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Add the ihasmail theme, and make it the default

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A dark theme carrying ihasmail.org's palette: a teal-navy ground rather
than the blue-slate of the plain dark theme, with the orange the logo's
cat is drawn in doing the work of the star and the warning colour. The
values are the site's own, read from its stylesheet rather than picked
by eye.

It is a theme rather than an accent because it changes backgrounds,
borders and text as well as the highlight -- an accent could not.

It rides on data-theme="dark" and adds data-palette="ihasmail" on top,
so the eleven dark-only rules further down the stylesheet keep applying
without being duplicated for a second dark theme. Specificity then does
something deliberate: the palette block is 0,2,0 and the accent variants
are 0,3,0, so a chosen accent still wins over it -- and because the
default accent ("teal") has no rule of its own, ihasmail.org's accent is
what shows until someone picks another. Verified both ways in a browser.

It is now what a new account starts on, so the app looks like itself
before anyone has chosen anything. Only a default: a stored theme always
wins, which leaves everyone already using ihasmail where they are, since
the setting is saved whether or not they deliberately picked it.

While here, the theme-color meta tag was fixed. There were two, both
carrying media attributes, and applyTheme looks for
:not([media]) -- so it matched neither and the browser chrome had never
followed the chosen theme at all, only what the OS preferred. One tag
now, updated from JS, starting at the default theme's background so the
first paint is right too.

Contrast measured rather than assumed, against the theme's own
background: text 14.5:1, muted 8.6:1, faint 6.4:1, accent 8.0:1, link
9.8:1, star 7.9:1, accent-on-accent 8.4:1. All AA or better.
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## Features
**Mail**
- Gmail-style three-pane layout (reading pane right/bottom/off, **drag-to-resize splitter** in both orientations, quick layout switch in the list menu), conversation view with collapsed messages and "show quoted text", dense/cozy/comfortable density, light/dark/system theme with accent colours
- Gmail-style three-pane layout (reading pane right/bottom/off, **drag-to-resize splitter** in both orientations, quick layout switch in the list menu), conversation view with collapsed messages and "show quoted text", dense/cozy/comfortable density, light/dark/system themes plus **ihasmail** — the palette from ihasmail.org, and what a new account starts on — each with accent colours over the top
- Virtualised, infinitely-scrolling message list; multi-select (click, ⇧-click, ⌃-click), drag & drop to folders, right-click context menus, hover actions, Gmail keyboard shortcuts (`j/k`, `e`, `#`, `r/a/f`, `g i`, `/`, `?` …)
- Archive / delete / spam / star / mark read / move / labels (IMAP keywords with colours) with **Undo**
- **"Filter messages like this…"** from the message context menu: creates a Sieve rule pre-filled from the sender/list (target folders can be created on the fly), and can **apply it immediately to the existing messages in the folder** (evaluated client-side, actions applied via JMAP)