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jcoffey-dev ba4d2105a4 Merge main: the list subject stays notranslate and gains its translated fallback
Both sides of the conflict belong. The span holds a subject, which is the
sender's words and not ours to machine-translate; the text shown when
there is no subject is ours, and should follow the interface language.
2026-08-31 14:44:30 -07:00
jcoffey-dev a6863e98cc Second extraction pass: the strings the codemod could not see
`i18n:coverage` reported 100% while a hundred-odd strings rendered
English in every language. It was not wrong about what it measured: it
reads JSX text, and none of these were JSX text. They were toast
arguments, `confirmDialog({ title, confirmLabel })` props, `title=` and
`aria-label=` attributes, and template literals — every one built from an
expression the codemod cannot read.

176 source strings and 15 plural sets now go through t() and plural(),
translated into all nine languages. Where English put a word in a slot,
the sentence is spelled out per branch instead: `Filter ${verb}` became
"Filter saved" and "Filter created", because which word agrees with what,
and where it sits, is not a property English gets to decide for everyone.
Counts that were `${n} message${n === 1 ? "" : "s"}` are plural() calls,
so Russian and Ukrainian get three forms and Japanese and Chinese get the
one they actually have.

Two of the catalogue's own conventions were worth learning the hard way.
Plural entries are keyed on the English *other* form, not `one` — `one`
is a form English happens to have and Japanese does not. And a constant
table holding English that is translated at the render site is fine: the
literal is a key, not a leak.

Which is what the new check encodes. `scripts/i18n-literals.mjs` accepts
a string that is wrapped where it is written or is a catalogue key
somewhere, and refuses one that is neither — a string no catalogue can
translate, however many languages ship. It found twenty more than my own
sweep had, including the stale-folder toast seen in production. It runs
as part of `npm run i18n:check`.

Also fixed: the catalogue is now awaited before the first paint. The
tree is rebuilt when a catalogue lands, so components recover on their
own, but a string computed in an effect does not — a toast fired in that
gap is emitted in English and stays English. The wait costs nothing
visible, since the session bootstrap already shows a spinner and English
resolves immediately.

And the Japanese agenda title loses a space Japanese does not use:
"{date} からの予定" was written with the English habit of spacing around
a placeholder.
2026-08-31 14:14:30 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 51dabd9cab Stop a language change undoing itself, and stop the translate prompt
Two reports, both about the language setting.

**Picking a language sometimes took several clicks.** The subtree that
reads the account's settings file is keyed on the language version, so
choosing a language deliberately throws it away and builds it again. The
remount re-read the settings file — which still held the old language,
because the write is debounced by three seconds — and applied it, putting
the old language back. The click that appeared to work was the one made
after the previous write had landed, which is exactly the "sometimes"
in the report.

Worse than it looked: the queued push survived the remount, so the file
was eventually written with the new language while the screen showed the
old one. A reload then changed the language on its own.

Fixed twice over, because either alone leaves a race. The file is read
once per account per page load rather than once per mount, and hydrate
now holds back any key with a change still queued — a change that has
not been written up is newer than the file by definition. That rule is
`mergeRemote`, pulled out as a pure function so it could be tested
without a JMAP client.

**Both browsers kept offering to translate an English page.** They were
right to: `<html lang>` said English while the visible text was 6,289
message rows of marketing copy and brand names in whatever language the
sender wrote in. The list is most of the text on the screen, so that is
what the detector was reading.

Sender, subject and preview in the list, and the thread subject and
sender name in the reader, are now marked as what they are — content,
not interface. Message bodies were already marked, so this is the same
line drawn in the places the earlier pass missed rather than a new one.
Whether it silences the prompt is Chrome's call and cannot be checked
from inside the page; the marking is right either way.
2026-08-31 13:45:18 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 53c38ed3c3 French, on the same terms as German
Second of Phase 1. Generated by AI, unreviewed, marked Beta, with the report
link in Settings doing the job a native speaker would otherwise do. 781 of 796
strings; the fifteen left are product names, bare URLs and example addresses,
which should stay English.

Register is "vous", following the "Sie" decision and for the same reason: a
mail client a workplace deployed has no business addressing anybody as "tu".

One terminology decision goes the opposite way to German, deliberately.
"Label" stays English in German because no German client translates it, and
becomes "Libellé" in French because Gmail did and a French reader will meet it
there. The rule being followed is "use what the reader will find elsewhere",
not "always translate" or "never" -- which only looks inconsistent if the rule
is mistaken for the outcome.

French typography: the narrow no-break space before ? ! and : is the rule and
is deliberately not used. It is invisible in a diff, trivially lost in an
editor, and no French webmail actually ships it. Guillemets are used, because
those are visible and do read as wrong when missing.

Two things worth recording from doing this a second time.

The folder-context separator arrived as a raw U+0004 byte rather than the
\\u0004 escape the German file uses. It would have worked -- TypeScript accepts
it -- and it is invisible in an editor and in a diff, which is exactly why the
German catalogue writes it as an escape. Converted, so both files say the same
thing in the same way.

And the language tests named a real language as their example of one that is
not shipped, so shipping German broke them, and shipping French broke them
again. Both times the failure was the test being out of date rather than
anything wrong. They derive an unshipped tag now, and assert over every shipped
language rather than a hardcoded pair, so the third and fourth languages will
not repeat it.
2026-08-31 11:44:40 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 71dd2e108f Folder names follow the language, and three bugs that found
Answering "can we ask Stalwart to serve German folder names": no, and it would
not help if we could. The account locale exists in `x:AccountSettings`, and
ihasmail already reads it -- that is what "Your mail server reports German"
comes from -- but writing it needs `sysAccountSettingsSet`, which the built-in
user role does not carry; only an admin could. And even then it would change
nothing, because folder names are stored data written once when the account is
provisioned. No server renames them afterwards; every other client has them
mapped.

The role is the way through. JMAP tags the standard folders and ihasmail
already trusts the role over the name everywhere it matters, so the *displayed*
name can follow the interface language with nothing written to the server. A
folder somebody made and called "Newsletters" keeps that name: those are their
words, and translating them would name a folder they never created.

The cost is real and worth stating: Thunderbird on the same account still shows
"Deleted Items", because that is what the folder is called. Inside ihasmail it
stays consistent -- everything that names a folder goes through one function,
including the "moved to …" toast, which exists precisely so that message does
not name somewhere the reader cannot find. Renaming still edits the server's
own name, never the localised one.

Three things fell out of it.

The message list refreshed for ever after a language change, which is the one
somebody noticed. The root keys its tree on the language version, so a publish
remounts everything; remounting re-runs the effect that loads the account's
settings, which calls applyLang, which called setCatalog again -- with an
identical tag and an identical catalogue -- and publishing that non-change went
round again. setCatalog now returns early when nothing changed. Measured
rather than assumed: three consecutive five-second windows with no JMAP calls
at all, against a pre-change count that never settled.

Calendar months and weekdays stayed English, because formatting locale and
interface language are separate settings and only the first feeds Intl.
Keeping them separate is right -- German dates with an English interface is a
real preference -- but somebody who picks German and is shown "September" has
not got what they asked for. A chosen interface language now joins the
*automatic* chain ahead of the server and the browser. Setting a formatting
locale explicitly still wins, and English is not counted, so an English
interface on a German browser keeps German dates exactly as before.

And the Archive folder read "Archivieren", which is the verb. English uses one
word for the button and the folder; German does not, and neither does
"Important", which is also a priority tag. tc(context, source) keys the
catalogue on both and falls back to the plain English, which was right in
English all along -- the gettext approach, including the control character as
separator so no real string can collide.

The catalogue checker needed teaching about tc() twice: first it reported the
eight contextual entries as stale, then it asked for the plain fallbacks as
though they were a second obligation. A check that reports work which does not
exist gets switched off, which is worse than not having one.
2026-08-31 11:24:24 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 87383440bb German, generated by AI and marked Beta until somebody signs it off
The first language, and the first one where the honest thing to say is not
flattering: no native speaker has read it. That is stated in the app rather
than in a commit nobody reads, because it is the fact a reader needs to judge
what they are looking at. Somebody told a translation is unchecked forgives an
odd sentence and reports it; somebody told it was reviewed reasonably concludes
the product is sloppy. The setting carries a link straight to a report, which
is the whole review process here.

`beta` is a property of the language, not of the catalogue's completeness. A
file can be word-for-word finished and still read like a machine wrote it, and
that is what the flag marks. Removing it is a person's decision.

Register is "Sie", consistently, and written down in the file so the next
language and the next contributor inherit the decision rather than re-take it.
Thunderbird and Outlook use it; ihasmail is as often a company's mail as
somebody's own, where "du" from software the workplace deployed reads as
presumptuous. Where a string can dodge the question it does, which is ordinary
good German UI. The glossary at the top of the file fixes the vocabulary once
-- Posteingang, Papierkorb, Entwürfe, archivieren -- because inconsistency
reads as amateur far more than an imperfect word choice does. "Label" and
"Spam" stay English, since translating them would name things no German mail
client calls that.

766 of 781 strings. The fifteen left are product names, bare URLs and example
addresses, which should stay English and now do.

Two things this turned up that the earlier work had hidden:

Labels defined as module-level constants -- the entire settings navigation,
the theme cards, the swipe choices, the date formats, the sharing permissions
-- are evaluated once, before any catalogue loads, so they could only ever be
English. Nothing failed; the German build simply had an English sidebar. They
are translated where they render now, which keeps the constant as data and
makes its English text the key.

And the codemod's narrowed rule, which let it take 73 more strings last time,
was too broad after all: text stranded after an inline <a> or <strong> came
through as sentence fragments -- ", and what a new account starts on." Eight
of them, rebuilt with tNode so the sentence stays whole and the element is a
named hole a translator can move.

scripts/i18n-catalog-check.mjs is new and earned itself immediately: it found
three keys invented that the code never asks for, which is the silent failure
in a catalogue -- a translation that looks right, is never looked up, and
renders English for ever. It also had to be taught about t(variable), because
it cried wolf 33 times over the constants above, and a check that cries wolf
gets switched off.

Verified in the browser rather than only in tests, which is where the settings
sidebar being English was visible and nowhere else.
2026-08-31 11:06:54 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 95dcb96086 Start extraction: an i18n core, and a way to see how far it has got
The groundwork in #145 gave the app a language to serve. This gives it
something to serve, and a way to measure the distance to the languages
actually planned.

The English text is the key. `t("Archive")` looks "Archive" up and returns the
English when it is not there, which buys three things worth more than tidy
symbolic keys: no English catalogue to keep in step with the code, a missing
translation that degrades to readable English rather than to
`mail.list.archive`, and an extraction step that is wrapping a string rather
than inventing a name for it. Names are where extraction stalls, and 55
components is a lot of small naming arguments. The cost is that editing English
copy orphans its translations, which is the right way round: the copy is the
product, and a stale German sentence should fall back to the new English.

`plural()` takes forms rather than (one, other), because two forms is an
English assumption that does not survive phase two of the plan. Russian and
Ukrainian need three, and choosing between them is not a question about the
number 1. Intl.PluralRules knows the rule for every language the browser knows,
so the catalogue supplies the forms and the runtime picks; a category the
catalogue does not carry falls back to `other` rather than rendering undefined.
Interpolation is named rather than positional for the same reason -- German
moves the parts of a sentence around and means the same thing.

Catalogues are dynamically imported, so a reader who never leaves English never
downloads one, and English needs no fetch at all. `applyLang` sets the lang
attribute before kicking the load, deliberately: lang is what stops Chrome
offering to translate and should not wait on a network request to say something
it already knows.

`t()` is a plain function, not a hook, so the tree is keyed on a language
version at the root and thrown away when the catalogue changes. Making every
call site a subscriber would turn extracting a string from "wrap it" into "wrap
it and add a hook", for an event that happens about once per account.

NotificationsSettings is extracted end to end as the reference -- it covers all
four shapes, being JSX text, translated attributes, a toast, and a sentence
with a value interpolated into it.

scripts/i18n-coverage.mjs counts what is left, because ~1,000 strings across 56
files is too many to eyeball in review or carry in anyone's head. It reports 20
wrapped and 925 remaining, and it deliberately does not count punctuation and
separators as untranslated -- a floor no amount of work could reach would make
the number useless. A progress report rather than a gate: --check exits
non-zero, for once the number is low enough for that to mean something.

ROADMAP.md said translations were "English-only for now" on a page whose stated
purpose is things the answer is "no" to. It now says what is actually happening,
carries the phase order, and says why Arabic, Hebrew and Persian are on neither
list: RTL is a layout and bidi problem rather than a longer catalogue, and
shipping it as though it were the same kind of work is how an RTL build ends up
unusable with nobody saying so.
2026-08-31 09:44:49 -07:00
jcoffey-dev be1d787b5f Defend against Chrome rewriting the DOM, and add the language setting
Groundwork for un-shelving translations. Chrome's translator rewrites the
rendered DOM directly, wrapping text nodes in <font> elements React has never
heard of, and the next update can then call removeChild against a parent whose
children have moved (facebook/react#11538). This is the structural defence
against that, plus the setting the served language will read from.

The language setting is `uiLanguage`, and it is deliberately not the `locale`
field that already exists. That one is a formatting choice -- what calendar,
clock and numerals to use -- and folding the two together would silently
rewrite everybody's date format the first time they picked a language. German
dates with an English interface is a real preference, and so is the reverse.
It defaults to English when absent, which covers both a new account and every
settings file written before this, and Accept-Language is not consulted: a
served locale should be something the reader chose rather than something
guessed and then written down as though they had. Only languages with strings
shipped are offered, which today means English alone -- a picker entry without
a catalogue behind it would leave the page claiming a language it is not in,
which stops a reader translating a page they cannot read.

`<html lang>` is set where applyTheme is set: at store module load, from the
localStorage cache, before createRoot() has rendered anything. Not in an
effect -- a lang that is briefly wrong is enough to raise the translate prompt
on a page that needed none. There is no server-rendered alternative to reach
for here: ihasmail serves a static shell and holds no account state, and the
settings file lives in the reader's own JMAP Files, so reading it before the
page existed would mean authenticating to Stalwart on every page load. The
static lang="en" in index.html covers the first bytes; the store only ever
corrects a reader who chose otherwise. Both halves are tested.

translate="no" and class="notranslate" go on the narrow boundaries only:
rendered email bodies, raw message source, attachment text, the generated and
hand-edited Sieve, the brand and the login name. Not on <body> -- someone
whose language ihasmail does not speak yet should still be able to translate
the parts that are ours. Email bodies turn out to live in a shadow root, so
React never reconciles them and they were never a crash risk; the marker there
is about not rewriting what a sender actually wrote.

Twenty-four fragile interpolation points were found with the TypeScript
parser rather than grep, and fifteen refactored. Pluralisation and
"count + label" pairs are collapsed into a single expression so the text is a
lone child React updates with textContent, rather than a text node with
conditional siblings to insert around. One of them -- InviteCard's
{method === "REPLY" && organizer ? "" : ""} -- rendered an empty string either
way and is simply gone.

The boundary is scoped to the main content, so the header, folder tree and any
open composer sit outside it and survive independently. It recovers by
remounting the subtree, which costs nothing because everything inside
re-derives from the stores, and it logs at info rather than error: a reader
translating a page is expected and recovered from, and filing it as an error
would put an entry in every console-reading reporter for behaviour that
worked. It re-raises anything that is not a DOM mutation error, so a real bug
still surfaces as one, and it gives up after three attempts rather than
looping invisibly.

Worth recording: the crash could not be reproduced on React 19.2.8. Wrapping
207-249 React-managed text nodes in <font>, exactly as the translator does,
then driving in-place conditional toggles and navigations, left the app intact
with the boundary never firing. The original issue is from React 16 and the
reconciler has changed a great deal since. So this lands as defence whose
premise is weaker than assumed rather than as a fix for something observed
here, and the boundary is insurance rather than a load-bearing part. The
notranslate markers and the collapsed interpolations stand on their own merits
either way.
2026-08-31 09:14:41 -07:00
jcoffey-dev b2769b9011 Give the mail list the gestures a phone already has
ihasmail's mail list was built for a mouse. A row is clicked, right-clicked
and dragged into a folder, and on a touchscreen two of those three do not
exist -- so the phone layout had the shape of a mail app and none of the
handling, and the things people reach for first simply did nothing.

Four gestures, all touch-only, so a mouse keeps drag-to-folder unchanged:

- Swipe a row sideways to act on it. Each direction is a setting -- right
  archives and left deletes by default, matching the app the phone came
  with -- and the strip revealed behind the row names what will happen in
  the folder it is happening in: "Delete forever" out of Deleted Items,
  "Not spam" inside Junk Mail, and nothing at all where the action is a
  no-op, in which case the row will not move that way.
- Hold a row to select it. Selection was reachable already, by aiming at a
  checkbox beside an avatar, which is not how anyone selects mail on a
  phone. The selection toolbar gained an overflow menu at the same time:
  report spam, mark unread and label were hidden on narrow screens and had
  nowhere else to be, so touch selection could not reach them at all.
- Hold a folder for the menu its ⋮ button opens.
- Pull the list down to refresh, and drag in from the left edge of a
  conversation to go back. The toolbar's button and arrow both stay: a
  gesture with no visible control is one only the people who already know
  about it can use.

The arithmetic behind them is in lib/touch.ts, away from the components and
under test, because the numbers are the whole thing: an axis lock biased
towards the vertical, so a diagonal flick stays a scroll rather than
deleting whatever it passes over.

Two layout bugs turned up while checking this on a 390px screen, both
older than the gestures. The app shell is a grid with only its rows named,
so it took an implicit auto column sized to the top bar's min-content --
about 470px -- and every message row ran off the right of the glass with
its date beyond the edge. The column is now stated as minmax(0, 1fr), and
the search field is allowed to shrink. Full-screen surfaces measure in dvh
rather than vh, and the tab bar, drawer and compose button keep out from
under the notch and the home indicator.
2026-08-31 06:52:25 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 91481965bc Calendar: never mutate an occurrence by an id we are holding
Verified against the live 0.16.20 instance, which found two things the
mock had guessed wrong about.

A synthetic id encodes a position in the expanded series, and writing a
`recurrenceOverrides` entry renumbers it. A five-week series came back as
`e i m q u` over 03-01..03-29; after one override was written to 03-08
the same five ids addressed 03-01, 03-15, 03-29, 03-08 and 03-22. Nothing
was rejected. A stale id is not invalid, it is wrong - a confident answer
about the wrong day - so a delete meant for one occurrence removes
another.

`recurrenceId` is the stable name for a slot in a series, because it is
the date. `updateEvent` and `destroyEvent` now look the current id up by
it immediately before acting, and refuse outright when the date has left
the series rather than falling back to the id in hand.

The mock had this exactly backwards: it kept ids stable on purpose, which
agreed with the belief that is wrong. It now renumbers too - a different
permutation to Stalwart's, with the property that matters - and a test
holds an id across a write and watches it change meaning.

Second finding: the inherited properties are dropped *after* the server
has decided to write an override, so a patch made only of them still
writes one, carrying the server-filled start and duration and nothing
else. `{"privacy":"private"}` on one occurrence answered "updated", left
privacy untouched, and left that date with no title at all. Sending
nothing when narrowing empties a patch was written as a principle - a
request whose response could only be a meaningless "updated" is worse
than no request - and it turns out to prevent real data loss.

Both recorded in KNOWN-ISSUES with the dates they were confirmed on.
2026-08-30 21:39:30 -07:00
jcoffey-dev dd8998f178 Calendar: edit and delete a single occurrence
Closes #132.

Stalwart 0.16.20 accepts a synthetic id on `CalendarEvent/set`, writing a
`recurrenceOverrides` entry rather than touching the series, so editing
one date of a recurring event is now something the server does and this
does too.

Editing asks the scope *before* the form opens, because it decides which
event the form is even about: a form populated from the master shows the
series' start date, so editing Wednesday's standup would have offered to
move Monday's. Deleting asks in place of the old confirm.

The patch is narrowed rather than posted hopefully. 0.16.20 sorts
per-occurrence properties into three groups and only one is honest: ten
are refused with `invalidProperties`, twelve more are dropped from the
patch while the response still reports success, and the rest are applied.
That silent middle group is how #26 reached a live server - a successful
response is not evidence anything was written - so `occurrencePatch`
throws on the first group, reports the second to the caller, and the
editor leaves out the five it always sends. A patch that would be
entirely dropped is not sent at all.

The refusal for an occurrence of a this-and-future change offers the
series instead of a bare error toast. Nothing here writes one of those,
but an event synced from another client can carry one.

Two things the scope prompt cost, both worth knowing. A dialog is queued
in a store the moment it is asked for, so it outlives the effect that
asked: without a ref guard a remount queues a second prompt the first
answer cannot retract. And gating the *answer* on the effect's cleanup
flag is worse - StrictMode runs mount, cleanup, mount, so the flag is
already set by the time anyone clicks and the editor never opens.

The mock expands recurrences for the first time, which is what makes any
of this developable. It hands out synthetic ids for everything including
one-offs, gives occurrences a `recurrenceId` and no rule, and reproduces
the refusals - including the silent drops, since a mock that applied them
would let a client that sends them look correct everywhere but a real
server.
2026-08-30 21:35:01 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 373822c2ae Resolve the base event id in the calendar store, not at the call sites
Closes #133.

`updateEvent`, `destroyEvent` and `rsvp` took an id and sent it. The
`baseEventId ?? id` that made them hit the series lived at four call
sites instead, and every one of them happened to be right.

That was backstopped by the server until now. Through 0.16.19 a synthetic
id reaching `destroy` came back as "Deleting synthetic ids is not yet
supported" and the user saw a toast. 0.16.20 accepts it and removes one
date instead, reporting success under a dialog that said "Delete all
occurrences?" - so a forgotten `??` became silent data loss rather than
an error.

The three methods now take the event and a required `scope`, and there is
exactly one place that turns an event into an id. A caller that wants the
series cannot get an occurrence by forgetting anything; a caller that
wants one occurrence has to say so.

`rsvp` takes the event rather than an id for the same reason, and no
longer looks it up: its patch is `participants/{key}/participationStatus`,
which is one of the pointers 0.16.20 *allows* on an occurrence, so aimed
at an instance it would quietly mean "only that day".

`findByUid` says in a comment that its query omits `expandRecurrences` on
purpose, since InviteCard hands the result straight to `destroyEvent`.
2026-08-30 21:06:56 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 8d475e2b07 Refuse to save a script we only partly read
The transport fix stops the truncation that caused #76, but the save path
had no answer for a baseline that arrives incomplete. It is neither
unknown nor empty, so every existing guard passes it through: it parses
into a shorter rule list that looks exactly like a script with fewer
rules, and saving writes that back over the real one.

Check the script against the shape the generator emits instead. Every
rule comment parses, every enabled rule has an if and a closed body under
it, every block ends with a blank line. Structural rather than a
re-serialize-and-compare, so a script written by an older version whose
serializer differed is still editable.

The rule editor reports a short script as unreadable rather than showing
the rules that happened to parse, since a list that looks complete over a
script that is not is the most dangerous thing it could offer.

A cut at the end of a complete rule block is still a valid shorter script
and cannot be told apart from one; that residual is the proxy's to cover.
2026-08-30 13:56:12 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 0b01956535 Ask whose computer this is, and believe the answer
Sign-out never cleared local storage. It stopped push, flushed settings and
removed the subscription -- that last one reasoned explicitly that a browser
left holding someone's mail becomes somebody else's next -- and then left the
settings cache and the recently-addressed list on disk. That list is other
people's addresses, and nothing ever removed it.

Clearing it on sign-out is now unconditional, because lending a laptop is the
same exposure as a public machine, only quieter. The keep-list is short and
deliberate: lastUser, which only a trusted device writes; the trust flag; and
the random push device id. Everything else goes, so a key added later is
forgotten by default rather than by nobody having thought about it.

"Keep me signed in on this device" defaulted to true, which assumed the answer
most costly to get wrong -- someone on a library machine got a thirty-day
cookie unless they noticed a ticked box. It now asks whose computer this is,
defaults to not yours, and says what each answer does. Untrusted means a
session cookie, nothing written locally, no push subscription, and a five
minute idle sign-out.

The idle timer is there because the alternative does not work: custom
beforeunload text was removed from browsers years ago, and no event fires at
all for walking away from a signed-in screen, which is the case that matters.
A timer needs nobody's cooperation.

Reads are gated as well as writes, since a machine trusted once still has the
residue; an untrusted sign-in purges it outright. The wire keeps calling this
`remember` -- it is persisted in SESSION_FILE, and renaming it would invalidate
every session file on upgrade for a change of vocabulary.

Verified in a browser against the mock, not only in tests: untrusted sign-in
leaves localStorage empty through a full session including folder expansion;
trusted writes settings, recent and lastUser as before; sign-out clears recent
and settings while keeping lastUser; an untrusted sign-in afterwards clears
even that.
2026-08-28 14:15:15 -07:00
jcoffey-dev e327df818a Reload when the server is running a newer build
Being signed out and picking up a new version are separate things, and only
the first was happening. An immutable instance holds sessions in memory, so a
deploy signs everyone out -- but a 401 only swaps the view to the sign-in form,
client-side. The tab keeps the bundle it already has, and the old JavaScript
goes on talking to the new server until someone happens to reload by hand.

The pieces for fixing it were already there. index.html is served no-cache and
the assets under it are content-hashed and immutable, so a reload is all it
takes; Vite bakes the build's own version in as APP_VERSION; and /api/health
reports the server's. What was missing was something to compare them.

The check runs on a 401 rather than on a timer, which is the moment it matters
and costs one small request. It compares versions rather than reloading on
every 401, so an ordinary session expiry still lands on the sign-in form with
the page intact. And it runs before the sign-in form is shown rather than
after, because reloading a form someone has already started typing into would
throw the password away.

Failing to reach the server is not a reason to throw away what is on screen, so
anything other than a clear answer leaves the page alone. The version that was
reloaded for is remembered for the session, so a server that keeps reporting a
version the bundle does not match -- a stale proxy cache, a half-finished
deploy -- cannot put the tab in a reload loop.
2026-08-27 22:21:32 -07:00
jcoffey-dev a2337f6ad8 Use an example address, and the right name, in the test fixtures
Two things, one of them not what it looked like.

An organizer fixture was built from a real, routable address. Every other
fixture in the codebase uses example.org or example.com, and this
repository is public, so that one was a personal address sitting in
public source for no reason -- the test asserts roles and participation
status and never reads either value. It is [email protected] now.

The names were wrong in the other direction. Three fixtures across two
files said "John Ellis", which is not the maintainer's name; it is
John Coffey. Being a name rather than a routable address, it leaked
nothing, but it was simply incorrect, and incorrect in the sort of place
nobody rereads.

The address and the name are separate questions and got separate answers:
the address is fictional because it is an address, and the name is real
because it is right. A message from [email protected] signed John Coffey
is exactly what these tests mean.

Found while checking, at the maintainer's prompting, whether the repo
leaked anything about the host it runs on. It does not -- the nginx and
deploy files here are the generic examples they claim to be, and the real
ones live in a private repository.
2026-08-27 14:15:00 -07:00
jcoffey-dev e4b6413f46 Use an example address in the participants fixture
One test built its organizer from a real, routable address and a real
name. Every other fixture in the codebase uses example.org or
example.com, and this repository is public, so the odd one out was a
personal address sitting in public source for no reason -- the test
asserts roles and participation status and never looks at either value.

Now [email protected], matching what the rest of the tests already use.

Found while checking, at the maintainer's prompting, whether the repo
leaked anything about the host it runs on. It does not: the nginx and
deploy files here are the generic examples they claim to be, and the real
ones live in a private repository. This was the only thing the search
turned up that was worth changing.
2026-08-27 14:09:12 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 4c4821b5db Ask for shareWith on mailboxes too
The third store fetching everything by asking for nothing. Same cause as
the calendars and address books a commit ago: Stalwart does not return
`shareWith` unless a client names it, so mail folders never looked shared
either.

This one has a narrow but real consequence. Sharing a mail folder is
withdrawn, because Stalwart stores the share and never delivers it, and
the only way left to clear one already made is the "Stop sharing" entry
-- which appears only when a folder looks shared. Without the property it
never did. The escape hatch built for exactly that situation could not be
reached from the situation it was built for.

Found by looking for the rest of them rather than waiting for the next
report: `ids: null` with no `properties`, across the app. The others it
turned up -- Sieve scripts, identities, the vacation response, quotas,
participant identities, push subscriptions -- have no `shareWith` to
lose, so mailboxes were the last.

The mock hides it here as well now, so all three are honest.
2026-08-27 13:33:04 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 506865ca67 Ask for shareWith, or the server does not send it
Nothing was ever badged as shared, "Stop sharing" never appeared, and the
share dialog opened on "not shared with anyone yet" over live shares. The
sharing itself was fine. The client simply never learned about it.

Stalwart does not return `shareWith` unless a client names it. A
`Calendar/get` or `AddressBook/get` with no `properties` comes back
without the field at all -- not null, not empty, absent -- confirmed
against the live 0.16.19 on a calendar and an address book that really
were shared with another account. Omit the list and there is no
`shareWith`; name it and the sharee is right there.

Both stores fetched everything by asking for nothing, and got less than
they would have by asking. They name the properties now.

The dialog is the part worth dwelling on. It seeds itself from the
`shareWith` it was handed, so it has been showing an empty sharee list on
collections that were shared -- the one screen whose whole job is
managing sharing, and the one most confidently wrong about it. Someone
looking there to see who had access, or to take it away, was told there
was nobody.

Files never had this: `fileNodeProps` has named the property since file
sharing went in, for the same reason and after the same surprise. The two
stores that fetched with `ids: null` and no properties are the two that
were blind.

The mock now omits it the same way. One that hands `shareWith` over
unasked lets a client that never asks look correct everywhere except
against a real server, which is exactly how this got here.

Verified against that mock: sharing a calendar puts the sharee in the
store, badges the row, adds "Stop sharing", and the dialog lists them --
while a `Calendar/get` with no properties still comes back without the
field, so the mock is now failing the way the server does.
2026-08-27 13:25:00 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 25b51069a9 Keep the full copy of an email the server says changed
The reading pane emptied and refilled when a thread was marked read. On
an HTML message that is a flash to the app's own background and out
again, which is what remained of #100 once the message view stopped
rebuilding its body.

`applyChanges` dropped `fullIds` for every email the server reported as
updated, so the next read would fetch it again. But the reading pane
renders only the emails it holds in full. Dropping one took the message
out of the open thread until the refetch at the end of the same function
put it back -- and marking as read causes exactly that, because the
server echoes our own change back as an update. The gap is a round trip,
which is why it is plainly visible against a real server.

Nothing is lost by keeping the copy. RFC 8621 makes every property of an
Email immutable except `keywords` and `mailboxIds` -- the id is derived
from the content, so a body cannot change beneath one -- and both are in
LIST_PROPS, which the refresh immediately below merges over the cached
copy. The eviction only ever cost the message its place in the thread.

On the evidence, since I got this wrong once already by trusting a
reproduction that did not exist. This is reasoned from the code and
matched against the reported symptom -- "the pane empties and comes
back", which is precisely what removing an email from the thread and
refetching it looks like. It is not backed by a local reproduction: the
mock never ran this path at all, because `Email/set` announced nothing
and `Email/changes` always answered empty. That is being fixed
separately, and it is why every check made here has been against a server
that never reported the change being made.
2026-08-27 12:42:38 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 5e5bec31b7 Remember an added address book when the server will not
"You are not allowed to modify this address book." That is Stalwart's
answer to a sharee subscribing to a book shared read-only, and it is a
fair one: `isSubscribed` lives on the collection rather than on the
reader, so adding one is a write to the *owner's* account. The identical
write on a shared calendar is accepted. The difference is the server's.

So the flag is still asked for first -- a preference the server holds is
one every client agrees about -- and when it is refused the answer goes
in the reader's own synced settings instead, as `addedShares`, keyed by
account and collection. Either record counts as added, and the rule has
a test of its own because three components ask the question and they
must not drift apart.

Two things about how this hid. The refusal arrives as a *successful*
response with the id in `notUpdated`, so the version that ignored it saw
nothing wrong and the button simply did nothing -- fixed a commit ago,
and it is what turned "the + does nothing in Firefox" into a sentence
from the server. And it cannot be seen from the owner's account at all,
where the write succeeds: it took two browsers signed in as two accounts
to find, which is why it survived every check made from one.

The mock refuses the same write for the same reason. One that accepted
it would have gone on agreeing with the belief that shipped.

Verified against it: adding the shared book is refused by the server,
recorded in settings, and the book moves to "Shared with me" with its
contacts reaching the To field; removing undoes all three; and it
survives a full page reload, which is the point of putting it where the
settings live rather than in this tab.
2026-08-27 12:06:18 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 3416a41de9 Say so when the server refuses a subscribe
Adding a shared address book did nothing in one browser and worked in
another. The button was not broken; the refusal was invisible.

Subscribing is the one call in the app that writes to somebody else's
account, so it is the one a perfectly healthy server is entitled to say
no to -- and JMAP says no to a `/set` by answering successfully with the
object listed in `notUpdated`. Neither subscribe method looked. The
promise resolved, the code carried on, the re-read came back unchanged,
and the row stayed exactly where it was with nothing said.

Every other `/set` in this codebase reads `notUpdated` and raises. These
two were written without it, which is the whole defect: not a wrong
answer, an unread one.

Both now check it and say what the server said, which is the thing that
was missing -- whatever the underlying refusal turns out to be, it can be
read off the screen instead of guessed at from which browser was in
front of you.
2026-08-27 11:32:49 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 0215255280 Add a shared calendar or address book, rather than being given it
An account linked for its files also offered its calendar and its address
book, and neither had been shared. That was not ihasmail inventing them:
asked about the other account, the live 0.16.19 returns every calendar
and every book it holds, each with full rights -- read, write, share,
delete, all true. There is nothing in the rights to tell "shared with me"
from "reachable at all", because the server does not distinguish them.

`isSubscribed` does, and it is the field JMAP has for exactly this: it
came back false on all of them. So a shared calendar or book is listed
under "Shared with me" once the reader has added it, and under "Available
to add" until then, with one button either way.

Nothing unsubscribed contributes anything. A calendar that has not been
added draws no events, and a book that has not been added lends no cards
to the To field -- which is the one that mattered most, since it is the
difference between offering a colleague's contacts and offering a
stranger's without anyone having asked.

The mock's shared calendar and address book now arrive unsubscribed, the
way the real server hands them over, so the adding is exercised rather
than skipped; and its `Calendar/set` and `AddressBook/set` route by
account, since subscribing to somebody else's is a write to their
account and the mock had nowhere to put it.

Verified against the mock: the shared calendar sits under "Available to
add" with no events in the grid, adding it moves it to "Shared with me"
and its events appear, removing it undoes both; and `suggest("katherine")`
finds nothing until the shared book is added, then finds her.
2026-08-27 11:16:30 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 270fb3d32c Shared calendars in the calendar, and no more account switcher
Three things from using it on two real accounts.

A calendar shared with you never appeared. Nothing was wrong with the
share -- the calendar had nowhere to be shown. Calendars loaded from one
account and one only, so the sharer's were reachable solely by switching
the whole app to their account, which is the door being closed below.
They now sit under "Shared with me" beside the reader's own, in their own
colour, with their events in the grid and a click to hide them like any
other calendar.

Their events go through `instancesIn`, the one funnel every view already
reads, so month, week, day and agenda got them without being touched.
Events and calendars from another account are keyed by account as well as
id, and hiding one is remembered under the same key: an id means nothing
outside the account holding it, and two accounts sharing an id is
ordinary rather than unlucky.

An account that shared nothing was listed in Files as though it had.
Every non-personal account was offered on the reasoning that its folders
could speak for themselves -- but an account whose *calendar* was shared
has no folders to speak with, and appeared as an invitation to open an
empty pane. Each is now asked for one file before being listed, and
silence is taken for an answer.

And the account switcher is gone from the profile menu. It existed to
reach what other people shared and was the wrong door: it moved the whole
app to somebody else's account, and since Stalwart advertises every
capability on a shared account, mail, calendar and contacts went with it
and were refused. Everything it was for is now in the module the share
belongs to, found without anyone needing to know an account was involved.

What this does not prove is that Stalwart delivers a calendar share at
all. The mock says the client handles one, which is the half that was
missing; whether the server behaves like address books, which work, or
like mail folders, which do not, needs the two accounts again.
2026-08-27 10:57:27 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 350f4f4197 Put address books in the left pane, other people's included
Address book sharing was withdrawn a few hours ago on a report that it
behaved like mail folder sharing. That was wrong -- it works -- and it is
back, built the way Files is rather than the way it was.

Three things it inherits from Files. Shared books are listed in the app's
own left pane instead of behind an account switch in the profile menu.
The reader's books and other people's sit under separate headings, since
a book belonging to somebody else behaves differently and a single merged
list would be quiet about whose contacts you are reading. And opening
Contacts re-reads the session, so a book shared while the tab was open
turns up without signing out and in again.

The books pane the view kept to itself is gone, and with it the last
module that ignored the sidebar it was given.

The one thing Files does not need: shared contacts have to answer when
somebody types a name into a To field, so they are loaded up front rather
than when a book is opened, and they are offered by `suggest` and found
by `lookupByEmail` alongside the reader's own. Their own cards win a tie,
since a card someone wrote themselves should beat a colleague's copy of
the same person. That is the difference between a shared book you can
look at and one you can use.

Cards from a shared account are held apart from the reader's rather than
merged in, and keyed by account as well as id. Ids are only unique within
an account -- two accounts each having a book `ab1` is ordinary -- and a
flat map would have had one silently replace the other.

The mock grew an address book in its shared account, with contacts in it,
because none of this could be exercised otherwise.

KNOWN-ISSUES records the withdrawal as the mistake it was rather than
leaving it in the history looking like a finding. Mail folder sharing
stays withdrawn: that one really is broken.
2026-08-27 10:40:50 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 52299ce8ef Attach a file that is already in Files
Attaching meant uploading, even when the file was sitting in the account
already -- picking it off disk again to send the server a copy of what it
was holding.

The composer can now attach from Files. A blob the account can already
see needs no upload at all: an attachment carrying a `blobId` is what a
forward produces, so the send path has always known what to do with one.
Attaching a large file the server is already storing now costs nothing
and takes no time.

A file in an account somebody *shared* is different, because blobs belong
to the account they were uploaded to and a draft in yours cannot
reference one in theirs. Those are fetched and uploaded to your account,
and the picker says so before you attach rather than leaving someone
wondering why one file was instant and another was not.

The picker borrows the Files store, so it browses what Files browses,
shared accounts included, and puts the file manager back where it was on
the way out -- a detour through somebody's shared folder to find an
attachment should not leave Files somewhere else afterwards.

Verified against the mock, and worth recording how, because the first
attempt measured nothing: `client.upload` uses XMLHttpRequest, since it
reports progress, so a counter wrapped around `fetch` sees no uploads
whether or not any happen and agrees with you either way. Counted at
XHR instead: attaching one's own file issues no upload, and attaching a
shared one issues exactly one, to the reader's own account.
2026-08-27 10:18:49 -07:00
jcoffey-dev ad94efb65b Reach shared folders from Files, not the profile menu
A folder somebody shared was reachable only by switching the whole app
to their account from the profile menu -- which nobody would think to
look in for files, and which pointed mail, calendar and contacts at them
as well. The server refused all three, so nothing leaked; it was simply
the app claiming to be somewhere it could not go.

Files now lists shared accounts itself, under "Shared with me", and opens
them in place. Only Files moves: `accountId` in its store is the account
being browsed, `ownAccountId` is the reader's, and nothing else in the
app notices.

Which accounts hold shared files cannot be worked out from capabilities.
Stalwart advertises the whole set on a shared account -- mail, calendars,
contacts, sieve, the lot, identical to a personal one, whatever was
actually shared (checked live on 0.16.19, 2026-08-27). That is why
routing alone could never have fixed this, and why the list offers every
account that is not the reader's own and lets its folders answer for
themselves. The mock's shared account now advertises the same full set,
because a mock that quietly advertised only what it shared would agree
with a fix that cannot work.

Shares also went unseen until the next sign-in. They arrive in the JMAP
session, which is fetched once and refreshed only when a session-state
change is pushed to that tab -- so a share granted while the tab was open
stayed invisible, and one removed stayed on offer. That is the two
browsers disagreeing about whether an account still existed. Opening
Files now re-reads the session, throttled, and the section header carries
a refresh for when someone is waiting on a share they have just been
promised.

The sidebar's button on Files was Compose, which wrote mail from the file
manager. It uploads.

Verified against the mock, which grew a second account to make any of
this testable: "Shared with me" lists it, opening it shows its folders
and not the reader's, the header says whose they are, "Back to my files"
returns, and the profile menu is not involved at any point.
2026-08-27 10:13:58 -07:00
LINUXexpert.org 9f4c0c3351 Merge pull request #94 from LINUXexpert-org/fix-account-routing
Keep your own settings out of someone else's account
2026-08-27 10:02:11 -07:00
jcoffey-dev e014521fb6 Keep your own settings out of someone else's account
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.
2026-08-27 09:59:00 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 2360e40733 Show the folder tree in a shared account
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.
2026-08-27 09:51:41 -07:00
jcoffey-dev f70eb184c2 A folder tree, and dragging things into it
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.
2026-08-27 09:19:54 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 6566f4c2d3 Share files and folders with other people
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.
2026-08-27 09:07:13 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 133036a6c5 Hide identities from the compose picker
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.
2026-08-26 15:36:35 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 9c37af7b07 Never overwrite filters we could not read
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.
2026-08-26 15:03:53 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 96bc7b53d7 Notifications that arrive when ihasmail is closed
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.
2026-08-26 13:51:09 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 18e493bcd1 Delete all spam, and call folders what the server calls them
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".
2026-08-26 12:00:42 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 9689ac8aae Let the toggle come back to the theme you were on
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.
2026-08-26 11:34:45 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 8487f561f6 Add the ihasmail theme, and make it the default
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.
2026-08-26 11:28:47 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 94bf42cfda Drop Stalwart 0.15 support
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.
2026-08-26 09:51:03 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 0a9218f622 Keep settings with the account, not the browser
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.
2026-08-26 08:19:57 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 732fdac78b Close the colour menu on a pick, and make the push dot readable
Two cosmetics.

Picking a folder colour left the menu open, which every other action in
it does not. It closes now, the way the calendar's colour menu already
did.

The live-updates indicator was an 8px flat speck in --fg-faint, near
invisible in either theme, and it had two states where the code has
three. The push client only ever said connected or not, which cannot
tell "retrying with a backoff" from "stopped": it now reports
connecting, connected or disconnected, and the retry path says
connecting rather than going dark. pushConnected stays for the callers
that only want the boolean.

The dot is 12px and raised -- a white highlight over a solid colour with
a soft halo, so one bead reads on light and dark alike without a
per-theme variant. Green connected, amber reconnecting with a slow
pulse, red disconnected. The pulse respects prefers-reduced-motion, and
the indicator is labelled for a screen reader rather than hidden from
it, since it carries real information.
2026-08-25 13:15:56 -07:00
jcoffey-dev bbd6980cff Give a folder a colour from its right-click menu
Right-click a folder and pick one of the twelve colours the calendar
already uses, or clear it again. The colour tints the folder's icon; the
label keeps the sidebar's own contrast, which a dozen arbitrary colours
would not reliably give it.

Kept by mailbox id rather than by name, so a folder renamed or dragged
somewhere else keeps its colour. Stored in settings, which live in this
browser -- JMAP has nowhere on a Mailbox to put a colour, and every other
colour in the app, labels and event categories included, already works
this way. Worth knowing it does not follow you to another device.

The cascade needed care: .nav-item svg sets the colour on the icon
itself, so a colour inherited from a wrapper does nothing. Checking
getComputedStyle on the wrapper said the icon was purple while the pixels
stayed grey; the rule now targets the svg, and the check now reads the
pixels.
2026-08-25 12:54:33 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 7f382565e8 Take the filing action, not the whole rule
Deleting a folder removed every rule that filed into it, along with
whatever else those rules did. A rule that filed into Work, marked read
and stopped processing lost the marking and the stopping too, and
deleting a folder says nothing about whether those were still wanted.

Only the fileinto action goes now. A rule left with nothing to do is
still removed, because it has nothing to do; a rule filing into two
folders keeps the one that still exists. The toast says which happened.

Verified against the running app with two rules aimed at the same
folder, one filing only and one filing and marking read: the first was
removed, the second kept its markread, and the script stored on the
server agrees.
2026-08-25 12:23:29 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 9da1ef3ead Keep filter rules pointing at the folder they were aimed at
A rule files mail into a folder by path, because that is what Sieve
needs. Rename the folder and the path becomes a lie: the rule keeps
matching and stops filing, and nothing anywhere says so. Delete the
folder and the rule is aimed at nothing at all.

Renaming or moving a folder now rewrites the rules that file into it,
and deleting one takes its rules with it. Both are reported in a toast,
because rules live on the server and are otherwise invisible from the
folder list.

The reconciliation runs off one hook. Before a mailbox is changed the
folder and everything beneath it are noted with the paths they have then
-- renaming a parent rewrites the path of every child, and rules naming
those children are just as stale. Afterwards, whatever still exists is
retargeted and whatever has gone takes its rules with it.

Rules record the folder twice, as a mailboxId and as the path. The id is
the reliable half and is preferred; the path is the fallback for rules
written before the id was recorded, or by hand in the Scripts tab, and a
rule matched that way has its id filled in on the way past. Only the
script the rule editor manages is touched; a hand-written one is left
alone.

Awaited rather than fired and forgotten, so a folder operation is not
reported complete while the rules still disagree with it.
2026-08-25 12:12:30 -07:00
jcoffey-dev c1ef19849e Say it in the words Stalwart 0.16 answers to
Guests added to an event vanished on save and no invitation was ever
sent. Not a guard in the editor, and nothing the server complained
about: ihasmail addresses a participant the way RFC 8984 does, with
sendTo and email, and Stalwart 0.16 keeps that address under
calendarAddress. Handed the RFC's spelling it stores the event, drops
the entire participant map, and reports success. Six shapes were tried
against a live 0.16.19, down to sendTo and roles alone; all six were
dropped, and patching a participant onto an existing event fails
outright with "Patch operation failed".

The same disagreement runs through two more properties. The organizer is
organizerCalendarAddress, not replyTo. A recurrence is a single
recurrenceRule, not a recurrenceRules array — and that one Stalwart
refuses honestly, with invalidProperties, so no recurring event could be
created at all and existing ones showed no repeat.

So writes now use Stalwart's names and reads accept either, since a
mailbox may hold events written by other clients. The mock now refuses
what the real server refuses and drops what it drops: advertising the
RFC spelling is exactly how this reached a live server unnoticed, the
same way the capability-placement bug did.

Verified against 0.16.19: participants, organizer and rule all survive a
create, an update and a re-read, with the roles kept as sent.

Fixes #26
Fixes #30
2026-08-25 08:26:34 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 458eb118b4 Ask the recurrenceId, which is the part that survives expansion
Rules alone were still wrong, in the other direction. A live 0.16.19 was
asked to expand a real weekly series: the occurrences come back carrying
no rule at all — only the master has one — and Stalwart spells that
master's rule "recurrenceRule", singular, not the RFC 8984 array ihasmail
looks for. So a genuine occurrence would have read as a one-off, and the
delete dialog would have offered to delete "this event" while deleting
the series.

What an occurrence does carry is a recurrenceId, which a one-off never
has. Master by its rule under either name, occurrence by its
recurrenceId. The tests carry the shapes the live server returned.
2026-08-25 08:18:38 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 330cecfb04 Ask only the recurrence rules, the live server settles it
A probe against the live 0.16.19 says a one-off event comes back from an
expanded query as id "eaaaaai" with baseEventId "i" — an instance id of
its own, and a base that is a different event. The clause that treated a
differing base as an occurrence of a series would therefore have gone on
calling every event recurring, which was the bug.

So recurrence rules alone decide it. What that gives up is an expanded
instance that arrives without its rules attached; whether Stalwart does
that is still to be checked against a real series.
2026-08-25 08:12:06 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 8b22ea9aab Stop calling every event a series
A one-time event opened for editing said "this is a recurring event —
changes apply to the whole series", and deleting one offered to delete
all occurrences of an event that has exactly one.

Three places asked whether an event had a baseEventId and took that for
recurrence. It isn't: the calendar loads its range with expandRecurrences,
and Stalwart puts a baseEventId on everything it returns that way, a
one-off pointing at itself included. The mock never sets the field at
all, which is why this only showed up against a real server.

They now share isRecurring(), which asks about recurrence rules, and
treats a base that is some other event as an occurrence of a series too
— so an expanded instance that travels without its rules is still
described honestly on the way to being deleted.

Fixes #25
2026-08-25 07:01:23 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 3310149fcc 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.
2026-08-24 22:53:06 -07:00
jcoffey-dev e720623895 Hold a message in the server's queue until the time you asked for
Scheduled send, which the README listed as needing server support that
Stalwart has had all along. The delay cannot be asked for directly --
RFC 8621 makes `sendAt` read-only and server-derived -- so it goes on the
envelope as an RFC 4865 `HOLDUNTIL` parameter, and the server reports back
the time it settled on.

Stalwart advertises this in the *account* capability, not the session-level
one (which is empty): `maxDelayedSend` of thirty days and `FUTURERELEASE`
among its `submissionExtensions`. The composer offers scheduling only when
both are there, and never offers a time the server would refuse.

A held message goes to a Scheduled folder rather than Sent, because
`onSuccessUpdateEmail` would otherwise file it as sent the moment the
submission is created, and it has not been sent. Nothing moves it out when
the hold expires, so the folder is reconciled on the way in: released
messages to Sent, cancelled ones back to Drafts. Cancelling uses a separate
`Email/set` rather than `onSuccessUpdateEmail`, whose key Stalwart reads as
an Email id and not, as the RFC says, a submission id.

The mock grows the whole lifecycle, and learns to resolve creation
references while it is there -- it had been quietly declining to create any
submission at all, since sending names its message as `#m`. Because
Stalwart's own `futureRelease` setting defaults to off and then drops the
hold in silence, `npm run dev:mock:no-future-release` reproduces that.

Verified end to end against the mock; not yet against the live server.
2026-08-24 22:07:29 -07:00