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Maven/internal/email/fetch.go
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kami b4646155b4 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.
2026-08-01 02:59:24 +04:00

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package email
import (
"fmt"
"time"
)
// FetchSince is the whole read path in one call: connect, log in, examine the
// mailbox read-only, list what arrived since a date, fetch and parse the ones
// the caller has not seen, log out.
//
// It is a function rather than a long-lived object because a mail poller should
// not hold an authenticated session (and therefore his credential in a live TLS
// state) between polls. Connect, read, drop.
//
// skip decides which UIDs are already known — the poller's seen-set. max bounds
// one poll: a mailbox that received 400 messages overnight must not turn into
// 400 LLM calls, and the newest max are the ones a task could still be hiding
// in. Junk messages are returned too, flagged, so the caller can mark them seen
// without a second protocol round.
type FetchSince struct {
Addr string // host or host:993
User string
Mailbox string // e.g. "INBOX"
Timeout time.Duration
Since time.Time
Max int
Skip func(uid uint32) bool
// dial is the connection seam. nil means Dial (implicit TLS); the tests set
// it to an in-process fake. Unexported so no configuration path can point
// the reader at a non-TLS transport.
dial func(addr string, timeout time.Duration) (*Conn, error)
}
// Run performs one read. password is passed here, not stored in the struct, so
// the configuration of a mailbox and the secret for it are never the same value
// sitting in the same place.
func (f FetchSince) Run(password string) ([]Message, error) {
if f.Addr == "" || f.User == "" || f.Mailbox == "" {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("email: mailbox not configured (addr/user/mailbox)")
}
dial := f.dial
if dial == nil {
dial = Dial
}
c, err := dial(f.Addr, f.Timeout)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
defer c.Close()
if err := c.Login(f.User, password); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
defer c.Logout()
if err := c.Select(f.Mailbox); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
uids, err := c.SearchSince(f.Since)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
// Newest UIDs first — IMAP hands them back ascending, and when Max clips the
// list the recent mail is what matters.
wanted := make([]uint32, 0, len(uids))
for i := len(uids) - 1; i >= 0; i-- {
if f.Skip != nil && f.Skip(uids[i]) {
continue
}
wanted = append(wanted, uids[i])
if f.Max > 0 && len(wanted) >= f.Max {
break
}
}
out := make([]Message, 0, len(wanted))
for _, uid := range wanted {
raw, err := c.Fetch(uid)
if err != nil {
// One unreadable message does not abandon the poll; the rest of the
// mailbox is still worth reading. The error names the UID, not the
// message.
return out, fmt.Errorf("email: fetch uid %d: %w", uid, err)
}
if len(raw) == 0 {
continue // vanished between SEARCH and FETCH
}
msg, err := ParseMessage(uid, raw)
if err != nil {
continue // unparsable headers — nothing to review, skip silently
}
out = append(out, msg)
}
return out, nil
}