Upstream's {app} placeholder (#406) replaces most of the fork's own
renamed strings: the user menu, the About heading and its version line
now say INBUXA because APP_NAME does, not because the fork wrote it in.
Kept from the fork: inbuxa.org rather than ihasmail.org, no Documentation
entry until INBUXA has its own, the INBUXA mark and wordmark, the "Built
on ihasmail" credit, and the About note that says nothing about the
server software. DEFAULT_APP_NAME stays INBUXA.
The credit's placeholder is {project} now, so the name of the project is
not spelled inside a key that upstream's new test reads as a hard-coded
app name.
APP_NAME renames an instance, but only the sign-in page, the title bar and
a few headings used it. Two dozen sentences wrote "ihasmail" into
themselves, so a renamed instance still told people to keep an ihasmail
tab open and offered to open mail links "in ihasmail".
Those sentences now take the name as {app}, which also lets a translator
put it where their language wants it. brand.ts grew useAppName() for
components and currentAppName() for the few places that build strings
outside React.
Left as they are: the Files folder "ihasmail", the Sieve script
"ihasmail" and ihasmail.org. Those name things a person can go and look
at, and renaming them would rename real data.
All nine catalogues keep their translations: the name inside each one
became the placeholder. Three of the strings had no translation before
and still fall back to English.
A test walks the sources and the catalogues so a new sentence can't
hard-code the name again.
INBUXA is a product suite and ihasmail an independent product, so INBUXA's
webmail says INBUXA: the sign-in page, header, page title, installed-app name
and About page. The wordmark is drawn in the current text color. ihasmail's
version and AGPL source line stay as its credit. Two new strings, in all nine
catalogues; three Stalwart-only ones are no longer used.
APP_NAME is a runtime variable and two of the three places showing the name
ignored it. The sign-in page fetched /api/config, received the name and used
only sourceUrl -- so a rebranded deployment still said "ihasmail" on the one
page a new user meets first. The top bar had it written in. Only the document
title read it, and it had been reading it from the session all along.
The rebranding guide documents both as things to patch yourself, one of them
with "if you change nothing else on this page, change this". It should not
have to.
The sign-in page takes the name from the answer it was already getting. The
top bar takes it from the session, where the title has taken it from since it
was written. Neither is a new request.
One shared default rather than the string written out at three call sites,
because three copies of a default is how two of them end up stale. It stands
if the config request fails, since a sign-in form with no name on it would be
worse than one with the wrong name -- and an empty or non-string name falls
back too, so a deployment that sets APP_NAME= does not get a nameless page.
Confirmed with APP_NAME set to something else: sign-in heading, top bar and
tab title all read it.
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