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jcoffey-dev 4787e8bf12 Point from the dashboard to Stalwart's own administration
A line under the cards says where the rest is: detailed metrics, the
delivery queue, logs and server settings are in Stalwart's own
administration. It links there when the operator sets STALWART_ADMIN_URL,
and stays plain text otherwise, because STALWART_URL is how this server
reaches Stalwart and is often an address no browser can open.

Several servers: a servers file entry may now be an object,
{"url": ..., "adminUrl": ...}, and a session routed to that server gets its
adminUrl. A routed domain without one gets no link rather than the default
server's, for the same reason routing never falls back. The URL is sent
only to a session that may administer.

The shipped example file stopped the server at startup: its "_comment"
key was read as a domain and refused as not a URL, while the test that
checks the example skipped it. Keys starting with an underscore are notes
now -- no mail domain starts with one -- and the example is also loaded
through the real parser in a test, so the two cannot disagree again.

Two new strings, in all nine catalogues.
2026-09-15 08:16:52 -07:00
jcoffey-dev f1638b2fee Offer administration only on a device marked as your own
A session signed in without "This is my own device" can no longer
administer. The server withholds the account's permissions from it and the
JMAP proxy refuses registry methods beyond the account's own, the same gate
ADMINISTRATION=0 uses. A borrowed or shared machine is where nobody should
be able to reset a password or remove a domain.

An administrator in such a session still sees Administration in the account
menu, greyed out, with the reason and the fix: sign in again with the box
ticked. The server tells that session only that the account administers.

The gate now reads the body only when it could name a registry method --
"x: in the text, or a \u escape that could spell one -- so ordinary mail
traffic from an untrusted session is forwarded untouched.

1 new string, translated in all nine catalogues, quoting each language's own
label for the tickbox; strings falling back to English stay at 16.
2026-09-13 16:34:20 -07:00
jcoffey 16e0761ddf Merge pull request #334 from Coffey-Labs/feat/admin-accounts
Add Administration, starting with accounts
2026-09-13 15:46:46 -07:00
jcoffey-dev d279fe8f90 Let an operator turn administration off
ADMINISTRATION=0 at launch removes in-app administration for everyone. The
account's permissions are no longer sent to the browser, so the menu never
appears, and the JMAP proxy refuses Stalwart registry methods other than the
account's own (settings, password, app passwords, API keys, public keys,
masked addresses). Hiding the menu alone would have left an administrator's
browser console able to make every call the menu made.

With administration on, the request body streams through untouched as before;
only an installation that turns it off reads and checks the body, forwarding
the parsed form so the server receives exactly what was inspected.
2026-09-13 15:27:05 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 82e217155b Add Administration, starting with accounts
An account whose Stalwart role manages accounts now finds Administration in
the account menu. It lists, searches, creates and edits accounts -- display
name, other addresses, role, storage limit -- sets a new password, and
deletes, each offered only when the role holds the matching permission.

The server keeps the permissions list from GET /api/account, which it
already called for the edition and threw the rest away. Everything else is
JMAP x:Account, x:Domain and x:Role calls through the existing /api/jmap
proxy, so nothing new is stored and Stalwart decides every call.

Stalwart checks a grant against the caller's permissions but not a password
change or a delete, so an account that outranks the viewer is shown
read-only. Your own password is changed in Settings, which re-seals the
session; changing it here would strand it.

The mock server gains a directory behind the same permission names, with
MOCK_ROLE choosing admin, tenant-admin, helpdesk or user.

68 new strings, translated in all nine catalogues; strings falling back to
English stay at 16.
2026-09-13 15:11:55 -07:00
jcoffey-dev b5c073955d Send account requests to the account's own Stalwart
Two requests ignored the domain mapping from #238 and went to STALWART_URL:

- /api/account/* re-fetched the upstream session without upstreamFor(), so
  once the five-minute session cache expired, password, app-password and
  2FA calls for a mapped domain reached the default server.
- The locale lookup resolved Stalwart's apiUrl against the default server
  rather than the one that issued the session.

Both now use the session's own server, with a test pinning the second.
2026-09-13 14:45:33 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 2c47c0851c Push by subscription: hold no upstream connection per tab
A signed-in tab held two sockets: the browser's, and one from ihasmail to
Stalwart carrying that tab's push stream. The upstream one was most of what a
tab cost, and the only reason Stalwart's connection limit applied to ihasmail
at all.

RFC 8620 section 7.2 defines the other push transport: a PushSubscription,
where the server POSTs StateChange objects to a URL the client registers.
Stalwart 0.16.20 implements it. ihasmail now registers one subscription per
account at sign-in, and when Stalwart POSTs a change, fans it out to that
account's open tabs over the browser-facing streams it already holds. A tab
opens on the relay as before and is moved to fan-out the moment its account
verifies -- the upstream request is ended, the browser stream is untouched,
and nothing keeps a reference to what was torn down. After that there is no
upstream connection at all. The shapes are the RFC's; nothing here is taken
from any other client.

Measured at a 256 MiB cap over a private plain-HTTP route, against a real
Stalwart with 6,144 accounts verifying during the ramp and no failures:

                                 tabs   client   Stalwart   system  KiB/tab
  raw relay (before)            5,000     48.2       46.4     94.6
  push by subscription          6,144     33.3        4.8     38.0
  a direct-to-server client   12,389      4.8       53.8     58.6

Descriptors per tab: one, the browser's. Stalwart pays 4.8 KiB per tab and
holds no connection for it, so its per-listener connection limit no longer
applies to ihasmail. What remains per tab on the client is Node's cost for a
held HTTP/1.1 connection.

PUSH_URL is the https origin Stalwart can reach ihasmail at. The RFC requires
https and Stalwart enforces it, so Stalwart must trust that certificate: a
public TLS front already does; a private segment needs an internal CA in
Stalwart's trust store. An account whose subscription cannot be verified
stays on the relay, so nothing breaks -- only the saving needs the
certificate. PUSH_MODE=relay disables the subscription path entirely.

/api/push/:token accepts only a JSON body under 64 KiB for a known 32-byte
token, answers 200 or 404, and echoes nothing. /api/health reports how many
accounts are verified, pending or failed and how many tabs are on each path.
2026-09-06 13:30:34 -07:00
jcoffey-dev f569f2cc7a Skip the compressor for clients that offer no encoding
Listing latency at one user went from 1.95 ms on the previous release to
3.25 ms on main, and a bisect put the whole of it on the compression commit.
Not on compressing: the harness never sent Accept-Encoding, so nothing was
ever gzipped. Hono's middleware still inspects every compressible response it
declines and sets Vary on it, and setting a header on a streamed passthrough
rebuilds the Response off its fast path -- about 1.2 ms per JMAP call, on a
request that had asked for nothing.

The middleware now runs only when the request names gzip or deflate. Measured
at one user against the same Stalwart:

  compressor touches but declines, no Accept-Encoding   3.25 ms
  skipped entirely, no Accept-Encoding                  2.02 ms
  compressor applied, Accept-Encoding: gzip             2.27 ms
  previous release, either                              1.95 ms

Applying gzip to a JMAP response costs about a quarter of a millisecond and
saves three to five times the bytes on every listing and body, so JMAP
responses stay compressed by default; COMPRESS_JMAP=0 turns that off for a
deployment that would rather not.

The raw push relay is also made safe to tear down from outside -- the
browser stream keeps its headers and is not ended when the upstream request
goes -- which the next change relies on.
2026-09-06 13:22:03 -07:00
jcoffey-dev ed93fefb9b Give each session a budget on the data path
Only sign-in and the account endpoints were rate limited. JMAP, blob
downloads and the image and calendar proxies had no budget at all, and the
proxy is one Node process that saturates a core at roughly 2,000 operations a
second -- measured at 110% CPU under 150 concurrent users. One signed-in
account looping requests could slow every other user on the instance.

Each session now gets API_RATE_LIMIT requests a minute on those routes, 1,200
by default: twenty a second sustained, well above what a busy tab does and an
order of magnitude below where one tab starts to hurt the rest. Over budget
returns 429 with Retry-After. Sign-in keeps its own, separate limiter.

Checked in situ: one session driven flat out was cut off after exactly 1,200
requests, and with API_RATE_LIMIT=0 throughput at 50 users is unchanged.
2026-09-06 00:42:49 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 01f721d8d1 Cut what a signed-in tab costs by two thirds
Two changes on the push path, both measured against a real Stalwart 0.16.20
with the container capped at 256 MiB and tabs added in steps of 200 until the
kernel killed it:

                                  tabs held   per tab   of which native
  before                              1,665   133 KiB          81 KiB
  pin upstream calls to STALWART_URL  3,400    58 KiB           8 KiB
  + raw push relay                    4,979    37 KiB          10 KiB

Stalwart advertises absolute https URLs in every session, and the proxy
followed them -- so even with STALWART_URL naming a private plain-HTTP hop on
the same Docker network, every held push stream went out through TLS. That leg
is about 80 KiB of OpenSSL state per tab: native memory Node cannot see, which
is why neither the heap ceiling nor the stream buffer size ever moved the
number. absoluteUpstream() now keeps the path and query from the advertised
URL and the scheme, host and port from the configured one. A setup that must
reach Stalwart at an origin other than the one it was given sets
STALWART_FOLLOW_ADVERTISED_URLS=1.

With the transport out of the way, the fetch()-based relay was the next cost:
an undici Response, a web ReadableStream, a reader and Hono's stream bridge
held alive per tab, about 44 KiB of heap for a session that otherwise costs
4 KiB. relayPushRaw() pipes the upstream socket into the Node response and
tells the adapter the response is already sent. RAW_PUSH_RELAY=0 restores the
fetch path for comparison.

JMAP throughput is unchanged (2,383/s against 2,484/s at 50 users, inside
run-to-run noise); the relay does not touch that path. Verified that a push
stream through the raw relay delivers a StateChange while mail is written.

The install page's advice to set --max-old-space-size was measured in the same
runs and made no difference at all -- 3,400 tabs with it and without -- and
is withdrawn in the docs alongside this change.
2026-09-06 00:42:19 -07:00
Coffey Labs 5356e603fe Compress our own responses (#288)
* Compress our own responses

The bundle went out uncompressed unless a proxy in front did the work: 933 KB
on the wire where 311 KB does, on every first load. Both example proxy configs
compress, but that only helps deployments that copied them, and the default
should not depend on reading the examples.

Hono's middleware, with the proxy routes held back. `/api/blob`, `/api/image`,
`/api/ics` and `/api/upload` forward somebody else's bytes under a
content-length copied from upstream, and issue #76 was a silent truncation
caused by exactly that header disagreeing with its body. Re-encoding them
would be safe in principle -- the length is dropped and the response goes out
chunked -- but they carry attachments and images that are already compressed,
so there is nothing to win and a scar to respect.

`/api/events` is listed with them even though Hono already skips
text/event-stream by content type, so that changing the push route's type
cannot quietly start buffering the stream.

`/api/health` is excluded for the opposite reason: at 47 bytes gzip made it 73.
Hono's size threshold cannot catch that on its own, because it only applies
when a response carries a content-length and `c.json()` does not set one. The
other JSON routes stay compressed -- a JMAP response has just as unknown a
length and can run to hundreds of kilobytes.

Verified against the built image: assets come back gzipped with Vary set,
662 KB to 209 KB; /api/events still returns text/event-stream with no
content-encoding and delivered a StateChange while mail was being written;
health is 47 bytes either way. No user-visible strings, so no catalogue work.

* Word the comment for either side compressing

The app compresses its own responses as of the follow-on change, so a note
saying the bundle ships uncompressed would be wrong as soon as that lands.
nginx passes through what the upstream already encoded rather than re-encoding
it -- verified single-encoded with both layers active -- so the directives are
correct either way and the comment now says so without asserting which side
does the work.

* Test compression against a fixture, not the web build

The compression tests asked for `/` and asserted a gzipped 200. That passes
locally, where `web/dist` is lying around from an earlier build, and fails in
CI, which runs `npm test` before `npm run build`: with no bundle the shell
route serves the "web build not found" fallback, which is short, plain text and
correctly uncompressed. The failure read as compression being broken when the
tests were simply depending on a build step that had not run.

They now build their own static root in a temp directory and point STATIC_DIR
at it, in a separate file so the environment is set before the app module is
imported. Checked by moving web/dist aside and running the suite the way CI
does.
2026-09-05 23:41:29 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 171c11fc92 Choose the Stalwart by the domain somebody signs in with
One ihasmail in front of several Stalwarts, from #238. STALWART_URL stays
required and stays the default, so an installation that sets nothing behaves
exactly as it always has -- the mapping only adds domains that go elsewhere.

An unlisted domain goes to the default. So does a bare username, which
Stalwart accepts and which has no domain to map at all.

A listed domain never falls back. If its server is unreachable that sign-in
fails rather than retrying against the default, because falling back would
authenticate somebody against a server their domain was deliberately routed
away from -- and if the same account name existed there, they would land in
another tenant's mailbox. The fallback is a decision about unmapped domains,
taken before any network call, not a recovery path.

Smaller than it sounds because only four places read config.stalwartUrl, all
in upstream.ts. The upstream session now records which server issued it, since
the relative URLs inside it only mean anything against that server, and every
route already holding a session gets the right upstream without a second
lookup. The client is untouched: it talks to one proxy and never learns there
is more than one server behind it, which is exactly why this is small and
several-servers-at-once is not.

The upstream is derived from the username rather than stored on the session,
so a mapping change takes effect on restart instead of being frozen into
sessions that outlive it.

Validated at boot the way the settings policy is: malformed JSON, a duplicate
domain once normalised, a missing file or a value that is not an http(s) URL
all stop the server. Domains are lower-cased and stripped of a trailing dot,
because that is how one arrives off a username and comparing them any other
way means a mapping that silently never matches. The servers themselves are
not contacted -- a mapping is a routing table, not a health check, and one
customer's outage must not stop ihasmail starting for the other four.

Eight tests on the routing, two on the shipped example, and the four refusals
checked by hand against a real config load.
2026-09-02 14:18:50 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 607afeb4ad Do not spend login attempts on an outage nobody caused
ihasmail runs in its own container, usually on its own host, so Stalwart being
briefly unreachable is an ordinary Tuesday. Sign-in handled it almost right:
a 401 is invalid_credentials, a timeout is 504 and anything else is 502, none
of which reads as a rejected password.

What it got wrong was the counting. RateLimiter.check() consumes an attempt
when it is called, and it is called before the upstream is contacted; reset()
only runs on success. So every try against an unreachable server burned a
credential attempt, and after ten of them the person was locked out for the
rest of the fifteen-minute window -- including after the server came back. A
thirty-second blip became a quarter-hour lockout, and the second failure was
entirely ihasmail's own doing.

A 401 is a judgement about the password and stays counted. A 502 or 504 is the
upstream failing to answer, says nothing about the credentials, and is now
refunded -- one attempt back, not the key cleared, so a run of real failures
with an outage in the middle still adds up. The old-server refusal refunds too:
those credentials were accepted.

Both guessing keys are refunded, not just the username one. Refunding only
that would not have fixed it -- ten retries still spend the per-address budget,
and behind one office NAT that budget belongs to the whole building, so a
company-wide outage would lock out the company.

Which needs a backstop, because "not counted" must not mean "unlimited": each
attempt still costs an outbound connection that may sit there until
UPSTREAM_TIMEOUT, and an outage is the one moment the endpoint is cheapest to
abuse. So there is a second ceiling per address, twenty times looser and never
refunded. A person retrying will not come near it; something hammering will.

Both messages now say the quiet part -- "This is not a problem with your
password" -- for somebody already worried they have forgotten it.

Closes #239.
2026-09-02 14:08:23 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 457ea53ca3 Let an installation seed and lock user settings
The first two thirds of #207. A school wanting "warn about outside senders"
on for three thousand pupils cannot ask three thousand pupils, and the
reporter is right that this is a company policy rather than a preference.

Two powers, and the difference between them is the whole request. `defaults`
seed an account that has never had settings of its own and can be changed
afterwards like anything else -- a starting point, not a rule. `enforced` are
reapplied on every load and cannot be changed at all.

Enforced controls stay visible and go dead, with a line saying why. The issue
asked for that by name: a control that is simply missing reads as a bug to
somebody who has used ihasmail without a policy.

The lock is in the settings store rather than only on the controls. There is
one door -- `update` -- and putting it there means an imported settings file,
a settings file synced from a device that predates the policy, and a control
somebody adds later and forgets to check are all covered by construction.
Reset goes back to the installation's answer rather than to ihasmail's, so it
cannot be a way around a policy either.

Configured by environment variable or by a file, because ihasmail's own
production runs read-only with no volume: an installation that cannot mount a
file can still set a variable. Keys this build does not have are dropped, the
same rule an imported settings file already gets -- a policy written against a
newer ihasmail must not put a setting nothing reads into everybody's synced
settings file. Malformed JSON stops the server rather than quietly doing
nothing, since a policy that silently did not apply is indistinguishable from
the feature not working.

Tier three -- enforcing a setting once while still letting readers change it
afterwards -- is not here. It needs a decision the reporter and I have not
made yet, and it is the only part that stores anything new.

Refs #207.
2026-09-02 10:49:55 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 4d18d94b63 Subscribe to a calendar published at a URL
A timetable, a rota, a public holiday list: the calendars people are given
as a link, which ihasmail could not show at all.

Nothing is stored. The document is fetched when the calendar is opened and
parsed in the browser; the server keeps no copy, no cache and no schedule,
which is what lets an immutable container serve this. There is no timer
either -- there is nowhere to run one -- so the guarantee is that a
subscription is as current as the last time somebody looked, which is also
when it matters. That is said plainly rather than implied.

The fetch has to happen on the server: a calendar URL belongs to whoever
published it and almost none of them send CORS headers. That makes it the
second place this app knocks on a door somebody else chose, so the guard
the image proxy has always had was lifted out and both now call it. A
second SSRF implementation is how one of them ends up missing a case; this
way there is one, and the extraction is covered by the image proxy's own
tests still passing unchanged.

webcal: is understood, because that is how these are published, and it is
read as https: rather than waved past the checks -- a webcal URL pointing
at loopback is refused exactly like an http one.

Recurrence is deliberately not expanded. RRULE is a small language with a
lot of edge cases, and a subscription quietly showing the wrong dates would
be worse than one showing the first occurrence and saying so.

The parser is a subscription parser rather than an importer: a subscribed
calendar is read-only and redrawn from scratch each refresh, so nothing has
to round-trip or survive an edit, which is most of what makes a full
iCalendar implementation large. What it does have to do is never mis-state
a time -- a DATE is built in local time rather than at UTC midnight, which
would land on the day before for anyone west of Greenwich -- and never hang
on a document somebody else wrote.

Events go through instancesIn like the birthdays, so no view has to know
they are not real calendars, and the calendar they hang off reports no
write rights, so everything that asks before offering an edit declines on
its own. A subscription that cannot be read says so in the sidebar rather
than drawing an empty calendar, which looks like a calendar with nothing
in it.
2026-09-02 00:52:06 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 93d0a32af2 Serve ihasmail from a subpath
`BASE_PATH=/mail` mounts the whole app under a prefix, for a host that is not
ihasmail's alone. Unset -- every deployment that exists -- is the domain root
and is byte-for-byte what it was: the canonical form of the setting is the
empty string, and `""` concatenated onto `/api/health` is `/api/health`.

That choice of canonical form is the whole design. A trailing slash would have
been the obvious alternative, and it fails quietly in exactly one place: at the
root it makes `//api/health`, which is not a path on this host but a
protocol-relative URL to a host called `api`. One call site forgetting to
branch is a request leaving the origin. So the empty string, one leading slash,
no trailing one, worked out once in `scripts/basePath.mjs` -- plain JS, next to
`version.mjs`, because the web build and the server both have to reach the same
answer and two implementations of "what does /mail/ mean" is precisely the bug
where the server serves an app whose script tags point somewhere else.
`/mail`, `mail`, `/mail/` and `//mail//` all mean the same mount; a deployment
should not fail over a trailing slash.

Unlike everything else ihasmail is told, this one cannot wait for the process
to start. The bundle writes its own asset URLs into index.html, so `BASE_PATH`
is read at build time for Vite's `base` as well as at run time for the routes,
and the Dockerfile carries one value into both. Get them out of step and the
page comes up blank with a 404 in a console nobody has open -- so the static
handler, which is reading index.html anyway, checks what it asks for and says
so in the log once per build.

Everything moves together. The API mounts at `${base}/api`; the router is
given the base once, so every `<Route path>` and `<Link href>` stays written
root-absolute and wouter does the rest; `apiFetch` adds the prefix in one place
rather than at forty call sites; the session cookie's Path narrows to the mount
so two instances on one host cannot sign each other out.

Two things need no prefix at all, and it is worth saying why they were not
given one. A manifest's members resolve against the manifest's own address, so
relative URLs there follow the mount with nothing substituted at build time --
which is also why `public/` needed no template step. The service worker is the
same trick: it is served from the mount, so `new URL("./", self.location)`
tells it where that is, and a worker that derives the value cannot disagree
with the page that registered it.

Anything outside the mount is a 404 rather than the app shell, and
`stripBasePath` does not use `startsWith` -- under `/mail` this process shares
a hostname, and answering `/mailbox` with our index would shadow a neighbour
instead of letting it 404 honestly. For the same reason the notification-click
handler now checks the path as well as the origin: `includeUncontrolled` widens
`matchAll` to the whole origin, which off the root would have navigated a
stranger's tab to our inbox.

Inline images in a draft were the one silent trap. They are matched by their
blob URL on the way out, once unanchored and once anchored, and a bare
`/api/blob/` still appears inside `/mail/api/blob/...` -- so one pattern would
have replaced the tail and left `/mail` in front of a `cid:`, and the other
would have missed and sent the message linking to the sender's own webmail.
Both patterns are built from the base now.
2026-09-01 22:41:18 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 15f2c3d357 Read a Markdown file as the document it is
A .md previewed as its own source, which is reading the punctuation
rather than the notes. It now opens rendered, with Rendered | Source in
the dialog footer for anyone who wants what the file actually says.
Markdown only; a .txt has nothing to toggle between.

Rendering is `marked`, sanitised by DOMPurify -- the one the app already
carries for mail. Markdown is not a safe subset of anything: raw HTML
passes through it by design, so a <script> in a file somebody uploaded or
shared into the account is a script tag unless something takes it out.

Images become links rather than pictures. An image in a Markdown file is
either a relative path, which has no base to resolve against here, or a
URL somewhere else, which fetches on open and tells that server the file
was read -- the tracking pixel this app blocks in mail. The link keeps
the alt text and the address, so nothing vanishes silently.

Fixes the PDF preview while here, which never worked: securityHeaders
put X-Frame-Options: DENY on every response including the blob route, so
the iframe showed Chrome's "refused to connect" where the file should
have been -- in Files today and in mail attachments long before that.
The middleware now leaves a header the route has set, and a PDF served
inline says SAMEORIGIN. Nothing else on the server is framable.
2026-09-01 20:32:59 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 0277b5b6a8 Send the length of the bytes we are actually sending
A gzip response is decompressed before the blob proxy sees the body, but
its content-length still describes the compressed bytes. Copying that
header onto the longer body made the browser stop reading that many bytes
in and call the download complete, so files arrived truncated with nothing
reporting a failure.

It took a hop that compresses to show up, and one that only compresses
above a threshold to look like a race: a Sieve script stayed intact for two
rules and came back cut off mid-rule once the third pushed it past 1 KiB.

Ask upstream for identity, and forward no length at all rather than one
that describes different bytes.
2026-08-30 13:46:05 -07:00
jcoffey-dev f72c67864e Let the container run with nothing writable
The server writes to one path and no other: SESSION_FILE, from sessions.ts.
Everything else it touches on disk it only reads. So a container with a
read-only root filesystem already works -- except that `VOLUME ["/data"]`
quietly undid it. Docker acts on that directive: a container started without
`-v` gets an anonymous volume mounted there anyway, writable even under
`--read-only`. It persisted nothing across a redeploy, since each new container
got a fresh empty volume, and it left an orphan behind every time one was
replaced. Deployments that want the sessions to survive already say so
themselves -- docker-compose.yml and deploy.example.sh both mount a named
volume -- so removing the line changes nothing for them.

IMMUTABLE=1 asserts that this is how the instance is running. It is checked
rather than believed: the server refuses to start if SESSION_FILE is still set,
or if the filesystem it is installed on turns out to be writable. Left
unchecked the misconfiguration is silent, because persisting sessions is
best-effort -- a read-only /data costs one warning at the first sign-in and
nothing more until the instance is replaced and everyone is signed out.

SessionBackend names what the rest of the server asks of a session store, and
`sessions` in app.ts is typed as it. Nothing changes today; SessionStore is
still the only implementation. It is there so the OAuth work is written against
the interface rather than the class, and so the interface can record which of
its methods a stateless backend could satisfy alone: create, resolve, reseal
and destroy each touch one session, while listForUser and destroyAllForUser
have to reach sessions other than the caller's. The second of those carries the
guarantee that changing a password invalidates the sessions still holding the
old one, which is why it needs a registry -- Stalwart's token registry, once
sign-in goes through OAuth.
2026-08-27 21:48:23 -07:00
jcoffey-dev d98c425a9a Stop pretending the two-factor field can work
Signing in with a two-factor code failed with a bare 401 and "Invalid
credentials", which sent the user off to check a password that was
perfectly good (#75). It cannot work, and the app already knew.

Stalwart accepts a TOTP code only through an OAuth flow -- its own web
interface is an OAuth client, which is why signing in *there* succeeds --
and it offers only the authorization-code and device flows. There is no
password grant, so a client holding a username and password has nowhere
to exchange them plus a code for a token. The concatenated
`password$code` form this README claimed was accepted is not a route the
server has, and appears never to have been. What was verified live on
0.16.19 was enabling and disabling 2FA, never signing in with a code.

The contradiction was already in the codebase: turning 2FA *on* mints an
app password and reseals the session onto it, precisely because a plain
password stops working from that moment. The sign-in page was the one
place still assuming otherwise.

Three changes, no new capability:

  - A 401 on a sign-in that carried a code now says what is happening
    and where to go instead, and says the password is probably fine.
    A sign-in without a code is untouched, so an ordinary typo still
    reads as an ordinary typo.

  - The field stays, and is honest about itself. Removing it would leave
    someone with 2FA finding nothing at all, which is worse than finding
    a field that explains the situation and points at app passwords.

  - The README's claim is corrected rather than quietly dropped, and
    real 2FA support is written into the roadmap as what it is: an OAuth
    implementation, handing sign-in to Stalwart and holding a refresh
    token instead of a sealed password.
2026-08-26 14:46:08 -07:00
jcoffey-dev bf70ba9df0 Give builds a version number
ihasmail called itself "2.0" on the About page and "2.0.0" from
/api/health, both hardcoded, in four places that had drifted from each
other and from anything meaningful. A build now says what it is:

  ihasmail v2.16.57
             |  |  |
             |  |  the pull request the commit came from
             |  the Stalwart generation this build targets -- 0.16
             ihasmail's own major

The first two are the version in the root package.json, so there is a
single place to bump them, and 16 becomes 17 when ihasmail moves to
Stalwart 0.17. Dropping 0.15 is what makes that middle number honest:
while two generations were supported it could not have been either.

The pull request number comes from git at build time and is never
written back into the tree. It cannot be: it does not exist until the
pull request has merged, so a committed version would always describe a
merge that had not happened yet, and every open branch would collide on
the same line. A commit that did not come through a pull request carries
the last number plus its own short SHA -- 2.16.57+g1fa6578 -- which says
it is past that pull request rather than quietly claiming to be it.

.dockerignore excludes .git on purpose, so an image build cannot work
any of this out. It takes --build-arg IHASMAIL_VERSION instead, which
the build stage bakes into the bundle and the runtime stage keeps as an
environment variable for the server. Left out, it falls back to the base
version from package.json rather than failing -- so a version with no PR
number on it means whoever built the image did not pass one.

scripts/ is copied into the runtime image because the server resolves
its version through it. There is no git in there to ask, which is the
fallback's whole purpose.

Verified: 2.16.57 in the bundle and from /api/health on a dev checkout;
the same after a real docker build --build-arg, from inside the
container; and 2.16.0 rather than a crash when the arg is left off.

Note for deploying: ihasmail-deploy.sh on the host builds without the
argument and will produce 2.16.0 until it passes
--build-arg IHASMAIL_VERSION="$(node scripts/version.mjs)".
2026-08-26 10:00:29 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 94bf42cfda Drop Stalwart 0.15 support
ihasmail spoke to two generations of Stalwart that are less alike than
their version numbers suggest: 0.16 replaced the REST management API with
JMAP registry objects, changed the shape of FileNode, split its rights
up, and moved configuration into the store. Carrying both meant 34 branch
points across nine files, a 92-line compatibility shim whose only job was
telling them apart, a parallel REST implementation of every credential
operation, and a mock that had to model both.

The branches were not the real cost. The cost was that a wrong answer
about which generation had answered always had somewhere to fall back to,
so it failed quietly rather than loudly: one capability looked for in the
wrong place downgraded every real 0.16 server onto the 0.15 path, which
posted the current password to an endpoint 0.16 had removed, reported the
wrong generation on About, and ran Files on the older code. It reached
production and was recorded as verified when it was not. The mock
mirrored the same wrong placement, which is why the tests agreed.

Removed: the filenode compatibility shim, the dual "registry" | "legacy"
backend in account.ts, the pre-0.16 generation in AccountInfo and
everything that read it, the mock's LEGACY mode and dev:mock:legacy, and
the three test files that existed only to pin 0.15 behaviour.

Sign-in now refuses an older server by name, once, rather than letting
Files, the account locale and credentials each fail in their own way with
nothing connecting them. It says the credentials were fine -- someone
hitting this has typed a correct password, and telling them otherwise
sends them round in circles -- and names the tag to build from. Four
tests cover it, including that no session cookie is minted and that bad
credentials on such a server are still a plain 401.

Two fallbacks went that were not strictly about 0.15, and both for the
same reason the removal is happening. Files no longer answers a refused
filter or sort by fetching every node in the account, which would hide a
real fault behind a performance cliff nobody would notice. And the app
folder lookups now filter on parentId/isTopLevel alone and match names
client-side, since `name` is not a filter Stalwart is known to implement
and one it does not know fails the whole query rather than being ignored.

The last release that runs on 0.15 is tagged stalwart-0.15-support.

Verified against the mock end to end: sign-in, the Files tree on the 0.16
path with the app folder hidden, and self-service credentials over the
registry. 226 web + 75 server tests pass; typecheck and build clean.
2026-08-26 09:51:03 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 7b05322577 Make the AGPL's source offer point at the source being run
Three things a licence audit turned up. None of them is a conflict --
every one of the 182 installed packages is permissive, and the relicence
was within the copyright holder's gift -- but all three are ways the
AGPL fails to stick.

The offer was hard-coded to this repository. Section 13 asks whoever
runs a modified version to offer *that* version's source, so every
deployment with a patch in it was pointing at the wrong tree, and would
have gone on doing so unless its operator noticed and edited the About
page. SOURCE_URL now sets it, alongside APP_NAME, and both the sign-in
page and About read it.

The offer was also only visible after signing in. Whoever is looking at
the sign-in form is interacting with the program over a network too, so
the footer carries it now.

And the two workspace packages declared no licence at all. Private, so
npm never minded, but anything reading the tree saw a blank where the
rest of the project says AGPL-3.0-or-later.

Checked both ways round: with SOURCE_URL set to a fork, the sign-in page
and About both point at the fork; with it unset, both fall back to this
repository.
2026-08-25 13:42:11 -07:00
jcoffey-dev c5f2e2c7f2 Harden four things the audit turned up
**The login rate limiter could be sidestepped.** X-Forwarded-For is a list each
hop appends to, and nginx's $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for appends ours — so a
client sending "X-Forwarded-For: 1.2.3.4" arrives as "1.2.3.4, <their real
address>". Reading the leftmost entry, as we did, handed the caller a
rate-limit key they could change per request: unlimited password guessing
against a deployment that looks correctly configured. Read from the right
instead, skip hops that are themselves trusted proxies, and believe the header
only when the peer is one (loopback and the private ranges by default,
TRUSTED_PROXIES to be explicit).

**The upload cap was a suggestion.** It read content-length, which a chunked
request simply omits. Count the bytes through a stream, as the image proxy
already does.

**App password secrets were drawn with a modulo.** 256 is not a multiple of 33,
so the first 25 characters of the alphabet came up on 8 byte values and the
last 8 on only 7. Rejection sampling instead. The test weighs the whole tail of
the alphabet rather than single characters, because a 7/8 skew is invisible
per character against the noise — and it does fail when the bias is put back.

**Upstream headers were relayed wholesale.** Anything the mail server set —
cookies, auth challenges, CORS grants — landed on our origin, where it means
something else. Allowlist what is actually wanted.
2026-08-24 11:10:15 -07:00
jcoffey-dev c145858bbe Read the locale where users can actually read it, and say which Stalwart answered
The account locale came from `x:Account/get`, which needs `sysAccountGet` — a
permission the built-in `user` role is not given, so the setting silently fell
back to the browser locale for exactly the people most likely to have set it.
Stalwart 0.16 carries the same field on `x:AccountSettings`, whose
`sysAccountSettingsGet` *is* part of that role. Both are now asked for in one
request and whichever answers wins, so admins and older servers keep working.

That pair of replies also says which generation we are talking to: only 0.16+
can parse the method name at all. About now reports that, plus the edition
from /api/account where the server offers it. It does not report a version
number because Stalwart does not publish one to clients — it hardcodes a
public "1.0.0" and keeps the real version to its SMTP internals — so the
screen says what was actually detected rather than inventing precision.

Also adds a light/dark toggle to the top bar, left of the settings button. The
stored setting is three-way, so the button acts on the theme actually on
screen: whichever one you see, a click gives you the other. Choosing "match
system" again stays in Settings › Appearance, where a three-way choice belongs.
2026-08-24 08:35:22 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 0f1fbcff93 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.
2026-08-24 08:18:47 -07:00
jcoffey-dev d82ff15921 Configurable date and time formats, defaulting to the Stalwart locale
Every user-visible date now goes through web/src/lib/datetime.ts, driven by
three settings (Settings > General > Locale):

- Language & region: automatic, or any of the 618 locales CLDR has data for,
  each named in its own language and script (web/src/lib/locales.ts, generated
  by probing Intl over the subtag space).
- Date format: automatic (locale order), 22.11.2025, 22/11/2025, 11/22/2025,
  or ISO 8601 2025-11-22.
- Time format: automatic (locale), 24-hour, or 12-hour.

Automatic takes the locale Stalwart has for the account, read best-effort at
login via x:Account/get (urn:stalwart:jmap) and passed to the client in the
session; servers without the capability, or that deny sysAccountGet to a
regular user, fall back to the browser locale. POSIX forms are normalised
(de_DE.UTF-8 -> de-DE) and script modifiers kept (sr_RS@latin -> sr-Latn-RS,
uz_UZ@cyrillic -> uz-Cyrl-UZ), while dialect/variant/currency modifiers are
dropped and a script the locale already implies is not appended.

Numerals follow the locale (22.11.2025 renders as Arabic-Indic digits under
ar-EG); ISO 8601 is the exception and pins date and clock to Latin digits so
one line never mixes digit systems.

Rewired: message list and headers, quoted reply headers, calendar (titles,
weekday and hour gutters, mini calendar, agenda, popovers, invite cards,
free/busy), contacts, files, sessions. No raw toLocale*String date calls are
left in web/src.

Native <input type="datetime-local"> pickers always follow the browser locale
and cannot be restyled by a page, so the out-of-office fields echo the entered
instant in the chosen format underneath.

Also: month-grid day labels no longer wrap when they hold a date, and the mock
server serves x:Account/get (MOCK_LOCALE, default en_US).

Closes #1
2026-08-23 12:32:11 -07:00
jcoffey-dev 645b8b510f ihasmail 2.0: rebuild as Stalwart-first JMAP webmail
Replace the FastAPI/HTMX prototype with a Node/Hono session proxy and a
React 19/Vite SPA. Mail (conversation view, search operators, labels,
sanitised HTML, privacy image proxy, invites, undo send, templates),
calendar (month/week/day/agenda, invites, free/busy, categories,
context menus), contacts (JSContact, groups, vCard), files, Sieve filter
builder (incl. filter-from-message with retroactive apply), vacation,
identities with default + Reply-To, PWA/mobile layout, push via SSE,
in-memory mock Stalwart for dev, Docker + CI.
2026-08-23 01:07:13 -07:00