@bobfrankston/rmfmail 1.2.164 → 1.2.166

package/client/app.ts

@@ -4607,6 +4607,53 @@ document.getElementById("btn-edit-jsonc")?.addEventListener("click", async () =>
     if (settingsDropdown) settingsDropdown.hidden = true;
     await openJsoncEditor("accounts.jsonc");
 });
+// Settings → "Make default email app...". Registers rmfmail as the OS
+// mailto: handler (same work as `rmfmail -register-mailto`), then walks the
+// user through the one step Windows refuses to automate: picking rmfmail in
+// Settings → Default apps (UserChoice is hash-protected). Discoverability
+// fix — the CLI flag existed but nothing in the app pointed at it (Bob
+// 2026-07-20 "couldn't figure out how to make rmfmail the responder").
+document.getElementById("btn-register-mailto")?.addEventListener("click", async () => {
+    const settingsDropdown = document.getElementById("settings-dropdown");
+    if (settingsDropdown) settingsDropdown.hidden = true;
+    const { registerMailto } = await import("./lib/api-client.js");
+    const r = await registerMailto();
+
+    const backdrop = document.createElement("div");
+    backdrop.className = "mailx-modal-backdrop";
+    backdrop.style.cssText = "position:fixed;inset:0;z-index:2000;background:rgba(0,0,0,0.4);display:flex;align-items:center;justify-content:center;";
+    const panel = document.createElement("div");
+    panel.style.cssText = "background:var(--color-bg,#fff);color:var(--color-text,#000);border-radius:8px;box-shadow:0 8px 32px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);width:min(520px,90vw);padding:18px;display:flex;flex-direction:column;gap:12px;";
+    const heading = document.createElement("div");
+    heading.style.cssText = "font-weight:600;font-size:1.05em;";
+    heading.textContent = r.ok ? "rmfmail registered as an email handler" : "Registration failed";
+    const body = document.createElement("div");
+    body.style.cssText = "font-size:0.92em;line-height:1.45;white-space:pre-wrap;";
+    body.textContent = r.ok
+        ? "One manual step remains — Windows only lets YOU flip the default:\n\nSettings → Apps → Default apps → search \"rmfmail\" → set it for MAILTO.\n\nIf a picker warns the app must be from the Store, choose \"More options\" / \"Choose an app on this PC\"."
+        : r.message;
+    const btnRow = document.createElement("div");
+    btnRow.style.cssText = "display:flex;gap:8px;justify-content:flex-end;";
+    const closeBtn = document.createElement("button");
+    closeBtn.textContent = "Close";
+    closeBtn.style.cssText = "padding:6px 14px;";
+    closeBtn.addEventListener("click", () => backdrop.remove());
+    btnRow.append(closeBtn);
+    if (r.ok) {
+        const openBtn = document.createElement("button");
+        openBtn.textContent = "Open Default-apps settings";
+        openBtn.style.cssText = "padding:6px 14px;font-weight:500;";
+        openBtn.addEventListener("click", () => {
+            const api = (window as any).mailxapi;
+            if (api?.openExternal) api.openExternal("ms-settings:defaultapps");
+            backdrop.remove();
+        });
+        btnRow.append(openBtn);
+    }
+    panel.append(heading, body, btnRow);
+    backdrop.append(panel);
+    document.body.append(backdrop);
+});
 // Allow other components (remote-content banner, etc.) to open the editor
 // pre-selected to a specific file.
 document.addEventListener("mailx-open-jsonc-editor", async (ev: Event) => {

package/client/compose/compose.bundle.js

@@ -1094,6 +1094,7 @@ __export(api_client_exports, {
   reauthGoogleScopes: () => reauthGoogleScopes,
   reauthenticate: () => reauthenticate,
   recordSpamReport: () => recordSpamReport,
+  registerMailto: () => registerMailto,
   removeUserDictWord: () => removeUserDictWord,
   renameFolder: () => renameFolder,
   repairAccounts: () => repairAccounts,
@@ -1628,6 +1629,12 @@ async function openAttachment(accountId, uid, attachmentId, folderId, filename)
 async function getMessageSource(accountId, uid, folderId) {
   return ipc().getMessageSource(accountId, uid, folderId);
 }
+async function registerMailto() {
+  const fn = ipc().registerMailto;
+  if (!fn)
+    return { ok: false, message: "Not available in this host \u2014 run `rmfmail -register-mailto` from a terminal." };
+  return fn();
+}
 async function popoutWindow(accountId, uid, folderId, subject) {
   const fn = ipc().popoutWindow;
   if (!fn)
@@ -4199,10 +4206,18 @@ setActiveEditorBadge(activeEditorType);
 var fromInput = document.getElementById("compose-from-input");
 var fromOptions = document.getElementById("compose-from-options");
 if (fromInput) {
+  const openFromPicker = () => {
+    try {
+      fromInput.showPicker?.();
+    } catch {
+    }
+  };
   fromInput.addEventListener("focus", () => {
     fromInput.dataset.prevFrom = fromInput.value;
     fromInput.value = "";
+    openFromPicker();
   });
+  fromInput.addEventListener("click", openFromPicker);
   fromInput.addEventListener("blur", () => {
     if (fromInput.value.trim() === "" && fromInput.dataset.prevFrom) {
       fromInput.value = fromInput.dataset.prevFrom;