Messages render on a white card in every theme. That is deliberate for mail
that styles itself, but #4 points out the case it gets wrong: a message with
no styling of its own has nothing worth preserving, and flashing white at
someone reading in the dark is a real cost.
Appearance gains a switch under the theme cards, off by default so the
current behaviour is unchanged. With it on, HTML mail that declares no
colours follows the app theme; mail that sets a background or text colour
still gets the light card it was designed for, because half-darkening someone
else's design is worse than leaving it alone. Plain-text mail already
followed the theme and is untouched by the switch.
The themed palette is expressed in the app's own custom properties, which
cross the shadow boundary, so switching theme repaints open messages without
re-rendering them, and the accent-coloured link stays consistent. The host
element takes color-scheme: inherit so form controls and scrollbars inside a
message match too.
htmlDeclaresColors covers bgcolor attributes, <font color>, and colour or
background declarations in style attributes and <style> blocks, while
ignoring near-misses like border-color and ?color= in a URL.
Closes#4
Settings > General gains a "Default mail app" section that calls
registerProtocolHandler so mail links anywhere in the browser open ihasmail.
The browser owns the decision and there is no API to read it back, so the UI
says what it can: it records that we asked, offers "Ask again", shows a
Remove button where unregisterProtocolHandler exists, and points at the
browser's own settings. Unsupported browsers (Safari) and insecure contexts
get an explanation instead of a dead button.
The manifest now declares protocol_handlers for mailto, which is the route by
which an *installed* app can be offered by the operating system itself; the
UI says so and links the two ideas rather than promising a system-wide
default the page cannot grant.
Mailto parsing is now one function (parseMailto in lib/address.ts) instead of
three hand-rolled copies in AppShell and MessageView. It follows RFC 6068:
recipients from the path, the to= header or both, case-insensitive headers,
"+" as space, and tolerant of malformed escapes. That fixes Cc and Bcc being
silently dropped, and draftFromMailto escapes the body so a mailto: URL from
an untrusted page reaches the composer as text rather than markup.
Browsers render <input type="date"> and datetime-local in their own locale and
ignore the page's, so #1 left a German user on an English browser reading
22.11.2025 everywhere but still entering dates through an mm/dd/yyyy widget.
#3 makes the case that people use the picker rather than typing, which is
where the AM/PM mistakes happen.
New DateField and DateTimeField (web/src/ui/datefield.tsx) replace all nine
native controls — event editor (all-day and timed start/end, recurrence
until), out-of-office, contact birthday, advanced search. They take and emit
the same ISO strings the native inputs did, so call sites barely changed.
Each is a text box in the configured order plus a popover: a month grid
(week start from settings, locale weekday and month names, today and the
selection marked) and, for date-times, a list of times in the configured
clock. Keyboard: arrows move by day, PageUp/PageDown by month, Home/End
across the week, Enter picks, Escape closes, ArrowDown opens; the focused day
holds DOM focus so screen readers follow, and the dialog has an accessible
name (Popover gained an ariaLabel prop).
Text entry is lenient — the configured order with any separator, unseparated
digits (221125), day and month alone, non-Latin digits, and bare ISO always;
times take 18:23, 1823, 6:23pm, 930. What will not parse reverts on blur
rather than clearing the field, and impossible dates like 31 February are
rejected instead of rolling into March.
Editable boxes stay Gregorian and Latin-digit even where display does not
(fa-IR, th-TH, ar-EG): the locale's field order and separator are kept, but a
Buddhist-era year in a text box cannot round-trip against a Gregorian grid.
Noted in the README.
The out-of-office format echo added in #2 is gone — the fields now show the
right format themselves.
Closes#3
Every user-visible date now goes through web/src/lib/datetime.ts, driven by
three settings (Settings > General > Locale):
- Language & region: automatic, or any of the 618 locales CLDR has data for,
each named in its own language and script (web/src/lib/locales.ts, generated
by probing Intl over the subtag space).
- Date format: automatic (locale order), 22.11.2025, 22/11/2025, 11/22/2025,
or ISO 8601 2025-11-22.
- Time format: automatic (locale), 24-hour, or 12-hour.
Automatic takes the locale Stalwart has for the account, read best-effort at
login via x:Account/get (urn:stalwart:jmap) and passed to the client in the
session; servers without the capability, or that deny sysAccountGet to a
regular user, fall back to the browser locale. POSIX forms are normalised
(de_DE.UTF-8 -> de-DE) and script modifiers kept (sr_RS@latin -> sr-Latn-RS,
uz_UZ@cyrillic -> uz-Cyrl-UZ), while dialect/variant/currency modifiers are
dropped and a script the locale already implies is not appended.
Numerals follow the locale (22.11.2025 renders as Arabic-Indic digits under
ar-EG); ISO 8601 is the exception and pins date and clock to Latin digits so
one line never mixes digit systems.
Rewired: message list and headers, quoted reply headers, calendar (titles,
weekday and hour gutters, mini calendar, agenda, popovers, invite cards,
free/busy), contacts, files, sessions. No raw toLocale*String date calls are
left in web/src.
Native <input type="datetime-local"> pickers always follow the browser locale
and cannot be restyled by a page, so the out-of-office fields echo the entered
instant in the chosen format underneath.
Also: month-grid day labels no longer wrap when they hold a date, and the mock
server serves x:Account/get (MOCK_LOCALE, default en_US).
Closes#1
- Move the expand chevron into a gutter left of the folder icon so folders
with and without subfolders line up on their icon; labels share the column.
- Add "Mark all as read, incl. subfolders" to the folder context menu, with
the affected count and a per-folder fallback for servers without filter
operators.
- Re-measure the virtualised message list when row height changes.
- Mock: seed unread mail in a subfolder.
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