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betterbird: ship the operator's approved configuration, and show and fix drift from it (hq issue 345)
A module that installs Betterbird but leaves every node to its own settings does not set Betterbird up.
The operator approved the configuration on 2026-10-12, and it now ships in three layers. The policy
locks what must never differ: telemetry, add-on updates, the vendor's notices and the start page. A
defaults file carries the laptop's setup, so a fresh node gets it untouched. The setting prefs stays a
node's exceptions.

A default loses to a value the profile saved. betterbird_config shows that drift, betterbird_check
reports it, and betterbird_config_apply clears it while Betterbird is quit. keep proposes a node layer
instead of writing user.js. betterbird_prefs now reads Betterbird's real defaults from omni.ja, and
withholds of mailnews.* only what names an account. The default-client ask is decided from its own
policy entry, not from the first thing the policy lacks.
2026-10-12 20:58:39 +02:00

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// The betterbird module's Go tools bundle (novox/hq ADR 0188, ADR 0193, ADR 0208): Betterbird, the
// mail and calendar client, in the operator's session, served by the node's runtime as the operator
// account. The module holds no seat, so every tool is its own.
//
// The operator's mail, calendars, accounts and credentials are never read: a tool reads processes,
// profiles.ini, and of the profile only prefs.js, user.js and extensions.json, and answers no
// preference that can hold a credential or names an account.
package main
import (
"fmt"
"os"
"time"
stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
)
func main() {
// The module's start runs this before Betterbird (novox/hq ADR 0316 §11, §12): the user.js placed and the
// declared accounts written into the account lists, while no Betterbird of this account runs.
if len(os.Args) == 2 && os.Args[1] == "prepare" {
if err := machine.Prepare(); err != nil {
fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, "betterbird: "+err.Error())
os.Exit(1)
}
return
}
if err := stdio.Serve("", tools()); err != nil {
fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
os.Exit(1)
}
}
var machine = NewMachine()
func tools() []stdio.Tool {
return []stdio.Tool{
{
Name: "betterbird_status",
Description: "Betterbird: whether it runs (the main process's pid, since, and the scope it runs in; how " +
"many child processes); what is installed in /opt/betterbird and from where (the mesh's pinned release, " +
"or the community package before the switch), its version and build beside the newest published build; " +
"whether the enterprise policy is placed; Owl's version against the mesh's pin and whether it is active; " +
"where its output goes; the profile it uses and how that was found; the module's user.js (declared, " +
"placed, in effect); the declared accounts by count (in the profile's list, other accounts, not signed " +
"in yet), never an address, host or name; the add-ons in the profile; and the preferences that decide " +
"how its windows and notifications look. (r)",
Run: func(map[string]any) (any, error) { return machine.Status() },
},
{
Name: "betterbird_prefs",
Description: "Named preferences of Betterbird's profile: each one's value and where it comes from (the " +
"module's policy, which locks it; user.js, which wins at the start; prefs.js; or the default), and the " +
"default itself with the file that gives it: Betterbird's own, read from omni.ja and the installation's " +
"defaults/pref, or the module's defaults (mesh-defaults.js). A name ending in . or * is a prefix (at most " +
"200 answered). A preference whose name can hold a credential, or that names an account, a server, a " +
"calendar or a person, is answered without its value. (r)",
Input: map[string]any{
"names": map[string]any{"type": "array", "items": map[string]any{"type": "string"},
"description": "preference names or prefixes, e.g. [\"calendar.alarms.\", \"extensions.activeThemeID\"]"},
},
Run: func(args map[string]any) (any, error) {
names, err := texts(args, "names")
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return machine.Prefs(names)
},
},
{
Name: "betterbird_config",
Description: "The configuration the module ships, preference by preference: the value its policy locks, " +
"its default (mesh-defaults.js, or Betterbird's own where the module keeps that), the node layer (the " +
"setting prefs on this machine), the profile's own saved value and the value in effect. It flags drift: " +
"a value the profile saved that beats the module's default without a node layer saying so. With keep " +
"(names), it proposes a node layer of the setting prefs for this machine holding the profile's values of " +
"those preferences, through the controller's settings verb, for the operator's Approve; it never writes " +
"user.js. (r; a with keep)",
Input: map[string]any{
"keep": map[string]any{"type": "array", "items": map[string]any{"type": "string"},
"description": "managed preferences whose profile value this machine keeps: proposed as a node layer, e.g. [\"mail.uifontsize\"]"},
},
Run: func(args map[string]any) (any, error) {
keep, err := texts(args, "keep")
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return machine.Config(keep)
},
},
{
Name: "betterbird_config_apply",
Description: "Bring the profile back to the module's configuration: takes the drifting values " +
"(betterbird_config) out of the profile's prefs.js, so the module's defaults hold at Betterbird's next " +
"start, and says what it cleared, each with the value it had and the one that now holds. Without apply " +
"it lists them only. With apply it acts only while Betterbird is not running, because Betterbird " +
"rewrites prefs.js when it quits; every other line of prefs.js is kept. (r; a with apply)",
Input: map[string]any{
"apply": map[string]any{"type": "boolean", "description": "clear the drifting values (default false: a dry run)"},
},
Run: func(args map[string]any) (any, error) {
apply, err := flag(args, "apply", false)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return machine.ConfigApply(apply)
},
},
{
Name: "betterbird_user_js",
Description: "The module's user.js — the preferences the module declares (setting prefs), then the declared " +
"accounts' preferences under the module's own keys (setting accounts) — against the profile's user.js: " +
"whether it is placed, and whether the running Betterbird started after it was. With apply, place it in " +
"the profile (only where the profile has no user.js or the module's own; an operator's file is never " +
"overwritten). A declared account the profile already holds at its address is adopted under its own keys; " +
"one it does not hold is created under the module's keys, which are added to the account lists when " +
"Betterbird is not running; an ambiguous one is refused alone, with the remedy (novox/hq ADR 0317). " +
"Accounts' values are withheld in the answer. Betterbird reads it at its next start: betterbird_restart. " +
"(r; a with apply)",
Input: map[string]any{
"apply": map[string]any{"type": "boolean", "description": "place the declared user.js in the profile (default false)"},
},
Run: func(args map[string]any) (any, error) {
apply, err := flag(args, "apply", false)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return machine.userJS(apply)
},
},
{
Name: "betterbird_log",
Description: "The last lines Betterbird printed, from the journal of the unit the module starts it as " +
"(mesh-betterbird; or mesh-betterbird-reminder-test). With problems, only lines that say error, " +
"warning, assertion, crash or failure. Mail addresses and credentials are replaced by <hidden>. A " +
"Betterbird the module did not start prints elsewhere, and the answer says so. (r)",
Input: map[string]any{
"lines": map[string]any{"type": "integer", "description": "how many lines (default 100, at most 2000)"},
"problems": map[string]any{"type": "boolean", "description": "only problem lines (default false)"},
"unit": map[string]any{"type": "string", "enum": []string{restartAs, testUnit}, "description": "which start's journal (default " + restartAs + ")"},
},
Run: func(args map[string]any) (any, error) {
n, err := whole(args, "lines", 100, 1, 2000)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
problems, err := flag(args, "problems", false)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
unit, err := text(args, "unit", false)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return machine.Log(n, problems, unit)
},
},
{
Name: "betterbird_restart",
Description: "End Betterbird (asked to quit, forced after 8 s), place the module's user.js when the profile " +
"allows it, and start Betterbird again in the operator's desktop session under the account's service " +
"manager (unit mesh-betterbird), its output in the journal. Refused while a message is being written " +
"(a composer window is open), because the unsent message would be lost, unless discard_unsent is true — " +
"ask the operator first. Answers the pids ended and the new main process. (a)",
Input: map[string]any{
"discard_unsent": map[string]any{"type": "boolean", "description": "restart even with a composer open, losing what it holds (default false)"},
},
Run: func(args map[string]any) (any, error) {
discard, err := flag(args, "discard_unsent", false)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return machine.Restart(discard)
},
},
{
Name: "betterbird_check",
Description: "Check what the module promises: Betterbird installed from the mesh's pinned release and not " +
"behind the newest published build; the enterprise policy placed and the module's defaults with it; no " +
"managed preference drifting from them; Owl at its pin and active; one " +
"Betterbird runs; its profile is found; the module's user.js on the machine, valid, placed and in " +
"effect; the declared accounts in the profile's list, none refused, each signed in once; its output " +
"read. Answers ok and each finding with what to do, never an address, host or name. (r)",
Run: func(map[string]any) (any, error) { return machine.Check() },
},
{
Name: "betterbird_accounts",
Description: "The accounts of the profile Betterbird uses, by count and kind: the IMAP and POP3 accounts a " +
"declaration can hold, the accounts Owl keeps (never declared), and the rest. Never an address, a host " +
"or a name, and never anything of the login store. With propose, it builds the module's setting " +
"accounts from them (every account but Owl's, without any password or token) and proposes it through " +
"the controller's settings verb for the operator's Approve on a channel that proves who answers " +
"(novox/hq ADR 0317, ADR 0277): nothing changes until then, and the operator reads the value whole at " +
"their desk. (r; a with propose)",
Input: map[string]any{
"propose": map[string]any{"type": "boolean", "description": "build the setting accounts from the profile and propose it to the operator (default false)"},
},
Run: func(args map[string]any) (any, error) {
propose, err := flag(args, "propose", false)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return machine.ProfileAccounts(propose)
},
},
{
Name: "betterbird_reminder_test",
Description: "OPENS WINDOWS ON THE OPERATOR'S SCREEN: tell the operator before calling it. Shows a calendar " +
"reminder without touching the operator's calendar: a second Betterbird in a throw-away profile under " +
"the runtime directory (--no-remote, unit mesh-betterbird-reminder-test, at most 10 minutes), its main " +
"window marked MESH TEST in red, with the module's user.js (no accounts) and one local calendar file " +
"holding one event, \"MESH TEST reminder\", whose reminder is due after `after` seconds. carry copies " +
"named preferences of the operator's profile (a theme, a colour switch) into it, never a credential or " +
"an account. Then xorg_windows (class Calendar) and xorg_screenshot show the reminder window. stop ends " +
"it and removes the profile. (a)",
Input: map[string]any{
"after": map[string]any{"type": "integer", "description": "seconds until the reminder is due (default 40, 15 to 300)"},
"carry": map[string]any{"type": "array", "items": map[string]any{"type": "string"},
"description": "preference names to copy from the operator's profile, e.g. [\"extensions.activeThemeID\"]"},
"stop": map[string]any{"type": "boolean", "description": "end the test Betterbird and remove its profile (default false)"},
},
Run: func(args map[string]any) (any, error) {
after, err := whole(args, "after", 40, 15, 300)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
carry, err := texts(args, "carry")
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
stop, err := flag(args, "stop", false)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return machine.ReminderTest(time.Duration(after)*time.Second, carry, stop)
},
},
}
}