@bobfrankston/rmfmail 1.2.209 → 1.2.211

package/client/app.js

@@ -3310,6 +3310,21 @@ onWsEvent((event) => {
                 const slot = document.querySelector(".folder-loading");
                 if (slot)
                     slot.textContent = msg;
+                // The message-list pane too — on a phone the folder tree is
+                // off-canvas and the viewer pane is behind the list, so the
+                // tree/viewer slots above are both invisible at boot. This is
+                // the pane the user is actually staring at (Bob 2026-08-01:
+                // "blank screen and 'syncing' at the bottom"). `.ml-empty`
+                // exists only while the list has no rows, so live message
+                // rows are never overwritten.
+                const mlEmpty = document.querySelector("#ml-body .ml-empty");
+                if (mlEmpty)
+                    mlEmpty.textContent = msg;
+                // Zero-account welcome pane (the visible one on a phone until
+                // accounts land) — folder-tree.ts renders this slot.
+                const narrationSlot = document.getElementById("bootstrap-narration");
+                if (narrationSlot)
+                    narrationSlot.textContent = msg;
             }
             break;
         }