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
The first version took a template missing from the account's Inbox
metadata as deleted, skipped the browser's own list once the account
held anything, wrote the marker before the settings blob had loaded,
and let a round overwrite edits made while it ran. Each of these could
drop templates, or bring deleted ones back.
Now the marker entry `org.bulwarkmail.templates` holds tombstones
(90 days, at most 8 KB, oldest dropped first) and only a tombstone
deletes; a missing entry is uploaded again. Every round merges the
browser's list in when it is this account's, each version once, minus
what a newer tombstone deleted. While settings sync hasn't loaded the
account's settings, the list isn't used and no marker is written; a
blob that loads later is merged into the account's copy. The settings
blob drops its templates only once the marker is on the server. Without
settings sync the list goes into the first account that answers only.
A round that saw changes while it ran plans again against the server as
it left it. An answer without the metadata property counts as
unsupported. Changes move `updatedAt` past the previous value, dateless
synced templates get a fixed early date, and ids that don't fit a
metadata key get a new id derived from the old one. Queued changes go
out before an account signs out; a full sign-out keeps unsent templates
and deletions.
Team templates are written only if the entry is still the version the
edit started from ("Changed by someone else"), never carry Bcc, and a
refusal is told apart by Stalwart's error type. The template manager's
lists are a real tab list with arrow keys and 44 px row buttons on
phones.
Admins write an HTML and a plain-text signature with placeholders on
Organisation > Signatures, per scope. Users fill in the details it asks
for once, under Settings > Account. Without a lock it is the default for
addresses without a signature of their own; locked or hidden, it
replaces every signature.
- `lib/org-signature.ts` fills the templates: values escaped, lines whose
placeholders are all empty dropped
- the composer applies it right before the plugin signature, so new mail,
replies, forwards, re-opened drafts, plain text and identity swaps all
take it the way they take an identity signature; quick reply too
- a send finaliser puts a locked signature back once when it was deleted
- the identity editor shows the filled-in signature read-only with "Set
by your organisation" when locked, and no editor when hidden
- `signatureDetails` is a synced setting
keywords.add now records the plugin on each definition it adds
(addedBy). keywords.update changes the label, colour or visibility of
those definitions, never their id; keywords.remove deletes them, as
Settings > Tags does, and leaves the keywords on messages alone. Both
need settings:write and skip every other definition, so a plugin cannot
rename or delete the user's own tags or another plugin's.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add an "Interface layout" setting at the top of Settings > Layout with two
options, Default and Mountain View. Default is the existing layout and stays
the default, so nothing changes unless a user opts in.
Mountain View rearranges the chrome while keeping the theme's colours, icons
and type:
- desktop: a top bar with a wide search field (filters drop from the field),
an apps grid and the account avatar instead of the left app rail; flat
navigation with Starred under Inbox and the rest behind "More"; a Compose
pill; one list toolbar with select-all, refresh, overflow menu, a 1-N of
total range and the batch actions; rows led by a checkbox and a star; an
icon-only message toolbar with Reply / Reply all / Forward under the
message; compose in a docked window; an account popover with per-account
unread counts; j/k cursor, x to select and g-sequences
- phone: rounded search header, compact rows with the star on the preview
line, and Reply / Reply all / Forward at the end of a message instead of
the bottom action bar
It is one setting (`interfaceLayout`), written to a data attribute on <html>
that keys a block of CSS tokens in globals.css, plus a few components gated
on the flag. The mail layout in force is derived (effectiveMailLayout), so
the user's saved mail layout is never rewritten. The setting is listed in
the admin policy tab, and the new strings are translated in all locales.
Includes unit tests and a Playwright smoke test against a running instance
(scripts/mountain-view-smoke/).
Mentions change what Enter and Tab do right after `@word` and open a
list for everyone, so they get a setting next to the empty subject
warning (`recipientMentionsEnabled`, on by default, translated in
every locale). Turned off, the composer offers no candidates and the
editor keeps its keys.
While the list is open, the editor now carries `aria-autocomplete`,
`aria-controls` and `aria-activedescendant`, as the To/Cc
autocomplete does, so screen readers hear the list and the highlighted
name. Each row now leads with the `@name` that will be inserted,
followed by the full name and the address: for a surname-first name
such as "Nagy János" the inserted word is not what the name alone
suggests.
Switching account loads that account's synced settings, and the views
that span every login - the unified mailbox, its cross-account scope and
the All mail / Unread / Starred entries - came along with them. An
account whose stored settings predated the merged mailbox turned it off
as soon as it became active, so the folders of every account were only
visible from the other one.
Once a device holds several logins those views are its own choice and
an account switch leaves them alone. A device's first login still takes
them from the server, and they are still saved with the settings.
In the unified view each row can be shaded with its account colour
instead of carrying an account dot, behind a layout setting. Tags keep
their own generated hue on their chips.
Switching folders currently keeps an active search applied and re-runs
it in the newly selected folder — deliberate behavior from #553, where
users wanted the query to follow them across folders. Others expect the
opposite: clicking Inbox/Sent should drop the search and just browse the
folder.
Add an opt-in setting (Settings → email behavior) that reconciles both.
Default is off, so #553's search-follows-you behavior is unchanged for
everyone. When on, any folder click clears the text query and advanced
filters and browses the folder instead of re-running the search.
Applied uniformly across the four folder-entry paths in MailApp — normal
mailboxes, per-account (Pro sidebar) folders, unified views, and cross
views — via one helper so no path diverges.
Linus Rath
Max Hao
Jacob ZeitzandClaude Opus 5.5
Sebastian Sanitz
lucamzanon
Aaron Guise
Shuki Vaknin