> _took quite some time until i found the time to finish this PR and to
find a time window that does not disturb other developments too much,
but here we are:_
this PR enables UI to improve "Saved messages" hugely, bringing it on
WhatsApp's "Starred Messages" or Telegram's "Saved Messages" level. with
this PR, UIs can add the following functionality with few effort ([~100
loc on iOS](https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-ios/pull/2527)):
- add a "Save" button in the messages context menu, allowing to save a
message
- show directly in the chat if a message was saved, eg. by a little star
★
- in "Saved Messages", show the message in its context - so with author,
avatar, date and keep incoming/outgoing state
- in "Saved Messages", a button to go to the original message can be
added
- if the original message was deleted, one can still go to the original
chat
these features were often requested, in the forum, but also in many
one-to-one discussions, recently at the global gathering.
moreover, in contrast to the old method with "forward to saved", no
traffic is wasted - the messages are saved locally, and only a small
sync messages is sent around
this is how it looks out on iOS:
<img width="260" alt="Screenshot 2025-01-17 at 00 02 51"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/902741b6-167f-4af1-9f9a-bd0439dd20d0"
/> <img width="353" alt="Screenshot 2025-01-17 at 00 05
33"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/97eceb79-6e43-4a89-9792-2e077e7141cd"
/>
technically, still a copy is done from the original message (with
already now deduplicated blobs), so that things work nicely with
deletion modes; eg. you can save an important message and preserve it
from deletion that way.
jsonrpc can be done in a subsequent PR, i was implementing the UI on iOS
where that was not needed (and most API were part of message object that
is not in use in jsonrpc atm)
@hpk42 the forward issue we discussed earller that day is already solved
(first implementation did not had an explict save_msgs() but was using
forward_msgs(SELF) as saving - with the disadvantage that forwarding to
SELF is not working, eg. if one wants the old behaviour) acutally, that
made the PR a lot nicer, as now very few existing code is changed
<details>
<summary>previous considerations and abandoned things</summary>
while working on this PR, there was also the idea to just set a flag
“starred” in the message table and not copy anything. however, while
tempting, that would result in more complexity, questions and drawbacks
in UI:
- delete-message, delete-chat, auto-deletion, clear-chat would raise
questions - what do do with the “Starred”? having a copy in “Saved
Messages” does not raise this question
- newly saved messages appear naturally as “new” in “Saved Messages”,
simply setting a flag would show them somewhere in between - unless we
do additional effort
- “Saved Messages” already has its place in the UI - and allows to
_directly_ save things there as well - not easily doable with “starring”
- one would need to re-do many things that already exist in “Saved
Messages”, at least in core
- one idea to solve some of the issues could be to have “Starred” as
well as “Saved Messages” - however, that would irritate user, one would
remember exactly what was done with a message, and understand the fine
differences
whatsapp does this “starred”, btw, so when original is deleted, starred
is deleted as well. Telegram does things similar to us, Signal does
nothing. Whatsapp has a per-chat view for starred messages - if needed,
we could do sth. like that as well, however, let’s first see how far the
“all view” goes (in contrast to whatsapp, we have profiles for
separation as well)
for the wording: “saving” is what we’re doing here, this is much more on
point as “starring” - which is more the idea of a “bookmark”, and i
think, whatsapp uses this wording to not raise false expectations
(still, i know of ppl that were quite upset that a “starred” message was
deleted when eg. the chat was cleared to save some memory)
wrt webxdc app updates: options that come into mind were: _empty_ (as
now), _snapshot_ (copy all updates) or _shortcut_ (always open
original). i am not sure what the best solution is, the easiest was
_empty_, so i went for that, as it is (a) obvious, and what is already
done with forwarding and (b) the original is easy to open now (in
contrast to forwarding).
so, might totally be that we need or want to tweak things here, but i
would leave that outside the first iteration, things are not worsened in
that area
wrt reactions: as things are detached, similar to webxdc updates, we do
not not to show the original reactions - that way, one can use reactions
for private markers (telegram is selling that feature :)
to the icon: a disk or a bookmark might be other options, but the star
is nicer and also know from other apps - and anyways a but vague UX
wise. so i think, it is fine
finally, known issue is that if a message was saved that does not exist
on another device, it does not get there. i think, that issue is a weak
one, and can be ignored mostly, most times, user will save messages soon
after receiving, and if on some devices auto-deletion is done, it is
maybe not even expected to have suddenly another copy there
</details>
EDIT: once this is merged, detailed issues about what to do should be
filed for android/desktop (however, they do not have urgency to adapt,
things will continue working as is)
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Co-authored-by: Hocuri <hocuri@gmx.de>
Some migrations change the `config` table, but they don't update the
cache. While this wasn't the cause for
https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/issues/6432, it might
have caused a similar bug, so, let's clear the config cache after every
migration.
Users report that in a setup with Android (1.50.4 from F-Droid) and Desktop (1.48.0 x86_64 .deb
release) and chatmail account `bcc_self` was reverted to 0 on Android, resulting in messages sent
from Android not appearing on Desktop. This might happen because of the bug in migration #127, it
doesn't handle `delete_server_after` > 1. Existing chatmail configurations having
`delete_server_after` != 1 ("delete at once") should get `bcc_self` enabled, they may be multidevice
configurations:
- Before migration #127, `delete_server_after` was set to 0 upon a backup export, but
then `bcc_self` is enabled instead (whose default is changed to 0 for chatmail).
- The user might set `delete_server_after` to a value other than 0 or 1 when that was
possible in UIs.
So let's add another migration fixing this. But still don't check `is_chatmail` for simplicity.
This implements new group consistency algorithm described in
<https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/issues/6401>
New `Chat-Group-Member-Timestamps` header is added
to send timestamps of member additions and removals.
Member is part of the chat if its addition timestamp
is greater or equal to the removal timestamp.
Change `BccSelf` default to 0 for chatmail configurations and enable it upon a backup export. As for
`DeleteServerAfter` who was set to 0 upon a backup export before, make its default dependent on
`BccSelf` for chatmail. We don't need `BccSelf` for chatmail by default because we assume
single-device use. Also `BccSelf` is needed for "classic" email accounts even if `DeleteServerAfter`
is set to "immediately" to detect that a message was sent if SMTP server is slow to respond and
connection is lost before receiving the status line which isn't a problem for chatmail servers.
Otherwise backups exported from the current core and imported in versions < 1.144.0 have QR codes
not working. The breaking change which removed the column is
5a6efdff44.
This should fix ad-hoc groups splitting when messages are fetched out of order from different
folders or otherwise reordered, or some messages are missing so that the messages reference chain is
broken, or a member was removed from the thread and readded later, etc. Even if this way two
different threads are merged, it looks acceptable, having many threads with the same name/subject
and members isn't a common use case.
Why:
- With IMAP APPEND we can upload messages directly to the DeltaChat folder (for non-chatmail
accounts).
- We can set the `\Seen` flag immediately so that if the user has other MUA, it doesn't alert about
a new message if it's just a sync message (there were several such reports on the support
forum). Though this also isn't useful for chatmail.
- We don't need SMTP envelope and overall remove some overhead on processing sync messages.
Groups promotion to other devices and QR code tokens synchronisation are not synchronised processes,
so there are reasons why a QR code token may arrive earlier than the first group message:
- We are going to upload sync messages via IMAP while group messages are sent by SMTP.
- If sync messages go to the mvbox, they can be fetched earlier than group messages from Inbox.
It's possible that when rebasing a PR adding a migration a merge-conflict doesn't occur if another
migration was added in the target branch. Better to have at least runtime checks that the migration
version is correct. Looks like compile-time checks are not possible because Rust doesn't allow to
redefine constants, only vars.
Before, if the user deleted a message too quickly after sending, it was deleted only locally. The
fix is to remember for tombstones that the corresponding message should be deleted on the server
too.
SQLite search with `LIKE` is case-insensitive only for ASCII chars. To make it case-insensitive for
all messages, create a new column `msgs.txt_normalized` defaulting to `NULL` (so we do not bump up
the database size in a migration) and storing lowercased/normalized text there when the row is
created/updated. When doing a search, search over `IFNULL(txt_normalized, txt)`.
PR #5099 removed some columns in the database that were actually in use.
usually, to not worsen UX unnecessarily
(releases take time - in between, "Add Second Device", "Backup" etc.
would fail), we try to avoid such schema changes (checking for
db-version would avoid import etc. but would still worse UX),
see discussion at #2294.
these are the errors, the user will be confronted with otherwise:
<img width=400
src=https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/assets/9800740/e3f0fd6e-a7a9-43f6-9023-0ae003985425>
it is not great to maintain the old columns, but well :)
as no official releases with newer cores are rolled out yet, i think, it
is fine to change the "107" migration
and not copy things a second time in a newer migration.
(this issue happens to me during testing, and is probably also the issue
reported by @lk108 for ubuntu-touch)
Restart the IO scheduler if needed to make the new config value effective (for `MvboxMove,
OnlyFetchMvbox, SentboxWatch` currently). Also add `set_config_internal()` which doesn't affect
running the IO scheduler. The reason is that `Scheduler::start()` itself calls `set_config()`,
although not for the mentioned keys, but still, and also Rust complains about recursive async calls.
a27e84ad89 "fix: Delete received outgoing messages from SMTP queue"
can break sending messages sent as several SMTP messages because they have a lot of recipients:
`pub(crate) const DEFAULT_MAX_SMTP_RCPT_TO: usize = 50;`
We should not cancel sending if it is such a message and we received BCC-self because it does not
mean the other part was sent successfully. For this, split such messages into separate jobs in the
`smtp` table so that only a job containing BCC-self is canceled from `receive_imf_inner()`. Although
this doesn't solve the initial problem with timed-out SMTP requests for such messages completely,
this enables fine-grained SMTP retries so we don't need to resend all SMTP messages if only some of
them failed to be sent.
When a key is gossiped for the contact in a verified chat,
it is stored in the secondary verified key slot.
The messages are then encrypted to the secondary verified key
if they are also encrypted to the contact introducing this secondary key.
Chat-Group-Member-Added no longer updates the verified key.
Verified group recovery only relies on the secondary verified key.
When a message is received from a contact
signed with a secondary verified key,
secondary verified key replaces the primary verified key.
When verified key is changed for the contact
in response to receiving a message
signed with a secondary verified key,
"Setup changed" message is added
to the same chat where the message is received.
