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.
The gmail iOS/Android app were showing mime image parts as (garbled) text
instead of rendering them as image. By returning all the optional fields in the
bodystructure fetch attribute, the gmail app renders the image as expected by
the user. So we now add all fields. We didn't before, because we weren't
keeping track of Content-MD5, Content-Language and Content-Location header
fields, since they aren't that useful.
Messages in mailboxes have to be reparsed:
./mox reparse
Without reparsing, imap responses will claim the extra fields
(content-disposition) are absent for existing messages, instead of not claiming
anything at all, which is what we did before.
Accounts and all/some mailboxes can get their "uid validity" bumped ("./mox
bumpuidvalidity $account [$mailbox]"), which should trigger clients to load all
messages from scratch, but gmail doesn't appear to notice, so it would be
better to remove & add the account in gmail.
For issue #327, also relevant to issue #217.
Before, we would only reconnect the SSE connection when the previous one lasted
10 minutes. For some reason, firefox disconnects SSE connections when there is
any network change. Running the docker integration tests changes the network a
few time in quick succession, prevent further automatic reconnects.
This changes the "stop reconnection automatically" period from 10 minutes to 5
seconds.
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.
We were already generating previews of plain text parts for the webmail
interface, but we didn't store them, so were generating the previews each time
messages were listed.
Now we store previews in the database for faster handling. And we also generate
previews for html parts if needed. We use the first part that has textual
content.
For IMAP, the previews can be requested by an IMAP client. When we get the
"LAZY" variant, which doesn't require us to generate a preview, we generate it
anyway, because it should be fast enough. So don't make clients first ask for
"PREVIEW (LAZY)" and then again a request for "PREVIEW".
We now also generate a preview when a message is added to the account. Except
for imports. It would slow us down, the previews aren't urgent, and they will
be generated on-demand at first-request.
On reply, with too many Cc/Bcc, I usually hit ctrl+backspace a few time. I just
want to clear the addresses, but I practically always still want a To address.
The original config option stays, and we still use it for the common case where
we have a single separator. The "+" is configured by default. It is optional,
just like the new option "LocalpartCatchallSeparators" (plural).
When parsing the config file, we combine LocalpartCatchallSeparator and
LocalpartCatchallSeparators into a single list
LocalpartCatchallSeparatorsEffective, which we use throughout the code.
For issue #301 by janc13
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".
this allows setting per-mailbox and per-server annotations (metadata). we have
a fixed maximum for total number of annotations (1000) and their total size
(1000000 bytes). this size isn't held against the regular quota for simplicity.
we send unsolicited metadata responses when a connection is in the idle
command and a change to a metadata item is made.
we currently only implement the /private/ namespace. we should implement the
/shared/ namespace, for mox-global metadata annotations. only the admin should
be able to configure those, probably through the config file, cli, or admin web
interface.
for issue #290
broken in v0.0.14, probably when introducing the css variables.
i had noticed this issue at the time, and thought i fixed it, but clearly not.
for issue #278, reported by gdunstone
we were only properly parsing values of "<date>T<time>" or just "<time>".
so you could select a date in the form (or type it), but it would be treated as
just a word of text to search for in messages. so it would quietly do the wrong
thing.
before this, you could use the button at the top of the list of mailboxes to
create a submailbox somewhere, and you would have to specify the full path of
the new mailbox name. now you can just open up your Lists/.../ mailbox, and
create a mailbox below that hierarchy.
and mention in a tooltip too that "empty mailbox" only affects messages in the
mailbox, not submailboxes or their messages.
prompted by a question on matrix/irc
i've seen the error a few times:
msgheaderElem.children[(msgheaderElem.children.length - 1)] is undefined
i've seen it happen after sending a reply (with the "answered" flag added).
the updateKeywords callback would render the message again, but the code for
rendering the "additional headers" table rows again was making invalid
assumptions.
the approach is now changed. the backend now just immediately sends the
additional headers to the frontend. before, the frontend would first render the
base message, then render again once the headers came in for the parsed
message. this also prevents a reflow for the (quite common) case that one of
the additional headers are present in the message.
these settings are applied anywhere the webmail is open. the settings are for
showing keyboard shortcuts in the lower right after a mouse interaction, and
showing additional headers. the shorcuts were configurable in the "help" popup
before. the additional headers were only configurable through the developer
console before.
the "mailto:" (un)register buttons are now in the settings popup too.
ctrl-l is commonly "focus on browser address bar".
ctrl-u is commonly "view source".
ctrl-I (shift i) is commonly "open developer console".
these keys are more useful to leave for the browser. ctrl-l and ctrl-u (moving
to a message without opening it) can still be had by using also pressing shift.
the previous ctrl-shift-i (show all headers) is now just ctrl-i.
this has been requested in the past on irc/matrix (i forgot who).
if files {webmail,webaccount,webadmin}.{css,js} exist in the configdir (where
the mox.conf file lives), their contents are included in the web apps.
the webmail now uses css variables, mostly for colors. so you can write a
custom webmail.css that changes the variables, e.g.:
:root {
--color: blue
}
you can also look at css class names and override their styles.
in the future, we may want to make some css variables configurable in the
per-user settings in the webmail. should reduce the number of variables first.
any custom javascript is loaded first. if it defines a global function
"moxBeforeDisplay", that is called each time a page loads (after
authentication) with the DOM element of the page content as parameter. the
webmail is a single persistent page. this can be used to make some changes to
the DOM, e.g. inserting some elements. we'll have to see how well this works in
practice. perhaps some patterns emerge (e.g. adding a logo), and we can make
those use-cases easier to achieve.
helps partially with issue #114, and based on questions from laura-lilly on
matrix.
the pointer events for moving the mouse would be consumed by the iframe. that
broke resizing of the compose popup. we now disable pointerevents on the main
ui when we are dragging the corner of the compose popup.
this is similar to an earlier change about the draggable split bar between the
message list and the message view (when showing an html message).
we kept the "save draft" promise, and would wait for it again for other
operations (eg close, save again, send), which wouldn't make progress.
can easily be reproduced by saving a message with a control character in an
address or the subject. saving the draft will fail.
for issue #256 by ally9335, thanks for reporting
before this change, when archiving, we would move all messages from the thread
that are in the same mailbox as that of the response message to the archive
mailbox. so if the message that was being responsed to was already in the
archive mailbox, the message would be moved from archive mailbox to archive
mailbox, resulting in an error.
with this change, when archiving, we move the thread messages that are in the
same mailbox as is currently open (independent of the mailbox the message lives
in, a common situation in the threading view). if there is no open mailbox
(search results), we still use the mailbox of the message being responded to as
reference.
with this new approach, we won't get errors moving a message to an archive
mailbox when it's already there. well, you can still get that error, but then
you've got the archive mailbox open, or you're in a search result and
responding to an archived message. the error should at least help understand
that nothing is happening.
we are only moving the messages from one active/reference mailbox because we
don't want to move messages from the thread that are in the Sent mailbox, and
we also don't want to move duplicate messages (cross-posts to mailing lists)
that are in other mailboxes. moving only the messages from the current active
mailbox seems safe, and should do what is what users would expect most of the
time.
for issue #233 by mattfbacon, thanks for reporting!
these singleusetokens can be redeemed once. so when you see it in the logs, it
can't be used again. they are short-lived anyway.
this change should help prevent me periodically investigating token handling...
before, we would just say "session expired". now we say "session expired (after
12 hours inactivity)" (for admin) or "session expired (after 24 hours
inactivity)" for account/webmail. for unknown sessions in the admin interface,
we also explain that server restarts and 10 more new sessions can be the
reason.
for issue #202 by ally9335
since we have more of our own styling (probably since dark mode), we weren't
indicating anymore that a button was disabled. this actually only applies to
the button for the current mailbox of a message, when attempting to move it.
we now don't show any hover effects in that case, and we show the button
semitransparent.
before, the iframe was consuming the mouse events, preventing the dragging to
the right from working properly. the workaround was to drag over the area with
the header, above the message iframe.
with this change, we disable pointer events over the entire right area, which
includes the iframe.
otherwise, in dark mode, the plain text iframe content would be black text on
the white background of the iframe as set by webmail. i can't find a way to set
the content text on the iframe that contains it.
- keep them on the right side of the window (more important now that we can resize)
- merge the close & cancel buttons into a close button, with a popup asking what to do for changes not saved as draft.
this started with looking into the dark mode of PR #163 by mattfbacon. it's a
very good solution, especially for the amount of code. while looking into dark
mode, some common problems with inverting colors are:
- box-shadow start "glowing" which isn't great. likewise, semitransparent
layers would become brighter, not darker.
- while popups/overlays in light mode just stay the same white, in dark mode
they should become lighter than the regular content because box shadows don't
give enough contrast in dark mode.
while looking at adding explicit styles for dark mode, it turns out that's
easier when we work more with css rules/classes instead of inline styles (so we
can use the @media rule).
so we now also create css rules instead of working with inline styles a lot.
benefits:
- creating css rules is useful for items that repeat. they'll have a single css
class. changing a style on a css class is now reflected in all elements of that
kind (with that class)
- css class names are helpful when inspecting the DOM while developing: they
typically describe the function of the element.
most css classes are defined near where they are used, often while making the
element using the class (the css rule is created on first use).
this changes moves colors used for styling to a single place in webmail/lib.ts.
each property can get two values: one for regular/light mode, one for dark mode.
that should prevent forgetting one of them and makes it easy to configure both.
this change sets colors for the dark mode. i think the popups look better than
in PR #163, but in other ways it may be worse. this is a start, we can tweak
the styling.
if we can reduce the number of needed colors some more, we could make them
configurable in the webmail settings in the future. so this is also a step
towards making the ui looks configurable as discussed in issue #107.
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.
