The old web UI put everything in a sidebar, and a reskin of it would
still read as the old web UI. The modern shell splits navigation in two
instead: the layout switcher already in the top bar is tier one, and a
new bar under it carries that layout's own top-level items, each group
opening its children in a menu. Nothing on the left, so a queue table or
a dashboard gets the whole window.
- Management's nine entries and Account's eleven suit a menu bar; the
bar measures its items once per layout and folds whatever doesn't fit
into "More", recomputing on resize from the cached widths.
- Settings keeps the sidebar. Nineteen groups is a configuration browser,
not a set of destinations, and a menu bar stops helping however wide
the window; the threshold is on the count, not on the name, so a
changed schema can't strand anyone.
- Which shell to use is the reader's, beside the theme: user menu,
Layout, Modern or Legacy. Modern is the default, and the choice is
remembered in the browser rather than with the account — settings.json
is shared with the webmail, which has no notion of this.
- A phone is unchanged. The section bar is hidden below md and the
sidebar stays as the slide-over behind the hamburger.
- The tree walking both shells need moves to lib/navTree.ts, so the
sidebar and the section bar agree on what is visible, what is locked
and what is active.
A job that has a wizard now asks "Guide me / I'll do it myself" each time
it starts; nothing is remembered. The shared wizard shell gives every guide
a stepper, a side panel on what each step does and how to undo it, and the
way forward or back.
Automatic DNS, from a domain's DNS section:
- finds where the domain's DNS is hosted from its SOA and NS records, and
offers that host when the server can drive it;
- for the major hosts, steps to create the narrowest credential, and the
field named as the steps name it;
- records grouped by what they do, TLSA off unless the zone is signed;
- saves the provider and switches the domain over, removing the provider
again if the switch fails;
- watches the publishing task and public DNS, ticking each record green,
and boils a host's refusal down to its distinct messages;
- for hosts it can't drive, or domains not in DNS yet, every record laid
out for copying, with the same live checks.
The palette and light/dark choice now live in the account's JMAP Files
(ihasmail/settings.json), the same file and keys INBUXA webmail uses, so
the theme follows the user across devices and both apps. The admin
reads it at sign-in and writes only palette, mode and the derived
legacy theme, after a fresh read, keeping every other key. A palette
change keeps the stored mode. localStorage stays as the first-paint
cache.
Under the user menu, Theme offers ihasmail's palettes, in the same order and
under the same names. ihasmail is the default look, the colors the admin
already had, until someone picks another. The choice is remembered and
applied before the first paint, and dark mode still toggles on its own.
The other palettes' colors are ihasmail's, already contrast-checked, mapped
onto the admin's tokens by scripts/import-palettes.py; re-running it re-syncs
them. NOTICE carries the palettes' MIT notices and the fonts' OFL notices.
- The INBUXA palette on warm surfaces, softer cards, buttons and inputs, and
self-hosted Inter and Space Grotesk.
- Each section's icon sits on a colored tile, colored by what the section is
about.
- The sidebar gets a guide line for sub-pages and a labeled Management /
Settings / Account switch, and folds to a rail of tiles (remembered).
- Every page has a header with its section's tile.
- Fields and pages with no label of their own are spelled out in words
(defaultCertificateId becomes Default certificate ID).
- The dashboard greets you, and its stat cards wear colored tiles.
- Unavailable live numbers are a calm note, not an error.
- The cat appears in empty lists and while loading.
- Chart colors work again: they were hex values wrapped in hsl().
Every build writes the exact tree it was built from, uncommitted work
included, as source.tar.gz next to the app, and names that tree. The sidebar,
user menu, sign-in card and version tooltip link to it.
Coffey Labs' copyright line is added below Stalwart Labs' in every inherited
file changed, and the new files carry Coffey Labs' alone.
The upgrade prompt and its links are gone, the edition tooltip is neutral,
storage keys and the package description are INBUXA's own, and the README
states the lineage once, in the fine print.
jcoffey-dev
Maurus Decimus