NOTIFY is like IDLE, but where IDLE watches just the selected mailbox, NOTIFY
can watch all mailboxes. With NOTIFY, a client can also ask a server to
immediately return configurable fetch attributes for new messages, e.g. a
message preview, certain header fields, or simply the entire message.
Mild testing with evolution and fairemail.
Download as eml is useful with firefox, because opening the raw message in a
new tab, and then downloading it, causes firefox to request the url without
cookies, causing it to save a "403 - forbidden" response.
Exporting a selection is useful during all kinds of testing. Makes it easy to
an entire thread, or just some messages.
The export popover now has buttons for each combination of mbox/maildir vs
zip/tgz/tar. Before you may have had to select the email format and archive
format first, followed by a click. Now it's just a click.
Example symptom, when deleting a message in the webmail (which moves to Trash):
l=error m="duplicating message in old mailbox for current sessions" err="link data/accounts/mjl/msg/I/368638 data/accounts/mjl/msg/J/368640: no such file or directory" pkg=webmail
Problem introduced a few weeks ago, where moving messages starting duplicating
the message first, and the copy is erased once all references (in IMAP
sessions) to the old mailbox have been removed.
Keeping the message files around, and the message details in the database, is
useful for IMAP sessions that haven't seen/processed the removal of a message
yet and try to fetch it. Before, we would return errors. Similarly, a session
that has a mailbox selected that is removed can (at least in theory) still read
messages.
The mechanics to do this need keeping removed mailboxes around too. JMAP needs
that anyway, so we now keep modseq/createseq/expunged history for mailboxes
too. And while we're at it, for annotations as well.
For future JMAP support, we now also keep the mailbox parent id around for a
mailbox, with an upgrade step to set the field for existing mailboxes and
fixing up potential missing parents (which could possibly have happened in an
obscure corner case that I doubt anyone ran into).
i added the metadata extension to the imapserver recently. then i wondered how
a client would efficiently find changed metadata. turns out the qresync rfc
mentions that metadata changes should set a new modseq on the mailbox.
shouldn't be hard, except that we were not explicitly keeping track of modseqs
per mailbox. we only kept them for messages, and we were just looking up the
latest message modseq when we needed the modseq (we keep db entries for
expunged messages, so this worked out fine). that approach isn't enough
anymore. so know we keep track of modseq & createseq for mailboxes, just as for
messages. and we also track modseq/createseq for annotations. there's a good
chance jmap is going to need it.
this also adds consistency checks for modseq/createseq on mailboxes and
annotations to the account storage. it helped spot cases i missed where the
values need to be updated.
it makes a new field available on stored messages. not when they they were
received (over smtp) or appended to the mailbox (over imap), but when they were
last "saved" in the mailbox. copy/move of a message (eg to the trash) resets
the "savedate" value. this helps implement "remove messages from trash after X
days".
to facilitate migrations from/to other mail setups.
a domain can be added in "disabled" mode (or can be disabled/enabled later on).
you can configure a disabled domain, but incoming/outgoing messages involving
the domain are rejected with temporary error codes (as this may occur during a
migration, remote servers will try again, hopefully to the correct machine or
after this machine has been configured correctly). also, no acme tls certs will
be requested for disabled domains (the autoconfig/mta-sts dns records may still
point to the current/previous machine). accounts with addresses at disabled
domains can still login, unless logins are disabled for their accounts.
an account now has an option to disable logins. you can specify an error
message to show. this will be shown in smtp, imap and the web interfaces. it
could contain a message about migrations, and possibly a URL to a page with
information about how to migrate. incoming/outgoing email involving accounts
with login disabled are still accepted/delivered as normal (unless the domain
involved in the messages is disabled too). account operations by the admin,
such as importing/exporting messages still works.
in the admin web interface, listings of domains/accounts show if they are disabled.
domains & accounts can be enabled/disabled through the config file, cli
commands and admin web interface.
for issue #175 by RobSlgm
per mailbox, or for all mailboxes, in maildir/mbox format, in tar/tgz/zip
archive or without archive format for single mbox, single or recursive. the
webaccount already had an option to export all mailboxes, it now looks similar
to the webmail version.
the regular send shortcut is control+Enter. the shift enables "archive thread".
there is no configuration option, you'll always get the button, but only for
reply/forward, not for new compose.
we may do "send and move thread to thrash", but let's wait until people want it.
for github issue #135 by mattfbacon
for applications to compose/send messages, receive delivery feedback, and
maintain suppression lists.
this is an alternative to applications using a library to compose messages,
submitting those messages using smtp, and monitoring a mailbox with imap for
DSNs, which can be processed into the equivalent of suppression lists. but you
need to know about all these standards/protocols and find libraries. by using
the webapi & webhooks, you just need a http & json library.
unfortunately, there is no standard for these kinds of api, so mox has made up
yet another one...
matching incoming DSNs about deliveries to original outgoing messages requires
keeping history of "retired" messages (delivered from the queue, either
successfully or failed). this can be enabled per account. history is also
useful for debugging deliveries. we now also keep history of each delivery
attempt, accessible while still in the queue, and kept when a message is
retired. the queue webadmin pages now also have pagination, to show potentially
large history.
a queue of webhook calls is now managed too. failures are retried similar to
message deliveries. webhooks can also be saved to the retired list after
completing. also configurable per account.
messages can be sent with a "unique smtp mail from" address. this can only be
used if the domain is configured with a localpart catchall separator such as
"+". when enabled, a queued message gets assigned a random "fromid", which is
added after the separator when sending. when DSNs are returned, they can be
related to previously sent messages based on this fromid. in the future, we can
implement matching on the "envid" used in the smtp dsn extension, or on the
"message-id" of the message. using a fromid can be triggered by authenticating
with a login email address that is configured as enabling fromid.
suppression lists are automatically managed per account. if a delivery attempt
results in certain smtp errors, the destination address is added to the
suppression list. future messages queued for that recipient will immediately
fail without a delivery attempt. suppression lists protect your mail server
reputation.
submitted messages can carry "extra" data through the queue and webhooks for
outgoing deliveries. through webapi as a json object, through smtp submission
as message headers of the form "x-mox-extra-<key>: value".
to make it easy to test webapi/webhooks locally, the "localserve" mode actually
puts messages in the queue. when it's time to deliver, it still won't do a full
delivery attempt, but just delivers to the sender account. unless the recipient
address has a special form, simulating a failure to deliver.
admins now have more control over the queue. "hold rules" can be added to mark
newly queued messages as "on hold", pausing delivery. rules can be about
certain sender or recipient domains/addresses, or apply to all messages pausing
the entire queue. also useful for (local) testing.
new config options have been introduced. they are editable through the admin
and/or account web interfaces.
the webapi http endpoints are enabled for newly generated configs with the
quickstart, and in localserve. existing configurations must explicitly enable
the webapi in mox.conf.
gopherwatch.org was created to dogfood this code. it initially used just the
compose/smtpclient/imapclient mox packages to send messages and process
delivery feedback. it will get a config option to use the mox webapi/webhooks
instead. the gopherwatch code to use webapi/webhook is smaller and simpler, and
developing that shaped development of the mox webapi/webhooks.
for issue #31 by cuu508
