Specs: point a stock ihasmail at the migrated server afterwards

Asked for by John, 2026-09-19. Public ihasmail is Stalwart-facing and knows
nothing about INBUXA, so running an unmodified one against the migrated
server checks something the fork's own suites cannot: that a client written
for upstream still works.

Each difference it finds is one of two things, and the point is to say
which: a regression against upstream's contract, which the fork's tests
would not catch because they test the fork; or a feature that now expects
INBUXA's own front ends, which belongs in the contract and the release
notes rather than in a user's surprise.

After mail is flowing, not as a gate. It informs the contract; it doesn't
block a cutover.
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@@ -83,6 +83,19 @@ The same checks as `cutover.md`, run by the tool rather than by hand:
A failed check is a failed migration, and the tool rolls back rather than
leaving a half-migrated server for the operator to reason about at 2am.
## After a migration: the stock client
A migration that passes its own verification has proved the fork works for
the fork. Pointing an **unmodified public ihasmail** at the migrated server
proves something else: that a client which knows nothing about INBUXA still
works against it. It runs anywhere — JMAP and OAuth over the network — and
needs only an OAuth client it may use.
Each difference it turns up is either a regression against upstream's
contract or a feature that now expects INBUXA's own front ends. The tool
doesn't run this; it belongs in the release notes and the contract
(SPEC.md §5.2). It is named here so the first migration doesn't skip it.
## Rollback
A first-class path, not an appendix.