F4 lists real-time updates and the interface had none: an open inbox only
changed when the user reloaded it.
Events come from the transactional outbox rather than from an in-process
callback, which is what the outbox is for (PLAN.md section 9.4): the row
is written in the same transaction as the message, so an event can never
describe a delivery that rolled back, and a crash between commit and
publish loses nothing because the row is still there on restart. The relay
claims rows with SKIP LOCKED so a second instance can help without
publishing anything twice.
The hub fans events out per mailbox, keyed by the mailbox the session
resolved to, so one account's arrivals are never visible to another even
though they share the process. A subscriber that stops reading is dropped
rather than allowed to stall the relay; it reconciles on reconnect.
The client reconnects with capped exponential backoff and treats every
successful connect as a resync, refetching the folder. Without that, a
socket that dropped for a minute would leave the list quietly stale, which
is worse than having no real-time updates at all.
The upgrade goes through a Next rewrite, not the API route handler: a
route handler sees a finished request and cannot upgrade a connection.
Verified against the running stack - the handshake returns 101 through the
Next server, and a message delivered on port 25 arrives as a frame on an
already-open socket without the page asking for it.
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The mail screens had no backend at all: they rendered a hardcoded array,
and the storage service that ADR-001 assigned this to is still a health
stub. The API lands here instead, because the folder, UID, MODSEQ, flag
and blob logic already exists and is tested in this service for IMAP.
Reimplementing it in TypeScript would mean two implementations of the
same semantics and two chances to disagree about what a UID means.
Reads use a projected read model rather than hydrated aggregates, which
is the CQRS exception PLAN.md section 2 carves out for webmail queries.
Every query is scoped to the mailbox resolved from the verified session,
never to an identifier taken from the request, so one account cannot read
another's mail by guessing a UID - covered by a test that tries exactly
that and expects 404.
Sending reuses ProcessOutboundEmailUseCase, so mail written in the browser
gets the same treatment as mail submitted over 587: send limits, DKIM
signing, and the durable queue. The From address comes from the session
and never from the request body; letting the body choose it is how a
webmail becomes a relay for spoofed mail.
MIME is parsed server-side because this service already depends on a MIME
library. A message that will not parse still returns its raw text - an
unreadable message beats an inbox that refuses to open one.
Marking a message read updates the flag and the folder counter in one
transaction, and only on a real transition, so re-opening a message cannot
drive unread_count negative.
Verified against the running stack: a message delivered over port 25
appears in the list with its decoded subject and sender, opens, marks
itself read, is found by search, and a message composed in the webmail
reaches outbound_jobs with the session's address as the envelope sender.
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