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.
Review of the notification actions. With a plugin that may stop a move
or read change, or a silent tab holding the login, the message now
opens instead of the route acting. The route answers 401 under a
session limit, and neither path touches a message since moved to Trash
or Junk. A tab that thawed declines an old click, Archive follows the
gate of the notification's login and files into a shared-out Archive
as the app's button does, Reply opens a composer in the Pro shell, the
route retries once when another client made the folder first and
leaves no empty folder behind, and logins match however the server
address is written.
Two assertions of this feature's own tests change: the route answers
401, not 403, when a login's scopes can't be worked out, since that now
also covers session limits; a tab's message to the page now carries
`at`.
The Pro shell's mail surface now reads a parked link's query from the
handoff: the address bar may have none by its first render, which lost
`?slot=` and `?owner=` there too.
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.
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.
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.
- The banner judged its start and end by the time it was mounted, so an
announcement fetched later than its start never showed in that tab.
- The Pro shell shows it once above its panes; email and folder tabs had
none and split panes showed it twice.
- Screen readers get it from a live region that fills a moment after it
is in the page; text present when a live region appears isn't read out
reliably. The tests that checked the strip's role now check that region.
- Moving the start or end no longer shows a closed announcement again;
the lib test that expected a new end time to reset it now expects the
opposite.
Linus Rath