Hosted mailboxes (SPEC App. D), behind HOSTED_MAILBOXES (off: unchanged):
- Stalwart mail server, provisioned by `python -m app.hosted.provision`;
directory read from a Postgres view, app passwords only for mail apps
- native account per user, the worker signs in as master for the user
- raw messages of hosted mailboxes only cached, fetched back on demand
- migrations 0025 (accounts.kind, directory view), 0026 (IMAP ids bigint)
Mail:
- dark message mode switch in the reading pane (Thunderbird's algorithm)
- moves and folder creation quote the folder name ("Deleted Items"):
swipe-to-delete / Trash no longer bounce back
- thread unread counters: lock before recount, sorted lock order,
UIDVALIDITY re-import recounts, nightly repair_threads
- sidebar accounts sorted alphabetically, more space above headings
Settings: Security headings renamed; antispam accounts are explicit
(none ticked = none filtered), input widths, Activity hidden.
Plugin bundles served with Cache-Control: no-cache.
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App passwords (SPEC App. D §D.5): one generated password per app, shown once,
revocable on its own, revoked on a password reset; never accepted by the web
sign-in. Settings → Security → App passwords (migration 0024).
CalDAV / CardDAV server (SPEC Appendix E), built in: /dav/ with
/.well-known/caldav|carddav, HTTP Basic with app passwords only (cached checks,
throttled failures). The calendar and contacts plugins serve their own tables as
collections (Plugin(dav=...)):
- calendars as iCalendar: series with overrides, time zones, all-day, attendees
and RSVP, alarms <-> reminders; MKCALENDAR / PROPPATCH / DELETE of calendars;
subscriptions read-only; writes to upstream-synced calendars flow on upstream;
- address books as vCard (3.0 served, 3.0/4.0 read), groups as CATEGORIES;
- what a client stores is served back verbatim until the web app edits it;
- sync tokens / CTags from change logs filled by triggers (calendar0008,
contacts0002), so every write path counts; trimmed nightly after 90 days.
REPORTs: calendar-query (time range), calendar-/addressbook-multiget,
addressbook-query, sync-collection. nginx and the Vite proxy route /dav/.
Settings shows the server and user name to enter; install guide §5.4.
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Attachments are no longer stored apart from their message (they were kept
twice: base64 inside the raw message and decoded on their own). The indexer
records the MIME part (attachments.part_index, migration 0023); downloads,
zip, inline images, thumbnails and forwarding take it out of the message;
videos stream from a short-lived copy (kept a day, 1 GiB per user). A
background pass on worker start removes the copies stored before, each only
after checking it can be taken out again (spec App. D §D.6 item 1, criterion
corrected to <= 60%).
A nightly job (03:47, after the Trash/Spam purge) removes files nothing
refers to any more — deleted or purged messages, previews of attachments
gone, uploads no draft has used for a week, expired streaming copies. Files
younger than an hour are left alone; a sent message waiting for its Sent copy
is held until its job is done. Account removal keeps files a draft still uses.
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The webmail is now a PWA: web app manifest, icons (any + maskable, a status-bar
badge), theme-coloured title bar following the chosen theme, and an app-icon
badge with the unread Inbox count. The service worker is always installed;
offline access is on only when it is registered as /sw.js?offline=1, so
turning it on or off is an update that applies at once.
Notifications (Settings → Accounts → Notifications, per device) use Web Push.
Encryption (RFC 8291) and VAPID signing (RFC 8292) are implemented in
app/push/webpush.py — pywebpush needs a newer cryptography than we pin — and
checked against the RFC's worked example. The server makes its key pair on
first use (private half encrypted with MASTER_KEY). New mail found by the live
sync in an Inbox enqueues a job 5 s later that tells the user's devices about
messages still unread there, under 2 hours old and not from the user; more
than three become one "N new messages". A subscription belongs to the session
it was made under: signed out or revoked, nothing more is sent there. Endpoints
are limited to the known push services (no SSRF). Nothing shows while the app
is in front (except on Apple, which requires it). Tested with real pushes
through Google's service in Chromium and Opera.
The mobile drawer gets "Install app": Chrome's own install dialog where the
browser offers one, else short steps for iPhone/iPad, Opera and Firefox, with
"Don't show this again". docs/nas-install.md §5.3 covers installing,
notifications, Public URL and a later Android app (TWA).
Migration 0022: push_subscriptions, app_settings.vapid_*.
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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.
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Branding: the page titles and app name are now "Ultimo Email".
Admin panel (now two columns with a divider):
- Users: search by login or by a mail account's address or name (results
only, nothing listed until something is typed). A user opens a window to
change their quota, block/unblock them, or delete them; block and delete ask
for confirmation, and an admin cannot do either to their own account.
- Blocking (users.blocked_at, migration 0019) refuses sign-in with a clear
message and revokes every session; a new user.signed_out event sends the
user's open tabs to the sign-in screen at once. Any "not signed in" answer
now does the same, not only /auth/me. Deleting removes mail accounts (sync
stops), plugin rows (cleared inside the user's RLS context, since plugin
tables have no FK to users), blobs, the search index, sessions and the user.
- Outgoing system mail (migration 0020): SMTP server, port, security, login,
password (vault-encrypted, never sent back), From address and the public
address reset links point to, plus a "Send test" that reports the server's
error.
Password reset:
- "Forgot password?" on the sign-in page asks for the user name and always
answers "If this account exists you will receive an email to your recovery
email address"; the mail goes out after the response, so neither the reply
nor its timing reveals an account, and it is capped at 3 per hour.
- The emailed link (token in the URL fragment, single use, 30 minutes) opens a
page to set a new password. With 2-step verification on, the code is checked
before anything changes; five wrong codes burn the link.
- Settings > Profile: the recovery email can be added, changed or removed,
confirmed with the current password, which must be typed — autofill and
paste are refused (TypedPasswordInput).
Also adds frontend/icons/ultimo-logo-bimi.svg, an SVG Tiny PS version of the
logo for a BIMI record.
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The first column listed a thread's `participants`, which the threader builds from
from + to + cc — so every ordinary email read "Sender, You", and the +N badge
beside the avatar counted the user themselves.
`participants` cannot simply be narrowed: the subject-fallback join matches an
incoming message's recipients against it (threader._by_subject), so dropping
recipients would change how mail is threaded. Hence a separate `threads.senders`,
holding only from addresses, newest writer first — which is also the right thing
for a conversation where several people replied.
Migration 0019 backfills it, so existing threads do not wait to be touched again.
The list falls back to `participants` if a row somehow has no senders, rather
than rendering an empty column.
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Reported from the running app: a message showed as unread in the list — bold,
blue dot — while the reading pane showed it as read, and only a manual "mark as
read" reconciled them.
The two views read different things. The pane reads the message's own flags; the
list reads `threads.unread_count`, denormalized from them. `apply_delta` updated
message flags with a bare UPDATE and never recomputed the thread, so a flag set
anywhere but in this app — read on a phone, filed by a server-side rule — moved
one and not the other. Auto-mark-on-read could not fix it either: it sees a
message that is already \Seen and correctly does nothing, leaving the counter
wrong forever.
Expunges had the same hole, which also left `message_count` overstated.
`apply_delta` now collects the affected threads and re-denormalizes them after
the deletes, so a thread emptied by an expunge is removed rather than recounted.
Migration 0018 repairs rows that already drifted — recomputed from the messages,
so it is a no-op on a healthy database. One thread was stale here; installs that
have been syncing longer will have more.
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Three strands that only make sense together, so they land together.
Registration gate (migration 0016). POST /auth/register was open to anyone
who could reach the port. Now the first account on an empty instance is
always allowed, becomes the administrator, and closes registration behind
itself; after that it takes an admin reopening it. The decision is made
under a row lock on app_settings so two simultaneous first signups cannot
both see an empty table and both claim administrator. Existing installs
keep their oldest account as admin and start closed.
Instance default quota (migration 0017). users.quota_bytes is snapshotted
at creation from app_settings.default_quota_bytes, so changing the default
affects later accounts only and never resizes a mailbox that exists.
The panel is a separate app, not a page in the mail client. admin.html is
its own Vite entry (5.8 KB next to the client's 1.7 MB; they share only the
vendor chunk), with its own administrator sign-in. One nginx now serves two
listeners: :80 is the mail client and 404s both /admin.html and
/api/admin/*, :81 is the panel. docker-compose publishes them as WEB_PORT
and ADMIN_PORT. The boundary is nginx refusing paths on one listener, not
process isolation — CurrentAdmin still guards every admin route — so
ADMIN_PORT must be restricted to the LAN, which the runbook now covers for
both DSM and QNAP.
Also QNAP: deploy/webmail.sh finds Container Station's docker under
/share/*/.qpkg/container-station/bin, which is off an SSH session's PATH,
before anything shells out to it. docs/nas-install.md gains a QuTS hero
runbook (§2.6), splits the DSM firewall section into container-to-container
(§8.1) and the egress case that makes account-add time out while
autodiscovery appears to work (§8.2), and scopes both to Synology.
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Gmail sync (SPEC: Gmail sync):
- Provider fetches X-GM-LABELS when X-GM-EXT-1 is advertised; parses custom labels
(system labels dropped, mUTF-7 decoded) onto RemoteMessage.
- Engine syncs only system folders + All Mail for Gmail, skips every label folder,
and dedupes the All Mail pass by Message-ID — kills the INBOX/All-Mail duplication.
- Custom labels ride the message.new event; the labels plugin subscribes and maps
them to chips as "<name> [Gmail]" (per-message + thread aggregate + known set),
so labels fill in gradually with the sync window. Non-ASCII labels decode right.
Labels self-healing (message-driven reconcile):
- Per-message keys are the source of truth; t: aggregates and _labels are derived.
Reconcile drops labels of deleted messages, regroups survivors by their current
thread (fixing JWZ thread merges), rewrites changed t: keys, and rebuilds _labels
from live messages — keeping user labels, dropping orphaned Gmail ones.
- New SDK reads: sdk.threads.existing / sdk.messages.threads_of. Sidebar refreshes
live via a plugin.labels.changed WS event on new labels.
Account deletion: prune threads left empty after the cascade (they were user-scoped,
so only messages cascaded) + de-list the account from surviving cross-account threads.
Sync SPAM: opt-in per-account sync_spam (migration 0015, default off) — the engine
skips the Junk folder in backfill and poll unless enabled; wizard checkbox added.
Robustness / UX:
- WebSocket auto-reconnects with backoff and resyncs on (re)connect, and account
add/delete invalidates threads/labels — no more hard refresh for live updates.
- Backfill banner + sidebar ring also require done < total, so a completed account
can't leave a stuck "X of X".
- Scrub lone UTF-16 surrogates from parsed headers/bodies so bad messages no longer
crash the backfill on Postgres text/JSONB.
- Ultimo signet logo in the Mail/Calendar/Contacts sidebar header (and at the top of
the collapsed rail), via the shared plugin-ui.css + MailLayout.
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Search:
- Meilisearch backend (app/search/meili.py) + factory wiring; pinned SDK 2.7
- Search-as-you-type: debounced query + Postgres prefix matching, built from
the DB tokenizer so full email addresses match (email stays one lexeme)
- Saved searches API + sidebar virtual mailboxes; save affordance in the box
Account sync windows (SPEC §12 M2):
- Choose at setup: All (recent 30d first, then remainder), Last 3 months, New only
- Per-account sync_window + "Sync remaining mail" from settings (idempotent re-run)
- Provider windowed backfill (SINCE/BEFORE), message_count, newest_uid
- migration 0012: accounts.sync_window + backfill_total/backfill_done
Backfill progress UX:
- Floating progress card (auto-dissolves after 10s) + spinning sidebar ring that
fills with the account colour; driven by sync.progress over WS
Thread list pagination:
- Server-side offset + accurate grand total, with filter/order in SQL; working
prev/next across all synced mail
Reading panel:
- "Load images" one-off now actually renders images (?images=1) without trusting
the sender; envelope carries images_allowed so a trusted sender shows no prompt
Threading:
- Subject fallback no longer merges messages that declare an explicit (different)
parent; true siblings still group via a shared-parent reference match. Fixes
unrelated auto-replies with the same subject landing in one thread
Backend 257 tests green, ruff + mypy --strict clean; frontend tsc/eslint/vitest clean.
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Backend:
- Collapse identical cross-account deliveries in a thread: new messages.delivery_id
(migration 0011) preserves the real Message-ID even when message_id_hdr is
synthesized (§7.1); get_thread groups by it and reports also_in_account_ids; the
list count counts distinct deliveries. Backfill script for existing rows.
Frontend:
- Bundle Lato (SIL OFL) as the UI font; unread mail-list rows use Black weight.
- Mail-list selection: hover-avatar checkbox, tri-state "select all", bulk
Archive/Pin/Delete (Restore/Delete in Archive/Trash/Spam) with a count in the
reading pane; unread blue dot; "also delivered to" note in the thread.
- Spacing/size tuning: sender-column width, icon gaps, avatar size, bar heights,
and a round of -1px font sizes across the sidebar, mail list, and reading pane.
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Backend:
- Restore returns each message to its original folder (e.g. Sent/Archive) instead
of always the Inbox: new messages.restore_mailbox_id (migration 0010) +
restore_thread_job.
- Drafts: expunge reconciliation for the Drafts poll (provider.list_uids /
_reconcile_drafts) clears phantom "remote" drafts; send + discard drop the
mirrored DB row; adopting a remote draft carries its real attachments into the
compose flow.
- Thread detail/list are folder-aware: individually trashed/spam messages are
hidden outside their folder, Trash/Spam show only their own messages, and the
mail-list message count matches the view.
Frontend:
- Thread reading panel: fix newest-first card overlap/spacing (expand-all and
single expand), hide Reply/Forward on trashed messages, close the Actions menu
on message-body (iframe) clicks, scroll to the inline composer, and prompt
Save draft / Discard on the X close.
- Composer: remount when switching drafts, dirty-tracking to stop duplicate IMAP
mirrors, and close the From/More dropdowns on outside click.
- Sidebar: collapse/expand toggle (icons-only ~60px rail) and a log-out icon on
Sign out.
- Mail-standard printing in a new window with reliable page margins (lib/print.ts).
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Backend
- Sent copies: persist locally on send + periodic multi-folder CONDSTORE poll
(Sent/Archive/Trash/Junk) so they thread and show without an IDLE-only INBOX.
- Bcc: transmitted copy omits Bcc, Sent copy keeps it; store/display bcc_addr.
- Drafts: mirror local drafts to the IMAP Drafts folder (append/replace/expunge);
inbound sync of foreign drafts (un-threaded) with adopt-to-edit + dedup by UID.
- Per-user storage quota (5 GiB default) and manual "sync all folders" action.
- Account editing (display/color/server/password) and per-account HTML signature.
- Account view scoped to that account's inbox; new migrations 0006–0009.
Frontend
- Mail-list pagination, folder filters (All/Unread/Pinned), sort toggle, refresh.
- Aligned + widened mail-list margins; reading-pane bars fixed height.
- Rich-text composer: color palette, highlight, image; attachments; expand/pop-out.
- Signatures: auto-insert for new mail, replace on From change, reply insert.
- Restore/Delete actions per folder; drafts view merges local + remote, date-sorted.
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