diff --git a/modules/mesh-mail-web/cmd/mesh-mail-web/accounts.go b/modules/mesh-mail-web/cmd/mesh-mail-web/accounts.go
index 0ab2cd79..24eb6322 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-mail-web/cmd/mesh-mail-web/accounts.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-mail-web/cmd/mesh-mail-web/accounts.go
@@ -48,9 +48,55 @@ type accountRow struct {
 	Folders                         []accountBucketFolder
 }
 
+// mailEntryRow is one mail entry as the mail-reading section shows it (novox/hq ADR 0459 §13, issue 1430):
+// account, message id, date, sender name, subject, group, summary, mark, why and due date — never a body.
+// Rendered only through html/template, so nothing a mail carries is ever interpreted as markup (AC1).
+type mailEntryRow struct {
+	SenderName, Summary, Why, DueDate string
+}
+
+// mailGroupRow is one mail group with how many entries hold it (1430/AC1).
+type mailGroupRow struct {
+	Label string
+	Count int
+}
+
+// mailReadingData is what the accounts page shows above the classical list (1430/AC1-AC3): with
+// Unavailable set (mail-reading did not answer status at all, AC3), nothing else here is shown. Otherwise,
+// Healthy says whether to show Groups (healthy, AC1) or Cause and Since in their place (unhealthy, AC2);
+// Matters and ScamWarnings are shown either way.
+type mailReadingData struct {
+	Unavailable  string
+	Healthy      bool
+	Cause, Since string
+	Matters      []mailEntryRow
+	Groups       []mailGroupRow
+	ScamWarnings []mailEntryRow
+}
+
 var accountsTemplate = template.Must(template.New("accounts").Parse(`<!DOCTYPE html>
 <html><head><title>Mail accounts</title></head><body>
 <h1>Accounts</h1>
+<section id="mail-reading">
+{{with .MailReading}}
+{{if .Unavailable}}<p>Mail reading is unavailable: {{.Unavailable}}</p>
+{{else}}
+<h2>Mail that matters</h2>
+{{if .Matters}}<ul>{{range .Matters}}<li>{{.SenderName}} — {{.Summary}}{{if .DueDate}} — due {{.DueDate}}{{end}}{{if .Why}} ({{.Why}}){{end}}</li>{{end}}</ul>
+{{else}}<p>Nothing matters right now.</p>{{end}}
+{{if .Healthy}}
+<h2>Mail groups</h2>
+{{if .Groups}}<ul>{{range .Groups}}<li>{{.Label}}: {{.Count}}</li>{{end}}</ul>{{else}}<p>No mail groups yet.</p>{{end}}
+{{else}}
+<h2>Mail reading</h2>
+<p>Unhealthy: {{.Cause}} (since {{.Since}})</p>
+{{end}}
+<h2>Scam warnings</h2>
+{{if .ScamWarnings}}<ul>{{range .ScamWarnings}}<li>{{.SenderName}} — {{.Summary}}{{if .Why}}: {{.Why}}{{end}}</li>{{end}}</ul>
+{{else}}<p>None.</p>{{end}}
+{{end}}
+{{end}}
+</section>
 {{if .Error}}<p>{{.Error}}</p>{{else}}
 <ul>
 {{range .Accounts}}
@@ -70,8 +116,9 @@ var accountsTemplate = template.Must(template.New("accounts").Parse(`<!DOCTYPE h
 // accountsTemplateData avoids the html/template range variable losing access to the account's own name inside
 // its nested range over folders (Go templates have no closures): each row carries its own name twice.
 type accountsTemplateData struct {
-	Accounts []accountRowWithName
-	Error    string
+	MailReading mailReadingData
+	Accounts    []accountRowWithName
+	Error       string
 }
 
 type accountRowWithName struct {
@@ -79,22 +126,101 @@ type accountRowWithName struct {
 	CurrentAccount string
 }
 
-// accountsPage is issue 1264/AC1-AC5: lists every account mail-store.accounts answers (never one it did not,
-// AC2), each with its folders' mail and unread counts read from mesh-mail's own account bucket — one Get per
-// account mail-store answered, never Keys() (AC2), and never failing the whole page when an account has no
-// key there yet (AC4). The only seats this page calls are mail-store.accounts and (the folder page, below)
-// mail-store.search (AC5).
+// mailStatusAnswer, mailEntriesAnswer and mailGroupsAnswer are mail-reading's own status, entries and
+// groups verbs' answer shapes (modules/mesh-mail-reader/cmd/mesh-mail-reader/tools.go entriesTool,
+// groupsTool, statusTool), the fields this page reads — never a mail body.
+type mailStatusAnswer struct {
+	Healthy bool   `json:"healthy"`
+	Cause   string `json:"cause"`
+	Why     string `json:"why"`
+	Since   string `json:"since"`
+}
+
+type mailEntriesAnswer struct {
+	Entries []struct {
+		SenderName string `json:"sender-name"`
+		Subject    string `json:"subject"`
+		Summary    string `json:"summary"`
+		Mark       string `json:"mark"`
+		Why        string `json:"why"`
+		DueDate    string `json:"due-date"`
+	} `json:"entries"`
+}
+
+type mailGroupsAnswer struct {
+	Groups []struct {
+		Label string `json:"label"`
+		Count int    `json:"count"`
+	} `json:"groups"`
+}
+
+// mailReadingSection is 1430/AC1-AC3: asks mail-reading.status first; not answering or refusing at all makes
+// the whole section say mail reading is unavailable and why (AC3), and nothing else here is asked. Otherwise
+// entries and groups are asked too (healthy or not: the mail that matters and the scam warnings are shown
+// either way, AC1, AC2); any later failure here falls back to the same "unavailable" message, since by then
+// the operator has already been told the one reason that matters.
+func (b *Bundle) mailReadingSection(ctx context.Context) mailReadingData {
+	statusRaw, err := b.mailStatusAsk(ctx, map[string]any{})
+	if err != nil {
+		return mailReadingData{Unavailable: "mail-reading does not answer: " + err.Error()}
+	}
+	var status mailStatusAnswer
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(statusRaw, &status); err != nil {
+		return mailReadingData{Unavailable: "mail-reading's status could not be read"}
+	}
+	data := mailReadingData{Healthy: status.Healthy, Cause: status.Cause, Since: status.Since}
+
+	entriesRaw, err := b.mailEntriesAsk(ctx, map[string]any{})
+	if err != nil {
+		return mailReadingData{Unavailable: "mail-reading does not answer: " + err.Error()}
+	}
+	var entries mailEntriesAnswer
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(entriesRaw, &entries); err != nil {
+		return mailReadingData{Unavailable: "mail-reading's entries could not be read"}
+	}
+	for _, e := range entries.Entries {
+		row := mailEntryRow{SenderName: e.SenderName, Summary: e.Summary, Why: e.Why, DueDate: e.DueDate}
+		switch e.Mark {
+		case "matters":
+			data.Matters = append(data.Matters, row)
+		case "scam warning":
+			data.ScamWarnings = append(data.ScamWarnings, row)
+		}
+	}
+
+	if status.Healthy {
+		groupsRaw, err := b.mailGroupsAsk(ctx, map[string]any{})
+		if err != nil {
+			return mailReadingData{Unavailable: "mail-reading does not answer: " + err.Error()}
+		}
+		var groups mailGroupsAnswer
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(groupsRaw, &groups); err != nil {
+			return mailReadingData{Unavailable: "mail-reading's groups could not be read"}
+		}
+		for _, g := range groups.Groups {
+			data.Groups = append(data.Groups, mailGroupRow{Label: g.Label, Count: g.Count})
+		}
+	}
+	return data
+}
+
+// accountsPage is issue 1264/AC1-AC5, 1430/AC1-AC3: lists every account mail-store.accounts answers (never
+// one it did not, AC2), each with its folders' mail and unread counts read from mesh-mail's own account
+// bucket — one Get per account mail-store answered, never Keys() (AC2), and never failing the whole page
+// when an account has no key there yet (AC4); above it, what mail-reading shows (mailReadingSection, 1430).
+// The classical list below always renders, even when mail-reading is unavailable (1430/AC3).
 func (b *Bundle) accountsPage(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(r.Context(), 20*time.Second)
 	defer cancel()
+	mailReading := b.mailReadingSection(ctx)
 	raw, err := b.accountsAsk(ctx)
 	if err != nil {
-		renderPage(w, accountsTemplate, accountsTemplateData{Error: "mail-store does not answer; try again shortly"})
+		renderPage(w, accountsTemplate, accountsTemplateData{MailReading: mailReading, Error: "mail-store does not answer; try again shortly"})
 		return
 	}
 	var answer accountsAnswer
 	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &answer); err != nil {
-		renderPage(w, accountsTemplate, accountsTemplateData{Error: "mail-store's answer could not be read"})
+		renderPage(w, accountsTemplate, accountsTemplateData{MailReading: mailReading, Error: "mail-store's answer could not be read"})
 		return
 	}
 	rows := make([]accountRowWithName, 0, len(answer.Accounts))
@@ -112,7 +238,7 @@ func (b *Bundle) accountsPage(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		}
 		rows = append(rows, accountRowWithName{accountRow: row, CurrentAccount: a.Account})
 	}
-	renderPage(w, accountsTemplate, accountsTemplateData{Accounts: rows})
+	renderPage(w, accountsTemplate, accountsTemplateData{MailReading: mailReading, Accounts: rows})
 }
 
 // MostFolderResults is the folder and search pages' own page size (novox/hq ADR 0440 §4, issue 1264/AC3).
diff --git a/modules/mesh-mail-web/cmd/mesh-mail-web/mailreading_test.go b/modules/mesh-mail-web/cmd/mesh-mail-web/mailreading_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5403fe08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/mesh-mail-web/cmd/mesh-mail-web/mailreading_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+package main
+
+// The mail-reading section of the accounts page (novox/hq ADR 0459 §7, §12, §13; issue 1430).
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func seatAskJSON(t *testing.T, v any) SeatAsk {
+	t.Helper()
+	raw, err := json.Marshal(v)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return func(context.Context, map[string]any) (json.RawMessage, error) { return raw, nil }
+}
+
+// 1430/AC1: with mail-reading healthy, the page shows the mail that matters first, the mail groups with
+// their counts, and the scam warnings in their own section, each escaped through html/template.
+func TestAccountsPageShowsMailThatMattersGroupsAndScamWarnings(t *testing.T) {
+	accountsRaw, err := accountsAnswerJSON()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	b := &Bundle{
+		Accounts:   func(context.Context) (json.RawMessage, error) { return accountsRaw, nil },
+		MailStatus: seatAskJSON(t, map[string]any{"healthy": true}),
+		MailEntries: seatAskJSON(t, map[string]any{"entries": []map[string]any{
+			{"sender-name": "Alice", "summary": "pay <the> bill", "mark": "matters", "why": "due soon", "due-date": "2026-11-01"},
+			{"sender-name": "Eve", "summary": "a scam", "mark": "scam warning", "why": "fake bank"},
+		}}),
+		MailGroups: seatAskJSON(t, map[string]any{"groups": []map[string]any{{"label": "bills", "count": 3}}}),
+	}
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	r := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "/", nil)
+	b.accountsPage(w, r)
+	body := w.Body.String()
+
+	for _, want := range []string{"Alice", "due 2026-11-01", "due soon", "bills: 3", "Eve", "a scam", "fake bank"} {
+		if !strings.Contains(body, want) {
+			t.Fatalf("body does not contain %q:\n%s", want, body)
+		}
+	}
+	// html/template escapes a mail's own words (AC1: "all through html/template, escaped").
+	if strings.Contains(body, "<the>") {
+		t.Fatalf("the summary was not escaped: %s", body)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(body, "&lt;the&gt;") {
+		t.Fatalf("the escaped summary is missing: %s", body)
+	}
+}
+
+// 1430/AC2: with status unhealthy, the page shows its cause and since when in place of the mail groups, and
+// the classical list still below.
+func TestAccountsPageShowsCauseInPlaceOfGroupsWhenUnhealthy(t *testing.T) {
+	accountsRaw, err := accountsAnswerJSON(map[string]any{"account": "a", "kind": "imap", "address": "a@example.org", "state": "current"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	b := &Bundle{
+		Accounts:    func(context.Context) (json.RawMessage, error) { return accountsRaw, nil },
+		MailStatus:  seatAskJSON(t, map[string]any{"healthy": false, "cause": "refused", "why": "holds no licence", "since": "2026-10-20T09:30:00Z"}),
+		MailEntries: seatAskJSON(t, map[string]any{"entries": []map[string]any{}}),
+	}
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	r := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "/", nil)
+	b.accountsPage(w, r)
+	body := w.Body.String()
+
+	if !strings.Contains(body, "Unhealthy") || !strings.Contains(body, "refused") || !strings.Contains(body, "2026-10-20T09:30:00Z") {
+		t.Fatalf("body does not show the cause and since when:\n%s", body)
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(body, "Mail groups") {
+		t.Fatalf("the mail groups heading is shown even though unhealthy:\n%s", body)
+	}
+	// The classical list still renders below (AC2).
+	if !strings.Contains(body, "a@example.org") || !strings.Contains(body, "current") {
+		t.Fatalf("the classical list did not render:\n%s", body)
+	}
+}
+
+// 1430/AC3: with mail-reading not answering or refusing, the page says mail reading is unavailable and why,
+// and the classical list still renders in full.
+func TestAccountsPageSaysMailReadingUnavailableAndStillRendersTheList(t *testing.T) {
+	accountsRaw, err := accountsAnswerJSON(map[string]any{"account": "a", "kind": "imap", "address": "a@example.org", "state": "current"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	b := &Bundle{
+		Accounts:   func(context.Context) (json.RawMessage, error) { return accountsRaw, nil },
+		MailStatus: func(context.Context, map[string]any) (json.RawMessage, error) { return nil, errRefused },
+	}
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	r := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "/", nil)
+	b.accountsPage(w, r)
+	body := w.Body.String()
+
+	if !strings.Contains(body, "unavailable") {
+		t.Fatalf("body does not say mail reading is unavailable:\n%s", body)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(body, "a@example.org") || !strings.Contains(body, "current") {
+		t.Fatalf("the classical list did not render in full:\n%s", body)
+	}
+}
+
+type signalError struct{ s string }
+
+func (e signalError) Error() string { return e.s }
+
+var errRefused = signalError{"refused"}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-mail-web/cmd/mesh-mail-web/manifest_test.go b/modules/mesh-mail-web/cmd/mesh-mail-web/manifest_test.go
index 9b7eee7f..ca7a006e 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-mail-web/cmd/mesh-mail-web/manifest_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-mail-web/cmd/mesh-mail-web/manifest_test.go
@@ -94,12 +94,15 @@ func TestTheManifestSaysWhatTheCodeDoes(t *testing.T) {
 	if !reflect.DeepEqual(m.Claims, wantClaims) {
 		t.Fatalf("claims %+v, want %+v", m.Claims, wantClaims)
 	}
+	// 1430/AC: the six seat:mail-reading verbs, beside the five mail-store ones.
 	wantInvokes := []string{
 		"seat:mail-store.accounts", "seat:mail-store.search", "seat:mail-store.read",
 		"seat:mail-store.send", "seat:mail-store.send-status",
+		"seat:mail-reading.entries", "seat:mail-reading.groups", "seat:mail-reading.status",
+		"seat:mail-reading.correct", "seat:mail-reading.lessons", "seat:mail-reading.undo",
 	}
 	if !reflect.DeepEqual(m.Invokes, wantInvokes) {
-		t.Fatalf("invokes %v, want exactly the five mail-store verbs %v", m.Invokes, wantInvokes)
+		t.Fatalf("invokes %v, want exactly %v", m.Invokes, wantInvokes)
 	}
 	if !reflect.DeepEqual(m.Reads, []string{"mesh-mail.accounts"}) {
 		t.Fatalf("reads %v, want [mesh-mail.accounts]", m.Reads)
@@ -116,7 +119,7 @@ func TestTheManifestSaysWhatTheCodeDoes(t *testing.T) {
 	if !ok || op.Type != "list" || !op.Trusted || len(op.Default) != 0 {
 		t.Fatalf("config.operators %+v, want a trusted list defaulting to nobody", op)
 	}
-	// No database, no state bucket, no writable directory beyond the account's own state dir: only the
+	// 1430/AC4: no database, no state bucket, no writable directory beyond the account's own state dir: only the
 	// account (a user resource, not writable), the state directory, and the two files rendered into it.
 	if len(m.State) != 0 {
 		t.Fatalf("state %v, want none", m.State)
diff --git a/modules/mesh-mail-web/cmd/mesh-mail-web/tools.go b/modules/mesh-mail-web/cmd/mesh-mail-web/tools.go
index ea3781ba..91bf6d40 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-mail-web/cmd/mesh-mail-web/tools.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-mail-web/cmd/mesh-mail-web/tools.go
@@ -54,7 +54,17 @@ type Bundle struct {
 	Send          SeatAsk
 	SendStatus    SeatAsk
 	AccountBucket AccountsBucketGet
-	Now           func() time.Time
+	// MailEntries, MailGroups and MailStatus are mail-reading's own read verbs the accounts page shows above
+	// the classical list (novox/hq ADR 0459 §13, issue 1430); MailCorrect and MailUndo are its writes, and
+	// MailLessons its lessons list (issue 1523). nil answers mail-reading as unavailable (1430/AC3) in every
+	// test that builds a Bundle directly without one — the same seam Search, Read, Send and SendStatus use.
+	MailEntries SeatAsk
+	MailGroups  SeatAsk
+	MailStatus  SeatAsk
+	MailCorrect SeatAsk
+	MailLessons SeatAsk
+	MailUndo    SeatAsk
+	Now         func() time.Time
 	// HTTP is serveHTTP's own state (main.go, review round 1 of issue 1283, finding 4): nil answers
 	// HTTPListening (every test that builds a Bundle directly, never through main's own serveHTTP, means this
 	// module's HTTP endpoint whole).
@@ -105,6 +115,48 @@ func (b *Bundle) sendStatusAsk(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) (json.R
 	return sdkSeatAsk("mail-store.send-status")(ctx, args)
 }
 
+func (b *Bundle) mailEntriesAsk(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+	if b.MailEntries != nil {
+		return b.MailEntries(ctx, args)
+	}
+	return sdkSeatAsk("mail-reading.entries")(ctx, args)
+}
+
+func (b *Bundle) mailGroupsAsk(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+	if b.MailGroups != nil {
+		return b.MailGroups(ctx, args)
+	}
+	return sdkSeatAsk("mail-reading.groups")(ctx, args)
+}
+
+func (b *Bundle) mailStatusAsk(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+	if b.MailStatus != nil {
+		return b.MailStatus(ctx, args)
+	}
+	return sdkSeatAsk("mail-reading.status")(ctx, args)
+}
+
+func (b *Bundle) mailCorrectAsk(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+	if b.MailCorrect != nil {
+		return b.MailCorrect(ctx, args)
+	}
+	return sdkSeatAsk("mail-reading.correct")(ctx, args)
+}
+
+func (b *Bundle) mailLessonsAsk(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+	if b.MailLessons != nil {
+		return b.MailLessons(ctx, args)
+	}
+	return sdkSeatAsk("mail-reading.lessons")(ctx, args)
+}
+
+func (b *Bundle) mailUndoAsk(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+	if b.MailUndo != nil {
+		return b.MailUndo(ctx, args)
+	}
+	return sdkSeatAsk("mail-reading.undo")(ctx, args)
+}
+
 func (b *Bundle) accountBucketGet(account string) (*stdio.StateEntry, error) {
 	if b.AccountBucket != nil {
 		return b.AccountBucket(account)
diff --git a/modules/mesh-mail-web/module.json b/modules/mesh-mail-web/module.json
index fd928396..c6c0d3de 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-mail-web/module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-mail-web/module.json
@@ -15,7 +15,13 @@
     "seat:mail-store.search",
     "seat:mail-store.read",
     "seat:mail-store.send",
-    "seat:mail-store.send-status"
+    "seat:mail-store.send-status",
+    "seat:mail-reading.entries",
+    "seat:mail-reading.groups",
+    "seat:mail-reading.status",
+    "seat:mail-reading.correct",
+    "seat:mail-reading.lessons",
+    "seat:mail-reading.undo"
   ],
   "reads": ["mesh-mail.accounts"],
   "requires": ["route", "oidc-client"],