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feat(gmail): take the star off a mail once it has become a task
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Kristian Wind
2026-09-04 09:06:31 +02:00
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11 changed files with 260 additions and 28 deletions
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@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ Apple Reminders, forward mail into it, and add it to Claude as a connector.
| CalDAV server (two-way VTODO) | Done, tested |
| Mail-to-task | Done, tested |
| AI layer (Anthropic/OpenAI/Google/local) | Built, degrades when unconfigured |
| Gmail: OAuth2 with PKCE, polling, one-way to tasks | Done, tested |
| Gmail: OAuth2 with PKCE, polling to tasks, unstars what it imports | Done, tested |
| Google Calendar: read-only, laid over the task calendar | Built, never run against Google |
| Calendar subscriptions: ICS and webcal, several per person | Done, tested |
| Times on tasks, set by dragging in the week grid | Done, tested |
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@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Then enable the APIs and scopes for whichever you want:
| For | Enable | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Mailboxes | Gmail API | `gmail.readonly` |
| Mailboxes | Gmail API | `gmail.modify` |
| Calendar | Google Calendar API | `calendar.readonly` |
| Variable | What it does |
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@@ -1250,7 +1250,7 @@ paths:
The one click that opens Google's consent screen already exists. What it
needs behind it is a registered client, and no app can conjure one: Google
issues no Gmail access to an unregistered client, and `gmail.readonly` is a
issues no Gmail access to an unregistered client, and `gmail.modify` is a
restricted scope, so an id shipped inside a public image would be both
extractable from it and unusable without Google's security review of every
deployment that used it.
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@@ -1,14 +1,20 @@
// Package gmail is the small slice of the Gmail API verdande needs, and the scope
// it asks for.
//
// The connection is one-way on purpose: a starred or labelled message becomes a
// task, and nothing verdande does afterwards touches the mailbox. Unstarring the
// message does not delete the task, completing the task does not unstar the
// message. Two-way would mean deciding what to do when both sides changed, and the
// only honest answer to that is a synchronisation model far bigger than the feature.
// The one thing verdande writes back is the star. A starred message becomes a
// task, and once it has, the star comes off — exactly as the IMAP side takes the
// flag off a mail it has imported, and for the same reason: the star meant "turn
// this into a task", the task now exists, so the star is no longer true. Nothing
// else is touched. Completing the task does not reach back to the mail; the mail
// is a pointer the task was made from, not a copy the two have to be kept in step.
//
// Scope is gmail.readonly. verdande never needs to send, modify or delete, and
// asking for less is what makes the consent screen something a person can agree to.
// That one write is why the scope is gmail.modify rather than gmail.readonly.
// Removing the STARRED label is a modify, and Gmail offers no narrower scope that
// can do it — so the consent screen asks for more than it used to, and the trade
// is deliberate: a starred inbox that empties itself as the tasks are made, rather
// than one that fills with stars nothing ever clears. Still not send, still not
// delete — modify is labels, and the only label verdande removes is the one that
// triggered the task.
//
// The OAuth flow itself moved to internal/google when Calendar needed the same one.
// The names below are aliases so that every call site — and this package's own
@@ -27,8 +33,10 @@ import (
"github.com/kristianwind/verdande/internal/google"
)
// Read-only, and only mail. Not profile, not contacts, not send.
const Scope = "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.readonly"
// Read mail and change its labels, and only mail. Not profile, not contacts, not
// send, not delete. The single write is removing the STARRED label from a message
// that has become a task; see the package comment for why that costs modify.
const Scope = "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.modify"
const defaultAPIBase = "https://gmail.googleapis.com/gmail/v1"
@@ -169,6 +177,25 @@ func (c *Client) get(ctx context.Context, url string, out any) error {
return google.Get(ctx, c.http, c.accessToken, url, out)
}
// Unstar takes the star off the given messages — one call for all of them, the way
// the IMAP side unflags a batch, so a sweep that made ten tasks is one write and
// not ten.
//
// STARRED is a system label whose id is its name, so no lookup is needed; a custom
// label would need one, and verdande removes none. batchModify answers 204 with no
// body on success. An empty list is a no-op, not a call: batchModify with no ids is
// an error on Google's side and nothing worth making a round trip to hear.
func (c *Client) Unstar(ctx context.Context, ids []string) error {
if len(ids) == 0 {
return nil
}
body := struct {
IDs []string `json:"ids"`
RemoveLabelIDs []string `json:"removeLabelIds"`
}{IDs: ids, RemoveLabelIDs: []string{"STARRED"}}
return google.Post(ctx, c.http, c.accessToken, c.api()+"/users/me/messages/batchModify", body, nil)
}
// SenderName pulls "Anders Jensen" out of "Anders Jensen <anders@example.dk>",
// falling back to the address when there is no display name.
func SenderName(from string) string {
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@@ -1,16 +1,81 @@
package gmail
import (
"context"
"encoding/json"
"io"
"net/http"
"net/http/httptest"
"strings"
"testing"
)
// The scope is the one thing verdande chooses about the connection, and it is the
// one the person reads on the consent screen. The flow itself is exercised in
// internal/google; what belongs here is that Gmail still asks for read-only mail.
func TestTheScopeIsReadOnlyMail(t *testing.T) {
if !strings.HasSuffix(Scope, "gmail.readonly") {
t.Errorf("scope = %q; verdande never needs to send or modify", Scope)
// internal/google; what belongs here is that Gmail asks for modify — read plus the
// one write it makes, taking the star off an imported message — and nothing wider.
func TestTheScopeIsModifyMail(t *testing.T) {
if !strings.HasSuffix(Scope, "gmail.modify") {
t.Errorf("scope = %q; want gmail.modify — read, plus removing the star", Scope)
}
// Modify is the ceiling. Send, or the full account, would be a different promise
// to the person on the consent screen than the one this feature needs.
for _, wider := range []string{"gmail.send", "mail.google.com", "gmail.settings"} {
if strings.Contains(Scope, wider) {
t.Errorf("scope = %q; must not include %q", Scope, wider)
}
}
}
// Unstar removes the star from a batch in one call, and it addresses the messages
// it was given and only the STARRED label.
func TestUnstarRemovesOnlyTheStar(t *testing.T) {
var gotPath string
var gotBody struct {
IDs []string `json:"ids"`
AddLabelIDs []string `json:"addLabelIds"`
RemoveLabelIDs []string `json:"removeLabelIds"`
}
srv := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
gotPath = r.URL.Path
raw, _ := io.ReadAll(r.Body)
_ = json.Unmarshal(raw, &gotBody)
w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNoContent) // what batchModify answers on success
}))
defer srv.Close()
err := NewClient("token").At(srv.URL).Unstar(context.Background(), []string{"a", "b"})
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Unstar: %v", err)
}
if !strings.HasSuffix(gotPath, "/users/me/messages/batchModify") {
t.Errorf("path = %q, want the batchModify endpoint", gotPath)
}
if strings.Join(gotBody.IDs, ",") != "a,b" {
t.Errorf("ids = %v, want [a b]", gotBody.IDs)
}
if strings.Join(gotBody.RemoveLabelIDs, ",") != "STARRED" {
t.Errorf("removeLabelIds = %v, want [STARRED]", gotBody.RemoveLabelIDs)
}
if len(gotBody.AddLabelIDs) != 0 {
t.Errorf("addLabelIds = %v, want none — verdande adds no label", gotBody.AddLabelIDs)
}
}
// An empty batch is not a request: Gmail rejects a batchModify with no ids, and
// there is nothing to say to it anyway.
func TestUnstarOfNothingMakesNoCall(t *testing.T) {
called := false
srv := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request) {
called = true
}))
defer srv.Close()
if err := NewClient("token").At(srv.URL).Unstar(context.Background(), nil); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Unstar(nil): %v", err)
}
if called {
t.Error("Unstar(nil) made a request; it should make none")
}
}
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@@ -215,6 +215,40 @@ func Get(ctx context.Context, client *http.Client, accessToken, url string, out
return json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(out)
}
// Post sends a JSON body to a Google API and, unlike Get, does not insist on a
// body coming back. A write call — modifying labels on a message — answers with
// 204 No Content when it worked, so anything 2xx is success and only the body is
// decoded, and only when the caller asked for one.
func Post(ctx context.Context, client *http.Client, accessToken, url string, body, out any) error {
payload, err := json.Marshal(body)
if err != nil {
return err
}
req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodPost, url, strings.NewReader(string(payload)))
if err != nil {
return err
}
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+accessToken)
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
resp, err := client.Do(req)
if err != nil {
return err
}
defer resp.Body.Close()
if resp.StatusCode == http.StatusUnauthorized {
return ErrUnauthorized
}
if resp.StatusCode < 200 || resp.StatusCode >= 300 {
return fmt.Errorf("google: %s", resp.Status)
}
if out == nil || resp.StatusCode == http.StatusNoContent {
return nil
}
return json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(out)
}
func randomString(n int) (string, error) {
b := make([]byte, n)
if _, err := rand.Read(b); err != nil {
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@@ -251,10 +251,12 @@ func (s *Server) handleGmailSyncNow(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
// takes a context and a user rather than a request.
// maxGmailSeen bounds the list of message ids already turned into tasks.
//
// Gmail is read-only here — the scope is `gmail.readonly`, deliberately, because
// asking for less is what makes the consent screen something a person can agree
// to — so verdande cannot unstar a message the way the IMAP side unflags one. The
// record has to live on this side, and a record on this side has to be bounded.
// The star is taken off an imported message now, so on a starred trigger the mail
// leaves the query on its own and this list is a safety net rather than the only
// record. It still earns its place: it covers the window between making the task
// and the star coming off, and it is the whole of the dedup for a label trigger,
// where the label is the person's and not ours to remove. A record on this side
// has to be bounded.
//
// A count rather than the previous rule of "whatever Gmail returned this run",
// which was not a bound but a way of forgetting.
@@ -381,6 +383,29 @@ func (s *Server) SyncGmail(ctx context.Context, user *store.User) (int, error) {
s.hub.Publish(projectID, "task.created", toTaskJSON(*task))
}
// The star comes off every message this query returned that now has a task —
// the ones made this run and the ones a run before it already made. Gated to the
// triggers that are about the star: for a label trigger the star is the person's
// own and not ours to touch, and dedup there rests on the seen list alone.
//
// Best effort, exactly like the IMAP unflag: a task made is not undone by a star
// that would not come off. The likeliest reason it will not, right after this
// ships, is a connection still holding the old read-only grant — the write is a
// 403 until the account is reconnected, and this logs it rather than failing the
// sync. It self-heals: the mail stays starred, stays in the next query, and is
// tried again once the grant is there.
if box.Trigger == "starred" || box.Trigger == "both" {
unstar := make([]string, 0, len(ids))
for _, id := range ids {
if seen[id] {
unstar = append(unstar, id)
}
}
if err := client.Unstar(ctx, unstar); err != nil {
s.log.Warn("gmail unstar", "err", err, "user", user.ID, "count", len(unstar))
}
}
if created > 0 {
// The ids this run saw, on top of the ones already known.
//
@@ -442,8 +467,8 @@ func (s *Server) handleVersion(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
//
// The one click that opens Google's consent screen already exists; what it needs
// behind it is a registered client, and that is not something any app can conjure:
// Google issues no Gmail access to an unregistered client, and `gmail.readonly` is
// a restricted scope, so an id shipped inside a public image would be both
// Google issues no Gmail access to an unregistered client, and `gmail.modify` is a
// restricted scope, so an id shipped inside a public image would be both
// extractable from it and unusable without Google's security review of every
// deployment. The registration is a one-off. Having to edit a Rune's manifest and
// recreate the container to paste the result was not.
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@@ -1,14 +1,17 @@
package httpapi
import (
"github.com/kristianwind/verdande/internal/store"
"encoding/json"
"io"
"net/http"
"net/http/httptest"
"net/url"
"strings"
"testing"
"time"
"github.com/kristianwind/verdande/internal/config"
"github.com/kristianwind/verdande/internal/store"
)
// A Gmail failure has to survive being reported.
@@ -150,6 +153,84 @@ func TestASlowMailboxDoesNotHangTheRequest(t *testing.T) {
t.Logf("came back in %s with %d", took.Round(time.Millisecond), resp.StatusCode)
}
// A message that becomes a task has its star taken off — the write that the whole
// gmail.modify scope is for. The mail's own inbox empties as the tasks are made,
// the way the IMAP side unflags what it imports.
func TestASyncedGmailMessageIsUnstarred(t *testing.T) {
var unstarred struct {
hit bool
body struct {
IDs []string `json:"ids"`
RemoveLabelIDs []string `json:"removeLabelIds"`
}
}
google := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
switch {
case r.Method == "POST" && strings.HasSuffix(r.URL.Path, "/messages/batchModify"):
unstarred.hit = true
raw, _ := io.ReadAll(r.Body)
_ = json.Unmarshal(raw, &unstarred.body)
w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNoContent)
case strings.Contains(r.URL.Path, "/messages/") && r.URL.Query().Get("format") == "metadata":
writeTestJSON(w, map[string]any{
"id": "m1", "threadId": "t1", "snippet": "kort tekst",
"payload": map[string]any{"headers": []map[string]string{
{"name": "From", "value": "Anders <anders@example.dk>"},
{"name": "Subject", "value": "Møde på fredag"},
}},
})
case strings.HasSuffix(r.URL.Path, "/messages"):
writeTestJSON(w, map[string]any{"messages": []map[string]string{{"id": "m1"}}})
default:
http.Error(w, "unexpected "+r.Method+" "+r.URL.Path, http.StatusNotFound)
}
}))
defer google.Close()
ts := newTestServerWith(t, func(cfg *config.Config) {
cfg.GmailClientID = "test-client"
cfg.GmailClientSecret = "test-secret"
cfg.GoogleTokenURL = google.URL + "/token"
cfg.GmailAPIURL = google.URL
})
ts.bootstrap(t)
user, err := ts.db.UserByEmail(t.Context(), "kristian@example.dk")
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
// A live access token, so the run goes straight to the list without a refresh.
if err := ts.db.SaveMailbox(t.Context(), &store.Mailbox{
UserID: user.ID, Kind: "gmail", RefreshToken: "r", AccessToken: "a",
Trigger: "starred", ExpiresAt: time.Now().Add(time.Hour),
}); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
resp, body := ts.do(t, "POST", "/api/v1/gmail/sync", nil)
if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
t.Fatalf("sync: status %d, want 200", resp.StatusCode)
}
if created, _ := body["created"].(float64); created != 1 {
t.Fatalf("created = %v, want 1", body["created"])
}
if !unstarred.hit {
t.Fatal("the message was never unstarred; its star is the one thing modify is for")
}
if strings.Join(unstarred.body.IDs, ",") != "m1" {
t.Errorf("unstarred ids = %v, want [m1]", unstarred.body.IDs)
}
if strings.Join(unstarred.body.RemoveLabelIDs, ",") != "STARRED" {
t.Errorf("removed = %v, want [STARRED]", unstarred.body.RemoveLabelIDs)
}
}
func writeTestJSON(w http.ResponseWriter, v any) {
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
_ = json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(v)
}
func mustParse(t *testing.T, raw string) *url.URL {
t.Helper()
u, err := url.Parse(raw)
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@@ -660,7 +660,7 @@ export const da = {
// --- settings: integrations --------------------------------------------------------
'int.mailboxes': 'Postkasser',
'int.mailboxesHint':
'Flag en mail i iCloud, Fastmail eller enhver anden udbyder, og den bliver en opgave. Én vej: fjerner du flaget, sker der ikke noget med opgaven. Office 365 kan ikke bruges her — Microsoft har lukket for kodeord på IMAP.',
'Flag en mail i iCloud, Fastmail eller enhver anden udbyder, og den bliver en opgave — flaget fjernes, når opgaven er oprettet. Kun én vej: gør du selv noget ved mailen bagefter, sker der ikke noget med opgaven. Office 365 kan ikke bruges her — Microsoft har lukket for kodeord på IMAP.',
'int.addMailbox': 'Tilføj en postkasse',
'int.host': 'IMAP-server',
'int.username': 'Brugernavn',
@@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ export const da = {
'int.fetching': 'Henter …',
'int.gmail': 'Gmail',
'int.gmailHint':
'Stjernemarkér en mail, eller giv den en etiket, og den bliver en opgave. Envejs: at fjerne stjernen gør ikke noget ved opgaven.',
'Stjernemarkér en mail, eller giv den en etiket, og den bliver en opgave — stjernen fjernes så (en etiket bliver, hvor den er). Det du selv gør ved mailen bagefter, ændrer ikke opgaven.',
'int.connectGmail': 'Forbind Gmail',
'int.fromEnv':
'Klienten er sat i miljøet (VERDANDE_GMAIL_CLIENT_ID), så den kan ikke ændres her. Det er med vilje: en værdi i runens manifest er en beslutning, der bliver anvendt igen ved hver genstart, og en formular, der kunne overskrive den, ville gøre manifestet til en løgn.',
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@@ -656,7 +656,7 @@ export const en = {
// --- settings: integrations --------------------------------------------------------
'int.mailboxes': 'Mailboxes',
'int.mailboxesHint':
'Flag an email in iCloud, Fastmail or any other provider and it becomes a task. One way: removing the flag does nothing to the task. Office 365 cannot be used here — Microsoft has closed IMAP to passwords.',
'Flag an email in iCloud, Fastmail or any other provider and it becomes a task — the flag comes off once it has. One way only: what you do to the mail afterwards does not change the task. Office 365 cannot be used here — Microsoft has closed IMAP to passwords.',
'int.addMailbox': 'Add a mailbox',
'int.host': 'IMAP server',
'int.username': 'Username',
@@ -672,7 +672,7 @@ export const en = {
'int.fetching': 'Fetching …',
'int.gmail': 'Gmail',
'int.gmailHint':
'Star an email, or give it a label, and it becomes a task. One way: removing the star does nothing to the task.',
'Star an email, or give it a label, and it becomes a task — the star then comes off (a label stays where it is). What you do to the mail afterwards does not change the task.',
'int.connectGmail': 'Connect Gmail',
'int.fromEnv':
'The client is set in the environment (VERDANDE_GMAIL_CLIENT_ID), so it cannot be changed here. That is deliberate: a value in the Rune’s manifest is a decision reapplied on every restart, and a form that could overwrite it would make the manifest a lie.',
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@
<!-- The registration behind the button, for whoever can do something about
it. Google issues no Gmail access to an unregistered client, and
gmail.readonly is a restricted scope — so this step cannot be skipped by
gmail.modify is a restricted scope — so this step cannot be skipped by
any app. It can stop requiring a redeploy, which is what this is. -->
{#if app.user?.is_admin && client}
{#if client.from_env}