Files
Bernd Rodler 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
2026-08-12 15:21:29 +02:00

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// Electron main process for the VNCmail+ (Bulwark) desktop shell.
//
// Boots the exact same Next.js "standalone" server artifact the Dockerfile
// already produces for production (see next.config.ts's `output:
// "standalone"` and the Dockerfile's builder stage) as a child process on a
// random localhost port, then opens a BrowserWindow pointed at it. This is
// deliberately the same server, not a reimplementation - lib/jmap/client.ts
// and every app/api/** route behave identically to the web deployment.
import { app, BrowserWindow, ipcMain, Notification } from "electron";
import { autoUpdater } from "electron-updater";
import { spawn, type ChildProcess } from "node:child_process";
import { randomBytes } from "node:crypto";
import { createServer } from "node:net";
import { get as httpGet } from "node:http";
import path from "node:path";
import fs from "node:fs";
import type { Duplex } from "node:stream";
import { WebSocket } from "ws";
import { attachKeyService, checkEncryptionAvailable } from "./key-service";
let serverProcess: ChildProcess | null = null;
let mainWindow: BrowserWindow | null = null;
/**
* Root for the encrypted local search index (lib/mail-index/**). Under
* `userData`, so it is per-OS-user and removed with the app's data.
*
* Passing this to the server child process is what ACTIVATES the index: the
* routes 404 without it. That matters because the standalone server is the same
* artifact the production Dockerfile ships to multi-tenant deployments, where a
* server-side index of every user's mail would be badly wrong. One variable
* both enables the feature and supplies its path, so the two cannot drift apart.
*/
function getIndexStoreDir(): string {
return path.join(app.getPath("userData"), "offline");
}
/**
* Every writable data dir the standalone server uses, redirected under
* `userData`.
*
* WITHOUT this, all four default to `<cwd>/data/*` (see lib/admin/paths.ts,
* lib/settings-sync.ts, lib/telemetry/state.ts, lib/version-check/state.ts),
* and in a packaged build cwd is `.../VNCmail+.app/Contents/Resources/standalone`
* - i.e. the app writes its own runtime state INSIDE its own bundle. Three
* separate failure modes, all observed rather than theorised:
*
* 1. It INVALIDATES THE CODE SIGNATURE. A signed .app seals its Resources;
* writing there breaks the seal, so `codesign --verify` starts failing
* ("code has no resources but signature indicates they must be present")
* and macOS reports the app as *damaged* on a later launch. Verified on
* an installed copy in /Applications: signature valid at install time,
* exit 1 after the app had run once and written data/admin + data/telemetry.
* Deep-signing the bundle at build time (scripts/after-sign.cjs) is
* necessary but NOT sufficient on its own - the app immediately breaks
* its own signature at runtime unless the writes go elsewhere.
* 2. An app update replaces the bundle, silently destroying the user's admin
* config, settings and setup state.
* 3. It fails outright wherever the bundle isn't user-writable.
*
* `userData` is the correct home for per-user mutable state on every platform
* and is where the search index already lives, so this keeps one convention.
*/
function getServerDataDirs(): Record<string, string> {
const root = app.getPath("userData");
return {
ADMIN_CONFIG_DIR: path.join(root, "admin"),
ADMIN_STATE_DIR: path.join(root, "admin-state"),
SETTINGS_DATA_DIR: path.join(root, "settings"),
TELEMETRY_DATA_DIR: path.join(root, "telemetry"),
VERSION_CHECK_DATA_DIR: path.join(root, "version-check"),
};
}
/**
* Desktop-shell defaults for a fresh, un-configured install.
*
* Setting JMAP_SERVER_URL puts the standalone server into "env-managed"
* mode (see lib/setup/state.ts's detectSetupState()) - the ONLY thing that
* disables the setup wizard short of an operator finishing it by hand. Every
* distributable build of this desktop shell up to 2026-08-05 skipped this,
* so handing someone the packaged app landed them on "Bulwark Webmail
* Setup" asking for a token out of container logs they have no access to -
* caught only by actually launching the packaged .app and looking, not by
* reading the build log.
*
* The rest are CONFIG_ENV_MAP entries (lib/admin/types.ts) that only matter
* while env-managed - once an admin completes the wizard, config.json wins
* for everything except jmapServerUrl itself. allowCustomJmapEndpoint keeps
* the server field on the login screen editable, so this is a starting
* point for the sandbox, not a hard lock to it.
*
* `...process.env` in startStandaloneServer() below is spread AFTER this
* object, so a real deployment env (the Dockerfile path, or a future
* per-install override) still wins over these defaults.
*/
function getDesktopDefaults(): Record<string, string> {
return {
JMAP_SERVER_URL: "https://emailcore.src-advisory.com",
APP_NAME: "VNCmail+",
APP_SHORT_NAME: "VNCmail+",
LOGIN_LOGO_LIGHT_URL: "/branding/SRC_Symbol.png",
LOGIN_LOGO_DARK_URL: "/branding/SRC_Symbol.png",
LOGIN_COMPANY_NAME: "VNC AG",
FAVICON_URL: "/branding/SRC_Symbol.png",
ALLOW_CUSTOM_JMAP_ENDPOINT: "true",
// The login page's subtitle falls back to the login.title i18n string
// whenever it differs from appName (app/(main)/[locale]/login/page.tsx)
// - a check clearly written for the original Bulwark/"Webmail" pairing,
// where they matched. With APP_NAME overridden to "VNCmail+" they no
// longer match, so the raw translation ("Webmail") surfaces instead of
// anything brand-appropriate. Hiding the subtitle avoids editing a
// shared i18n string that every other deployment (incl. Bulwark
// default) still uses - the SRC logo + "VNCmail+" heading is enough
// context on its own.
LOGIN_SHOW_SUBTITLE: "false",
};
}
/**
* Per-install session secret for the standalone server.
*
* The server's cookie crypto (lib/auth/crypto.ts) refuses to mint the
* `jmap_stalwart_ctx` auth-context cookie without a >=32-char SESSION_SECRET,
* and every server-side-identity feature hangs off that cookie: the encrypted
* local search index and offline replica (their routes 401 without it),
* S/MIME enrolment, and the AI `server` class. A web deployment gets the
* secret from an operator (env var or the setup wizard); the desktop shell
* has NO operator, and up to 1.7.8 the packaged app simply shipped without
* one — so every login's stalwart-context POST failed with 500, the index
* stayed permanently empty, and the AI assistant answered "No local mail
* index available in this session" against real accounts. Caught live on a
* real mailbox, not by tests: every test run had injected its own
* SESSION_SECRET into the child env, masking exactly this.
*
* Generated once per install (64 hex chars, comfortably over the minimum),
* persisted 0600 under userData next to the rest of the per-user state, and
* handed to the server as SESSION_SECRET_FILE rather than SESSION_SECRET so
* the value itself stays out of the child's environment block. A
* deployment-provided SESSION_SECRET env var still wins — getSessionSecret()
* resolves the env var before the file.
*/
function ensureSessionSecretFile(): string | null {
const secretPath = path.join(app.getPath("userData"), "session-secret");
try {
const existing = fs.readFileSync(secretPath, "utf8").trim();
if (existing.length >= 32) return secretPath;
} catch {
/* first run — generate below */
}
try {
fs.mkdirSync(path.dirname(secretPath), { recursive: true });
fs.writeFileSync(secretPath, randomBytes(32).toString("hex"), { mode: 0o600 });
return secretPath;
} catch (cause) {
// Loud, because the downstream symptom is otherwise "index/AI features
// return 401" with no hint of why — but never fatal: reading mail does
// not depend on this cookie.
console.error("[electron] could not persist a session secret:", cause);
return null;
}
}
// ── OpenCode agent server ────────────────────────────────────────────────
//
// The `opencode` AI class talks to a locally-running `opencode serve`. Left to
// the user that means "remember to start a terminal process before opening
// your mail app, and again after every reboot" - which is to say the feature
// quietly stops existing. So the desktop shell owns its lifecycle: start it if
// the binary is installed, restart it if it dies, kill it on quit.
//
// SECURITY: opencode itself warns "OPENCODE_SERVER_PASSWORD is not set; server
// is unsecured" - without one, any local process can drive the agent. We always
// generate one. Auth is HTTP Basic with the username EXACTLY `opencode`
// (verified against 1.18.14: an empty or arbitrary username 401s even with the
// right password, and no bearer/custom-header form works) - undocumented in its
// own OpenAPI spec, which declares no securitySchemes at all.
let opencodeProcess: ChildProcess | null = null;
let opencodeRestarts = 0;
/** Set by stopOpencodeServer() so the exit handler can tell a deliberate
* shutdown from a crash and not fight the quit by respawning. */
let opencodeStopping = false;
const OPENCODE_MAX_RESTARTS = 3;
/** Where the binary lives. `~/.opencode/bin` is its own installer's default and
* is NOT on the PATH a GUI app inherits on macOS, so PATH alone finds nothing
* for most users. */
function findOpencodeBinary(): string | null {
const explicit = process.env.OPENCODE_BIN?.trim();
if (explicit && fs.existsSync(explicit)) return explicit;
const candidates = [
path.join(app.getPath("home"), ".opencode", "bin", "opencode"),
"/opt/homebrew/bin/opencode",
"/usr/local/bin/opencode",
"/usr/bin/opencode",
];
return candidates.find((c) => fs.existsSync(c)) ?? null;
}
interface OpencodeHandle {
baseUrl: string;
password: string;
}
async function startOpencodeServer(): Promise<OpencodeHandle | null> {
const binary = findOpencodeBinary();
if (!binary) return null; // not installed - the class simply stays unavailable
const port = await getFreePort();
// Per-launch, never persisted: the server dies with the app, so there is no
// value in a durable secret and every reason not to leave one on disk.
const password = randomBytes(24).toString("hex");
const baseUrl = `http://127.0.0.1:${port}`;
const spawnOnce = () => {
opencodeProcess = spawn(binary, ["serve", "--port", String(port), "--hostname", "127.0.0.1"], {
env: { ...process.env, OPENCODE_SERVER_PASSWORD: password },
stdio: "ignore",
});
opencodeProcess.on("exit", (code, signal) => {
opencodeProcess = null;
// A deliberate shutdown arrives as SIGTERM from stopOpencodeServer().
if (opencodeStopping || signal === "SIGTERM") return;
if (opencodeRestarts >= OPENCODE_MAX_RESTARTS) {
console.error(`[opencode] gave up restarting after ${OPENCODE_MAX_RESTARTS} attempts (last code=${code})`);
return;
}
opencodeRestarts += 1;
console.error(`[opencode] server exited (code=${code}); restart ${opencodeRestarts}/${OPENCODE_MAX_RESTARTS}`);
setTimeout(spawnOnce, 1000 * opencodeRestarts);
});
};
spawnOnce();
return { baseUrl, password };
}
function stopOpencodeServer(): void {
opencodeStopping = true;
if (!opencodeProcess) return;
const proc = opencodeProcess;
opencodeProcess = null;
proc.kill("SIGTERM");
}
/**
* Locates the standalone server's entrypoint. Packaged builds ship it as an
* extraResource (see electron-builder.config.js) because .next/standalone
* isn't inside the app.asar; dev runs read it straight out of the repo via
* `npm run build:standalone`.
*/
function getStandaloneServerEntry(): string {
if (app.isPackaged) {
return path.join(process.resourcesPath, "standalone", "server.js");
}
return path.join(app.getAppPath(), ".next", "standalone", "server.js");
}
function getFreePort(): Promise<number> {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
const server = createServer();
server.unref();
server.on("error", reject);
server.listen(0, "127.0.0.1", () => {
const address = server.address();
if (address && typeof address === "object") {
const { port } = address;
server.close(() => resolve(port));
} else {
server.close(() => reject(new Error("Could not allocate a free localhost port")));
}
});
});
}
function waitForServerReady(url: string, timeoutMs = 20000): Promise<void> {
const deadline = Date.now() + timeoutMs;
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
const attempt = () => {
const req = httpGet(url, (res) => {
res.resume();
resolve();
});
req.on("error", () => {
if (Date.now() > deadline) {
reject(new Error(`Standalone server never became reachable at ${url}`));
return;
}
setTimeout(attempt, 200);
});
};
attempt();
});
}
async function startStandaloneServer(): Promise<string> {
const serverEntry = getStandaloneServerEntry();
if (!fs.existsSync(serverEntry)) {
throw new Error(
`Standalone Next.js server not found at ${serverEntry}. Run "npm run build:standalone" first.`,
);
}
// Normally a random free port, chosen fresh every launch - JMAP_SERVER_URL
// never needs to reference it back (a real deployment's Stalwart lives at
// its own fixed address). VNCMAIL_TEST_FIXED_PORT is a narrow escape hatch
// for e2e tests that DO need to know the port ahead of time - specifically
// to point DEV_MOCK_JMAP's JMAP_SERVER_URL at this same standalone server's
// own /api/dev-jmap route, which is the only way to exercise the real
// encrypted offline index (lib/mail-index/**) without a real Stalwart
// fixture: that index's key channel only gets wired up in this function,
// never when ELECTRON_LOAD_URL bypasses it for a plain `next dev` target.
// Unset in every normal launch, so this changes nothing outside a test run.
const fixedPort = process.env.VNCMAIL_TEST_FIXED_PORT ? Number(process.env.VNCMAIL_TEST_FIXED_PORT) : null;
const port = fixedPort && Number.isInteger(fixedPort) ? fixedPort : await getFreePort();
const url = `http://127.0.0.1:${port}`;
const storeDir = getIndexStoreDir();
const encryption = checkEncryptionAvailable();
if (!encryption.ok) {
// Refuse rather than degrade. On Linux with no keyring, safeStorage
// "succeeds" using a hardcoded public password, which would look like an
// encrypted mailbox index while providing no protection. Leaving the env
// vars unset makes every index route 404, so the app runs normally without
// the feature.
console.error(`[electron] local search index disabled: ${encryption.reason}`);
}
// Spawn the Electron binary itself as a plain Node process
// (ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE) instead of depending on a system Node install -
// the packaged app can't assume Node exists on the target machine, and
// this keeps dev/packaged behavior identical.
//
// stdio gains a 4th entry: fd 3 is the key channel for the local index (see
// electron/key-service.ts). libuv creates extra stdio "pipe" entries as
// socketpairs, so it is duplex in both directions - verified by execution
// before this was built on. Deliberately NOT an environment variable: env is
// readable by any process running as the same OS user, which would defeat
// using the OS keychain at all. The fd NUMBER below is not a secret; only
// what travels over it is.
const sessionSecretFile = ensureSessionSecretFile();
// Started before the app server so its address can be handed over as env;
// null when opencode isn't installed, in which case the class stays absent.
const opencode = await startOpencodeServer();
serverProcess = spawn(process.execPath, [serverEntry], {
env: {
// First, so any real deployment env (a future per-install override,
// or this same binary run somewhere JMAP_SERVER_URL is already set)
// wins over these desktop-shell defaults - see getDesktopDefaults().
...getDesktopDefaults(),
// Also before ...process.env: an operator-provided SESSION_SECRET or
// SESSION_SECRET_FILE must win over the per-install default (and a
// SESSION_SECRET env var outranks any file in getSessionSecret()'s
// resolution order regardless).
...(sessionSecretFile ? { SESSION_SECRET_FILE: sessionSecretFile } : {}),
...(opencode
? { OPENCODE_BASE_URL: opencode.baseUrl, OPENCODE_SERVER_PASSWORD: opencode.password }
: {}),
...process.env,
ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE: "1",
PORT: String(port),
HOSTNAME: "127.0.0.1",
NODE_ENV: process.env.NODE_ENV || "production",
// Keep all mutable state out of the .app bundle - see
// getServerDataDirs() for why that matters. Placed after
// ...process.env so the desktop shell's paths win over any inherited
// value; the same standalone server run outside Electron (the Docker
// image) never executes this and keeps its documented env behaviour.
...getServerDataDirs(),
...(encryption.ok
? { VNCMAIL_DESKTOP_STORE_DIR: storeDir, VNCMAIL_DESKTOP_KEY_FD: "3" }
: {}),
},
stdio: encryption.ok
? ["inherit", "inherit", "inherit", "pipe"]
: "inherit",
});
if (encryption.ok) {
attachKeyService(serverProcess.stdio[3] as Duplex | null, storeDir);
}
serverProcess.on("exit", (code, signal) => {
if (code !== 0 && code !== null) {
console.error(`[electron] standalone server exited early (code=${code}, signal=${signal})`);
}
serverProcess = null;
});
await waitForServerReady(url);
return url;
}
function stopStandaloneServer(): void {
if (serverProcess && !serverProcess.killed) {
serverProcess.kill();
}
serverProcess = null;
}
async function createMainWindow(): Promise<void> {
// Test-only escape hatch: when set, skip spawning the standalone server
// entirely and load this URL instead. Used by
// integration/tests/11-electron-notification.spec.ts, which needs a
// dev-mode Next.js server (proxy.ts's CSP only widens connect-src to
// allow plain-HTTP/ws JMAP in dev - see that file's comments) to reach
// the integration fixture's deliberately-plaintext local Stalwart,
// exactly the same trade-off integration/webmail.Dockerfile already makes
// for the browser-based integration suite. Never set by real users or by
// any of the packaging/CI paths - those always go through
// startStandaloneServer() below.
const url = process.env.ELECTRON_LOAD_URL || (await startStandaloneServer());
mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({
width: 1280,
height: 860,
webPreferences: {
preload: path.join(__dirname, "preload.js"),
contextIsolation: true,
nodeIntegration: false,
sandbox: true,
},
});
mainWindow.on("closed", () => {
mainWindow = null;
});
await mainWindow.loadURL(url);
}
// --- Native notification bridge --------------------------------------------
// Called from the preload's `window.vnc.showNotification` (electron/preload.ts),
// itself called from lib/electron-bridge.ts's showElectronNotification(),
// itself called from app/(main)/[locale]/page.tsx's "new mail arrived"
// effect whenever lib/jmap/client.ts's push pipeline (WebSocket, or its SSE/
// polling fallback - see that file's circuit breaker) reports a genuine new
// message. Electron's own Notification API is the desktop shell's
// 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).
ipcMain.handle(
"vnc:show-notification",
(_event, title: string, options?: { body?: string; tag?: string }) => {
// Test-only observability hook, read via Playwright's
// electronApp.evaluate(({ app }) => ...) - see
// integration/tests/11-electron-notification.spec.ts. Not gated behind
// NODE_ENV: it's an inert counter with no behavioral effect, cheaper
// than maintaining a second code path just for tests.
const counters = app as unknown as { __notificationCallCount?: number };
counters.__notificationCallCount = (counters.__notificationCallCount ?? 0) + 1;
if (!Notification.isSupported()) {
return { shown: false };
}
const notification = new Notification({
title,
body: options?.body ?? "",
});
notification.show();
return { shown: true };
},
);
// --- WebSocket bridge for renderer ----------------------------------------
// The browser WebSocket constructor cannot attach Authorization headers, so
// JMAP-over-WebSocket (RFC 8887) push paths that require auth at the upgrade
// handshake are unreachable from the renderer. This IPC bridge opens the
// WebSocket from the main process (where we control headers) and forwards
// messages to the renderer as 'vnc:ws-message' events.
const wsConnections = new Map<string, WebSocket>();
ipcMain.handle(
"vnc:ws-connect",
(event, { url, authHeader }: { url: string; authHeader: string }) => {
const id = randomBytes(8).toString("hex");
const ws = new WebSocket(url, {
headers: { Authorization: authHeader },
});
ws.on("open", () => {
event.sender.send("vnc:ws-message", { id, type: "open" });
});
ws.on("message", (data: Buffer) => {
event.sender.send("vnc:ws-message", {
id,
type: "message",
data: data.toString(),
});
});
ws.on("close", (code: number) => {
wsConnections.delete(id);
event.sender.send("vnc:ws-message", { id, type: "close", code });
});
ws.on("error", (err: Error) => {
event.sender.send("vnc:ws-message", {
id,
type: "error",
message: err.message,
});
});
wsConnections.set(id, ws);
return id;
},
);
ipcMain.handle(
"vnc:ws-send",
(_event, { id, data }: { id: string; data: string }) => {
const ws = wsConnections.get(id);
if (!ws || ws.readyState !== WebSocket.OPEN) return false;
ws.send(data);
return true;
},
);
ipcMain.handle("vnc:ws-close", (_event, { id }: { id: string }) => {
const ws = wsConnections.get(id);
if (!ws) return;
ws.close();
wsConnections.delete(id);
});
// --- Auto-update -------------------------------------------------------
// GitHub Releases as the update feed (electron-builder.config.js's
// `publish` block) - the skill's recommendation over standing up a new
// distribution channel, since the repo is already private. "Light
// decision" per VNCprodbuild step 7, not re-litigated here.
//
// Deliberately best-effort: there's no code signing yet (step 9), so on
// macOS in particular an update download/install can fail signature
// verification. A failed check must never take the app down - it's
// background maintenance, not something the user is blocked on.
function setupAutoUpdater(): void {
if (!app.isPackaged) {
// Unpacked dev/test runs (npm run electron:dev, the Playwright smoke
// test) have no latest.yml alongside them - checking would just log a
// noisy 404 against GitHub Releases for every dev run.
return;
}
autoUpdater.autoDownload = true;
autoUpdater.autoInstallOnAppQuit = true;
autoUpdater.on("error", (error) => {
console.error("[electron] auto-update error:", error);
});
autoUpdater.checkForUpdatesAndNotify().catch((error) => {
console.error("[electron] checkForUpdatesAndNotify failed:", error);
});
}
app.whenReady().then(() => {
void createMainWindow();
setupAutoUpdater();
});
app.on("window-all-closed", () => {
stopStandaloneServer();
stopOpencodeServer();
if (process.platform !== "darwin") {
app.quit();
}
});
app.on("before-quit", () => {
stopStandaloneServer();
stopOpencodeServer();
});
app.on("activate", () => {
if (BrowserWindow.getAllWindows().length === 0) {
void createMainWindow();
}
});