Unreachable mail servers: send retries in Scheduled, real action retries, account health

Sending: a send the server could not take (unreachable, timeout, 4xx) is no
longer failed at once. It waits in Scheduled ("retrying") and is tried again
after 1, 2, 5, 10, 30 min, then hourly, for 24 hours — on the server, so it
works with the browser closed. A permanent refusal (5xx, wrong password) is
"failed" at once, with the server's reason. GET /outbox lists both;
POST /outbox/{id}/retry (Retry now) and /cancel (Edit, Delete) act on them,
and they are left out of Drafts. Mail delivered but not filed in Sent now
counts as sent, and a conditional claim keeps two jobs from sending one
message twice. The app says when a send failed and when it finally went.

Actions: arq retries a job only on Retry, never on a plain exception, so the
"retry x5, then revert" for flags and moves never happened. Flag, move,
archive, restore, delete and empty-folder jobs now raise Retry while the
server is unreachable (~24 hours of growing gaps), skip a change a later one
replaced, stop at the first connection failure instead of 20 s per message,
and delete/empty keep the rows until the server has the messages gone.

Account health: 3 failed connections in a row mark an account unreachable
(amber in the sidebar and Settings, cleared on the next success); 3 refused
sign-ins stop its syncing as auth_failed until the password is entered
again, so the provider does not lock the account. Sync loops back off 30 s
doubling to 10 min and log one line per expected failure; a refused
connection fails at once with its reason (the connect task is kept), and a
silently dead IDLE connection is noticed within ~11 min instead of ~29.

Also: the empty reading pane is clipped to its width when dragged very
narrow; tests no longer leave live accounts and outbox rows in the database.

Migration 0021: outbox attempts / next_attempt_at / retry_until, accounts
sync_error / sync_error_since.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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"""send retries for 24 hours, and an account's sync health
A send the mail server could not take (SMTP unreachable, a temporary 4xx) is no
longer failed at once: the outbox row goes to ``retrying`` and is tried again
with growing gaps until ``retry_until`` (24 hours after the first failure).
``attempts`` counts the tries, ``next_attempt_at`` is when the next one runs.
An account whose server cannot be reached for a while carries ``sync_error``
(``unreachable``) and ``sync_error_since``; both clear on the next success.
Revision ID: 0021
Revises: 0020
Create Date: 2026-10-06
"""
from __future__ import annotations
from collections.abc import Sequence
from alembic import op
revision: str = "0021"
down_revision: str | None = "0020"
branch_labels: str | Sequence[str] | None = None
depends_on: str | Sequence[str] | None = None
_COLUMNS = (
("outbox", "attempts", "integer NOT NULL DEFAULT 0"),
("outbox", "next_attempt_at", "timestamptz"),
("outbox", "retry_until", "timestamptz"),
("accounts", "sync_error", "text"),
("accounts", "sync_error_since", "timestamptz"),
)
def upgrade() -> None:
for table, name, ddl in _COLUMNS:
op.execute(f"ALTER TABLE {table} ADD COLUMN {name} {ddl}")
def downgrade() -> None:
for table, name, _ in reversed(_COLUMNS):
op.execute(f"ALTER TABLE {table} DROP COLUMN IF EXISTS {name}")