Multiple accounts were already supported everywhere except where it counted. email_accounts is keyed
(user_id, email), each account syncs into its own emails.db, and IDLE watchers run per account — so three
accounts would all sync happily and only one could ever be read. The assumption lived in two lines:
store.ts openUserEmailDb() accounts.find(a => a.enabled) ?? accounts[0]
routes.ts getSmtpTransport() accounts.find(a => a.enabled) ?? accounts[0]
The first had thirteen callers — every read route. The second decided who sends.
Now `?account=<id>` names one mailbox and `?account=all` spans them. Absent stays the old behaviour, first
enabled, because the mobile app and the agent's email_db tool both call these routes and know nothing about
accounts; making it required would have broken both silently.
ONE DATABASE PER ACCOUNT, and the unified view is a MERGE rather than a join. Not a limitation — emails_fts
is a per-database FTS5 virtual table and MATCH cannot be aimed across an ATTACH boundary through a view, so
a unified search has to be a merge of local searches. The upside is that every SQL string in store.ts is
reused verbatim, searchEmails included, so the operator parser and the OR branching are not reimplemented
for the unified case.
The merge is a distributed top-K and it is exact, not approximate: each mailbox is asked for offset+limit
rows, because a row ranked third locally can belong fortieth globally and anything less leaves a hole in a
later page.
Threads are collapsed per mailbox before merging, deliberately. A conversation does not continue across two
accounts, so local collapse is both cheaper and more correct than any cross-database window function.
Four details worth keeping:
- Routes addressed by an id search the scope for the mailbox HOLDING it. A unified list returns ids from
every account, so opening the first would 404 on mail plainly on screen. The predicate is `id OR
thread_id` because these routes take both and the id spaces overlap by design.
- sync-status across mailboxes reports the OLDEST stamp. "Synced as of" is a claim about everything on
screen and stops being true at the laggard; the freshest would call a unified inbox current while one
account had not been reached for a day.
- Sending honours the named account and REFUSES an id that is not the caller's, rather than falling back to
the default. Replying from the wrong account leaks which addresses belong to one person and breaks the
thread for the recipient.
- queryAcross has no `descending` option. It had one for twenty minutes; a test caught that it flipped the
merge while every caller's SQL still said ORDER BY date DESC, so asking for the oldest mail returned the
oldest of the newest page. The requirement — mailboxes hand back newest-first — is now written down and
pinned by a test that demonstrates the silent wrongness rather than asserting the fix.
UI is next: the picker for switch-or-all.
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Compose's To/Cc/Bcc/Subject fields, and each of the three add-account
forms, sat in a plain div — enter did nothing and the button was the
only way in. Wrapped each in a <form onSubmit>, marked every button
that isn't the submit action type="button" (attach, cancel, cc/bcc
toggles, the recipient-suggestion picks), so none of them accidentally
submit now that a form exists around them. The compose body stays a
contenteditable div, which never triggers native enter-to-submit, so
Cmd/Ctrl+Enter wasn't needed to keep newlines working.
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Clicking "Add Account" on a new install did nothing at all — no modal, no
error, nothing in the console.
EmailList early-returns an onboarding empty state when there is no mail, and
that branch carries the "Add Account" button. But <AccountsModal /> was only
mounted in the OTHER return — the one that renders when mail exists. The button
flipped the shared EMAIL_ACCOUNTS_OPEN global and nothing was listening.
A catch-22, and it closed the only door in: the sole other trigger is in the
toolbar, which is also in the mail-exists branch. So an install with no account
could never reach the dialog that adds one, and the failure was silent in both
directions — nothing threw, and the state flag really did flip.
Mount it in both branches. The empty state is exactly when it is needed most.
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