The commented compose service mounted dbdata, the encrypted database volume,
read-write, for one JSON file of UIDs. The header of that same file says only
mavend holds the key and the db volume, and the whole argument for a separate
reader is that a compromise on either side does not reach the other. It gets its
own volume now, at its own path, so neither can be restored from a backup of the
other.
The high-water mark only advances through a contiguous run, and a failed ingest
is deliberately not marked. One message that never ingested therefore pinned the
mark forever: after the lookback window passed it could never be fetched again,
so the gap never closed, every UID above it stayed in the explicit set, and save
rewrote all of them every poll. FetchSince now reports the SEARCH window and the
poller retires everything below it, since a UID that can no longer be searched
for can never be read.
On ErrUnknownMethod the daemon logged "stopping" and then exited at the next
tick with status 0. The compose service inherits restart: unless-stopped, which
restarts a clean exit, so the real behaviour was a loop of four IMAP logins an
hour against a mailbox core would not accept anything from. It now stays up and
polls nothing.
The reader also sends the Junk verdict instead of counting bulk locally, which
is what the wire doc says it does. The verdict carries no mail content, since
nothing on the other side will read it. RunWith is gone, so the tests fake the
read rather than the transport.
Found in review of #65.
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llama-server is started without -np, so it serves one request at a time and
everything else queues. Mail extraction is allowed two minutes on a Thinking
1.7B, and the reader hands core up to 25 messages back to back. A turn arriving
mid-extraction therefore waited for whatever was left of that budget: the router
timed out into the classifier cascade and its 36.8% floor, and the phraser, which
has no floor, simply waited. Memory evaluation had the same shape with a five
minute budget.
llm.Gate is the bound. Foreground requests never wait. Background requests run
one at a time and yield while a foreground request is in flight, plus a quiet
window after it that covers the gap between the router call and the phraser call
of one turn. Clients get their priority from llmClientFor or
llmBackgroundClientFor, so which side a caller is on is decided at wiring time.
It gates only what goes through those clients, which the comment on Gate says.
mail intake: the extraction timeout no longer wraps the capture writes. A model
answering at 119 seconds of a 120 second budget left the first CaptureTask one
second and the third none, so candidates the model had already produced were
dropped with a deadline error. The mailbox name is validated before it becomes
provenance, since "email:" is not a source and neither is an arbitrary string
posted at the socket. The enable log prints the normalised candidate bound
rather than the configured one, which said "max 0" and then wrote three.
Found in review of #64.
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The Gmail category rule matched X-GM-LABELS and X-Gmail-Labels against the
parsed header block. Neither is a header. X-GM-LABELS is a Gmail FETCH data
item and never appears in the message source, and X-Gmail-Labels only exists in
a Takeout export, so the branch could not fire against a real mailbox while its
doc comment promised a Promotions filter. Its test built the header by hand and
therefore asserted the matcher rather than the plumbing. The rule is removed and
the comment says what bringing it back would take.
multipartText folded a nested multipart's answer into one string, so HTML
derived text landed in the plain bucket and a real text/plain sibling later in
the message was discarded by the guard on plain being set. The two buckets now
stay separate through the recursion.
windows-1251 returned an unsupported-charset error and the message degraded to
subject only. That is the charset older Russian senders still use, so those
mails could never produce a task candidate. It is decoded from a 128 entry table
here rather than by vendoring x/text, for the body and for encoded words in the
subject. Every other unknown charset still degrades to subject only.
Found in review of #63.
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The literal size came off the wire with no cap, so the server chose the
allocation. A {2147483647} literal was a 2GB make before a byte arrived, and one
ordinary mail with a 60MB attachment was 60MB of peak RSS on a box already
holding a 1.7B model resident, all of it discarded afterwards by plaintextBody.
Literals are now capped at MaxMessageBytes, and a larger one is drained and
reported as ErrMessageTooLarge without being kept. Reads are chunked with a
deadline refresh, so the timeout is an idle timeout again rather than a budget
for the whole message.
FetchSince returned on the first fetch error, though its comment described a
continue. One oversized message at the top of the window hid every older message
behind it, on that poll and on every poll after it. Failures are now collected
and the rest of the mailbox is read. An oversized UID is retired as bulk, since
it will be the same size next time and the poller marks bulk seen.
Timeout zero was accepted and disabled the dial timeout and every socket
deadline, which parks the poller forever on a dead server with his credential
live in a TLS state. It is now rejected like an empty address.
A FETCH answered without a literal was indistinguishable from a vanished
message and dropped with no log line. Login now rejects a credential containing
a line break instead of stripping it and failing on the server's generic NO.
untagged matches the whole key, not a prefix. RunWith is gone: the dial seam is
an unexported field again, reachable only through export_test.go, so no code
outside the package can hand the reader a cleartext transport and the password.
Found in review of #63.
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The extraction seam landed on the previous branch but nothing fed it. This
adds the daemon that does: every interval it opens one mailbox read-only
(EXAMINE + BODY.PEEK, so reading leaves no \Seen behind), fetches the UIDs
it has not handed over yet, and posts each message to core over
ingest_mail. Core runs the model and writes task candidates; this daemon
writes nothing and cannot create a reminder.
It is a separate daemon because of the credential. mavpoll set the
precedent with the zenmoney token (#125): the module talking to the third
party holds the secret, reads it from a file so it never lands in argv, in
docker-compose.yml or in shell history, and core never sees it. There is
deliberately no -password flag, and a test asserts that.
Off unless configured at both ends: without -password-file the daemon
refuses to start, and if core has no email block the first ingest returns
ErrUnknownMethod, which disables the reader instead of hammering a socket
that will keep refusing. A seen-UID state file (0600, atomic write) keeps a
restart from re-extracting the whole lookback window; correctness does not
depend on it, since capture dedupes on normalised text. Logs are counts and
UIDs — no subject, sender or body.
Verified with an in-process IMAP server and a fake core: bulk mail is
filtered before core is asked, seen UIDs are not re-fetched, a failed
ingest is retried next poll, ErrUnknownMethod stops at the first message,
and state survives a restart. The live half is untested by design — no IMAP
credential exists on this box; setup is written up as QA steps.
Vikunja #246
The extraction half. internal/email.Extractor asks the resident Qwen3-1.7B,
under a GBNF grammar, what one message requires of him, and returns at most
three short candidates with an optional date.
Everything it can produce is a row in `tasks` with status "candidate",
written through the intake seam #130 built for exactly this (Source
"email:<mailbox>", Evidence = the subject line). No reminder, no fact, no
note, no calendar event. That bound is the design: a reminder FIRES, so a
1.7B misreading "встреча была в четверг" as a future appointment would wake
him up about it, whereas a wrong candidate is a line he dismisses in one
click. A due date the model read out of the mail is stored on the candidate,
where no scheduler reads it — the review page sorts by it. Relative wording
("до пятницы") is deliberately left in the text rather than resolved to a
date the model would get wrong.
The prompt is written against the two things a small model does here: it
summarises when asked to extract, and it invents an obligation out of a
polite closing line. Hence the demand for a verb phrase, and an explicit
empty array — most mail contains no task, and a model with no way to say
"nothing" says something.
Wiring: core owns extraction because llama-server lives in core's process,
so the reader hands messages over a new ipc.MethodIngestMail. It is a Server
hook (like StepUp/UnlockFn), not a CoreAPI method — not a store operation,
and no CoreAPI implementation should have to carry it. The hook stays nil
without an `email` config block or without a llama-server phraser, so the
method answers ErrUnknownMethod: off unless configured, twice over. There is
no keyword fallback on purpose — "the subject became a task" is a mailbox
rendered as a to-do list, not extraction.
Privacy: junk is refused before the model is called, mail text is never
search input, extraction errors carry byte counts rather than the reply, the
stored evidence is a truncated subject, and the log line names the mailbox
and the UID only.
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.
kami