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jcoffey-dev be8b89f5ab Merge branch 'main' into feat/nested-labels
Both sides added a field next to the mail store's selection: the label
counts the sidebar draws, and the flag for a selection that means the
whole query rather than the loaded page. They are independent, so the
resolution keeps both.
2026-09-01 23:27:52 -07:00
jcoffey-dev f7ef886b45 Nest labels, and let each one say how prominent it is
A flat list is fine at five labels and unreadable at thirty, and there was
no way to keep one that matters occasionally without it holding a row for
ever.

A label can now sit under another, and each says whether it belongs in the
sidebar always, only while it has unread mail, or never.

Nesting is display only. The keywords stay flat on the message, which is
what keeps them readable by every other client: moving a label under
another rewrites nothing in the mailbox, and a client that knows nothing
about ihasmail sees exactly what it always did. Both new fields are
optional, so a settings file written before this parses unchanged and
means what it did.

Settings sync between devices, so the tree has to survive shapes that
should not exist. A label whose parent was deleted on another device comes
back to the top level rather than vanishing -- a label that disappears
because something else was deleted is one the reader cannot get back. A
cycle arriving from an older device is broken by treating the label that
closes the loop as a root, so nothing is lost and nothing hangs. The
parent picker will not offer a label's own descendants, so one cannot be
built here in the first place.

A label kept by the unread rule keeps its ancestors, whatever they were
set to. A child cannot be drawn under a parent that is not there, and
promoting it to the top level would silently rearrange the tree at the
moment the reader is least able to explain why. The parent comes back as a
container instead, and its own count still says whether it has anything of
its own.

Unread counts come from one request carrying a query per label rather than
a request each, with limit 0 so the server does not send ids that would
only be thrown away. They refresh on the same beat as the folder counts,
since the things that move them are the same things, and a failure is
swallowed: a count is decoration, and the sidebar draws the label without
one.

Also corrects the Labels page, which said names and colours are kept in
this browser. They live in the account's own Files and follow it between
devices, like every other setting that is not about this screen.
2026-09-01 23:09:21 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 8bee0eb3c8 Select a whole folder, not just the rows that are loaded
The header checkbox selected the loaded page. On a folder of ten thousand
that is fifty of them, and the only way to act on the rest was to scroll
until they loaded and tick again.

A line now offers the rest by name once the page is selected, and taking
it is a separate press. A checkbox that silently meant ten thousand when
the screen shows fifty would be the worst of both, so each option says
what it actually covers.

The wider selection is a query rather than a list of ids. What it reaches
is resolved from the server when an action runs, walked a page at a time,
because a folder holds far more than one call returns and Email/set
refuses more ids than maxObjectsInSet in one go -- which setEmails already
chunks for. It resolves uncollapsed, unlike the list: "everything in this
folder" means every message rather than one per thread, and expanding
threads the way a click does is impossible here anyway, since that walks
loaded Email objects and these are the ones that were never loaded.

Two things this exposed.

Undo is now withheld once a move reaches messages that were never loaded.
It restores the folders each message was in, taken from what the browser
holds, and for an unloaded message that is nothing -- so the undo would
have written an empty mailboxIds and left the message in no folder at all,
which is worse than the move it was undoing. move() and archiveByDate()
both did this; both now drop the offer rather than restore something
wrong.

And an action consumes the wider selection. The optimistic paths cleared
the selected ids but not the flag, so the next action would have silently
reached the whole folder again.
2026-09-01 22:56:14 -07:00
Coffey Labs d300107be0 Merge pull request #202 from Coffey-Labs/feat/sender-link-warnings
Warn about outside senders, large sends and links that mislead
2026-09-01 22:48:12 -07:00
Coffey Labs 255616341b Merge pull request #201 from Coffey-Labs/feat/base-path
Serve ihasmail from a subpath
2026-09-01 22:47:53 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 5b18f1d5d7 Warn about outside senders, large sends and links that mislead
Four warnings, in Privacy & safety, and all of them start switched off.

That is not timidity. A client that begins by interrupting is one people
learn to click through, and a warning clicked through without reading
costs the same attention and buys nothing. The outside-sender warning
could not be on by default in any case: it measures against the domains
that count as yours, and with nothing configured every message in the
mailbox is from outside.

Your own identity domains are always internal and are not configuration.
An account signed in as [email protected] warning that example.com is
external would be absurd, and making it be typed in first is a foot-gun
that leaves the feature useless the moment it is enabled. Configured
domains are additional, and cover their subdomains -- matched on a dot
boundary, so example.com covers mail.example.com and not notexample.com,
which is exactly the domain somebody registers on purpose.

The four:

A banner names the sender's domain on a message from outside.

Sending outside names the outside recipients and asks, rather than
refusing. "This is going outside" is a rule and not something the sender
can check; a list of addresses is. It reads the full identity list rather
than the visible one, since hiding an identity from the From menu does not
make its domain somebody else's.

Sending to a large group asks once the count crosses a threshold, which is
what catches a reply-all onto a long thread. It counts people rather than
headers, so one address in To and nine in Cc is a message to ten.

Opening a link asks when the destination is not trusted, and always when
the link's text names one domain while its destination is another -- even
where that destination is trusted, because being trusted is not the same
as being the place the text claimed. On that mismatch the offer to trust
the domain is withheld: what would be trusted is the destination, and the
destination is not the thing in question. Anything that is not http or
https is left alone, since warning about a mailto: is noise and noise is
how a warning stops being read. Both bodies are covered, because a link in
a plain-text mail is linkified by us and points wherever it likes just as
readily as one the sender marked up.

The click is cancelled and the navigation re-issued after the answer,
since there is no way to hold a real navigation open across a dialog. The
reopen runs in the continuation of the dialog's own click, which is still
the gesture a popup blocker wants to see.
2026-09-01 22:45:22 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 93d0a32af2 Serve ihasmail from a subpath
`BASE_PATH=/mail` mounts the whole app under a prefix, for a host that is not
ihasmail's alone. Unset -- every deployment that exists -- is the domain root
and is byte-for-byte what it was: the canonical form of the setting is the
empty string, and `""` concatenated onto `/api/health` is `/api/health`.

That choice of canonical form is the whole design. A trailing slash would have
been the obvious alternative, and it fails quietly in exactly one place: at the
root it makes `//api/health`, which is not a path on this host but a
protocol-relative URL to a host called `api`. One call site forgetting to
branch is a request leaving the origin. So the empty string, one leading slash,
no trailing one, worked out once in `scripts/basePath.mjs` -- plain JS, next to
`version.mjs`, because the web build and the server both have to reach the same
answer and two implementations of "what does /mail/ mean" is precisely the bug
where the server serves an app whose script tags point somewhere else.
`/mail`, `mail`, `/mail/` and `//mail//` all mean the same mount; a deployment
should not fail over a trailing slash.

Unlike everything else ihasmail is told, this one cannot wait for the process
to start. The bundle writes its own asset URLs into index.html, so `BASE_PATH`
is read at build time for Vite's `base` as well as at run time for the routes,
and the Dockerfile carries one value into both. Get them out of step and the
page comes up blank with a 404 in a console nobody has open -- so the static
handler, which is reading index.html anyway, checks what it asks for and says
so in the log once per build.

Everything moves together. The API mounts at `${base}/api`; the router is
given the base once, so every `<Route path>` and `<Link href>` stays written
root-absolute and wouter does the rest; `apiFetch` adds the prefix in one place
rather than at forty call sites; the session cookie's Path narrows to the mount
so two instances on one host cannot sign each other out.

Two things need no prefix at all, and it is worth saying why they were not
given one. A manifest's members resolve against the manifest's own address, so
relative URLs there follow the mount with nothing substituted at build time --
which is also why `public/` needed no template step. The service worker is the
same trick: it is served from the mount, so `new URL("./", self.location)`
tells it where that is, and a worker that derives the value cannot disagree
with the page that registered it.

Anything outside the mount is a 404 rather than the app shell, and
`stripBasePath` does not use `startsWith` -- under `/mail` this process shares
a hostname, and answering `/mailbox` with our index would shadow a neighbour
instead of letting it 404 honestly. For the same reason the notification-click
handler now checks the path as well as the origin: `includeUncontrolled` widens
`matchAll` to the whole origin, which off the root would have navigated a
stranger's tab to our inbox.

Inline images in a draft were the one silent trap. They are matched by their
blob URL on the way out, once unanchored and once anchored, and a bare
`/api/blob/` still appears inside `/mail/api/blob/...` -- so one pattern would
have replaced the tail and left `/mail` in front of a `cid:`, and the other
would have missed and sent the message linking to the sender's own webmail.
Both patterns are built from the base now.
2026-09-01 22:41:18 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 790213cc17 Merge branch 'main' into feat/forward-as-eml
# Conflicts:
#	web/src/store/compose.ts
#	web/src/views/mail/MessageView.tsx
2026-09-01 22:31:42 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 97f8b34e8b Merge branch 'main' into feat/spam-score-panel
# Conflicts:
#	web/src/store/mail.ts
#	web/src/styles/app.css
2026-09-01 22:28:52 -07:00
Coffey Labs 3c3ffbd425 Merge pull request #198 from Coffey-Labs/feat/archive-by-date
Archive into a dated folder
2026-09-01 22:27:32 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 785570a41d Archive into a dated folder
Archiving put everything in one folder, so an Archive that has been
collecting for years is a single flat list with no way to narrow it except
search.

Archive by year and Archive by month file into Archive/2026 and
Archive/2026/09, creating the folders as needed and reusing them after
that, including folders made by hand or by another client.

The names are numeric and zero-padded rather than month names, because
these are real server-side mailboxes rather than anything of ihasmail's.
Every other client sees them: a folder created as "September" by someone
reading in English stays "September" for the same account read in
Japanese, since the name is stored and not translated. And 09 sorts
between 08 and 10 where a name does not.

The date is read in the reader's own timezone rather than UTC so it agrees
with the date shown against the message in the list. A message that
arrived at 00:30 UTC on 1 September is dated 31 August in New York, and
filing it under 09 while the list says August would be the app
disagreeing with itself. A message whose date cannot be read goes to
Archive itself rather than to a folder named after a guess.

A selection spanning two months is two destinations, not one. The moves
are made silently and one toast names where everything went -- the folder
where there is a single answer, the count where there is not -- because
each group raising its own toast with its own Undo would mean undoing a
third of a move. One Undo restores the whole selection to wherever each
message came from, captured before anything moved.

The menu labels name the destination where there is one, so it reads
"Archive to 2026/09" rather than describing the rule, and falls back to
"Archive by month" for a selection with no single answer.
2026-09-01 22:06:33 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 0db795371e Forward a message as an attachment
Forwarding quoted the original into a new message, which is the right
thing for passing on something to be read and the wrong thing for passing
on something to be looked at. Quoting rewrites the body, drops the
headers, and re-parents the attachments, so a bounce, a phishing report or
anything else where the message itself is the evidence arrived altered.

Forward as attachment sends the message whole, as a message/rfc822 part.
It costs no upload at all: a message's own blobId is its RFC822 blob and
already lives in the account, so this goes through the same by-reference
path as attach-from-Files and a 40 MB message attaches as fast as a small
one.

It is in the message's own menu, the list's right-click menu, and the
overflow on the reply strip at the foot of a thread, which is the one a
thumb finds on a phone.

Two things fixed on the way, both exposed rather than introduced by this.

The filename rule was subject.replace(/[^\w.-]+/g, "_"), and \w without
the u flag is ASCII: every character of a Russian, Japanese or Chinese
subject failed the class, so those messages downloaded as a row of
underscores. What is actually unsafe in a filename is much shorter than
"not ASCII" -- path separators, the names Windows reserves, the control
range -- so the rule now keeps letters from any script and drops only
those. It lives in one place and the .eml download uses it too.

And the composer's attachment chip set overflow/text-overflow on a span,
where neither does anything, so the name never truncated and the size ran
on after it on the same line. Only long names showed it, which is every
.eml named from a subject.
2026-09-01 21:57:11 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 63c2839602 Show what the spam filter said, in the message details
The filter in front of the mailbox scores every delivered message and
writes its working into headers, and none of it was being read. A message
in Junk gave no reason for being there.

Nothing here scores anything. The headers are parsed and shown, so this
cannot disagree with the filter that actually made the decision.

Two formats cover what sits in front of a Stalwart mailbox in practice:
the SpamAssassin-shaped X-Spam-* set, which Stalwart's own filter writes,
and Rspamd's X-Spamd-Result. A header in neither shape is left unread
rather than guessed at, since a misparsed score shown confidently is worse
than no panel at all. Mail that arrived without any of them shows nothing.

Rules are listed largest mover first and signed, because which way a rule
pushed is the point, and the biggest contributor is the answer to why the
message scored what it did.

Two things it deliberately will not do. A score is always given the
threshold it was measured against, because 6.7 is damning against 5 and
unremarkable against 15 -- the number alone is not something a reader can
act on; where no threshold was stated, it says so rather than implying
one. And where the filter recorded no verdict, none is derived from score
against threshold: the filter applies policy we cannot see, and putting a
verdict in its mouth would be inventing one.

The mock writes the same headers at delivery -- spam in Junk, clean in the
Inbox, nothing on mail this account wrote -- so the panel can be developed
and demoed against it.
2026-09-01 21:45:22 -07:00
jcoffey-dev c85525f3ed Fill placeholders when a template is inserted
Templates were a fixed subject and body, so anything that changed per
message -- who it is going to, today's date -- had to be typed over
afterwards.

Eight names are recognised: recipientName, recipientFirstName,
recipientEmail, myName, myEmail, subject, date and time. Dates and times
go through datetime.ts rather than toLocaleDateString, so a template
follows the date order and clock the app was already told to use.

Filling happens on insert rather than on send. What a placeholder came to
is then visible in the composer and can be edited, instead of the message
changing between writing it and sending it.

Two things are deliberately left alone. A placeholder that cannot be
answered yet -- a recipient's name on a draft nobody has addressed -- stays
in the body as written, because substituting an empty string produces
"Hi ,", which is wrong rather than visibly unfinished; leaving the name
says which word is still missing and can be typed over. And a name that is
not a placeholder is left as written too, since a body that quietly ate an
unrecognised token would be worse than one that shows it.

Values are escaped on the way into HTML: a display name comes from a
contact card or a typed address and is not trusted markup.
2026-09-01 21:30:18 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 00b580bad8 Select more than one file at a time
Moving or deleting five files meant doing it five times, each with its own
confirm. Rows now select the way they do in a file manager: a plain click
replaces the selection, ctrl or cmd adds and removes one, shift takes the
run from the last row clicked, clicking past the last row or pressing
Escape clears it. Two or more selected raises a bar with Move to... and
Delete, and the row menu offers the same for the whole selection.

The move is one `FileNode/set` rather than a loop, and not only for the
round trip: a loop would apply half the moves and then throw, leaving a
selection split across two folders with nothing saying which half went.
One call is one answer, and `notUpdated` names whatever the server
refused.

Right-clicking inside the selection acts on all of it; right-clicking
outside means you meant that row, so the selection follows the pointer
rather than the menu quietly applying to something off-screen. A drag
carries the whole selection the same way, which is why the payload is now
a list -- and why a drop is refused unless every file in it can land,
since a drag that moves four of five and skips the fifth is worse than
one that will not start.

A selection belongs to the folder it was made in, so changing folder or
account drops it: rows left selected off-screen make the delete two
folders later a surprise.
2026-09-01 21:11:36 -07:00
jcoffey-dev a4c0e04ab9 Edit a text file where you are already reading it
v2 of the viewer: Edit, on text and Markdown, in the dialog and on the
row menu. Save is explicit -- every save mints a new blob, so autosave
would burn quota and multiply the conflicts it cannot see.

Two people editing one file is the case worth getting right. `saveText`
re-reads the node and compares the blob the editor started from: if
somebody else saved in the meantime it refuses, says so, and leaves the
work in the box to copy out. `ifInState` is the obvious tool and the
wrong one -- it is the state of every FileNode in the account, so an
unrelated upload in another folder would fail the save, and a warning
that cries wolf is a warning people click through.

Editing is not offered where saving would lose something: a file
truncated for display would have its tail written away, and one that did
not decode as UTF-8 would have mojibake written over whatever encoding it
really is. Both open read-only and say which. Nor is it offered without
mayModifyContent -- a read-only share just has no Edit.

Closing or cancelling with unsaved changes asks first, Ctrl+S saves, and
mail attachments are unaffected: they pass no onSave, because a message
part is not a thing that can be written back.
2026-09-01 20:51:51 -07:00
jcoffey-dev fc0e2b2b3e Import an address book in LDIF
Somebody arriving from SOGo, Thunderbird or an LDAP directory has their
contacts in LDIF, and until now the only way in was vCard.

Nothing on the server reads LDIF, so this reads it here, in two pieces
that are two different problems. `ldif.ts` is RFC 2849 and nothing else:
folded lines, base64 values, case-insensitive attribute names, options,
comments, `version:` headers, change records. It knows no attribute by
name. `mozillaAb.ts` knows the attributes and no syntax -- Mozilla's
address book schema, which is what Thunderbird and SOGo write and what the
issue asks for by name. LDIF says nothing about what any attribute means,
so a file is only readable against a schema, and keeping the two apart is
what would let a second schema be added without touching the reader.

Work and home addresses, which the schema keeps in two separate sets of
attributes, come across as two addresses. So do every phone kind, the
second email, the organisation and its units, job title, nickname, web
pages and the AIM handle. The four custom fields have no equivalent in
JSContact and are appended to the note, labelled as Thunderbird labels
them: keeping something somebody chose to write down is worth more than
the tidiness of dropping it.

An entry with neither a name nor an address is skipped rather than
imported as a blank row that is impossible to identify and tedious to find
again to delete. The distinguished name is not used as the contact's uid:
it says where an entry sat in somebody else's directory.

One import control takes either format and decides by what is in the file
rather than by what it is called, because an address book exported as LDIF
arrives as .ldif, .ldi, .txt or with no extension at all.

Closes #174
2026-09-01 09:27:07 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 02c0332d8f Send a message again as a new one
A mail the far end rejected, or one that went to an address with a typo in
it, is a mail you want to send again -- not forward, and not reply to.
Doing it by hand meant a new message and copying five fields across.

"Compose as new" sits with Reply and Forward, in the message menu and in
the list's right-click menu. It opens a composer holding the recipients
the message had, its Reply-To, its subject with nothing prefixed to it,
its body with nothing wrapped around it, and its attachments.

What makes it a new mail is what it leaves behind. `draftId` stays null,
or sending would destroy the message it was made from. `inReplyTo`,
`references`, `relatedEmailId` and `relatedKeyword` stay null, so it hangs
off no thread and sending it marks the original neither answered nor
forwarded. The Message-ID is the server's and the date is stamped at
build time, so both are new without anything asking for them -- the send
path needed no changes at all.

A message you sent is composed as the identity you sent it as. One
somebody else sent has no identity of yours to match, and guessing from
whom it was addressed to would put the resend behind an alias that was
only ever the receiving end, so that case takes the account's default.

No signature is added. The body is the one that was sent, which already
ends in whatever signature went with it, and appending the identity's
would give it two.

Closes #176
2026-09-01 08:58:15 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 6431ec87f5 Import an iCal file into a calendar
An .ics reaches you by ways that are not your mailbox -- a ticketing
system a customer invited, a colleague's export, a booking confirmation
forwarded on -- and until now the only events ihasmail could take were the
ones attached to a message it had received.

The calendar's own menu now offers "Import iCAL file…", which files
everything in the file into that calendar. No global button: the issue is
right that this is not a frequent enough thing to earn one.

The parsing is the server's, through the same CalendarEvent/parse an
emailed invitation already goes through. An .ics is not a format worth
reimplementing in a browser, and Stalwart's reader handles what a
hand-rolled one would not.

Every event goes out in a single CalendarEvent/set. The round trips are
the smaller half of the reason: createEvent invalidates on the way out and
invalidating refetches every cached range, so a year of events imported
one at a time would refetch the calendar a few hundred times.

Nothing is mailed to anyone named in the file. Importing is filing
something you already have, and scheduling messages would be a surprise to
its participants.

The mock's parser read the whole file with one regex and returned one
event, which is all an invitation ever needed. It now reads per VEVENT, so
a multi-event file can be tested against it, and it invents an organiser
and an attendee only for events that carry a METHOD -- a plain export is
not addressed to anyone.

Closes #173
2026-09-01 08:38:06 -07:00
jcoffey-dev b862f61cde Invite the people the message was already between
Follow-up to #167: an event made from a mail now opens with the sender
and everyone it was addressed to already in the guest list, so a thread
becomes a meeting without retyping the room.

Two things are deliberately left out. The reader's own addresses, since
they are the organiser and an organiser among their own guests is an
invitation to your own appointment. And a blind copy, on a message the
reader sent: a guest list is visible to every guest, so promoting a Bcc
to a guest would tell the room about a copy the sender chose to hide.
That is not something a menu item may do quietly.

*Send invitation emails to guests* now starts off when the guests were
inherited rather than typed, and on everywhere else -- which is every
event whose guests somebody chose one at a time. The reason is the case
the issue opened with: a reminder made out of a bill carries the biller
and everyone else on the mail. Left on, the primary button reads Send
invites and the first press mails all of them an invitation to what was
meant as a note to self. The switch sits right there under the list and
says what it does, so inviting them is one deliberate click. Un-sending
is not.
2026-08-31 23:07:18 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 7ba749148f Make an event out of a message
Asked for in #167: a right-click on a mail that turns it into a calendar
entry, the way a bill or a task becomes a reminder. Nothing clever, and
deliberately so -- the subject becomes the title, the body becomes the
description, and the reader supplies the one thing the message cannot.

A due date is exactly that thing. "Due on the 14th" in an invoice is not
a date a parser could be trusted with, and a wrong guess quietly
scheduled is worse than no guess at all, so the editor opens on the next
half hour for an hour and the reader fixes it. Forward rather than now,
because a start time that has already passed by the time they press
Create is one more thing to correct.

The body is capped at 5000 characters. A newsletter is a message too,
and its whole body would be stored on the event, synced to every device,
and shown in a three-row textarea; what is worth keeping -- the amount,
the account, the address -- is near the top. The cut is marked, so a
truncated bill is not read as the whole of it.

One message only. The list menu acts on the selection everywhere else,
but there is no sensible event to make out of five mails, and the mobile
entry appears only when exactly one row is held.

The editor lives inside CalendarView and the reader is in the mail view
when they ask, so the draft waits in the calendar store until that view
mounts and takes it -- once, or it would reopen on every later visit.
It seeds a form rather than an event: the dialog still says New event
and still has to be pressed.

Called *Create event…* rather than "appointment", which is the word the
issue used: it opens the New event dialog, and each catalogue already
has its own settled noun for that -- Termin, événement, 日程.

Reachable three ways, since a phone has no right-click: the row context
menu, a message's ⋮, and the ⋮ of a held row on mobile. Hidden entirely
where the account has no calendar.
2026-08-31 22:52:59 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 635c4c7e52 Keep a settings change made before the first read, and wait for it
Two defects on the path that decides what language the app starts in.

**A change made before the settings file came back was thrown away.**
`queueSettingsPush` returned early while unarmed, dropping the value
instead of holding it, so a language picked in the second or so after a
page load was never written up: it survived until the next reload and no
further. That is a better account of "sometimes it takes several clicks"
than the remount race fixed in #160 — the click that stuck was one made
after the read had finished. Keeping it is safe because hydrate already
refuses to overwrite a key that is still queued.

Proof it was real: before this, no `ihasmail` folder was ever created in
the account's files, because the seed write never fired. After it, the
folder appears.

**Without a cached settings object the tree painted too early.** The
cache is not read on an untrusted device, and it is cleared by the
sign-out that every deploy causes, so in both cases the first frame is
the defaults — and the defaults are English. Anything computed in that
window is computed in the wrong language. The interface recovers, since
it is rebuilt when the catalogue lands, but a string emitted once does
not: this is why the stale-folder toast came out in English on an
otherwise German screen.

So without a cache the authenticated tree now waits for the account's
settings and their catalogue, which costs nothing — there was nothing
worth painting yet. With a cache it does not wait, and the first frame is
as quick as it was.

Neither fix makes the toast German yet: the account settings file is
neither written nor read successfully in the mock, and both failures are
swallowed. That is a third problem, and this commit does not touch it.
2026-08-31 15:03:40 -07:00
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