Call the instance what it calls itself, on the page that matters most

APP_NAME is a runtime variable and two of the three places showing the name
ignored it. The sign-in page fetched /api/config, received the name and used
only sourceUrl -- so a rebranded deployment still said "ihasmail" on the one
page a new user meets first. The top bar had it written in. Only the document
title read it, and it had been reading it from the session all along.

The rebranding guide documents both as things to patch yourself, one of them
with "if you change nothing else on this page, change this". It should not
have to.

The sign-in page takes the name from the answer it was already getting. The
top bar takes it from the session, where the title has taken it from since it
was written. Neither is a new request.

One shared default rather than the string written out at three call sites,
because three copies of a default is how two of them end up stale. It stands
if the config request fails, since a sign-in form with no name on it would be
worse than one with the wrong name -- and an empty or non-string name falls
back too, so a deployment that sets APP_NAME= does not get a nameless page.

Confirmed with APP_NAME set to something else: sign-in heading, top bar and
tab title all read it.
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@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { Link, useLocation } from "wouter";
import { BookOpen, Calendar, ChevronsUpDown, FolderOpen, Globe, HelpCircle, LogOut, Mail, Menu as MenuIcon, Moon, PenSquare, Plus, RefreshCw, Settings, Sun, Upload, Users, X } from "lucide-react";
import { useSession } from "@/store/session";
import { withBase } from "@/lib/basePath";
import { DEFAULT_APP_NAME } from "@/lib/brand";
import { useEffectiveTheme, useSettings } from "@/store/settings";
import { toggleTarget } from "@/lib/palette";
import { useMail } from "@/store/mail";
@@ -37,6 +38,7 @@ export function AppShell({ children }: { children: ReactNode }) {
const pushState = useSession((s) => s.pushState);
const session = useSession((s) => s.session);
const logout = useSession((s) => s.logout);
const appName = useSession((s) => s.session?.ihasmail?.appName) || DEFAULT_APP_NAME;
const acctMenu = useMenu();
/*
* "Go to folder" (#233), hosted here rather than in the mail view because
@@ -90,10 +92,12 @@ export function AppShell({ children }: { children: ReactNode }) {
</button>
<Link href="/mail" className="brand">
<img src={withBase("/img/logo.png")} alt="" />
{/* A product name, not a word. "ihasmail" translated is a different
product, and the one on the tab beside it is still called this. */}
{/* A product name, not a word: translated it is a different product.
Read from the session rather than written here, so a deployment
that set APP_NAME is called what it calls itself -- the document
title has taken it from there all along. */}
<span className="brand-name notranslate" translate="no">
ihasmail
{appName}
</span>
</Link>
<SearchBar />