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nexxo a84251260c Read the mailbox password where it actually is, and let the console test it
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The inbox kept saying no mailbox was set up while the password sat right
there on the settings page. isConfigured() read
config('services.inbound_mail.password'), which is only ever the .env
value: this project deliberately does not overlay stored secrets onto config
at boot — SecretVault's own docblock says so, and HttpMonitoringClient reads
its token at the point of use for exactly that reason. My docblock even
asserted the opposite mechanism, which I never verified. It reads the vault
now, and falls back to .env because SecretVault::get() already does.

And a way to find out. "Verbindung prüfen" saves the form first — testing
what is on screen while the server still holds the previous values would
report on a mailbox nobody configured — then performs the same four verbs
the real fetch performs: LOGIN, SELECT, SEARCH UNSEEN. A check that proves
something easier than the actual job is worse than none.

What it reports back is one of five fixed words, never the server's own
prose: an IMAP error carries the command it failed on, and for LOGIN that
command contains the password. Each word maps to a sentence an operator can
act on — address and port, mailbox and password, the folder.

The line saying when the mailbox was last reached is on both pages, and it
is written by the SCHEDULED run as well as by the button. Otherwise "last
checked" would mean "last time somebody pressed a button", which is the less
interesting of the two: a mailbox that stopped answering at three in the
morning is the one worth seeing, and nobody presses a button at three in the
morning. It is also shown when the answer is "never" — an empty inbox and a
mailbox that stopped answering look identical, and this line is the whole
difference.

A fetch against a mailbox that just refused the login now takes nothing in
and records the refusal, rather than reporting "nothing new" — which was
true and useless.

Also: HostStepsTest asserted the literal clupilot.com for a host name. That
was true until CLUPILOT_DNS_ZONE was set to clupilot.cloud on this
installation, and then a correct configuration failed a test. The zone is
pinned in the test now; what it is about is the shape of the name and which
address it carries.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 13:12:29 +02:00
nexxo e376b571be Read the support mailbox into the console
tests / pest (push) Failing after 7m59s Details
tests / assets (push) Successful in 20s Details
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No, not an API token: mailcow's API administers domains and mailboxes —
it does not read mail. Reading a mailbox is IMAP whoever runs the server,
so that is what this is. Host, user and folder are console settings; the
password is a vault entry, like every other credential that opens
something.

IMAP by hand rather than a dependency. Four verbs are needed — LOGIN,
SELECT, SEARCH UNSEEN, FETCH — and the parsing that follows is the real
work either way. It is bounded by what the console shows: a sender, a
subject, the words a person wrote, and the NAMES of anything attached.
Real mail from real people arrives encoded, so it handles RFC 2047
subjects (every German subject with an umlaut in it), quoted-printable
and base64 bodies, Windows charsets, and multipart — text wins over HTML,
because a console is not a mail client and the words are in the text
part. A message it cannot make sense of is skipped and logged, never
guessed at: a garbled question in front of an operator is worse than one
they go and read in the mailbox, where it still is.

ATTACHMENTS ARE NOT STORED. Only their names and sizes, so an operator
knows something was attached and can go and look if it matters. Keeping
whatever a stranger chooses to send would make this application a malware
store with a web interface in front of it.

Whose a mail is, is decided by the sender's ADDRESS and by nothing else —
not by a name in the subject, not by anything in the body. A mail is easy
to write and this decision attaches a stranger's words to a real
customer's file; there is a test that forges the name and the subject and
still gets nothing. An address nobody recognises stays unassigned, shown
FIRST and never hidden: that is a new enquiry, or a customer writing from
their private account, and it is the mail that must not be missed. An
operator can place it by hand from the same row.

Nothing is deleted on the mail server, ever. Messages are flagged seen
once the row is safely written — and only then, because flagging first
and failing after would lose the message with no second copy anywhere.
Filing one away is this console's own state; the mailbox is untouched.

Two fixes on the way past: the customer page printed
"customers.status.active" and "support.status.open" — a lang key with no
file behind it renders as itself and Laravel says nothing — and the same
page is now covered by a test proving each list is scoped to the customer
in the URL, which was reported as "unterhalb steht immer das selbe".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 21:41:29 +02:00