a two-factor code failed with a bare 401 and "Invalid
credentials", which sent the user off to check a password that was
perfectly good (#75). It cannot work, and the app already knew.
Stalwart accepts a TOTP code only through an OAuth flow -- its own web
interface is an OAuth client, which is why signing in *there* succeeds --
and it offers only the authorization-code and device flows. There is no
password grant, so a client holding a username and password has nowhere
to exchange them plus a code for a token. The concatenated
`password$code` form this README claimed was accepted is not a route the
server has, and appears never to have been. What was verified live on
0.16.19 was enabling and disabling 2FA, never signing in with a code.
The contradiction was already in the codebase: turning 2FA *on* mints an
app password and reseals the session onto it, precisely because a plain
password stops working from that moment. The sign-in page was the one
place still assuming otherwise.
Three changes, no new capability:
- A 401 on a sign-in that carried a code now says what is happening
and where to go instead, and says the password is probably fine.
A sign-in without a code is untouched, so an ordinary typo still
reads as an ordinary typo.
- The field stays, and is honest about itself. Removing it would leave
someone with 2FA finding nothing at all, which is worse than finding
a field that explains the situation and points at app passwords.
- The README's claim is corrected rather than quietly dropped, and
real 2FA support is written into the roadmap as what it is: an OAuth
implementation, handing sign-in to Stalwart and holding a refresh
token instead of a sealed password.
Web Push works, confirmed end to end against the live 0.16.19: with
Chrome open and every ihasmail tab closed, a notification arrives
immediately and names the sender and subject.
But "closed" means ihasmail, not the browser, and the switch did not say
so. Web Push is delivered over a connection the browser holds, so
something of it has to be running.
Observed on 2026-08-26, with Chrome fully quit and "Continue running
background apps" off: nothing arrived until Chrome was started again, at
which point the queued notification was delivered. Turning that setting
on keeps a process alive and restores immediate delivery.
Worth knowing that the queue is not indefinite -- a Web Push message
carries a TTL, and one that expires before the browser comes back is
dropped rather than delivered late. Being an installed PWA does not
change any of this on a desktop; it changes the window, not who holds
the connection. On Android it would, since the push service can wake the
browser from cold.
None of this is ihasmail's to fix. It is what Web Push is, and the only
thing worth doing about it is not implying otherwise -- which the
notification switch was quietly doing.
Enabling background notifications failed with "Invalid filter". The
subscription asked to be notified about mail matching:
filter: { inMailbox: null, notKeyword: "$seen" }
`inMailbox: null` meant "the inbox" in my head and nothing at all to
Stalwart, which needs a mailbox id there. It refused the whole
subscription, so the feature did not work at all for anyone who tried
it.
The Inbox's id is now passed in and used. Where it is not known the
condition is left out rather than sent empty: notifying more widely is a
worse default than filtering to the Inbox, but it is a working one, and
sending a malformed filter is not a fallback.
Two reasons this got out, both worth fixing rather than just the bug:
- The tests checked the properties list and its ordering, and never
looked at the filter. There is now one that walks every condition
and fails on a null or undefined value, for both the known-inbox and
unknown-inbox cases.
- The mock accepted it happily, so nothing local disagreed with the
code. It now refuses a filter condition with a null value and
answers "Invalid filter.", which is what the live server said.
Reproduced: the old payload is rejected, the new one accepted.
ihasmail's notifications came from EventSource, which lives exactly as
long as a tab does -- so "desktop notifications" has always quietly
meant "while you are looking". That switch is now labelled as much, and
a second one does the thing people assumed the first one did.
Stalwart 0.16 signs Web Push with VAPID (RFC 9749) and can put the
message itself in the payload (draft-ietf-jmap-emailpush). The server
pushes straight to the browser's own push service: ihasmail's server is
not in the delivery path, there is no relay to run, and nothing beyond
the browser vendor's endpoint that Web Push requires of everyone.
Checked against the live 0.16.19 before any of this was written, because
an advertised capability is not a configured one:
- the session publishes a real applicationServerKey, so no key
generation or server configuration is needed
- PushSubscription/get answers an ordinary user rather than refusing
- emailpush is advertised, and its draft defines a filter, an ordered
properties list and an urgency -- so the payload can carry sender and
subject, and the server drops properties from the end when it will
not fit rather than failing the notification
Three things this gets right that are easy to get wrong:
- The verification handshake. A JMAP subscription delivers nothing
until the client echoes back a code the server pushed, and the
service worker cannot answer it -- no credentials in that context.
It forwards the code to a tab, or leaves it in the cache when no tab
was open to forward it to.
- Key encoding. The W3C Push API produces unpadded base64url and
Stalwart 0.16 was fixed to accept exactly that, so nothing here pads
on the way out. The VAPID key needs padding on the way *in* for
atob; getting that backwards fails at subscribe() with an opaque
error, so it lives in one named function with tests.
- Sign-out. A subscription belongs to the account, not the session.
Without tearing it down, a shared machine keeps notifying for a
mailbox nobody is signed into -- which is somebody else's mail.
The mock models the JMAP half, including refusing padded keys and
non-https endpoints, and creating subscriptions *unverified*. Delivery
cannot be mocked -- it runs through the browser vendor's real push
service -- but a mock that marked a subscription verified on creation
would let a client ship without the handshake, and the symptom in
production is "registered, and silent".
Not verified end to end: an actual notification arriving. That needs a
real browser, a real push service and real delivery, so it is live
testing or nothing.
Every deploy tags an image with its version, which is what makes a
rollback a `docker run` rather than a rebuild -- and what has quietly
put 7.7 GB of them on the host, 4.3 GB of it reclaimable. `docker image
prune` will not help: they are tagged, which is the whole point of them.
The script that creates them now removes them, keeping the newest
IHASMAIL_KEEP_VERSIONS (three by default, 0 to keep everything).
Two things it is careful about, both learned from what could go wrong
rather than from something that did:
- it runs only after the new container reports healthy, so a rollback
target is never dropped while the thing meant to replace it is still
unproven.
- it excludes the image the container is actually running, by asking
docker what that is rather than assuming it sorts newest. After a
rollback it does not: the running image is an old one, and naive
keep-the-newest-N would delete the image in use. Docker would refuse,
but being refused is not the same as not having tried.
Exercised against a stubbed docker on PATH, so the pipeline and xargs
are the real ones: keeps 3 and removes the oldest, keeps 1 and removes
three, keeps everything at 0, never lists :current, and spares the
running image in a rollback where it is the fourth-newest.
Also records delete-all-spam as confirmed live on 0.16.19 today: Junk
Mail emptied and Deleted Items stayed empty afterwards, which is the
half a mock cannot prove and the half the feature exists for.
Junk Mail can now be emptied in one action, the way every other mail
client offers it: a banner across the top of the folder, and an item in
both the folder's right-click menu and the list's own menu.
The messages are destroyed rather than moved to Deleted Items. Routing
spam through the bin on its way out leaves you with the same problem in
a different folder, and "delete all spam" means gone everywhere else. So
the dialog says it before you commit, and there is no undo.
emptyMailbox already did the hard part -- walking a folder a page at a
time so it survives maxObjectsInSet, which a Deleted Items of 5192 once
did not. All that changed is which folders it will accept. The guard
stays in the store rather than living only in the menus, so a fourth
caller cannot empty the Inbox by asking nicely.
The three entry points share one helper, because three dialogs warning
about a permanent deletion in three slightly different ways is how one
of them ends up not warning at all. A folder with nothing in it offers
the item greyed out rather than hiding it, so it is where you expect it
to be next time.
Folder naming is fixed in the same commit because it changed the same
file, and because testing this is what surfaced it. Two problems, one
cause:
- The mock called its folders "Trash" and "Sent". Stalwart's defaults
follow the Exchange convention -- "Deleted Items", "Sent Items" --
so anything built from a folder's name read differently against the
mock than against a real server, and every screenshot in the README
showed a folder list no user has.
- Worse, and in shipping code: the undo toast took a hardcoded label
in preference to the folder's actual name, so deleting a message
announced "moved to Trash" on a server whose folder is called
"Deleted Items", and reporting spam said "moved to Spam" where it is
"Junk Mail". The one message whose job is saying where mail went was
naming somewhere that does not exist. It now prefers the mailbox's
own name and keeps the hardcoded word only as a fallback.
Verified against the mock: the banner appears only in Junk and only with
something to delete, the dialog counts and pluralises, the messages are
destroyed and Deleted Items stays empty afterwards, the banner
disappears once the folder is, the item greys out when empty, Archive is
offered neither, and Trash still says "Empty Deleted Items".
Both `theme` and `lastDarkTheme` sync, so a theme chosen on one machine
-- and the toggle's way back to it -- are the same everywhere. That is
already true, by the rule that DEVICE_KEYS is a list of exceptions and
anything else syncs by default, but nothing said so.
The existing test cannot say it: it derives what should sync from
DEVICE_KEYS, so moving one of these into that list would move the
expectation with it and still pass. These name the two keys outright.
The top-bar toggle went to light from anything dark, and back to plain
"dark" -- which quietly moved an ihasmail user onto a theme they had
never chosen, two clicks and no way to tell what had happened. It did
the same to "match system", which the toggle could not restore at all;
the comment above it conceded as much and sent people to Settings.
There is more than one way to be dark now, so the way back is
remembered: lastDarkTheme holds whichever non-light theme was last
chosen, and the toggle returns to that.
The remembering lives in update(), the single path every way of setting
a theme goes through -- the toggle, Appearance, an imported settings
file -- so a fourth way to choose one cannot forget to record it. Light
never overwrites it, since light is the side being toggled away from.
The button's label follows: "Switch to the ihasmail theme", "Switch to
your system theme", rather than claiming everything dark is "dark mode".
Confirmed in a browser, not only in tests: from a fresh profile the
round trip ihasmail -> light -> ihasmail returns to ihasmail, and
system -> light -> system returns to system, with the label naming the
destination each time.
A dark theme carrying ihasmail.org's palette: a teal-navy ground rather
than the blue-slate of the plain dark theme, with the orange the logo's
cat is drawn in doing the work of the star and the warning colour. The
values are the site's own, read from its stylesheet rather than picked
by eye.
It is a theme rather than an accent because it changes backgrounds,
borders and text as well as the highlight -- an accent could not.
It rides on data-theme="dark" and adds data-palette="ihasmail" on top,
so the eleven dark-only rules further down the stylesheet keep applying
without being duplicated for a second dark theme. Specificity then does
something deliberate: the palette block is 0,2,0 and the accent variants
are 0,3,0, so a chosen accent still wins over it -- and because the
default accent ("teal") has no rule of its own, ihasmail.org's accent is
what shows until someone picks another. Verified both ways in a browser.
It is now what a new account starts on, so the app looks like itself
before anyone has chosen anything. Only a default: a stored theme always
wins, which leaves everyone already using ihasmail where they are, since
the setting is saved whether or not they deliberately picked it.
While here, the theme-color meta tag was fixed. There were two, both
carrying media attributes, and applyTheme looks for
:not([media]) -- so it matched neither and the browser chrome had never
followed the chosen theme at all, only what the OS preferred. One tag
now, updated from JS, starting at the default theme's background so the
first paint is right too.
Contrast measured rather than assumed, against the theme's own
background: text 14.5:1, muted 8.6:1, faint 6.4:1, accent 8.0:1, link
9.8:1, star 7.9:1, accent-on-accent 8.4:1. All AA or better.
The build and where to find it were running together on one line. The
name and version now stand on their own, with the two links beneath:
ihasmail v2.16.61
ihasmail.org · AGPL-3.0 source
"by" is gone with the restructuring. It was doing attribution work that
the line no longer needs -- ihasmail.org is a LINUXexpert.org project
site, so pointing at it says the same thing without the preposition, and
the README badge is where the credit properly lives.
One <p> with a break rather than two paragraphs: .foot carries a 20px
margin-top, which a second one would repeat as a gap under the button.
The link went to linuxexpert.org, which is the organisation rather than
the project. Someone reading a sign-in page and following it wants the
software's own site, not its publisher's.
Checked that https://ihasmail.org answers 200 before putting it in front
of everyone who reaches the instance -- a dead link on a sign-in page is
worse than none.
The README badge still credits LINUXexpert.org, which is the right place
for attribution and was not part of this.
The four things this section still had outstanding were all exercised
against the live 0.16.19 on 2026-08-26:
- read receipts, end to end -- assembled, uploaded, imported, submitted,
landed in Sent, and $mdnsent set so a second look does not offer to
send another. Only the mock had seen this before.
- the rest of the scheduled-send journey: a hold expiring and being
delivered, and the Scheduled folder reconciling on the way in -- a
released message to Sent, a cancelled one back to Drafts. The hold
itself was already confirmed on 2026-08-25.
- Files rename, move and delete on the 0.16 path. What had been
confirmed on 0.15.5 was the older code path, and that no longer
exists, so this closes the entry rather than adding to it.
- the settings file on the deployed instance, rather than only on a
build that had not shipped yet.
The section keeps saying what was checked and when, and now says why:
it has been wrong before, when the 0.16 registry path was recorded as
verified live while a capability looked for in the wrong place meant it
had never run at all. What is left here is no longer a list of unknowns
but of things worth knowing -- where Stalwart departs from a spec, where
a setting has to be on for a feature to work, and what ihasmail
deliberately does not do.
Moving the deploy script into the repo put it inside the checkout it
resets, and bash does not read a script all at once -- it reads as it
goes, by byte offset. `git reset --hard` replacing the file underneath a
running shell makes it stop wherever it had reached.
Silently, and with exit status 0. A three-line demonstration:
echo "line A"
cat > "$0" <<'NEW'
echo "REWRITTEN"
NEW
echo "line B"
prints "line A" and nothing else, and exits 0. In a deploy that means
building the image, then stopping before the container is replaced, and
reporting success -- so the old container keeps serving while everything
says the new one shipped.
It only bites when a deploy carries a change to the deploy script
itself, which is rare enough to be baffling when it happens and exactly
the sort of quiet failure this project keeps paying for.
The script now re-execs from a copy outside the tree before touching
git, so the file being run cannot change while it runs, and removes the
copy on exit. Running it from outside the checkout -- as the host did
before this moved into the repo -- skips all of that.
The trap is an `if` rather than `[ -n ... ] && trap`, which would leave
the not-re-exec'd path resting on errexit ignoring a failed left operand
of &&. It does ignore it, but a deploy script is a poor place to depend
on knowing that.
Verified: with the guard, a script that overwrites itself mid-run
completes every later line and cleans up its copy; without it, the lines
after the rewrite never run.
The live deploy script has never been under version control, which makes
it the one part of the pipeline that can silently fall out of step with
the repo -- as it just did: it builds without --build-arg
IHASMAIL_VERSION, so every deployment would report 2.16.0 no matter what
was actually built.
This is that script with the host taken out of it. Every path, name,
port and volume is a variable with a default that describes the shape of
a deployment rather than any particular one, so what is published is the
logic and none of the topology. It follows Caddyfile.example and
nginx.example.conf, which are here for the same reason.
Nothing sensitive was in the original either -- it never reads the
environment file, only hands the path to docker run --env-file -- but
the absolute paths named a user and a directory layout, and there is no
reason for those to be public to buy version control over the guards.
Two things it does that the original did not:
- passes the version to the build, which is the whole reason this came
up. A Docker tag may not contain "+", which a version for a commit
that arrived outside a pull request does (2.16.57+g1fa6578), so the
tag turns it into "-" while the build is told the real form. About
and /api/health still report it correctly.
- tags each build with its own version as well as :current, so rolling
back is running the previous tag rather than rebuilding it. The
failure path lists what is there to go back to.
Exercised against a throwaway clone, container, volume and image:
the hold guard refuses a held commit that production does not already
carry and lets one through that it does; the confirmation guard refuses
to run over a pipe without --yes; a dry run stops before building; and a
full run built, replaced the container and reported healthy at
2.16.57+g0549a09 -- from an image tagged 2.16.57-g0549a09, which is the
sanitising working.
It was only on the About page, which is behind a sign-in -- so the one
place a version is most often wanted, when something is wrong and nobody
can get in, was the one place it could not be read.
It sits next to the AGPL source link deliberately. Section 13's offer is
for the source of *this* build, and naming the build is what turns that
into something a person can act on rather than a link to whatever main
happens to be. A bug report can name the build without signing in, too.
Worth being deliberate about: this is pre-authentication, so anyone who
can reach the instance can read it. That is a real disclosure -- it tells
an unauthenticated visitor exactly which build to look up. It is being
accepted rather than overlooked: ihasmail is AGPL with its source already
linked from that same line, so the version narrows nothing that reading
the source would not, and the sign-in page already names the software.
ihasmail called itself "2.0" on the About page and "2.0.0" from
/api/health, both hardcoded, in four places that had drifted from each
other and from anything meaningful. A build now says what it is:
ihasmail v2.16.57
| | |
| | the pull request the commit came from
| the Stalwart generation this build targets -- 0.16
ihasmail's own major
The first two are the version in the root package.json, so there is a
single place to bump them, and 16 becomes 17 when ihasmail moves to
Stalwart 0.17. Dropping 0.15 is what makes that middle number honest:
while two generations were supported it could not have been either.
The pull request number comes from git at build time and is never
written back into the tree. It cannot be: it does not exist until the
pull request has merged, so a committed version would always describe a
merge that had not happened yet, and every open branch would collide on
the same line. A commit that did not come through a pull request carries
the last number plus its own short SHA -- 2.16.57+g1fa6578 -- which says
it is past that pull request rather than quietly claiming to be it.
.dockerignore excludes .git on purpose, so an image build cannot work
any of this out. It takes --build-arg IHASMAIL_VERSION instead, which
the build stage bakes into the bundle and the runtime stage keeps as an
environment variable for the server. Left out, it falls back to the base
version from package.json rather than failing -- so a version with no PR
number on it means whoever built the image did not pass one.
scripts/ is copied into the runtime image because the server resolves
its version through it. There is no git in there to ask, which is the
fallback's whole purpose.
Verified: 2.16.57 in the bundle and from /api/health on a dev checkout;
the same after a real docker build --build-arg, from inside the
container; and 2.16.0 rather than a crash when the arg is left off.
Note for deploying: ihasmail-deploy.sh on the host builds without the
argument and will produce 2.16.0 until it passes
--build-arg IHASMAIL_VERSION="$(node scripts/version.mjs)".
ihasmail spoke to two generations of Stalwart that are less alike than
their version numbers suggest: 0.16 replaced the REST management API with
JMAP registry objects, changed the shape of FileNode, split its rights
up, and moved configuration into the store. Carrying both meant 34 branch
points across nine files, a 92-line compatibility shim whose only job was
telling them apart, a parallel REST implementation of every credential
operation, and a mock that had to model both.
The branches were not the real cost. The cost was that a wrong answer
about which generation had answered always had somewhere to fall back to,
so it failed quietly rather than loudly: one capability looked for in the
wrong place downgraded every real 0.16 server onto the 0.15 path, which
posted the current password to an endpoint 0.16 had removed, reported the
wrong generation on About, and ran Files on the older code. It reached
production and was recorded as verified when it was not. The mock
mirrored the same wrong placement, which is why the tests agreed.
Removed: the filenode compatibility shim, the dual "registry" | "legacy"
backend in account.ts, the pre-0.16 generation in AccountInfo and
everything that read it, the mock's LEGACY mode and dev:mock:legacy, and
the three test files that existed only to pin 0.15 behaviour.
Sign-in now refuses an older server by name, once, rather than letting
Files, the account locale and credentials each fail in their own way with
nothing connecting them. It says the credentials were fine -- someone
hitting this has typed a correct password, and telling them otherwise
sends them round in circles -- and names the tag to build from. Four
tests cover it, including that no session cookie is minted and that bad
credentials on such a server are still a plain 401.
Two fallbacks went that were not strictly about 0.15, and both for the
same reason the removal is happening. Files no longer answers a refused
filter or sort by fetching every node in the account, which would hide a
real fault behind a performance cliff nobody would notice. And the app
folder lookups now filter on parentId/isTopLevel alone and match names
client-side, since `name` is not a filter Stalwart is known to implement
and one it does not know fails the whole query rather than being ignored.
The last release that runs on 0.15 is tagged stalwart-0.15-support.
Verified against the mock end to end: sign-in, the Files tree on the 0.16
path with the app folder hidden, and self-service credentials over the
registry. 226 web + 75 server tests pass; typecheck and build clean.
CI triggers on a push to main and on pull requests, and on nothing else.
That left no way to put a check on 7a1e5ee -- the commit production is
running -- after GitHub's Actions outage on 2026-08-26 orphaned every run
created during it.
Those runs are not merely slow. GitHub accepted them, allocated zero
jobs, and left them in a state its own API contradicts itself about:
gh run rerun -> "cannot be rerun; This workflow is already running"
gh run cancel -> "Cannot cancel a workflow run that is completed"
gh api -> status=queued, conclusion=null, jobs=0
Neither recoverable nor clearable, and with no manual trigger the only
remaining option would have been an empty commit pushed to main to move
the ref -- which is both a junk commit and against how changes land here.
workflow_dispatch also covers the ordinary case of wanting a check on a
commit that predates a CI change.
Settings moved into the account's JMAP Files in #55, which shipped to the
live 0.16.19 today. The README carried the feature but not what had
actually been checked against a real server, which is the distinction
the Known issues section exists to keep.
Confirmed live on 0.16.19 (2026-08-26): settings set in Chrome came back
on a fresh login in Firefox and in an incognito session. Both start with
an empty localStorage, so each of them read the account's file rather
than anything cached locally -- which is the whole claim.
That incidentally exercised part of the 0.16 Files path the section had
flagged as still wanting a look on its own terms: finding and creating
the folder, creating a node with nodeType, uploading and downloading its
blob, and pointing an existing node at a new one. Rename, move, delete
and the Files view itself are still unchecked there, and the entry now
says so rather than letting the tick spread further than the evidence.
Every setting lived in localStorage, so none of them travelled between
devices. The sharpest edge is the default identity: with none set the
address that sorts first wins, so mail goes out from an address the
recipient may not recognise -- and someone who sets it at work finds it
unset at home, with nothing to say so. Reported in #54.
They now live in a settings.json in the account's own JMAP Files, beside
the signature images already kept there. ihasmail itself stays stateless:
no volume, no database, nothing to back up separately, and the settings
are covered by whatever backs up the mail store.
localStorage stays as a cache rather than the source of truth, so the
first frame is painted from it and the file corrects it a moment later.
A private window has no cache and shows defaults for that one frame,
which is the trade for not gating the whole app on a network round trip.
Not everything should follow the account. A list-pane width picked on a
27" monitor is wrong on a laptop, and the notification toggles track a
permission the browser grants per-device, so claiming it elsewhere would
be a lie. Those stay local, written as a list of exceptions so that a
setting added later syncs by default -- which is what adding one almost
always means.
Writes are coalesced: update() fires on every frame of a splitter drag,
so a change waits 3s and the newest value wins. A tab going away flushes
first, as does signing out, so a setting changed seconds before either
is not lost.
The ihasmail folder is now hidden from the Files view, contents and all.
Hiding the folder alone would have been worse than showing it: the tree
attaches a node whose parent is missing to the root, so the signature
images would have spilled into the top level as if the user had put them
there. Those images have been visible since signatures shipped.
Requires 0.16 -- FileNode/query cannot see directories before that. On
0.15 settings stay local exactly as they were.
Verified against the mock end to end: folder create, blob upload, node
create, read back, update, re-read. Not yet exercised against the live
0.16.19.
Every screenshot still showed the old mark in the topbar -- squashed,
with an illegible ".com" smudge under it. All seven are retaken against
the mock server at the original framing (1420x703, mobile 500x703).
The four Sieve rules in filters.jpg are not seeded by the mock, so they
are rebuilt through the rule builder to match the previous shot:
Newsletters, From the boss, Receipts, Build failures.
Date format is pinned to the locale default so the list reads "Aug 24"
as it did before, rather than the "24.08." the stored preference had
drifted to.
README: the header logo drops 180 -> 150 wide, since the mark alone is
portrait where the old artwork was landscape, and the note about the
prototype now says the logo has lost its wordmark too.
The logo baked "ihasmail.com" into the artwork, which is the wrong
identity for a project that is not the hosted instance -- and at the
34px the topbar renders it at, the wordmark was an illegible smudge
under a squashed cat.
logo.png, icon-512.png, icon-192.png and apple-touch-icon.png are now
the mark alone. favicon-64.png, icon-maskable.png and favicon.ico
already were, and are untouched.
Cropping needed a threshold: both source files carry a band of
near-invisible pixels (alpha 1-10) roughly 40px wide down the left
side, so a plain getbbox() crop leaves the mark sitting off-centre.
The bounding box is taken at alpha > 8 instead.
The login page had no name of its own -- it relied on the wordmark --
so it gets one as text, styled like the topbar's. Its screenshot is
retaken; the rest still show the old mark in the topbar.
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