Switching to an account somebody shared pointed the whole app at it. The
rule was "use the selected account if it can do this", and a shared file
account can, by definition, do files.
ihasmail keeps its settings in the account's Files -- that is what makes
them follow you between devices -- so changing any setting while looking
at somebody's shared folder wrote `settings.json` into *their* storage,
creating the `ihasmail` folder there to do it. Signature images went the
same way, and push registration would have gone to whichever account was
on screen. Reading someone else's data by mistake is bad; writing yours
into theirs is worse, and one line was doing both.
There are two questions, and they had one answer:
- what am I looking at -- follows the switcher, because switching to a
shared account is how you read what was shared
- what is mine -- never does
So `accountFor` keeps the first meaning and `ownAccountFor` is the
second, used by settings sync, signature images and push. A `??
accountId` fallback in `loadStoredSignature` went with it: the reader's
own signature, reached through whoever happened to be selected.
A third rule was hiding in the first. A capability the selected account
does not advertise fell back to the selected account anyway, so a session
naming no primary for something aimed it at whoever was selected --
somebody else. It now answers with nothing, which is honest: the feature
is unavailable, rather than pointed at a stranger.
What this does not settle is whether the mail, calendar and contacts the
switcher appeared to offer were ever really reachable, or only asked for
and refused. That depends on what Stalwart advertises on a shared
account, which needs a look at a sharee's session; if it advertises
capabilities nobody shared, more is needed here than routing.
Switching to an account somebody had shared showed an empty folder tree.
Their files listed perfectly well; the sidebar beside them was blank,
with nothing to say why.
Switching accounts cleared `nodes` and `children` and stopped there. So
`treeLoaded` stayed true from the account before -- the sidebar only asks
for folders when it is false, and it never asked again -- while `dirIds`
still named the previous account's folders, which no longer resolved
against the cleared `nodes`. An empty tree either way, and no error,
because nothing had failed.
The fields that belong to one account are now named in one place,
`emptyForAccount`, and the test asserts the whole set rather than the
ones that come to mind. The bug was not bad logic, it was a field nobody
remembered when two more were added a commit earlier, and asserting the
set is the only guard that survives the next two.
Found by the person it was built for, on a real share between two
accounts, which is where it was always going to show up: the tree is
built from a query that had already run for their own account, so it
only breaks on the switch.
Files had a breadcrumb and a Move to… dialog. Moving anything meant
opening a dialog and walking down the folder you wanted, which is a lot
of ceremony for something every file manager does by dragging, and there
was nowhere to see the shape of the account at all.
There is now a folder tree in the sidebar, beside the mailbox tree it
borrows its look from. Rows in the list and folders in the tree can be
dragged onto any folder in either, and folders dropped from outside are
uploaded with their structure intact.
The tree arrives in a single query. `filter: { nodeType: "directory" }`
returns every folder in the account -- checked against 0.16.19 on
2026-08-27 -- so nothing waits on an expand, and a drag knows every
folder it could land on including ones nobody has opened. It is
deliberately its own request: a filter Stalwart refuses fails with a
request-level 400 that takes every method call in the request with it,
which `{ parentId: null }` does, so a per-level query batched alongside
the listing would blank the whole view rather than just the sidebar.
Two things the writing of this turned up.
The mock ignored the `nodeType` filter the live server applies, so the
tree asked for directories, was handed files as well, and drew them as
folders you could open into nothing. The mock now filters the way 0.16.19
does. The store also filters again on the way in, because a tree that
believes whatever a server sends is a tree that draws files as folders on
the next server that gets this wrong.
And the drag state was per-pane, which cannot work: a drag that starts in
the list has to be recognised by the tree, and the pane that did not
start it never lit up or accepted the drop. Dropping still worked, since
the drop handler re-checks from the drag itself -- which is why this
would have shipped looking fine and been unusable. It lives in the store
now, with the reason written down.
Dropping a folder in goes through `webkitGetAsEntry`, which is
non-standard in name and universal in practice. Its `readEntries` returns
*up to* some entries per call and signals the end with an empty array, so
a single read loses everything past the first batch. Both bounds in there
-- depth, and entries per directory -- exist because a directory tree
from outside the app is not something to take on trust; the test that
covers the second one found the version without it looping for ever.
Verified against the mock: a row dragged onto a folder in the tree lights
the target, is accepted, and moves it on the server; a top-level folder
dragged to All files is refused as the no-op it is; the tree's own menu
creates, renames, shares and deletes; and the tree lists folders only.
Calendars and address books have been shareable since JMAP Sharing went
in; Files never was, though Stalwart treats file storage as a first-class
thing to share and ihasmail has carried the types for it all along.
`FilesRights` and `FileNode.shareWith` were already declared -- what was
missing was asking for the property, offering the dialog, and saying so
in the list.
Checked against the live 0.16.19 first, read-only, because building a
picker against a mock that agrees with you proves nothing:
- `FileNode/get` returns `shareWith`, and `myRights` carries all six
rights, `mayShare` among them and true on one's own nodes. So the
menu entry has a real right to gate on -- unlike folder sharing,
which is offered ungated because `MailboxRights` has no such right
- `Principal/query` answers now that `allowDirectoryQueries` is on:
six individuals, no groups
- `ShareNotification/get` is implemented, which is worth knowing for
later; nothing here reads it yet
The editor preset grants read, add files and edit contents, and stops
there. Rename and delete stay with whoever shared the folder: someone
given a folder to work in should not be able to rename the thing they
were given, or delete it out from under the person who shared it. Both
are still there to tick by hand.
One finding is worth a test of its own, and has one. Stalwart answers
`shareWith` as `{}` for a node shared with nobody, not `null` -- every
unshared node in a live account came back that way. A truthiness test on
the property is therefore true for every node the server has ever
returned, and the badge driven by it would report the whole account as
shared while being, technically, about the right property. `isShared`
counts keys, and the test says why.
Verified against the mock end to end: sharing Documents with a principal
as Editor persists `mayRead`, `mayAddChildren` and `mayModifyContent` and
nothing else, the badge appears on that folder and not on the file beside
it, and re-opening the dialog shows the saved rights rather than an empty
form -- which is what proves `fileNodeProps` is really asking for the
property.
Opening an already-read conversation stopped 39px short of the bottom,
every time (#89). The messages were all there and one scroll fixed it,
but the pane was not where it meant to be.
The scroll runs in an effect, which is too early. Message bodies go into
shadow roots from the child effects underneath it, and the images in
those load later still, so the pane goes on growing after the scroll has
already happened -- and `scrollIntoView` clamps to the scroll range as it
stands the moment it is called. The read-thread fallback aims at the last
message, which no thread has the room to lift to the top, so that clamp
*is* the whole of the range. Measuring it before the images landed
measured it short.
So the target is now held against the top of the pane while the thread
settles: a ResizeObserver over the children of the scroller re-aligns it
whenever one of them changes height.
The hold ends the instant the reader touches the pane -- wheel, pointer,
touch or any key -- and after two seconds regardless. A pane that
re-scrolls under someone who has started reading is far worse than one
that lands short, so it lets go on the first sign of them rather than
waiting for the content to stop changing.
Verified against the mock, on the same already-read seven-message thread,
eight opens each way: before, all eight landed at scrollTop 96 of a 135
range; after, all eight land at 135. The #87 cases are unchanged -- an
unread message mid-thread still comes to rest flush against the top of
the pane, and a thread whose first message is the unread one still stays
at 0 with the subject in view. Scrolling or pressing a key during the
hold leaves the pane exactly where it was put.
One correction to #89 while I am here: it reported the pane sometimes not
moving at all. That was an artifact of measuring in a background tab,
where Chrome suspends rendering and clamps timers -- the behaviour in a
visible tab is the deterministic 39px above. The issue is real; that one
observation in it was not.
Selecting a thread put you at the newest message. Anything unread above
that sat off the top of the pane with nothing to announce it, and the
only way to find out was to scroll up -- by which time the auto-mark-read
timer had marked the whole thread read anyway, so scrolling up meant
scrolling up to mail already counted as seen (#87).
Opening at the bottom is right when there is nothing to catch up on and
wrong the moment there is. The pane now opens on the oldest message that
was unread when the thread was opened, and falls back to the newest when
the thread has already been read.
mbunkus's out-of-order case is the one that rules out guessing at a
position. A participant whose server could not connect for hours
delivers a message long after it was written, and it lands in the middle
of a conversation that has already moved past it -- so "second to last",
or any other fixed offset from the end, finds nothing. Reading the
unread set is the only thing that does.
Two cases leave the pane where it is:
- a single message, which is already the whole pane
- the first unread being the first message, where the top of the pane
shows it anyway, together with the subject; scrolling to it would
push the subject off for nothing
It reads the set captured when the thread was opened rather than live
`$seen` state, for the same reason expansion does (#69): the mark-read
timer must not change the shape of what you are looking at. That also
makes the landing stable, because everything above the first unread
message is a collapsed row of fixed height -- nothing up there reflows
after the scroll.
The mock grows a thread that reproduces it: seven messages with the
unread one second, four more behind it. Verified against it. Opening the
thread lands the unread message flush against the top of the pane at
scrollTop 158; the old scroll to the newest message put it at 445, with
287px of the message -- header, sender and unread bar included -- above
the fold. On a thread whose first message is the unread one the pane
stays at 0 with the subject in view, where before it would have scrolled
333. Once the thread is read, reopening it goes back to the newest
message.
Slimming it left no way to try ihasmail without leaving GitHub. Restored in
short form -- the four commands, the 2FA app-password note, and links to the
install and configure guides for TLS and the full environment.
ROADMAP.md's 2FA entry points back at that section again, rather than at the
install docs it was redirected to when the section was gone.
The README had grown to 330 lines and was carrying three audiences at once:
installing, using, and working on ihasmail. docs.ihasmail.org covers the first
two now, and ihasmail.org covers the feature tour, so the README links there
instead of restating them.
- Known issues / pending QA → KNOWN-ISSUES.md, verbatim
- Roadmap / not yet → ROADMAP.md, verbatim (its "see Quick start" pointer now
aims at the install docs, since that section is gone)
- Dropped the env-var table (docs.ihasmail.org/configure/), the shortcut list
(/shortcuts/), the Docker quick start (/install/) and the long feature list
(ihasmail.org/#features), leaving a nav table at the top and a six-line
summary of what's in it
- Kept and tightened what is only true of this tree: architecture, dev
commands, the mock, version numbers, deploying
- Version examples refreshed from 2.16.57 to the current 2.16.84
The field never worked here: Stalwart takes a TOTP code only through an
OAuth flow, so a client posting a username and password had nothing to
send it to. Offering the button advertised a feature the login path
cannot honour, so it comes out until the flow works end to end.
The login store still takes a totp argument and the server still accepts
one; the form now passes an empty string, which the server reads as no
code given. A failed sign-in no longer reveals the field, and the
invalid-credentials message drops its mention of a verification code.
Settings > Security & sessions still had the full enrolment flow --
QR code, secret, "Set up" -- for something that cannot be signed in
with. Turning 2FA on there took a working account and made webmail
unreachable from any device not already signed in, because ihasmail
has nowhere to send a TOTP code: Stalwart accepts one through an
OAuth flow alone and offers no password grant (#75). The one mercy
was that enabling reseals the current session onto a fresh app
password, so the browser doing it stayed in -- and the next sign-in
elsewhere did not.
So the enrolment path is gone until sign-in with a code works.
Turning 2FA *off* stays. It is a plain registry write, it was
verified live on 0.16.19, and anyone already enrolled -- here or in
Stalwart's own settings -- needs a way back. That control is now the
whole section, and it appears only for an account that has 2FA on;
everyone else no longer sees the heading at all.
The password form keeps its authenticator-code field on the same
condition, since Stalwart demands a code on every credential write
once 2FA is on.
Nothing changes on the server: /api/account/2fa/begin and /enable
are untouched and still tested, ready for the OAuth work that makes
them usable. The sign-in page's code field is also untouched -- it
already explains itself and points at app passwords.
README no longer advertises enrolment by QR code, and the roadmap
entry says which direction the setting still moves.
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.
jcoffey-dev
LINUXexpert.org