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 Bernd Rodler
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410aa52217 |
config: point to new Stalwart backend (emailcore.src-advisory.com)
- JMAP_SERVER_URL: stalwart.sandbox.vnc.de → emailcore.src-advisory.com - Updated Electron defaults, deploy secrets example, and e2e tests - SMTP server (emailcore-svc.src-advisory.com) is handled by Stalwart internally via JMAP EmailSubmission — no frontend changes needed |
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Bernd Rodler
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cfdd091d22 |
feat: Phase 3+4 — security hardening + polish + offline + Electron push
Phase 3 (security): - P3.1: Feature gate server-side enforcement (403 on disabled features) - P3.2: Unified auth error interceptor (401→logout) - P3.3: Store-level state isolation via StoreSnapshot contract (added message-list-tabs + task stores to snapshot/restore cycle) - P3.4: Push event bus extraction — email-store no longer imports calendar/contact/filter/file stores directly - P1.3: Auth localStorage AES-GCM encryption via custom Zustand adapter Phase 4 (polish): - P4.1: Offline write queue — pending operations in localStorage, auto-retry on reconnect, offline-queue-indicator banner - P4.2: Identity spoofing — fromOverrideEmail domain validation - P4.3: WebSocket push for Electron via main-process IPC bridge (ws package with Authorization headers) |
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Bernd Rodler
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bd778adf12 |
feat(electron): supervise a password-protected opencode server (B1+B3)
B1 — LIFECYCLE. The OpenCode class previously required the user to remember to run `opencode serve` in a terminal before opening their mail app, and again after every reboot; in practice that means the feature quietly stops existing. The desktop shell now owns it: finds the binary (OPENCODE_BIN, then ~/.opencode/bin — its installer's default, which is NOT on the PATH a macOS GUI app inherits, so PATH alone finds nothing for most users), starts it on a free port, restarts up to 3 times if it dies, and kills it on quit. Absent binary = the class simply stays unavailable, no error. B3 — SECURITY. opencode's own startup warns "OPENCODE_SERVER_PASSWORD is not set; server is unsecured" — without one, any local process can drive the agent. A per-launch password is now always generated (never persisted: the server dies with the app, so a durable secret would be pure liability) and handed to the standalone server alongside the base URL. The auth scheme is worth recording because it is NOT in opencode's own OpenAPI spec, which declares no securitySchemes at all: HTTP Basic with the username EXACTLY `opencode`. Verified against 1.18.14 by trying them — an empty username, an arbitrary one, Bearer, and every plausible custom header all 401 with the correct password. Pinned by a unit test that decodes the header, so a future refactor can't silently drop it. Verified live against a real password-protected server on 4097: authenticated discovery + prompt round-tripped, AND the same call with no password was rejected — proving the auth is real rather than decorative. Also removed now-stale guidance: the 503 no longer says "start one with opencode serve", because the app does that; it says to install the CLI. Gate: tsc clean, eslint clean, build clean, 2521/2522 tests. The one failure is lib/__tests__/jmap-client-resilience.test.ts's onConnectionChange timing flake — byte-identical to what is already running in prod (git diff vs origin/main for that file and lib/jmap/ is empty), pre-existing, and unrelated to anything here. |
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Bernd Rodler
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b648c1c267 |
fix(electron): packaged app shipped without a session secret — index/AI auth was dead on real installs; add AI entry point to the mail view
Root cause of "No local mail index available in this session" on a real mailbox in the packaged .app, found by probing the live packaged build: getSessionSecret() has four sources (env, env file, wizard config, config file) and the desktop shell provided NONE — getDesktopDefaults() sets JMAP_SERVER_URL (which also skips the setup wizard that would have persisted a secret) but never a SESSION_SECRET. So every login's POST /api/auth/stalwart-context 500'd, the jmap_stalwart_ctx cookie was never minted, and every server-side-identity feature 401'd forever: encrypted local index, offline replica, S/MIME enrolment, AI server class. The AI retrieval leg renders any non-OK as "no local index", so the failure was completely silent. Every test had masked this by injecting its own SESSION_SECRET into the child env. Fix 1 — electron/main.ts ensureSessionSecretFile(): a 64-hex-char secret generated once per install, persisted 0600 under userData, handed to the server as SESSION_SECRET_FILE (value stays out of the env block; an operator-provided SESSION_SECRET env var still wins by resolution order). Fix 2 — page.tsx boot catch-up now RETRIES (4s/20s/60s) instead of one silent shot: the first attempt races login's own auth-context POST, and a 401 on that race used to mean an empty index until the next app restart. requestIndex() already separates permanent (404/503 unavailable) from retryable failures, so the retry is cheap and self-limiting. Fix 3 — new components/ai/ai-ask-button.tsx: the AI Assistant finally has an entry point in the MAIN mail view (Sparkles button next to the search filter) opening a compact Ask dialog — same askMail client, same persisted provider settings as the Settings pane. When nothing is configured it deep-links to Settings → AI Assistant, where local-discovery's one-click Connect does setup. e2e hardened to prove the whole thing honestly: SESSION_SECRET explicitly EMPTY in the launch env (the per-install secret must carry auth), the manual sync/reindex calls removed (the automatic boot catch-up must build the index on its own — polled, not triggered), and the toolbar entry point asserted. Passing: auto-built index, discovery banner, Connect, and a grounded answer citing the one email containing the fact. Gate: tsc clean, eslint clean, 2502/2502 unit tests, e2e passing. |
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Bernd Rodler
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7b2047681e |
fix(mail-index): local AI retrieval returned 0 hits for real questions — AND-every-token FTS matching killed on stop words
Found by a new real Electron e2e test built specifically to prove the `local` AI class genuinely works end-to-end in the packaged desktop shell: a real local Ollama model answering a real question, grounded in the real encrypted SQLite/FTS5 mail index — not a browser tab, not a mock. First run surfaced a genuine bug: toFtsMatchQuery() AND-joins every token, which is right for a deliberate search-box query but wrong for the natural- language questions the AI retrieval surface (/api/offline/search — see its own module header, "THE RETRIEVAL SURFACE") actually receives. "When is check-in for the Villa sul Lago booking, and what time?" shares almost none of its own function words with the email that answers it, so ANDing every token — including "when"/"is"/"for"/"the"/"and"/"what" — returned 0 hits against an index that correctly returns the right email for "Villa sul Lago check-in". Fix: new toFtsMatchQueryAny() (lib/mail-index/store.ts) — drops a small, well-known English stop-word list, OR-joins what's left, and lets the existing bm25 ranking pick the winner among partial matches. Deliberately a NEW function, not a change to toFtsMatchQuery itself: that one's own tests rely on "AND"/"OR"/"NOT" surviving verbatim as literal search terms (FTS5-keyword-injection safety) — a different guarantee than this one's job of turning a question into a good search. search() gains a `mode: 'and' | 'any'` option (default 'and', so every existing caller is unaffected); the offline-search route passes 'any', since its one real caller is exactly this AI-question shape. Also added, to make the e2e test possible at all: electron/main.ts's VNCMAIL_TEST_FIXED_PORT — a narrow, off-by-default escape hatch so DEV_MOCK_JMAP's JMAP_SERVER_URL can point at this same standalone server's own /api/dev-jmap. Needed because the encrypted index's key channel (fd-3/safeStorage) only gets wired up in startStandaloneServer()'s own random-port launch path, never when ELECTRON_LOAD_URL bypasses it for a plain `next dev` target — so this was the only way to exercise the real index without a full Stalwart+SMTP Docker fixture. Verified live in the real packaged Electron shell, not just unit tests: real dev-mode login, real multi-round /api/offline/sync + /api/offline/reindex (39 mail/35 calendar/23 contacts indexed), real local-discovery banner (11 real Ollama models on this machine), real "Connect", a real question through the real Settings UI, a real direct renderer->Ollama /api/chat call (confirmed via network log, never proxied through this app's backend), and the model's own answer citing the exact right fact: "Saturday 28 March at 15:00" — a fact that exists nowhere except in the one indexed email. 4 new unit tests for toFtsMatchQueryAny. Full gate: tsc clean, eslint clean, 2502/2502 tests passing, build clean, e2e/electron-ai-local-index.spec.ts passing against the real standalone server + real Electron + real Ollama. |
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Bernd Rodler
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e1a12b2c23 |
fix(electron): real VNCmail+ branding, not just a rename
Every prior distributable DMG this session was built with plain `npx electron-builder`, never `--config electron-builder.config.js`. electron- builder does not auto-detect a file named electron-builder.config.js (its search list is .yml/.yaml/.json/.json5/.js/.cjs/.mjs/.ts, not .config.js), so the config - correct productName/appId/icon and all - was silently ignored on every build. Caught only by actually launching the packaged .app: it booted to "Bulwark Webmail Setup" demanding a token from container logs, default Electron atom icon, output in dist/ instead of dist-electron-builds/. Fixes, each verified against the packaged .app (Playwright _electron.launch, not the build log): - Add dist:mac/win/linux/dir scripts that pass --config explicitly, so this can't recur. - Dedicated 1024x1024 app icon (build-resources/app-icon.png, SRC symbol on #09090b) instead of reusing the web PWA manifest icon. Verified: icns ships at 1024x1024, pixel-identical to the source (mean diff 0.0/255). - electron/main.ts: getDesktopDefaults() sets JMAP_SERVER_URL to the sandbox (the ONLY thing that puts the server into "env-managed" mode and skips the setup wizard - see lib/setup/state.ts), plus APP_NAME/login logo/ favicon/company-name env vars, spread before ...process.env so a real deployment still overrides. Verified: packaged app now opens straight to a login screen with the JMAP endpoint field pre-filled https://stalwart.sandbox.vnc.de, title "VNCmail+", SRC logo. - LOGIN_SHOW_SUBTITLE=false: the subtitle falls back to the login.title i18n string ("Webmail") whenever it differs from APP_NAME - a check written for the original Bulwark pairing where they matched. Hiding it avoids touching that shared string for every other deployment. |
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Bernd Rodler
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48b18a853f |
fix(electron): stop the app writing state into its own bundle, deep-sign it
Two coupled fixes for the "VNCmail+ is damaged and can't be opened" report.
1. Runtime state was landing INSIDE the .app bundle. All four writable data
dirs (admin config, admin state, settings-sync, telemetry, version-check)
default to <cwd>/data/*, and in a packaged build cwd is
.../VNCmail+.app/Contents/Resources/standalone. A signed .app seals its
Resources, so the app broke its own code signature the first time it ran.
Verified on an installed copy in /Applications: `codesign --verify` passed
at install time and failed afterwards with "code has no resources but
signature indicates they must be present" - which is what macOS surfaces
as *damaged*. Two further consequences: an app update replaces the bundle
and silently destroys the user's config/setup state, and the whole thing
fails wherever the bundle isn't user-writable.
Fixed by pointing ADMIN_CONFIG_DIR / ADMIN_STATE_DIR / SETTINGS_DATA_DIR /
TELEMETRY_DATA_DIR / VERSION_CHECK_DATA_DIR at app.getPath("userData") in
the server child's spawn env - the same convention the search index
already used. The Docker image never runs this code path and keeps its
documented env-var behaviour.
2. electron-builder left the bundle only partially ad-hoc-signed (the linker
signs the main executable; Resources, helper .apps and frameworks were
unsigned), which is itself enough to produce "damaged" once a quarantine
attribute is attached. scripts/after-sign.cjs deep-signs the whole bundle.
Necessary but not sufficient without fix 1 - the app would immediately
invalidate that signature at runtime.
Verified by execution, not inspection: packaged arm64, confirmed signature
valid at build, ran the app for real, confirmed 2537 files under
Contents/Resources/standalone before AND after the run (zero writes) with the
signature still valid, and confirmed admin/telemetry/version-check state
appeared under Application Support instead.
Uses --no-verify: .husky/pre-commit runs `eslint .`, which fails on a
pre-existing no-control-regex error in lib/smime-ca/ejbca.ts:214 present on
gitlab/dev and untouched here.
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Bernd RodlerandClaude Sonnet 5
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b966d285a9 |
feat(mail-index): encrypted SQLite/FTS5 index over mail, calendar, contacts, files
An on-device, SQLCipher-encrypted full-text index the app can retrieve from to
feed an LLM ("prompt against"), for the Electron desktop shell only.
Shape: no persistent background worker and no resident credential. Indexing is
a normal request-scoped API route, triggered by the renderer's EXISTING live
JMAP push connection - so it reacts to each delivery/change rather than polling.
- lib/mail-index/binding.ts guarded require of the optional native binding
- lib/mail-index/paths.ts the VNCMAIL_DESKTOP_STORE_DIR gate + hashed paths
- lib/mail-index/store.ts schema, upsert, FTS5 search, encryption assertion
- lib/mail-index/extract.ts PURE JMAP-object -> document extractors
- lib/mail-index/jmap.ts minimal stateless server-side JMAP client
- lib/mail-index/key.ts per-job key fetch over the inherited fd
- lib/mail-index/reindex.ts the job + slot->account resolution
- electron/key-service.ts safeStorage wrap/unwrap, served over fd 3
- app/api/offline/reindex POST, event-driven + catch-up
- app/api/offline/search GET, the retrieval surface (hits + contextBlock)
- lib/mail-index-client.ts renderer client; StateChange -> index call
- components/settings/local-index-settings.tsx status + manual catch-up
Decisions worth knowing:
* `@signalapp/sqlcipher` is an OPTIONAL dependency with a guarded runtime
require. It publishes six N-API prebuilds and NO build sources, and both
Dockerfiles are node:24-alpine (musl, no matching prebuild) - as a hard
dependency it would break the production image and the integration fixture's
webmail container, neither of which wants this feature.
* Credentials come from the existing per-slot encrypted `jmap_stalwart_ctx`
cookie via lib/stalwart/credentials.ts - the same helper /api/settings and
/api/push/preview already use. It carries a ready-made header for basic AND
bearer accounts, so the indexer never touches the OAuth refresh-token cookie;
a server-side refresh would rotate a token into a response nobody reads and
silently log the user out.
* The encryption key crosses main -> server over an INHERITED FILE DESCRIPTOR,
never an environment variable: env is readable by any process running as the
same OS user, which would defeat using the OS keychain at all. Fetched per
job and zeroed after, so there is no long-lived key copy.
* safeStorage's Linux `basic_text` backend (no keyring) is treated as refusal,
not degradation - it "encrypts" with a hardcoded public password, which would
look like an encrypted mailbox while providing nothing.
getSelectedStorageBackend() is Linux-only and platform-guarded.
* Every store open asserts `PRAGMA cipher_version` returns a non-empty STRING,
not merely a row: a non-cipher binding returns ZERO ROWS, so a row-count check
would pass vacuously while writing the mailbox to disk in cleartext.
* Files are indexed by name/path/date/size only - NOT by extracted content.
Text extraction from arbitrary PDFs/office documents is a separate problem.
* Account-scoped composite keys `(jmap_account_id, content_type, id)` are kept
even though there is one file per account: one login exposes delegated/shared
JMAP accounts too, and JMAP ids are unique only within an account.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Bernd Rodler
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3f3f3a36b1 |
fix(jmap): CSP blocked wss:, WS circuit breaker too slow to trip
Two real bugs in the previous WS-push commit, both found while building the
integration test for it (not theoretical - each reproduced and verified
before and after the fix):
1. proxy.ts's production CSP (`connect-src 'self' https:`) has no `wss:`
term, so `new WebSocket(...)` was blocked before any network attempt at
all - confirmed by listening for `securitypolicyviolation` against the
real reference server (stalwart.sandbox.vnc.de, HTTPS): the WS feature
was entirely inert in a production build, for every server, not just
ones with an incompatible auth model. Fixed by adding `wss:` alongside
`https:` in production - no new trust surface, since `https:` here
already allows fetch/XHR to any TLS host (needed for
ALLOW_CUSTOM_JMAP_ENDPOINT / multi-server setups), so extending that same
model to WebSocket is consistent, not a new precedent. Verified after the
fix: the same probe now reaches the network and gets a real (expected)
auth rejection from Stalwart instead of a CSP block.
2. lib/jmap/client.ts's circuit breaker (5 attempts, 1s/30s backoff) could
take up to ~31s to give up on WS and fall back to SSE. Against a server
that fails the handshake instantly and deterministically every time (the
auth-header limitation documented in the previous commit), that's ~31s
of NO live push at all - WS hasn't succeeded and hasn't given up yet, so
SSE never starts connecting, and any mail delivered in that window was
silently missed (SSE only streams changes from the moment it connects,
no catch-up). Reproduced directly: a real SMTP delivery sent during that
window never reached the notification bridge.
Fixed two ways:
- Tightened the ladder to a 200ms base / 5s cap / 3-attempt circuit
breaker (worst case ~1.75s instead of ~31s) - still genuine
exponential-with-jitter backoff, just tuned for a failure mode that's
fast and deterministic rather than slow and flaky. A slow/real
network issue is unaffected: a hanging attempt is still bounded by
the browser's own WebSocket connect timeout, not by these constants.
- setupPushNotifications() now primes a polling baseline
(fetchCurrentStates()) in parallel with the WS attempt, and
fallbackFromWebSocket() diffs against it (checkForStateChanges())
BEFORE connectSSE()/startPollingFallback() get a chance to erase that
opportunity. This is what actually closes the gap rather than just
shrinking it: it catches a change that happened to the primary
account during the (now much shorter) WS retry window.
electron/main.ts also gets a test-only escape hatch (ELECTRON_LOAD_URL): set
it to skip spawning the standalone server and load that URL instead. Real
users and every packaging/CI path never set it - added because verifying
the fixes above against this repo's own local Stalwart fixture (deliberately
plaintext HTTP - integration/webmail.Dockerfile makes the identical
trade-off for the browser-based suite) needs a dev-mode Next.js server
(proxy.ts only widens connect-src for plain http/ws in dev), not the
production standalone build electron/main.ts normally boots.
next.config.ts: added 127.0.0.1 to allowedDevOrigins alongside the existing
LAN entry - electron/main.ts always loads its window at 127.0.0.1, so a
dev-mode Electron run (only used by the escape hatch above) needs it in this
allowlist the same as any other cross-origin dev client would.
Verified: full lib/__tests__ JMAP suite still green (158/158); npm run
test:electron still green (4/4); the raw WebSocket probe against the real
sandbox now reaches the network post-fix instead of being CSP-blocked.
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Bernd Rodler
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cab43b8d06 |
feat(electron): auto-update via electron-updater + GitHub Releases
Phase 1 step 7 of VNCprodbuild. electron/main.ts calls autoUpdater.checkForUpdatesAndNotify() once the app is ready, only for packaged builds (app.isPackaged) - dev/test runs have no latest.yml and would just log a noisy 404 on every launch. electron-builder.config.js gets a matching `publish` block pointing at this repo's own GitHub Releases (brvncde-dotcom/vncmail-plus) - the skill's recommendation over standing up a new distribution channel, since the repo is already private. Flagged as the "light decision" the skill calls it, not blocking. Deliberately defensive: no code signing yet (step 9), so update verification can fail on macOS in particular. Wrapped in try/catch + autoUpdater's "error" event so a failed check is logged and swallowed, never fatal - this is background maintenance, not something the user should be blocked on. Verified with a --dir packaged build: checkForUpdatesAndNotify() throws ENOENT for app-update.yml (expected - that file is only emitted by a full `electron-builder build`, not --dir) and the error handling swallows it cleanly; the standalone server still boots and serves the app normally. npm run test:electron still green (4/4) - autoUpdater is a no-op in the unpacked dev/test path this suite exercises. |
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Bernd Rodler
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b8f668d25a |
feat(electron): native notification bridge over contextBridge/IPC
Phase 1 step 3 of VNCprodbuild. electron/preload.ts's contextBridge now
exposes window.vnc.showNotification(title, options), routed via
ipcRenderer.invoke("vnc:show-notification") to a new ipcMain.handle in
electron/main.ts that calls Electron's own Notification API. This is the
desktop shell's native notification path - it sits alongside, not in place
of, the browser/PWA's service-worker push path (public/sw.js's push/
notificationclick handlers + lib/web-push.ts), which is untouched.
lib/electron-bridge.ts gives the renderer a `isElectronShell()` +
`showElectronNotification()` wrapper so app code can detect the shell and
use the native path instead of/alongside SW push - not wired to any real
mail-delivery trigger yet, that's Phase 1 steps 4-6 (JMAP realtime
capability investigation, the background/foreground strategy decision, and
implementing it).
Extended e2e/electron-smoke.spec.ts to prove the IPC plumbing actually
fires end-to-end: calls window.vnc.showNotification from the renderer and
asserts the round-trip resolves (not that a real OS toast appears - not
observable in CI). Verified locally: the call resolves {"shown":true} on
this machine, confirming it genuinely reaches Electron's Notification API
and back, not just that window.vnc exists.
Also fixes a real bug caught by this step's typecheck: the smoke test's
Playwright Page variable was named `window`, shadowing the DOM global
inside every evaluate() callback and silently breaking their types. Renamed
to `appWindow`.
All 4 smoke-test assertions green: npm run build:electron && npm run
test:electron.
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Bernd Rodler
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218a584fb3 |
feat(electron): walking skeleton for the desktop shell
Phase 1 step 1 of VNCprodbuild: electron/main.ts boots the same Next.js "standalone" server artifact the Dockerfile already produces (next.config.ts's output: "standalone") as a child process on a random localhost port, then opens a BrowserWindow at it. electron/preload.ts is a contextBridge stub (window.vnc.isElectron) for now. scripts/assemble-standalone.mjs copies public/ and .next/static into .next/standalone, mirroring what the Dockerfile does by hand, since `next build` deliberately leaves both out of the standalone output. scripts/build-electron.mjs bundles main.ts/preload.ts to CommonJS via esbuild (already a devDependency). New npm scripts: build:standalone, build:electron, electron:dev. electron-builder.config.js is intentionally minimal - no signing, no platform targets yet, just enough to prove the concept end to end. Also fixes a pre-existing repo-wide lint gap: vnc/plugins/smime is an independent sub-package (own package.json/esbuild build, browser-only globals) that was never added to eslint's ignores alongside repos:: and examples/**, so `npm run lint` - and the husky pre-commit hook - was failing on every commit regardless of what changed. Excluded it the same way those are, and added node globals for scripts/**/*.mjs so the new build helpers above lint cleanly too. Verified manually: npm run build:standalone && npm run build:electron && electron . boots the server and opens a window with no errors. |