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The six copies whose documents batch54 changes - the Assurance Case, Contributing, Governance, the Release Process, the Security Policy and the Upgrading Guide - are copied again from the documents as master has them from batch54, 9336fdd59, on master since 24 October 2026, and each header says so and names what changed. The Assurance Case's status note, the Release Process's The copy on GitHub and the opening of the Security Policy's Verifying a release say that GitHub's immutable-releases setting is on, that a release published there with it on keeps its files and its tag as published, though its notes can still be edited, and so do the copies of 6.3.6 and 6.3.7, published after it was switched on during the copying of 18 October 2026 (the Security Policy: at 05:26 and 05:31 UTC), and that the copies of the releases before them, published before it (the Security Policy: 6.0.0-B1 to 6.3.5 and the two build-inputs releases), can still be changed, where they said that a release published after the copies of 18 October 2026 could not be changed and that the copies could; Contributing's row Releases of the table of where things are and Governance's status note say that on GitHub the copies of 6.3.6 and 6.3.7, and every release published after them, are immutable, where they said a release published after that day's copies. The Upgrading Guide's Where you can upgrade from says that the Chocolatey package's log and the file with the refusal's words are in Chocolatey's cache folder, which its CLI makes setup's TEMP, where it said only that the package passes /LOG and shows that file's words when the install fails. A link of the copied text to a document the wiki copies is a wiki link, and every other link to a repository file points at it as 9336fdd59 has it, where they pointed at 6fb8164c6 or, in the Assurance Case and Governance, at 5e49abf06 and, in the Security Policy, at 72be22b4e, each document being the same at those commits as at 6fb8164c6; the text is otherwise the documents', but for the adaptations and additions the headers declare. Signed-off-by: Christopher Holloway <chris.holloway@progressiverobot.com>

Christopher Holloway committed Oct 24, 2026

The ten copies whose documents batch51 changes - the Assurance Case, Contributing, Governance, the Release Process, the Security Policy, Regulatory Scope, Relocating an Installation, The Service Account, Third-Party Binaries and The Update Feed - are copied again from the documents as master has them from batch51, 5e49abf06 (21 October 2026), and each header says so and what the document changes, where they were the documents at batch50, 0c0b6bae7, or at batch49, f14412d39, which batch50 left as they were. Relocating an Installation: a new paragraph after the opening sends an installation whose programs somebody who is not an administrator may have changed to The Service Account's Reinstalling into a new folder; step 0 converts full message paths with the Data Directory Synchronizer on the installation before anything is copied, a row that names a file outside the data directory first, in the folder it names, in five numbered points, where step 8 ran the synchronizer against the new data directory after the copy, which would have imported each such message a second time, and step 8 checks that none is left and converts one that is the same way in the old data folder; step 3 makes the new root with the permissions setup gives a program folder before the copy, since a copy takes the permissions of the folder it lands in; step 4 says that the server reads Bin\hMailServer.ini under the folder the registry's InstallLocation names, so the edited copy only from step 5 on, where it said the file beside the running hMailServer.exe was read first, and, with step 1, that an edit of a stored setting in the file is put back only where the service may write the file; step 6 runs hMailServer.exe /ProtectFolders after /Register, and /GrantServiceAccess for a service that runs as anything but LocalSystem; step 7 names the Diagnostics page's Installation paths, where it named Settings, Directories; step 9 changes a certificate's files with Edit... rather than deleting it and adding it again; step 11 runs the release's setup again at the new root with /DIR, the 32-bit uninstall entry taken away first, and never the old uninstaller; and step 12 keeps the old tree private until it is deleted by hand. Three sentences of this wiki's own additions there say what the document now says: the passage that ends step 4 has a value edited into the file reported as HM5804 and the stored value used, the line put back where the service may write the file, so that the settings-store paths go on pointing at the old tree, and the store writing a new value into the file's copy where the service may write the file, where it had the line put back and the copy written whatever the account; and the paragraph on moving to new hardware has the stored settings written into the new machine's file at its first start where the service may write it. The Security Policy: Build provenance says that from the release after 6.3.7 a release also carries hmailserver-<version>.intoto.jsonl, the provenance bundle's DSSE envelope alone as one line of JSON, no second signature, which OpenSSF Scorecard's Signed-Releases check counts as provenance, where it said the provenance was not copied under that name; and What ran on GitHub has CodeQL there from GitHub's default setup at first and then .github/workflows/codeql.yml. The Release Process: release-verify writes the .intoto.jsonl and holds it to the bundle, the release has 161 links and files where it had 160, release-publish refuses an .intoto.jsonl that is not the envelope, the copy on GitHub carries it, the rehearsal writes and checks it, and GitHub Actions runs two workflows there, which make nothing a release carries; its note marked Now under step 9 of Order of operations stays. The Update Feed: a release from the one after 6.3.7 has 161 links, the .intoto.jsonl adding 308 bytes to releases.json and 302 to releases/latest. The Service Account: Reinstalling into a new folder points at Relocating an Installation for an installation whose programs only the administrators could have changed, and its table of the writes to hMailServer.INI says that the application log's line on the read-only file is written at a reinitialise where application logging is on and dropped at the service's start, where it said once per start. Contributing lists .github/CODEOWNERS and build/check-osv-ignores.py. The Assurance Case, Contributing, Governance, the Release Process, Regulatory Scope, Third-Party Binaries and The Update Feed say that GitHub Actions runs two workflows of the project's on the copy on GitHub, OpenSSF Scorecard's and .github/workflows/codeql.yml, which takes the place of GitHub's CodeQL default setup, where they said one workflow and the default setup; Governance also says that GitHub's rules there let the administrator role alone write master, the batch* branches and the release tags and hold a pull request to two approvals, the code owner's among them, and to CodeQL's check. A link of the copied text to a document the wiki copies is a wiki link, and every other link to a repository file points at it as 5e49abf06 has it, where they pointed at 0c0b6bae7 or at f14412d39; the text is otherwise the document's, but for the adaptations and additions the headers declare. Signed-off-by: Christopher Holloway <chris.holloway@progressiverobot.com>

Christopher Holloway committed Oct 21, 2026

The eleven copies whose documents batch50 changes - the Assurance Case, Governance, the Release Process, the Security Policy, Regulatory Scope, Command Line, Event Scripts, Relocating an Installation, the Regression Test Environment, The Service Account and Migrating the Database Backend - are copied again from the documents as master has them from batch50, 0c0b6bae7, and each header says so and what the document changes, where they were the documents at batch49, f14412d39, or at v6.3.7, which batch49 left as they were. Migrating the Database Backend: step 3 runs DBSetup.exe - the wizard's Create a new hMailServer database, or DBSetup.exe /unattended with the HM_DB_* variables and HM_ADMIN_PASSWORD - which creates the database and its schema, writes the [Database] section through the service, the password encrypted (PasswordEncryption=6), and restarts the server on the new database, the login allowed to create a database and the database not existing yet, with Not DBSetupQuick.exe and the refusal of DBSetup under NT SERVICE\hMailServer, where it said to create an empty database, point hMailServer.ini at it by hand and run DBSetupQuick.exe, which made no usable database there; the short version, the MySQL and MariaDB section's account of who creates the database on Windows and on Linux, and step 4's first open of the new database follow it; the PostgreSQL row says that SQL Server's, PostgreSQL's and SQL Server Compact's DDL is transactional and that only MySQL and MariaDB commit each step's DDL as it runs, where it called PostgreSQL the only one of the four; and the note after the restore says that the schema is created in no transaction on every backend, where it said so of MySQL and SQL Server Compact alone. This wiki's comparison table under Choosing a target now has SQL Server and SQL Server Compact transactional and a failed upgrade leaving nothing applied on them, where it had SQL Server mostly transactional and SQL Server Compact committing as it goes, and its flowchart of the procedure has one step for DBSetup between the backup and the restore, where it stopped the service, created an empty database, edited the ini file, ran DBSetupQuick and started the service again; the table's link to DatabaseTls.md goes to this wiki's copy, Database TLS. The Service Account: in Reinstalling into a new folder, step 2 changes the settings file's other paths into the old installation - PostgreSQLSslRootCert and TlsCaFile, UpdateTrustRootsFile and UpdateLogPublicKeyFile, a path in [SettingsOverride] - to copies where nobody but the administrators may change them and deletes the lines the site did not set, and step 4 keeps the old folder private to SYSTEM and the Administrators until it is deleted; the live update's internal tests name 6.3.1 and 6.3.3 to 6.3.5, where they said 6.3.1 to 6.3.5; and its link to RelocatingAnInstallation.md under the message files outside the data folder goes to this wiki's copy, as its two others do. Relocating an Installation: step 1's inventory and step 4 name TlsCaFile beside PostgreSQLSslRootCert, and Seeing where the paths are says that Installation paths lists every path-shaped setting but that one. The Regression Test Environment: the list of what a new Windows bench needs names the release installers build/fetch-installer-fixtures.ps1 fetches for AdminUpdateTester and AdminUpdateStageTester. Command Line: the two queue examples filter on tries, the field a queue item has, where they named retry_count. Event Scripts: the rule action is "Run script function", as the Control Panel lists it, where it said "Run function". Regulatory Scope: the releases up to 6.3.3 whose files GitLab has are re-published there, 6.2.0 and 6.0.0-B4 being notes-only; SBOMs from 6.2.3, the five earlier releases that carry an installer having a CycloneDX SBOM of it alone; the assets from 6.2.19 to 6.3.3 signed but for 6.2.22-pre3's two SBOMs; and the releases before 6.3.1 unsigned because their original files are published byte for byte, where it gave a published release's immutability as the reason. The Assurance Case, Governance and the Release Process: GitHub's signer signed the releases from 6.2.19 to 6.3.3, where they said the releases up to 6.3.3. The Security Policy: Verifying a release names 6.2.22-pre3's two SBOMs and 6.3.4 beside the withdrawn and superseded pre-releases as the assets from 6.2.19 on without a Sigstore bundle. A link of the copied text to a document the wiki copies is a wiki link, and every other link to a repository file points at it as 0c0b6bae7 has it, where they pointed at f14412d39 or at v6.3.7; the text is otherwise the document's, but for the adaptations and additions the headers declare. The wiki's own tables on these pages say what the documents now say: the Assurance Case's traceability row for anyone downloading has the Sigstore signatures from 6.2.19 to 6.3.3 and the SBOMs from 6.2.3, and the Security Policy's row on the supply chain among the standing controls has 6.2.22-pre3's two SBOMs carrying no bundle and the SBOMs from 6.2.3, the five earlier releases that carry an installer having a CycloneDX SBOM of it alone, made afterwards. Signed-off-by: Christopher Holloway <chris.holloway@progressiverobot.com>

Christopher Holloway committed Oct 20, 2026

The eight copies whose documents batch49 changes - the Assurance Case, Contributing, Governance, Regulatory Scope, Release Process, Security Policy, The Update Feed and Third-Party Binaries - are copied again from the documents as master has them from batch49, f14412d39, in which 6.3.7 is reflected as at the tag, and each header says so and what the document changes since the tag, where they were the documents at v6.3.7 and said that GitHub had been unavailable to the project since 18 September 2026, that issues and questions went to GitLab alone and that the original project was no longer developed upstream. The Assurance Case's status note: the account Progressiverobot, which GitHub suspended on 18 September 2026, stays suspended, and since 18 October 2026 the project is published on GitHub again, at github.com/RainbowWizard-coder/hMailServer, with GitLab canonical; every release from 6.0.0-B1 to 6.3.7 is copied there with the same files byte for byte; no pipeline of the project's runs there, where GitHub Actions runs one workflow of the project's, scorecard.yml, beside GitHub's own CodeQL default setup; and sbom.yml and sign-release.yml, in the trees of the old tags, ran once there on 18 October 2026 on the copies of the releases from 6.2.3 to 6.2.22-pre6, what they wrote was undone, and both have been disabled since. Contributing: the original project went quiet for years and has since resumed development separately; GitLab is the one place the project is worked on and GitHub its mirror, with the repository, every release, the wiki's copy, pull requests and Discussions and no Issues; the table of where things are, the tree's .github/, the GitHub numbering, the rule that no build step downloads from GitHub, and a pull request on GitHub accepted and landed through a GitLab merge request. Governance: the status note, the private vulnerability reporting switched on and read by the maintainers, the repository on GitHub belonging to the account RainbowWizard-coder, its only administrator, Zainulabidin90 removed from it on 18 October 2026, and accepting, reviewing and proposing a change taking in a pull request on GitHub. Regulatory Scope: the releases copied to GitHub, GitHub's own CodeQL default setup there and the one workflow of the project's that GitHub Actions runs there, OpenSSF Scorecard's, which signs and publishes nothing of a release, the old release workflows run once there and disabled, and the one signer a server up to 6.3.3 trusts named as the release workflow of the repository under the former account Progressiverobot. Third-Party Binaries: the build-inputs files fetched from GitLab alone, both releases copied to GitHub with the others and never read there, and nothing on GitHub doing what the old binary-provenance workflow did. Release Process: GitHub unavailable to the project from 18 September to 18 October 2026; The copy on GitHub, under The release on GitLab; step 9's sentence on CodeQL's default setup, which the gate does not read; step 14's issues answered on GitLab; and the federated credential made on the app registration the protected variable AZURE_CLIENT_ID names. Security Policy: GitHub's private vulnerability reporting as a third route, and never a public issue, merge request or pull request on either forge or a GitHub discussion; a report made there carried into a confidential GitLab issue; the exceptions file counted again on 18 October 2026, 491 accepted findings, 157 expiring on 25 September 2027 and 3 on 12 October 2027, and in Why that date 159 and 42; and Verifying a release for a file from GitHub's releases page. The Update Feed: no server reads a feed on GitHub, the address 6.2.28 to 6.3.3 read is the suspended account's and still answers 404, and a certificate for a workflow of the repository on GitHub names an identity no server trusts. A link of the copied text to a document the wiki copies is a wiki link, and every other link to a repository file points at it as f14412d39 has it, where they pointed at v6.3.7. The text is otherwise the document's, but for the adaptations and additions the headers declare: Contributing's paragraph on reporting and asking keeps the Service Desk for anyone without a GitLab account, as SUPPORT.md does, and now also sends a question from someone with a GitHub account to the Q&A of GitHub's Discussions, where the document still says only a security report can go by email; Release Process's note marked Now at step 9 stands after the document's new sentence there; and the Assurance Case's own additions of 8 September 2026 - the chart of the trust boundaries drawn in section 4 in place of the document's text figure, the sentence on a forward proxy that ends section 6's paragraph on the update path, and the traceability table, the chart of which claim each weakness class answers and the table of the residual risks that close section 7 - are named as this wiki's own in its header, which named none of them. The wiki's own additions on these pages that name the reporting routes - Security Policy's decision chart and its timeline after a report, Governance's map of which document governs what - name GitHub's private vulnerability reporting and the Q&A of GitHub's Discussions beside the confidential issue, the Service Desk address and the forum, and never a pull request or a discussion for a vulnerability; and Governance's note on code-signing material says that the old release workflow could not sign once GitHub had suspended the project's account, where it said it cannot sign while GitHub is unavailable. Signed-off-by: Christopher Holloway <chris.holloway@progressiverobot.com>

Christopher Holloway committed Oct 19, 2026

The twelve copies whose document lines still linked to a repository document at master - Architecture, the Assurance Case, Command Line, Contributing, Governance, the High Availability Runbook, Regulatory Scope, Security Policy, Third-Party Binaries, the Upgrading Guide, Warm Standby and Relocating an Installation - link to this wiki's copy of each document they name, and to DkimKeyRotation.md and SettingsApply.md, which it does not copy, as the tag v6.3.7 has them, where forty-six links named master. Each document's own link is relative and resolves at the tag; these forty-six pointed at master, which is the tag only while master stays at 31d656c0c, and had done so since before 5e44fd4, so that the copies from v6.3.7 took a link to a copied document as a wiki link and one at v6.3.6 to v6.3.7, and left these. Forty-three now name the copy: Security Policy (SECURITY.md), Release Process (RELEASE.md), Contributing, Governance, Architecture, Secrets at Rest, the Upgrading Guide (Upgrading.md), The Service Account, the Regression Test Environment, Third-Party Binaries, Fuzzing, Event Scripts and Migrating the Database Backend, with the document's anchor where it gives one (Governance#maintainers, Security-Policy#secrets-and-credentials, Third-Party-Binaries#where-the-build-gets-them, Upgrading-Guide#an-upgrade-without-a-window twice, Migrating-the-Database-Backend#mysql-and-mariadb), and the other three, DkimKeyRotation.md on Warm Standby and Relocating an Installation and SettingsApply.md on Relocating an Installation, are links at v6.3.7. No text but the links changes. Command Line's header and Architecture's, which say that the page's links point at the documents as that tag has them, are now true of every link of the copied text, the Source of truth link aside, which names master on every copy; the links in this wiki's own notes and tables are as they were. Signed-off-by: Christopher Holloway <chris.holloway@progressiverobot.com>

Christopher Holloway committed Oct 18, 2026

The twenty-two pages that copy a repository document are copied again from the documents as the tag v6.3.7 (31d656c0c), the release of 17 October 2026, has them, each keeping what this wiki adds of its own, and each header says so and what 6.3.7 changes in it, where the nine brought up on 17 October 2026 named the batch 6.3.7 was to be made from, at the same commit, and said that the rest of the copy was v6.3.6's. Re-copied from the tag: Security Policy (SECURITY.md: its latest release 6.3.7, published on 17 October 2026; "6.3.7 was the exception" under What gets a release, and step 3's pointer to it; Every change and Declaring a finding not exploitable; the release's scans as the second evaluation; the libraries dependency-scan says UNKNOWN for), Release Process (RELEASE.md: the release's notes and their Download table, step 9's gate asked before the tag with master's copy of the exceptions, 6.3.7's paragraph under A security release during the pause), Contributing (CONTRIBUTING.md: the runners each pipeline runs on, the change checks, the eighteen fetched inputs, the new checkers and generated files, the secret scans, sign-off since batch41, step 6 of Merge requests), Governance, Assurance Case, Regression Test Environment (Connector/C 3.4.11's folder; the 7-Zip path the document now writes right), The Service Account (/ProtectFolders hardening the program folder, Bin and ControlPanel, and the steps before upgrading an installation at a drive's root), The Update Feed (the Control Panel's Updates page, the summary past the Download table, the pages job on the project's own runners, where this copy said GitLab's shared runners), Upgrading Guide (the route between backends, the .NET 10 runtime setup leaves as it is), Third-Party Binaries (MariaDB Connector/C 3.4.11 built from MariaDB's source and fetched from build-inputs-2), Database TLS, Diagnosing Stalled Mail (the spam tests' failed lookups and the DNSSEC deferral's reasons), Event Scripts, Fuzzing (UTS 46 against ada), High Availability Runbook (the PROXY protocol behind a load balancer), Secrets at Rest, Secure Defaults, The SNMP Agent, Migrating the Database Backend, Regulatory Scope and Architecture (a transaction is its thread's). Command Line is unchanged at the tag; its header says so and its links point at it. A link to a document the wiki copies is a wiki link; every other link to a repository file that pointed at v6.3.6 points at it as v6.3.7 has it. The headers no longer list as this copy's departures what the tag's documents now say themselves: the day 6.3.6 was published (Security Policy, Contributing), the count of the findings accepted at 6.3.4 (Security Policy), the report of a command run as root on Linux (The Service Account), the route between backends (Upgrading Guide) and the 7-Zip path (Regression Test Environment). Release Process's notes marked Now at steps 9 and 11 say that every release since 6.3.5 has been made by its tag's pipeline, where step 9's said that no pipeline had run on a release tag, and that the installer's inputs are fetched from the build-inputs-1 and build-inputs-2 releases. Signed-off-by: Christopher Holloway <chris.holloway@progressiverobot.com>

Christopher Holloway committed Oct 18, 2026

Governance's header says that the bot user of the revoked token laptop-git is still listed as an Owner, and gives the revocation no date, where it could be read as putting the revocation on 13 October 2026, the day Zain Ul Abidin and chrisholloway5 were removed. The header efb59e2 wrote gave the members' roles as GitLab listed them on 14 October 2026: Progressiverobot the only person with a role in the project since 13 October 2026, "when Zain Ul Abidin and chrisholloway5 were removed, and the token laptop-git revoked, its bot user still listed as an Owner". Read on from the when-clause, that dates the revocation to 13 October 2026. The token had been revoked before that day, and GOVERNANCE.md at 31d656c0c gives no date: it says only that the token is revoked. The aside now reads "and the bot user of the revoked token laptop-git still listed as an Owner", as the document's note on releasing, under the table of duties, names it. Nothing else changes: the header's commit ids are as they were, and so is every paragraph the page copies. Signed-off-by: Christopher Holloway <chris.holloway@progressiverobot.com>

Christopher Holloway committed Oct 17, 2026

Security Policy, Release Process, Governance, the Assurance Case, Contributing, the Regression Test Environment and the Project Handbook say who sees a report, who can approve a batch, what the revoked token laptop-git can do, which runners and licences a release needs and when the accepted findings expire as the documents say it at batch48 (31d656c0c), the batch 6.3.7 is made from, where they said what v6.3.6 says. For 6.3.7 the tree's SECURITY.md, RELEASE.md, GOVERNANCE.md, ASSURANCE-CASE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md and RegressionEnvironment.md were corrected in what they say of the project's members, approvals, tokens, runners and licences, and the stamp counted the accepted findings again on 17 October 2026. The wiki's copies still said what v6.3.6 says: that Zain Ul Abidin can see every report and approves each merge request, that the project access token laptop-git holds the Owner role until 27 September 2027, that 298 findings expire in March 2027, that the release jobs have not run, that two machines run the builds and suites. The push of master to main, the branch GitLab serves the wiki from, would have made most of that live for the first time. Each paragraph, list item or table row that says one of these things is now the document's at 31d656c0c, with the wiki's own links kept and a link to a document the wiki has no copy of pointing at master: - Security Policy: who sees a confidential issue; Why that date and One date comes first, with bench150's Windows licence and the findings as counted on 17 October 2026; the opening and step 3 of How a report is handled; the opening, steps 1 and 4 and the runners of How a security release is made; the opening of What must stay valid and its rows for the exceptions file, the two Windows benches' licences, laptop-git and the release channels' credentials. - Release Process: the status note; who creates release tags; step 2's last paragraph and step 3's first under The release on GitLab; Before starting and steps 2, 3 and 6 of A security release during the pause; and step 7's paragraph on the release's notes, which the copy lacked. - Governance: every paragraph on the members' roles, the approvals, laptop-git and the landings by 14 October 2026, so that the whole copy is the document's, links aside. - Assurance Case: the residual risk "Bus factor is still effectively 1". - Contributing: the opening's paragraph on what runs where, On the project's own runners (the wiki's note marked Now kept), and steps 5 and 7 of Merge requests. - Regression Test Environment: GitLab CI's runs of the suite. Not taken, for the copy from v6.3.7 after the release: SECURITY.md's paragraph on 6.3.7 under What gets a release, with step 3's pointer to it, RELEASE.md's paragraph on 6.3.7 under A security release during the pause, and the latest release lines; Security Policy still gives 6.3.6 as the latest release until 6.3.7 is out. The Project Handbook, the wiki's own page, says the same in its own words: a batch lands through a merge request that a second person approves by the rule, and since 13 October 2026 on the owner's override; the release jobs made 6.3.5 and 6.3.6; the builds and suites run on the project's own runners, bench150, S1-WINBENCH, linix, server2 and s1-linux. Each header says what was brought up, from which commit, and what is left out. Signed-off-by: Christopher Holloway <chris.holloway@progressiverobot.com>

Christopher Holloway committed Oct 17, 2026

The twenty-two pages that copy a repository document are copied again from the documents as the tag v6.3.6, the release, has them, each keeping what this wiki adds of its own. Re-copied from the tag v6.3.6 (e3c448aa6), each header saying so and what 6.3.6 changes in it: The Update Feed (UpdateFeed.md), The Service Account (ServiceAccount.md), Security Policy (SECURITY.md), Release Process (RELEASE.md), Upgrading Guide (Upgrading.md), Secure Defaults (SecureDefaults.md), Third-Party Binaries (ThirdPartyBinaries.md), Contributing (CONTRIBUTING.md), Secrets at Rest (SecretsAtRest.md), Assurance Case (ASSURANCE-CASE.md), Event Scripts (EventScripts.md), Command Line (CommandLine.md), Governance (GOVERNANCE.md), Regression Test Environment (RegressionEnvironment.md), The SNMP Agent (Snmp.md), High Availability Runbook (HighAvailabilityRunbook.md), Regulatory Scope (RegulatoryScope.md) and Fuzzing (Fuzzing.md). Architecture (ARCHITECTURE.md), Database TLS (DatabaseTls.md), Diagnosing Stalled Mail (DiagnosingStalledMail.md) and Migrating the Database Backend (MigratingDatabaseBackend.md) are unchanged at the tag; their headers say so and their links point at it. The wiki's own additions - the diagrams, the tables and the notes each header names as the wiki's - are kept. A link to a document the wiki copies is a wiki link; every other link to a repository file points at it as v6.3.6 has it. Where SECURITY.md and CONTRIBUTING.md say 6.3.6 was published on 1 October 2026, the copies give 6 October 2026, the day of its publication, and their headers say so. Where Upgrading.md says there is no first-class route from one database backend to another, the copy keeps its pointer at Migrating the Database Backend, the repository's own document on it. Secrets at Rest, "Who can open it": a wiki note under the paragraph that still describes the permissions hMailServer.ini inherits under Program Files, which 6.3.6's /ProtectFolders closes. Contributing, the wiki's own Service Desk section: the address at the group's path, as SECURITY.md gives it. Signed-off-by: Christopher Holloway <chris.holloway@progressiverobot.com>

Christopher Holloway committed Oct 5, 2026

Every link to the project points at its address in the group, gitlab.com/hmailserver/hmailserver, where it has been since 29 September 2026; the identities 6.3.5 was signed with, and the setting row that lists both paths, keep the path the project began at. The project's path in all 63 pages that linked it (548 links), 6.3.6 being the first release made at the group's path. Left as they were: the seven signing identities https://gitlab.com/Progressiverobot/hmailserver//.gitlab-ci.yml@refs/tags/v... (Release Process, Security Policy, The Update Feed, and the UpdateSigningIdentity row of Settings Reference), which name what 6.3.5 was signed as; and the UpdateSourceRepository row of Settings Reference, which lists both paths on purpose. The container registry's name is corrected with the container page. Signed-off-by: Christopher Holloway <chris.holloway@progressiverobot.com>

Christopher Holloway committed Oct 5, 2026

The wiki is brought up to the published release: 6.3.4 is the signed tag v6.3.4 at 51e2dbda0, published on GitLab on 27 September 2026 (02:37:56 UTC), not 8adce850a of 26 September, where the tag was first made and whose release gate failed. Every page that named 8adce850a as the tag or the release names 51e2dbda0, and every page that dated the release 26 September dates it 27 September: the footer, the sidebar, the page headers, the landing page's Current release, the release timeline's row and picture, section 4e's heading. Each fact those pages took from 8adce850a was checked at 51e2dbda0: the commits between the two change 42 files, whose only documents are CHANGELOG.md, BrandLogos.md, OpenPGP.md and SecretsAtRest.md, none of which a page copies, and which include none of Constants.h, Version.h, formMain.cs, the create scripts, IniFileSettings.cpp, SettingsDefaults.h, the IDL, the Control Panel or .gitlab/allowed_signers, so every file and line cited at the tag holds. Where a page said it read the tag on 26 September, it says it read 8adce850a and that what it read is the same at the tag. The suite has 3,811 [Test] attributes at the tag, not 3,809 (the fixes add two tests); twelve places say so. Changes Since 6.2.10 gains, in batch 40, what the release gate found and the eleven fixes: three change tests alone; of the other eight, three fix what 6.3.3 did too - a relay that refused the OAuth2 login got the server's token into the bounce and the logs (open since 6.2.22-pre1), a rule's forward, copy, reply or notice and an account's forwarding could wait a minute in the queue, and IMAP LIST and LSUB took a literal's length for the pattern - and five fix code new in 6.3.4 (sealed mail and an unnamed part, a closed key's FETCH refusal logged as a critical error, the help desk's password reset read as bytes, the logo and key-directory holds, an alert's encoded Subject over 76 characters). The gate table and the timeline give the re-run on 51e2dbda0 as the logs have it: 2,349 on the first bench (2,252 passed, 0 failed, 97 skipped) and 1,462 on the second (1,446 passed, 0 failed, 16 skipped), the 71 live-update tests elevated, all passed, and the Linux suite on the packaged binary, 2,013 tests, 1,562 passed, 0 failed, 451 skipped (results/b40full3 on linix); the database upgrade gates, the security scans, the fuzzers and the installer smoke test, 65 of 65. The JScript flaw is CVE-2026-100741 (CVSS 3.1 9.8), and the project's issue #43 is public: Security Hardening 17.11, the scripting page, the changes, the capabilities and the API reference name them. The project's download links work (the site has served HTTPS since 26 September; on 27 September they led to 6.3.4's files), so Installing on Linux and Running in a Container no longer say they work once it does. The copies of SECURITY.md and CONTRIBUTING.md give the day GitLab published the release, and the security policy's copy counts the 455 findings .gitlab/security-exceptions.yml accepts at the tag - the 169 of the SAST triage and the 286 that held the release scan - where the repository document still says 169; each header says where the copy differs. Three places said no pipeline had run on the fixed tree; one has, the schedule of 27 September 2026 on master 6bc09509d, which ran the update feed's pages and package-repos jobs alone, and they say so.

Christopher Holloway committed Sep 27, 2026

The wiki is brought up to the release itself, the signed tag v6.3.4 at 8adce850a: what it said of 6.3.4 had been read from master 92b8f9f63, which the tag's last batch, batch40, follows. Schema 6104, not 6103: 6.3.4 is sixty-four steps from 6.3.3's 6040, the last, 6103 to 6104, adding hm_fetchaccounts.faorigin (Constants.h:1224, formMain.cs:314 and the three create scripts at the tag); every header, table, count and diagram that gave 6103 as 6.3.4's schema says 6104, the upgrade table's step counts are each one more, the step tables gain the 6104 row, and where 6103 means the secrets-at-rest step it stays. No page calls 92b8f9f63 the release or the tree 6.3.4 was cut from any more: a page checked against it says so and that the tag adds a last batch, and a page that copies a repository document the tag leaves as it was says the document is the same at the tag. The copies of repository documents batch40 changes are brought up to the tag, hunk by hunk from the version each copy had reached, their own additions kept: Security Policy (the SSH-signed sums of a release made by hand and the two commands that check a download, an SBOM for every compiled file, a release held by its security scans, secrets refused before they are pushed; its note no longer says the document calls 6.3.3 the latest), Release Process (A release made by hand, the security gate, the SBOM jobs), Upgrading Guide (the installer's HM_ADMIN_PASSWORD, the named lock on MySQL and MariaDB, the probe that stops an upgrade on too old a server at 6041 and the repair of a half-done one), Contributing, Governance (rebuilt on the tag's document, which gives the GitLab roles the owner set on 26 September 2026; the map and the note on code-signing material kept), Assurance Case, Regulatory Scope, Third-Party Binaries, Fuzzing, Migrating the Database Backend and Regression Test Environment. The installer's password handling as the tag has it: the password page is skipped for HM_ADMIN_PASSWORD as for /adminpassword, the database step hands the password (or the live update's token, as token:<hex>) to DBSetupQuick and DBSetup in HM_ADMIN_PASSWORD and DBSetupQuick to DBUpdater the same way, never on a command line, the switch table has the variable, and the unattended upgrade takes either (Installing hMailServer, Upgrading hMailServer 18.4a). How to verify a download: 6.3.4's hmailserver-6.3.4-SHA256SUMS.txt and its .sig, checked with ssh-keygen -Y verify against .gitlab/allowed_signers and sha256sum -c, as SECURITY.md at the tag gives them, and each installer's and package's own SBOM (Installing hMailServer 4.1, Installing on Linux, Upgrading hMailServer 18.4 and 18.4c, home, Release Process, Project Handbook, Troubleshooting, Glossary, Assurance Case, Regulatory Scope). The /download/ links no longer wait on issue #30: the feed's site has had its certificate since 26 September 2026. Changes Since 6.2.10 gains batch 40 in section 4e (the audit before the release, GitLab's SAST and the release gate, the installer's password, the SBOMs and signed sums, the stable download links, the release chain and landing through merge requests, what the first pipeline found, Windows on ARM compiled), items 47 to 51 in section 5 (reserved domain names, a one-time code taken once, the outbound relay's OAuth2 token over TLS only, the fetchers and schema 6104, a pre-6.3.4 hash of a password above U+00FF refused), SQLOLEDB in item 38, the 6041 probe in item 36, and the installer's own PBKDF2 in item 39. Also what the tag makes false elsewhere: the suite has 3,809 [Test] attributes, not 3,698; hmailserver/docs holds 105 documents; Windows on ARM compiles and has never run, where it was "not built"; IMAP offers STARTTLS only before sign-in and TLS and COMPRESS=DEFLATE only after sign-in (Capabilities and Configuration); a parent-domain passkey relying party needs passkey_allowed_origins (Sign-in and Identity); the Settings Reference counts 193 hm_settings rows with PasskeyAllowedOrigins and WebPushLoopbackHttpForTests; and the Linux suite's CI job first ran in the pipeline of 26 September 2026 rather than never.

Christopher Holloway committed Sep 26, 2026

What the check of the batch40 wiki pass found, put right. The group signer was described from e3df8b5e6, before 396c01d4d moved the rule to the match: a certificate that names hmailserver/hmailserver, or its repository, is refused without the project's id whatever UpdateSigningIdentity, UpdateSigningIssuer and UpdateSourceRepository say, `-` included. Security Policy lacked SECURITY.md's "whatever its update settings say"; the Settings Reference said `-` switches the repository check off with no exception and cited the older lines, now SigstoreVerifier.cpp at 396c01d4d; and the Settings Reference, Upgrading and the 6.3.4 changes now carry UpdateFeed.md's warning that a server from 6.2.28 to 6.3.3, which checks no id, is never to have the three settings pointed at the group's path and is upgraded by hand after the move. From ci-hyg, which is now committed: Contributing says the two machines take no job for a push that changes only Markdown at the root or under .gitlab/, and its header no longer says the repository document names the renovate schedule by a variable; Security Policy replaces "Nothing scans pushes to GitLab yet" with the secret_detection job and the one scan of the whole history. Governance said Christopher Holloway alone holds the project's administration, where GitLab listed all three members - Progressiverobot, zainulabidin1990 and chrisholloway5 - as Owner on 26 September 2026 (GET projects/86730559/members/all); it says so, and that lowering those roles is the owner's decision.

Christopher Holloway committed Sep 26, 2026

The wiki is brought up to the tree batch40 will contain: the branches ns-verifier, gl-project, gov, ci-hyg and tf, read from the repository on 26 September 2026. The copies of repository documents take the changes batch40 makes to them - CONTRIBUTING, SECURITY, RELEASE, GOVERNANCE, ASSURANCE-CASE, Fuzzing, RegulatoryScope, ThirdPartyBinaries and RegressionEnvironment - each header saying so. The seven links into /-/blob/master/.github/ point at .gitlab/allowed_signers, .gitlab/hmailserver.openvex.json, or name the GitHub workflow as being in the git history at v6.3.3, since .github/ is gone from the tree; the verify-tag commands read .gitlab/allowed_signers. What the sweep made false is put right: the PKGBUILD builds from the tag on GitLab; the Compose file and the chart name registry.gitlab.com/progressiverobot/hmailserver, a registry that is switched on and holds no image yet; OpenSSL's release archive comes from Debian's archive against its pinned hash; linuxdeploy is no longer downloaded; the build-inputs-1 files come from the package registry; the manifests name the installer's file there. The live update's third signer, the group hmailserver the project is to move to, with the project's id required, is on the update and security pages, the Settings Reference and the changes for 6.3.4, with the three GitLab settings that keep a server to the present path. Governance names Zain Ul Abidin as zainulabidin1990 on GitLab and gives the owner's rule that release tags are created by the Progressiverobot account alone. The /download/ links at updates.progressiverobot.com are given beside the permalinks, labelled as working once that site serves HTTPS (issue #30; it still failed at 05:16). Contributing gains a section of its own on the issue and merge-request templates, the Service Desk, the two boards and the labels as they are on GitLab.

Christopher Holloway committed Sep 26, 2026

The eighteen pages that copy repository documents are copied again from master 92b8f9f63, the 6.3.4 release, so they say what the repository says on the day 6.3.4 is published. Each was brought forward from the version it was last copied from, 540347500, hunk by hunk, and the wiki's own additions were kept where they are still true. What the documents gained: the stored-secrets key in the command line, the high-availability runbook and the warm standby, which now say that it is made once, exported and imported on the other node, and what a node without it does (HM7495); the service account, the COM rule that a change to an item of a shared collection is written onto a copy until Save(), and MySQL's utf8mb4 step in the upgrading guide; database TLS and utf8mb4 in the backend migration; the fuzz job moved from GitHub Actions to GitLab CI's linux-fuzz; the Windows and Linux suites on GitLab CI in the regression environment; the security policy's scans on the project's own runner and its questionnaire pointer; the contributing guide's CI checks; MessageStore and QuickJS in the architecture; a pre-release tag's suffix and the pinned .NET runtime in the release checklist; the update verifier's two signers in the assurance case. Third-Party Binaries follows a rewritten document: the tree commits no executable binary, and the sections this copy had added about where the forty committed binaries lived and their dispositions described the tree before 11 September 2026, so they are gone. Regulatory Scope's note loses four of the five things it called out of date, which the repository has corrected, and its own Annex I table now says the installer has been Authenticode-signed since 6.3.1, that 6.3.x is the supported line, and what a new installation's secure defaults are. The wiki's labels that said "in the tree after 6.3.3, not yet released" now say what is new in 6.3.4, and each header names 92b8f9f63. Where the repository text itself is now stale - the release checklist's and Regulatory Scope's statements that no release can be cut while the chain is on GitHub, the contributing guide and the security policy naming 6.3.3 as the latest release, the assurance case pointing at the changelog's Unreleased section - the copy keeps the repository's words and the header says so where a reader would be misled; 6.3.4 was built and Authenticode-signed by hand and carries no Sigstore bundle.

Christopher Holloway committed Sep 26, 2026

The pages on how the project runs stop describing GitHub as its process. Governance copies GOVERNANCE.md, whose status note says its passages on the GitHub ruleset, repository admin and private vulnerability reporting describe how the project ran there but whose body still says them in the present tense; the copy now puts them in the past tense and says what happens now, from that note and from CONTRIBUTING.md and SECURITY.md at master 540347500: merge requests, no approval rule on GitLab, a gated tree landing on master by fast-forward, reports arriving as confidential GitLab issues that one maintainer receives, and the ownership of the GitLab project as the critical asset where GitHub repository admin stood. It also says plainly that GOVERNANCE.md does not yet record the second maintainer's access on GitLab. Release Process keeps RELEASE.md as it is and adds short notes at steps 9, 11, 12 and 13, where a reader of one step would otherwise miss the status note: the alert pages are GitHub's, build-inputs-1 is unreachable, the draft, packaging, SBOM, signing, smoke test and package managers cannot run until the chain moves, which is planned roadmap work, and a gated tree lands by fast-forward with no pull request. Its own publishing section now says the releases are on GitLab with the same files, that no later release can carry the GitHub signing identity, and that the installer has been Authenticode-signed since 6.3.1, where it said it was not. The Project Handbook, a record of 4 September, says in sections 7 to 12 what has changed - the merge-request route, checks by hand, no CI, the release chain stopped, CVE IDs through GitLab and the Security template - and puts the GitHub checks it records in the past tense. The home page's pointer to Contributing speaks of a merge request.

Christopher Holloway committed Sep 24, 2026

The pages that copy repository documents are copied again from master 540347500, so they say what the repository says after the move to GitLab and after the batches that have landed since each was last copied. Contributing and Security Policy follow their files to the root of the repository, where both were rewritten for GitLab: the contributing guide is now the full one - where things are, how to report, the rule for GitHub's issue numbers, the prerequisites, one build command per component, the suites, every checker, the change checklists, commits, sign-off and merge requests - and the security policy supports 6.3.x and takes a report by a GitLab confidential issue or the project's Service Desk address. Governance names two maintainers, and it, the Release Process and the Assurance Case carry the repository's note that the release chain runs on GitHub Actions and cannot run until it moves. The runbooks gain what the tree after 6.3.3 added to them: the settings store in the database and a save that applies the setting, the drain as a state of its own and UpgradeOnStart, the message held for a sandbox, SPF as an RFC 7208 implementation, the Linux update helper, the locked copies of shared collections, the second bench and the gate in halves. Command Line becomes the whole current document, with every verb the clients have gained since 15 September. Most of these pages carry the wiki's own additions - diagrams, tables, worked commands, and corrections the repository has not taken - so each was merged three ways, from the version of the document it was last copied from to master, and the additions were kept wherever they are still true. Where the repository text describes something in the tree after 6.3.3 and not yet released, the page labels it, as the wiki does elsewhere, and says what 6.3.3 does instead where that matters to someone running it. Additions the repository has overtaken are gone or rewritten: the contribution flowchart and the table of required checks, which were GitHub's, are gone; so are the governance duty table and the bus-factor section, which the document now covers with two maintainers; the security flowchart and timeline send a report to GitLab and ask for the CVE there. The Project Handbook and the release diagram describe build/generate-com-wrapper.ps1, which replaced build/regenerate-interop.ps1 on 11 September 2026 when the COM wrapper left git. Each copy says at the top that it was re-copied from master 540347500 on 24 September 2026. Two say plainly where the repository document is itself out of date, and the copy with it: Third-Party Binaries and Regulatory Scope still count forty committed binaries, none of which has been in git since 11 September 2026, and Regulatory Scope still calls Authenticode signing outstanding and the releases GitHub's. The regression environment's 7-Zip path, which the repository document writes with a control character where \7 belongs, reads correctly here. Fuzzing.md has not changed since the wiki's copy, and its page says so.

Christopher Holloway committed Sep 24, 2026

The wiki's links move from GitHub to GitLab, where the project has lived since 22 September 2026. GitHub suspended the account on 18 September and every one of the project's GitHub addresses answers 404, so the download links, the source links, the security route, the support route and the "report an error" link all led nowhere. Every link to a file in the repository now opens it on GitLab, and the four community files that moved to the repository root on master 540347500 - CONTRIBUTING.md, SECURITY.md, SUPPORT.md and CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md - are linked there, which also mends the seven links to a root SECURITY.md that did not exist when they were written. The download links open the latest GitLab release, and the installer has a link that always fetches the latest one. A private report goes to a GitLab confidential issue or the project's Service Desk address, a question is an issue with the Question template because GitLab has no Discussions, and a reader who wants to hear of releases is told how to watch the project on GitLab. The Project Handbook, written against GitHub on 4 September, says that its GitHub process is the project as it was then. The GitHub facts that stay are facts about the product, and each now says what is true of it: the update feed the server reads by default, which answers 404, so a check fails with "The update feed answered HTTP 404." until UpdateFeedUrl names another feed; the Sigstore identity and issuer that signed every release up to 6.3.3, which verify those files wherever they are hosted and which the verifier's defaults still name, so a release signed anywhere else is refused unless the three settings are changed; and the two GitHub addresses compiled into the product, the Policy line of the security.txt the server serves and the Control Panel's About link. Every GitHub issue, discussion and pull-request number written with a hash is now written in words - "GitHub issue 114", "GitHub discussion 18", "upstream PR 602" - with the kind the repository's CHANGELOG gives each number, because GitLab turns a hash and a number into a link to its own issue of that number, which is something else. The one maintainer handle left in running text is in code, and the webmail's mentions no longer read as a GitLab user. Four things GitLab rendered wrongly are put right. The Stopping Spam link to Routes and Relays was split by a line break and led to a page that does not exist. The Fuzzing page's two repository-relative links resolved inside the wiki; they open the fuzz folder and its regression README on GitLab. Placeholders written outside code, such as <host:port>, <addr> and <culture>, were read as HTML and dropped or turned into links; they are in code now. And the Assurance Case's eight section headings began "1. " above a setext rule, which CommonMark reads as a list and a thematic break, so its contents links had nothing to land on; they are ATX headings with the ids those links name.

Christopher Holloway committed Sep 24, 2026

6.3.1 is the current release, and the installer is Authenticode-signed from it: the footer and the landing page say 6.3.1, and the six pages that said the installer carries no Authenticode signature say what changed on 11 September 2026 and what did not (SmartScreen, and every release before it)

chrisholloway5 committed Sep 11, 2026

The wiki rewritten in depth: 141 diagrams drawn from the code, every reference page made exhaustive, and twenty-one defaults corrected that no page had ever stated The wiki was accurate after this morning's sweep and thin. This is the depth pass the owner asked for: every page read against the code again, every reference page completed, and a diagram wherever a diagram says it better than a paragraph. 141 Mermaid diagrams across 49 pages, each drawn from the handler rather than from memory: the SMTP submission sequence with the checks in the order ProtocolMAIL_ and ProtocolRCPT_ actually run them, the IMAP session state machine from the per-command authentication guards, the DMARC evaluation, the delivery pipeline and its retry arithmetic, the ACME renewal state machine, the spam decision from connection to delivery, the schema chain, the component and threading models of the whole server, the CI workflows and what each one gates, the release draft-sign-publish flow, and a map of the journeys through the wiki itself on the landing page. The reference pages are now exhaustive rather than representative: every route with its method, authentication, request and response shape and its error codes; every [Settings] key with its default, its effect and whether it needs a restart; every port with the key that opens it; every rule criterion and action; every Sieve extension the server advertises; every metric the listener exposes. Twenty-one facts were wrong or absent, and each is corrected against the code rather than adjusted. The ones that will save somebody an afternoon: IMAP SASL PLAIN and SCRAM are not advertised on a default install, which looks exactly like a client bug; SMTP AUTH PLAIN is off by default too; DMARC checking is on while SPF and DKIM as scored tests are off, and the DMARC test evaluates both itself regardless; the seeded DNSBL and SURBL servers are inactive; a new mailbox contains INBOX and nothing else, which is the real cause of the classic missing Sent folder; MTA-STS hosting and autoconfiguration default on while both web-service ports default to 0, so the shipped default is features on with nothing listening; and TLS-RPT and DMARC report sending are inert until their From address is set, with each completed day discarded unsent. Eleven screenshots are named as wanted, with what each should show. The existing images are from a 6.2.10-era build and the pages say so where it matters.

chrisholloway5 committed Sep 8, 2026

The hMailServer 6.2.24 wiki: the corrected manual, the runbooks, and the references generated from the code

chrisholloway5 committed Sep 4, 2026