Manage your own password, app passwords and 2FA

Settings › Security grows three working sections instead of a note telling
people to use Stalwart's own portal.

Stalwart moved this API between releases, so ihasmail speaks both: 0.16+ has
the x:AccountPassword singleton and x:AppPassword registry objects over JMAP,
while 0.15.x has the /api/account/auth REST endpoint. Which one answers the
probe is the only reliable way to tell them apart, and the result is cached
per session. The built-in `user` role already grants sysAccountPassword* and
sysAppPassword*, so no administrator setup is needed.

Two problems are worth calling out, because both would bite a user hard:

Stalwart validates the credentials already on the account when 2FA is turned
on and never checks the new secret, so an authenticator that was mistyped or
out of step would lock someone out of their mailbox at the next sign-in. We
verify a code against the new secret ourselves first (RFC 6238, tested against
the spec's vectors) and only then ask the server to store anything.

Every proxied call re-authenticates with the credential sealed into the
session, and from the moment 2FA is on Stalwart wants a fresh TOTP code with
it — which we cannot produce between requests. Turning 2FA on would therefore
sign the user out of the browser they just turned it on in. App passwords
authenticate without a second factor, so the session is moved onto one minted
for this browser, and the session cookie is re-sealed with it. The order
matters: it is minted while the old credential still works, and revoked again
if enabling then fails.

Password changes re-seal this session too and drop the others, whose sealed
copies of the old password would fail on their next call.

The mock now enforces what a real server does — current password, password
policy, a TOTP code on every request once 2FA is on, app passwords exempt —
so the whole flow is exercised in tests rather than only by hand.
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**Settings**
- **Dates & times**: language/region (every one of the ~620 locales CLDR has data for, each named in its own language and script), date order (locale default, `22.11.2025`, `22/11/2025`, `11/22/2025` or ISO `2025-11-22`) and 12h/24h clock, applied everywhere — message list and headers, calendar, contacts, files, sessions. The default comes from the locale configured for the account in Stalwart (`x:Account/get`), falling back to the browser's; POSIX forms are normalised (`de_DE.UTF-8``de-DE`) and script modifiers preserved (`sr_RS@latin``sr-Latn-RS`). Numerals follow the locale (`٢٢.١١.٢٠٢٥` for `ar-EG`), except under ISO 8601, which pins date *and* clock to Latin digits. Dates are **entered** through custom pickers in the same format (browsers render `<input type="date">` in their own locale and ignore the page's), with a calendar popover, a time list, keyboard navigation, and lenient typing — `22.11.`, `221125`, `6:23pm` and bare ISO all parse
- **Self-service credentials** in Settings Security: change your password, manage **app passwords** (a separate password per mail app or device, revocable on its own), and turn **two-factor authentication** on or off by scanning a QR code. Enrolment codes are verified before anything is stored, so a mistyped key cannot lock you out, and switching 2FA on moves this browser's session onto a dedicated app password instead of signing you straight back out. Works against both Stalwart generations: the `x:AccountPassword` / `x:AppPassword` registry objects on 0.16+, and the `/api/account/auth` REST endpoint on 0.15.x
- Identities & signatures, **Sieve filters** (visual rule builder that round-trips to a Sieve script, plus a raw script editor with server-side validation), out-of-office (`VacationResponse`), folders, labels, templates, notifications, calendar defaults, sessions (sign out other devices), keyboard shortcuts, import/export of settings
**Platform**
@@ -132,6 +133,7 @@ Verified against the mock server and, for the core mail flows, against a live St
- **HTML signatures** — Stalwart caps identity signatures at 2 KB. ihasmail compacts pasted HTML, moves images to Files and, if still too large, keeps the full signature in Files behind a short marker (other clients see a text fallback). The end-to-end flow (save → compose → send with inline logo) is implemented but not yet confirmed on the live server.
- **Files** — the live server runs an older Stalwart build than `main`; `FileNode/query` there rejects `isTopLevel`/`parentId` filters, so ihasmail falls back to listing all nodes and building the tree client-side. Upload/rename/move/delete still need a live pass.
- **Self-service credentials** — verified end to end against the mock (which enforces the same rules: current password required, password policy, a TOTP code on every request once 2FA is on, app passwords exempt from it). The **0.16 registry path is not yet confirmed against a real 0.16 server**, and the **0.15.x REST path is not confirmed at all**; the live server is 0.15.5. Password changes are also refused by Stalwart for accounts backed by an external directory (LDAP/SQL/OIDC) — the server's own message is shown when that happens.
- Recurring events: colour/category/edit/delete apply to the whole series (per-occurrence overrides aren't supported by the server yet).
- Editable date boxes are always Gregorian and in Latin digits, even for locales whose *display* uses another calendar or numbering system (`fa-IR`, `th-TH`, `ar-EG`) — they keep the locale's field order and separator, but a Buddhist-era year in a text box does not round-trip against the Gregorian calendar grid. Non-Gregorian calendar support is not implemented.
- The account locale is read with Stalwart's `x:Account/get`, which needs the `sysAccountGet` permission; where a regular user is not granted it, ihasmail silently falls back to the browser locale and the setting can be chosen by hand.
@@ -140,7 +142,6 @@ Verified against the mock server and, for the core mail flows, against a live St
- Snooze and scheduled send (needs server-side support)
- Read-receipt (MDN) sending, S/MIME / OpenPGP
- Self-service password / app-password / 2FA management (Stalwart exposes this through its own account portal)
- Translations (strings are English-only for now)
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