Read a mailbox read-only, in a client small enough to audit (#246)

internal/email is the reading half of the email reader: a ~200-line IMAP
client (LOGIN, EXAMINE, UID SEARCH SINCE, UID FETCH BODY.PEEK, LOGOUT), a
MIME-to-plaintext converter, and a header-only junk filter.

Two protocol choices are the design, not shortcuts. EXAMINE instead of
SELECT means the session is read-only at the protocol level, so no command
in it can flip a flag or expunge anything by mistake. BODY.PEEK instead of
BODY means reading a message does not mark it \Seen — Maven reads his mail
and leaves no trace of having done so, and the unread state in his own
client stays his.

Hand-rolled rather than go-imap because this is the one path that holds his
mailbox credential and reads his private mail: five commands with no
dependencies is auditable in a sitting. No IDLE and no cleartext/STARTTLS
either — an option to send his password over a plain socket is an option to
get it wrong once.

Junk is decided by headers alone, before any model is involved:
List-Unsubscribe/List-Id, Precedence: bulk, Auto-Submitted, the spam
headers, and Gmail's own category labels. Sender lists and subject keywords
are deliberately absent — they age badly and they would put his contacts in
a config file. A junk verdict only means "do not spend the model on this";
nothing is deleted and no server flag is touched.

Nothing here logs a body, a subject or an address, the junk reason names a
header rather than content, and an undecodable charset degrades to
headers-only instead of feeding the model mojibake. Verified against
recorded .eml fixtures and an in-process fake IMAP server.
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From: legacy@example.org
To: kami@example.org
Subject: Legacy
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0400
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From: billing@isp.example
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Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0400
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From: hr@work.example
To: kami@example.org
Subject: Contract
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2026 07:00:00 +0400
MIME-Version: 1.0
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From: news@shop.example
To: kami@example.org
Subject: =?utf-8?B?0KHQutC40LTQutC4INGC0L7Qu9GM0LrQviDRgdC10LPQvtC00L3Rjw==?=
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2026 06:00:00 +0400
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Sale!
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