A draft saved offline now stays on the device under a stand-in id and
goes to the server by itself when it's back. Until now every save was
refused and the composer showed "not saved".
- `lib/store/drafts`: one pending create per draft, however often it's
saved. A draft from the server edited offline is replaced by create,
then destroy, so a failure leaves a copy. Each create has a fixed
Message-ID, looked up in Drafts after a lost response. A refused
draft stays on the device with its error and can be opened. Changed
on another device: both are kept and the user is told.
- `JMAPClient`: stand-in ids in Email/get and Email/set resolve like
calendar's, also when answering from the device. A file attached
offline stays readable, and is uploaded before a save that names it.
- Held files and kept mail files are stored in 1 MB chunks. Orphans are
dropped at the end of a flush, counting what drafts need.
- `lib/store/mail/attachments.ts`: attachments, inline images and raw
messages per scope, newest first, after everything else in a pass,
with eviction that spares pinned mail and never sees held files.
- `mail.rawBlob` and `mail.rawStatus` for an offline export.
Changed test assertions: `outbox.heldFile` and `mail.getBlob` return
`blob` instead of `data`, so a file isn't held whole in memory. The
attachment tests ignore raw downloads, and mail-sync runs with
attachments off, because raw messages add a commit per message.
Any site could POST a form to the share target on load: with no clicks
the composer opened with its subject and file, and autosave stored a
real draft on the server 2 seconds later. The worker can't see where a
POST came from, and Chromium's link capturing accepts form submissions,
so an installed-app window proves nothing either.
- every share landing now asks first, in every window and browser; a
text landing address gets the same question. Nothing goes up before
the answer.
- handed-in text and files are the composer's starting state: no
autosave, page-close save or sign-out flush before the first real
edit.
- the worker ignores frames, keeps at most 5 entries and 100 MB for 15
minutes, sweeps on activate, on each share and from a page timer,
and seals what it keeps with a key passed in the landing fragment.
Offline wipes clear it too.
- the server fallback uses the fragment and caps by encoded length:
3000 Japanese characters made a 27 KB `Location` and a 431.
- a second compose handoff waits until the composer closes, also one
set aside by reading a message, where it used to replace the first.
- a launch leaving the mail page saves what was just typed first.
- an expired handoff or a missing stored file now says so; shares get
the control-character stripping and limits of `parseMailto`.
Existing tests changed because the landing moved from the query to the
fragment, stored entries gained a sealed part, and a share now asks
first.
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 notification for one message gets buttons where the browser has room
for them, and a click on its body works as before. The service worker
has no login, so an open tab takes the action first, through the store
actions. With no tab open a new same-origin route, /api/push/action,
does Mark read and Archive with the context cookie. When the cookie is
gone, the token has expired or the login can't be told apart, the
message opens in the app instead. Reply opens the composer through a
`?reply=1` link, with any text typed on the notification.
- `public/sw.js`: buttons, asking open tabs, the route, `sync` handling
- `app/api/push/action`: same-origin, checks the login and the account,
honours the admin's Archive gate, files by the mirrored archive mode
- `lib/pwa-notify`: the page's side, the mirror for the worker, and
`requestOutboxSync`, which the offline queue calls
- Background Sync, thin version: a `sync` event tells open tabs to flush
Two push-preview-route assertions change: they match the whole answer
for a named message, which now also carries `login`, what the action
route checks so a stale notification can't act on whoever holds the
cookie slot now.
The installed app only handled mailto: and webcal: launches. The launch
consumer dropped files, and nothing could hand a File to the composer or
the import dialogs, because the pending mailto is JSON in sessionStorage.
- manifest: `shortcuts` named in the browser's language, `file_handlers`
for .eml, .ics and .vcf, and `share_target`, all with the base path and
per-domain branding. Lite's manifest is unchanged.
- `lib/launch-handoff.ts`: the one place files and links wait, in memory
and in the Cache API, so they survive a sign-in that leaves the page.
The desktop bridge can call the same functions, since launchQueue never
fires in Electron. Sign-out clears it.
- launch consumer: routes files by type, and takes a shortcut to an open
window, which focus-existing would otherwise only focus.
- .eml opens in a new host for the preview, also before sign-in, with the
strictest device policy deciding about saving. .ics and .vcf open their
import dialogs through a new `initialFile` prop. A .ics needs the server,
so offline the dialog says so and carries on once back online.
- composer: `initialFiles` goes through `addFiles`, so plugin vetoes and
size limits still apply, also from a Pro compose tab.
- `sw.js` takes the share POST before the offline check and keeps the files
for the page. Without a worker, `/protocol/share` passes text and links
on and the page says the files are lost. `protocol` joins the app
sections and the handler pages join the shell, so a mailto: launch
offline no longer gets a network error.
Browsers without launchQueue or a service worker behave as before.
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
Settings > Backup & reset gets "Keep mail on this device", off until the
user turns it on in this browser. While it is on:
- the JMAP client hands the server's answers to an encrypted cache in
IndexedDB (AES-GCM, non-extractable key) and answers from it when the
network is gone: the folder list, the last 30 days of the Inbox and of
the folders the user opened, bodies and attachments, at most 250 MB,
oldest out first; a background sync keeps it current
- read, flag, tags and moves made offline are queued and sent in order
when the server answers again; deleting for good and emptying a folder
are refused offline
- the composer, quick reply and the S/MIME and PGP plugins' sends that
complete the composer's go to an outbox once every step up to the
transport ran (checks, label, signature, plugin send checks); only the
finished send waits, with files attached offline
- the service worker keeps this build's app shell, so the app also
starts offline from the kept session and the last policy
- a full sign-out, the idle sign-out and signing one account out delete
it, a sign-out the user starts asks first when mail is unsent, and the
login page names what an automatic sign-out deleted; a policy fetch
that forbids it (devices.noOffline) wipes that account
Not in Lite.
Linus Rath
Nick Sweeting