The IndexedDB cache, its crypto, the responder and the page-side sync
go. lib/offline keeps its structure, policy, wipes, sign-out gates and
notices; answers, the outbox and sync now live in lib/store, in a worker
behind lib/store/client/api.ts.
What users get besides that:
- every folder is kept, not just the Inbox and opened ones
- delete for good and empty trash work offline
- a change the server refuses, or that meets a message changed on
another device, is shown instead of dropped
- a send whose response got lost is looked up by a Message-ID fixed when
it was queued, then finished, submitted or sent again
- with the store on, a start paints from the local copy, then connects
An account the app drops by itself no longer wipes its data: only a
sign-out or an explicit removal does. The outbox of the old database
moves over once, in lib/offline/migrate-legacy.ts, and the old database
goes only after the store committed. `isNetworkFailure` now counts
timeouts and proxy 5xx. Sends and outbox requests are never answered
from the device.
Tests moved with the code: cache.test.ts and responder.test.ts are
replaced by lib/store/__tests__/, and review-fixes.test.ts, outbox.test.ts
and client-fallback.test.ts now run the real engine on node:sqlite.
Changed assertions: an uncertain send is looked up rather than left alone
forever, destroy and empty trash are queued rather than refused, and #9
(opened folders) became "a folder the server deleted goes", since all
folders are kept.
A security and an accessibility review of the proofreading hook found
gaps, fixed here.
What leaves the browser:
- A checker gets a name for each composer of its own, not the composer's
id, so it can't reach the message through the other api.composer calls
after proofreading stops.
- Checking pauses while a plugin that can sign or encrypt is turned on but
still starting, and while the policy couldn't be fetched (the built-in
defaults could undo an admin's lock).
- No plugin can hold up turning proofreading off (onBeforeSettingChange).
- Suggestions can't carry zero-width, bidi or line-separator characters;
messages lose bidi overrides; a flood of annotations is cut off early.
- The notices name the plugin as installed, not a label it chose, and say
that text written before signing or encryption was turned on may
already have been checked.
- A checker registered during start-up no longer fails its first check.
Keyboard and screen readers:
- Escape in the issue panel closes the panel, not the message.
- Underlines carry aria-invalid, as the browser's own markers do.
- The focus goes somewhere sensible when a button or an issue goes away,
Tab past the popup's edges goes back to the text, and the shortcuts work
in the popup and the panel.
- Ctrl+' and Ctrl+; follow the character typed, so other layouts keep
their own keys (Ctrl+S on Dvorak), with Ä and Ö on German keyboards.
- The popup is described by its message, sits inside a modal composer,
fits narrow screens, and the panel fits a phone.
Automatic signature insertion was unconditional: any identity with a
signature got it embedded in new mail and appended to replies, forwards
and quick replies. Users who want a signature only in specific contexts
had no way to opt out.
Add two per-account synced settings, both defaulting to off:
- signatureNewMailEnabled: insert the signature in new messages (and
re-opened drafts, which open in compose mode)
- signatureReplyForwardEnabled: append it in replies, forwards and the
quick reply box
With a toggle off the composer neither embeds the signature into the
body, nor appends one at send or draft-save time, nor shows the
read-only preview under the editor - the preview would promise a
signature that never goes out. A signature pasted in by hand is never
stripped (bodyCarriesSignature still short-circuits the append).
Also flip signatureSeparatorEnabled's default from true to false: the
RFC 3676 "-- " delimiter surprised users more than it helped. Only the
default changes - no migration, so users who already set it keep their
choice.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
The review of offline mode found ways to send a message twice, to lose
unsent mail without a word, and to send mail without its signing,
encryption or check plugin. This fixes them and the smaller findings:
- each outbox message is taken for sending in one database transaction
under a Web Lock per account; only a failure before the submission
request (SendNotStartedError from the client) puts it back, any other
one marks it "may have gone out"; read-backs after the submission no
longer fail a send; a send of a closed tab turns uncertain after a minute
- every sign-out the user didn't confirm names the deleted messages on
the sign-in page, or in a toast when another account stays signed in
- nothing is queued while an enabled plugin isn't running (after a start
without the network none can); the composer says why
- the outbox waits for a fresh policy and holds messages the rules have
since made stricter (a required label, a required send check)
- another tab switching offline mode off sticks: only switching it on
may create the database
- only attachments of kept messages are kept, filed with their message,
deleted with it and under the cap between syncs; file names and types
are sealed; folders that went away leave the scope, and a folder that
couldn't be asked keeps its mail without holding the others back
- a group scope that forbids offline mode waits until the account's
groups are known; one server down no longer holds another's mail
- an offline start only when the server is really unreachable, and the
real sign-in follows by itself once it answers
- the service worker files pages and chunks under the build that served
them, and the shell list of another build isn't kept under this one
- a raw send counts as the composer's only from the plugin running its
takeover, for that identity
- errors and refusals are in all languages; the banner tells "offline"
from "server can't be reached"; outbox buttons name their message;
changes and messages go in the order they were made
Message ids repeat across accounts, so a hook payload naming only an
emailId could not tell a plugin which mailbox the message lies in when
it is a shared or group account's.
onBeforeEmailStarToggle and onEmailStarToggle now carry accountId when
the starred message is not in the user's own account, as the
message-row-actions click context does. Every star (the row's button,
the reader's star, the key, the menu) goes through toggleStar, one
message at a time, so one accountId names it; the account is resolved
before the plugins are asked. An own message's payload is unchanged.
onAfterEmailSend now carries accountId, the JMAP account the sent
message lies in (a mail sent from a shared or group identity lies in
that account), so api.email.get finds it. sendEmail returns that account
as emailAccountId, the S/MIME send too. The hook also carries
composerId, the id the sending composer's slots and actions gave
plugins, so a plugin can act on what the user chose in that composer.
Settings get a page of their own for accessibility, with presets on top
(screen reader, low vision, dyslexia, focus, keyboard and motor, motion
and seizure safe, deaf and hard of hearing) that change several options
at once and can be undone, then the options by topic, and a reset.
Text size used to be a fixed 14/16/18px on the root, which threw away
the size people set in their browser. It is now a percentage of the
browser's size, from 87.5% to 200%. Motion, contrast and transparency
follow the system by default and can be overridden either way; the
old Animations switch becomes Reduce motion. The visual options are
applied before the first paint, so the page no longer flashes at the
wrong size.
- `lib/accessibility-settings.ts`: the new settings, their allowed
values, and the code that writes them onto `<html>`
- `app/accessibility.css`: bundled fonts (Atkinson Hyperlegible Next,
Lexend, OpenDyslexic), text spacing, a focus outline that survives
Windows contrast themes, more-contrast colours on any theme, reduced
transparency, a large pointer
- admins can preset every new option but lock only shortcuts, send
confirmation and the notification duration; a lock on text size or
another reading aid works as a default
- always-light mail and toolbar labels now sync, and imports drop
values the page doesn't know
- font size and animations move off Appearance, the plain text font
off Reading; everyday settings such as conversation view and undo
send show on both their own page and Accessibility
A plugin's results to a search came all at once after its handler answered,
with nothing before: the block then appeared above the message list and
pushed it down, under a pointer about to click a row. onProvideSearchResults
handlers that search elsewhere (a CRM's search by meaning) take seconds.
Each plugin's answer now shows as it comes, and the store keeps the plugins
still asked. One that has not answered after 300 ms gets the block at a fixed
height with placeholder rows under "Searching for more results…"; its
entries then fill that height, so the list moves once, with its own results.
A plugin that answers at once (one not searching for this query) shows
nothing.
Linus Rath
Nick Sweeting
daluchenandClaude Code
Jacob Zeitz