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.
Creating a folder on the live 0.15.5 server did nothing visible, with no error
and nothing after a reload. The folder was real all along: FileNode/query masks
its results with document_ids(false) — resources that are *not* containers — so
it returns files and never folders, and says nothing about the omission.
FileNode/get carries no such mask, so on those servers the whole tree comes
from a single get with ids:null instead. That also stops ensureFolder making a
fresh "ihasmail" folder on every signature save, having never been able to find
the one already there.
Deleting a file did nothing on the live 0.15.5 server, with no error: the menu
items are gated on myRights.mayDelete and myRights.mayRename, and 0.16 was the
release that split rights up. Before it a node carried mayRead, mayWrite and
mayShare, with the one mayWrite covering everything the newer release names
separately — so both items sat permanently disabled.
Widen mayWrite into the four rights the newer shape names, alongside the
nodeType normalisation, and the UI can keep reading the 0.16 vocabulary.
Uploading a file or creating a folder failed on the live 0.15.5 server with
`invalidProperties (nodeType)`. The property arrived in Stalwart 0.16; before
that a FileNode has no nodeType at all, and the create is refused outright.
Older servers tell a file from a directory a different way: the node carries
file properties or it does not. Setting blobId, size or type — even to null —
makes it a file, so a directory there is exactly parentId plus name.
0.16 is also the first release to advertise urn:stalwart:jmap and no earlier
one knows that capability, so its presence stands in for "has the newer
FileNode shape". Creates, and the property lists we ask for, are shaped from
that.
The read side needed it too: a server that never reports nodeType would have
had every folder drawn with a file icon, sorted among the files and opening as
a download. Nodes are normalised as they arrive, so everything downstream can
still just read nodeType.
"Send failed: Invalid property or value." is Stalwart's description for
invalidProperties, and on its own it says nothing about what to fix. The
SetError also carries a `properties` array naming the offending fields, which
every call site was discarding.
setErrorMessage appends them, and the 35 places that surfaced a SetError -
send, save draft, mailboxes, calendars, contacts, sieve, files, signature
images, sharing - now go through it.
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