Add Roles to Administration, with Stalwart's permissions in every language

A role is a named set of permissions given to accounts, groups and
tenants. It gets its own section under a new Access heading: every role
listed with the permissions it grants once its bases are followed, and a
panel to create, edit and delete one.

A role builds on others and has everything they grant; a denial anywhere in
the tree wins, which is how Stalwart resolves it (permissions.rs unions
enabled and disabled across the tree, then subtracts). The picker is
Stalwart's own list of permissions, under its headings, searchable and
filterable to what is granted or set here. Each permission is not set,
allowed or denied, and one that is inherited says which role it comes from.
Only permissions the viewer holds can be allowed, because Stalwart refuses
the rest, and a role carrying anything the viewer lacks opens read-only with
no delete, because Stalwart checks a grant but not a delete. Saving sends a
pointer for each permission and base role that changed.

The roles Stalwart hands out by default, read from x:Authentication, say so
before they are changed and cannot be deleted here; a role still in use is
kept by the server, and the refusal names what uses it.

The permission list is Stalwart's schema. A new route, GET
/api/admin/permissions, fetches /api/schema as the signed-in account and
returns only names and labels, behind the same two gates as the registry
methods and held in memory for an hour. Its labels are English only, so
every one of the 661 has a translation in each of the eight other
languages, in its own file keyed by permission name and loaded only when
Roles opens. A permission a later Stalwart adds shows its English label. A
test holds every language to the 0.16.22 snapshot: nothing missing, nothing
stale.

The mock answers x:Role/set with the grant check, loops and in-use
refusals, reads the defaults from x:Authentication, and serves the schema
gzipped as the real one is.

Fifty-two new strings and two plurals in all nine catalogues, and 661
permission labels with 59 headings in each of the eight translations.
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See [KNOWN-ISSUES.md](KNOWN-ISSUES.md) for what is built but worth knowing about.
- **Administration beyond accounts, groups, mailing lists and domains.** The Administration menu opens on a dashboard and manages accounts, groups, mailing lists and domains today — see [FEATURES.md](FEATURES.md#administration). Roles, DNS and ACME providers and tenants are Stalwart registry objects behind the same permission model, and each is a section to add rather than a design to invent; so is switching a domain's DNS, DKIM or certificate management, which is shown but not yet changed from ihasmail. The dashboard reads a handful of numbers and stops there. Managing queues, reading logs and changing server settings are not planned: they are operating the server, which is Stalwart's own interface's job, not managing the people on it.
- **Administration beyond accounts, groups, mailing lists, roles and domains.** The Administration menu opens on a dashboard and manages accounts, groups, mailing lists, roles and domains today — see [FEATURES.md](FEATURES.md#administration). DNS and ACME providers and tenants are Stalwart registry objects behind the same permission model, and each is a section to add rather than a design to invent; so is switching a domain's DNS, DKIM or certificate management, which is shown but not yet changed from ihasmail. The dashboard reads a handful of numbers and stops there. Managing queues, reading logs and changing server settings are not planned: they are operating the server, which is Stalwart's own interface's job, not managing the people on it.
- **Sharing a mail folder.** Stalwart stores the share and never delivers it; see [KNOWN-ISSUES.md](KNOWN-ISSUES.md). Withdrawn until the server does something with it. Sharing files, calendars and address books is unaffected and works.
- **A scheduling view of its own**, for asking "when is everyone free next week?" without an event in hand. The grid itself is built and lives in the event editor — a row per participant, steppable, and clickable to place the event — which is where the question gets asked while you are arranging something. What is not built is the same thing as a destination you can visit with nothing in progress. Came out of [#172](https://github.com/Coffey-Labs/ihasmail/issues/172), which asked for a separate view and is closed by the panel: the reasoning for putting it in the editor is that a separate surface can only ever tell you a time you then retype, whereas one beside the event can set it. It stays here rather than in the tracker because nobody has yet said they want to ask the question on its own.
- **Per-message actions from the message list on a touchscreen.** Reply, Forward and compose-as-new are on the list row's context menu, which is a right-click — and holding a row on a phone starts selection instead, so none of them are reachable there. They are all available inside a thread, which is where the actions on a single message belong; what is missing is the shortcut from the list. Fixing it means deciding what a long press should do when it already means something, which is a bigger question than the actions themselves.