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  • Every page's header says whether 6.3.8 is reflected in it, and none calls 6.3.7 the latest release, where forty-eight pages still did; the own pages' passages that named "the release after 6.3.7" for what it would bring name 6.3.8, which brought it. The guide and reference pages whose headers said that 6.3.7, the latest release (17 October 2026, schema 6108), was not yet reflected say that 6.3.7 and 6.3.8, the latest release (2 November 2026, schema 6108), are not: thirty-eight of them, ten of which also name 6.3.5 and 6.3.6 so. Backup and Restore keeps its exception, the release a failed full restore is made again on, and the Settings Reference that its keys were last re-checked at v6.3.6, its section on the settings store calling 6.3.8 the current release. Capabilities and Configuration reflects 6.3.8 in its version stamp (6.3.8, build 47, at the tag v6.3.8), its list of published releases, the schema each release requires, the releases the release jobs have made and what applies a new installation's secure defaults in a container, and its header says so. Encryption and Certificates' note in When it renews on a host added to AcmeDomains (work item 98), Migration's refusal of the original's 5.7 and the Ports Reference's sentence on the secure defaults of a container's new installation name 6.3.8 where they said the release after 6.3.7, and each header says that this is what of 6.3.8 it reflects. Version History to 6.2.10 says that what came after it, up to 6.3.8, is in Changes Since 6.2.10. The Project Handbook's status note says that 6.3.7 was the first of the security releases and 6.3.8 the second, and sections 8 and 9 that the release jobs made 6.3.8 on 2 November 2026, and the note that these are brought to 6.3.8 and the rest of the page to neither. The headers of eight copies - the Assurance Case, Contributing, Governance, Regulatory Scope, Release Process, Security Policy, The Update Feed and Third-Party Binaries - say in their sentence of 19 October 2026 that 6.3.7 was then the latest release. Signed-off-by: Christopher Holloway <chris.holloway@progressiverobot.com>

    Christopher Holloway committed Nov 2, 2026
  • Settings Reference's row for HM5806 since 6.3.4 names the third case IniSettingStore raises it for with batch51 on master, 5e49abf06 - for the pepper and a removal since the tag v6.3.4, for the live update's trust since 6.3.6 - which 038bade and f2290df cite it for: where the service may not write hMailServer.ini, a change only the file can hold is refused - PasswordPepper, the live update's trust set or removed without an administrator's session, or the removal of a key this build does not read while the file has its line - nothing is changed, and the sentence names the file and the account the server runs as and says what an administrator does instead (IniSettingStore::WriteSetting and RemoveSetting, IniFileSettings::InitializationFileRefusal), where the row named a write that stored the row but could not write the file and a removal that took out the line but could not delete the row, and no refusal. Signed-off-by: Christopher Holloway <chris.holloway@progressiverobot.com>

    Christopher Holloway committed Oct 21, 2026
  • Six more passages of this wiki's own text, found by comparing each copy with its document as master has it from batch51, 5e49abf06, and by a further pass over the pages, say what changes where the service may not write hMailServer.ini, as ServiceAccount.md's table of the writes to hMailServer.INI says, where they said without that condition what the server writes into the file. The Upgrading Guide's paragraph on rolling back across schema 6042, under Rolling back, says that the file the newer server left is a full copy of the stored settings, which the older server reads as the truth, only where the service may write the file, and not under NT SERVICE\hMailServer or the Linux packages' hmailserver user, where the copy is as the last account that could write it left it, as Upgrading hMailServer's note in 18.6 has said since 8d8ed94; and its note on where the [Settings] values come from on a new machine says that since 6.3.4 the restored values are written into the new file at the first start where the service may write it, not under NT SERVICE\hMailServer, a new installation's account. Neither passage is Upgrading.md's, and the page's header names every passage of this wiki's own a comparison with the document finds, none of them in Upgrading.md at any point of its history, where it named five: the pointer to Upgrading hMailServer after the opening, the section What one run looks like with its flowchart and the exit codes, the bullet Not hMailServer.ini, the section on what a failed step leaves on each backend, the note that An upgrade without a window is new in 6.3.4, the installer's two refusals and the notes on the two numbers HM5011 carries and on HM5010 under If the upgrade fails, the paragraph on rolling back across schema 6042, the notes under Special cases on the [Settings] values on a new machine, on the database password and on an installation from before hMailServer 5, the notes for contributors and the corrections under Verified against the code; and it says which three of them say what a file the service may not write changes. Changes Since 6.2.10's 6.3.4 entry on the settings store says that a line still holding what the server last wrote is brought back into line where the file may be written, as its other clauses say since 8d8ed94. The Runbooks Digest says that on the same machine the line the store writes into the file, where the service may write it, is adopted by the new database at its first start, and that under NT SERVICE\hMailServer, where the store writes no line, BackupMessagesDBOnly is checked on the new database before the restore, as MigratingDatabaseBackend.md says. Settings Reference's section 4a says that the whole [Settings] section stays mirrored into the file where the service may write it, the copy not refreshed and stale for whatever reads the file itself under NT SERVICE\hMailServer, and that restoring an archive that carries a pepper into a file the service may not write says so as HM5805, for an administrator to put the value there with an elevated editor (IniSettingStore::XMLLoad). Signed-off-by: Christopher Holloway <chris.holloway@progressiverobot.com>

    Christopher Holloway committed Oct 21, 2026
  • Ten more passages of this wiki's own text, on seven pages, say what changes where the service may not write hMailServer.ini, as ServiceAccount.md's table of the writes to hMailServer.INI says with batch51 on master, 5e49abf06, and IniSettingStore has done since the tag v6.3.4, where they said without that condition what the server writes into the file, or that an edit to it is undone, the shape of the passages the previous commit corrects. Migrating the Database Backend's own sentence on the stored settings under Rolling back says that the rolled-back server rewrites the file's [Settings] section to match where the service may write the file. Warm Standby's worked commands say that a value typed into the INI is not used once the key has a stored value, where they said it was undone. Settings Overview says that DELETE /api/v1/settings/ini/{name}, hmctl ini delete and Settings.DeleteIniSetting remove the line and the row together where the service may write the file, and that where it may not and the file has the line the line stays and the row is kept holding the key's default, which the server treats the same, or the removal is refused for PasswordPepper and a key this build does not read, and that the server adds the [SettingsStore] section where it may write the file. Settings Reference's section 4a says the same of a removal, a dropped row being put back from the line at the next start and the removal said in the application log (IniSettingStore::RemoveSetting), and that what a file the service may not write changes, which the tag v6.3.4 already has, is read from the tree at 5e49abf06, where the section named 3233b0cc4 alone, a tree from before it. Installing on Linux says that on a package installation, whose file is 0640 root:hmailserver, a value stored over the API is in effect and the line left as it was is not an error, the application log saying, where application logging is on, that the file is read-only to the account the server runs as and that its [Settings] copy is not refreshed (IniFileSettings::InitializationFileWritable, IniSettingStore::WriteSetting and Synchronize), where it said that such a value was reported as HM5806 when it was stored and as HM5803 at every start; the packaging README at 5e49abf06 still says so under What lands where, and this wiki follows the code and ServiceAccount.md, which says of the Linux packages that a setting saved is no longer an error at every start. Changes Since 6.2.10's 6.3.4 entry on the settings store and its note on the closed table say that the server writes the [SettingsStore] section where it may write the file, and Upgrading hMailServer's note on rolling back from 6.3.4 says that the newer server writes the [Settings] secrets into the file as HMK1: envelopes where it may write the file. Signed-off-by: Christopher Holloway <chris.holloway@progressiverobot.com>

    Christopher Holloway committed Oct 21, 2026
  • Changes Since 6.2.10's 6.3.4 entry on the settings store, Settings Overview, Settings Reference's section 4a and Security Hardening's paragraph on where the pepper lives say that PasswordPepper, set over COM or REST, is written to the file only where the service may write it and is refused with a sentence where it may not, so that under NT SERVICE\hMailServer an administrator sets it in the file with an elevated editor and restarts the service, as ServiceAccount.md's table of the writes to hMailServer.INI has said since the tag v6.3.4 and says with batch51 on master, 5e49abf06, where they said that COM and REST write it to the file whatever the account the service runs as. Signed-off-by: Christopher Holloway <chris.holloway@progressiverobot.com>

    Christopher Holloway committed Oct 21, 2026
  • Nineteen of this wiki's own pages say of a [Settings] line edited in hMailServer.ini what RelocatingAnInstallation.md says with batch51 on master, 5e49abf06, and ServiceAccount.md has said since the tag v6.3.4: at the next start the stored value is used and HM5804 names the key, once, and the line is put back where the service may write the file, while under NT SERVICE\hMailServer, to which the file is read-only, as under the Linux packages' hmailserver user, the edit stays in the file (IniSettingStore::Synchronize), where they said without that condition that the line is put back, undone or restored: the APIs Reference, Backup and Restore, Capabilities and Configuration, Changes Since 6.2.10 (its 6.3.4 entry on the settings store and item 20 of its section 5), Control Panel Pages, Encryption and Certificates, the Glossary, Installing hMailServer's table of what writes each key, Monitoring and Health, Ports Reference, Routes and Relays, the Runbooks Digest, Security Hardening, Settings Overview, Settings Reference, The Control Panel, The REST API, Troubleshooting and Upgrading hMailServer. Where the same passages said that the server keeps the file's copy current, writes a deleted line back, brings an older line up to date or rewrites the line after a save, they now say so of a file the service may write, as step 9 of RelocatingAnInstallation.md now says of a save (IniSettingStore::WriteSetting) and ServiceAccount.md's table of the writes to hMailServer.INI says of every start, reinitialise and save: Settings Overview's flowchart has a step for a file the service may not write, where nothing is written, an edit is still named once and a reinitialise names the older lines in the application log where application logging is on; Settings Reference's section 4a says the same of each of its rules, and its rows for HM5803 and HM5804 say that a file the service may not write is not written at all, which the application log says, not as an error, and that HM5804 is said once there because the row records the edited line; and Upgrading hMailServer's note on rolling back from 6.3.4 to 6.3.3 says that the file's permissions under NT SERVICE\hMailServer, like a Linux package installation's unit, keep the server from writing the copy that note relies on. Where Changes Since 6.2.10, Control Panel Pages, the Control Panel Reference, Settings Overview and The Control Panel said that a Control Panel with no connection refuses rather than write a line or a file the server would undo, they say one whose edit the server would not use. The copies of documents that still say it without the condition - Contributing, Diagnosing Stalled Mail, Event Scripts, Migrating the Database Backend, The Update Feed and Warm Standby - follow their documents and are left as they are. Signed-off-by: Christopher Holloway <chris.holloway@progressiverobot.com>

    Christopher Holloway committed Oct 21, 2026
  • The wiki's own pages say what the documents say with batch49 on master: the Project Handbook's Scorecard record that the OpenSSF API serves the GitHub copy's score since 19 October 2026, published by the copy's workflow on its first run on master, where it said the API served none for the copy yet; Changes since 6.2.10 and the Settings Reference that nothing has run the Linux suite or the checkers on GitHub Actions since 18 September 2026, and that GitLab CI's checkers job runs every build/check-*.py since 26 September 2026, where they said GitHub Actions had not run for the project at all and the checkers were run by hand; the Glossary, Installing hMailServer and the Project Handbook that the releases before 6.3.1 stay unsigned because every release up to 6.3.3 is re-published on GitLab, and copied to GitHub since 18 October 2026, with its original files and signatures, byte for byte, where they gave a published release's immutability as the reason (SECURITY.md: the GitHub copies were published before the immutable-releases setting was switched on, and can be changed); the Glossary, Installing hMailServer, the Release Process, Upgrading hMailServer, the Settings Reference and Changes since 6.2.10 that GitHub's release workflow signed the releases from 6.2.19 to 6.3.3, where they said every release up to 6.3.3 (no release from 6.0.0-B1 to 6.2.18 carries a Sigstore bundle; SECURITY.md, Verifying a release); Regulatory Scope's Annex I table that the 6.3 line's support period is defined, security fixes until 30 September 2027 and, unless the maintainers write otherwise before then, no support from 1 October 2027, where it said no support period was defined; the Release Process's note at step 9 that since 6.3.6 static-analysis and semgrep fail the pipeline on a finding new to their baselines that master's exceptions file does not accept, while dependency-scan still does not, where it said all three may fail without failing it; and Contributing's paragraphs on the Service Desk and the board without the sentence that the address may change if the project moves to the group hmailserver, which it did on 29 September 2026, and without the clause that a scoped label is not exclusive on GitLab's Free tier, the group having been on GitLab's open-source plan since 13 October 2026. The re-check of the wiki brought to batch49 found these on 19 October 2026; the same shapes were swept on the wiki's own pages, and the copies of repository documents left as their documents have them. Signed-off-by: Christopher Holloway <chris.holloway@progressiverobot.com>

    Christopher Holloway committed Oct 19, 2026
  • Installing hMailServer gives 6.3.7's check, as its header says it does, and it and seven more pages say that the project's GitLab CI has signed every release since 6.3.5 - 6.3.5 at the path the project began at, and from 6.3.6 at the group's, which the project moved to on 29 September 2026 - where they said, as 6.3.4 was made, that the pipeline was to sign the releases after it, had signed none yet and would follow the project to the path it was to move to. Installing hMailServer, section 4.1: a paragraph on checking 6.3.7 - made by its tag's GitLab pipeline, each of its sixty-two files signed with Sigstore and its bundle beside it, hmailserver-6.3.7.intoto.sigstore.json its SLSA provenance, no .sig; the installer checked against the SHA-256 the Download table of the release's notes gives it, dcae96bd75d6cae8e5a910d15940567067539ed99db5aeed40a815added4d85f for hMailServer-6.3.7-x64.exe, or against its bundle with cosign, the identity https://gitlab.com/hmailserver/hmailserver//.gitlab-ci.yml@refs/tags/v6.3.7 and the issuer https://gitlab.com, the project's id 86730559 read as Security Policy's Verifying a release says, then its Authenticode signature - where the page checked releases up to 6.3.3 and 6.3.4 alone; the releases after 6.3.4 are signed by the project's GitLab CI, a signer every server from 6.3.4 on has compiled in, and Upgrading hMailServer 18.4f says which servers install 6.3.7 by their live update, where they were to be signed and a 6.3.4 server's live update was to install them; and what a 6.3.4 server trusts is that pipeline at the path the project began at, where it signed 6.3.5, and at the group's, where it has signed every release from 6.3.6, there only with the project's id. The same stale sentence, swept: Settings Overview (the update feed's two signers), Release Process (Verifying what was published, this wiki's own section: the identities the releases from 6.3.5 carry), the Glossary (Sigstore), the Control Panel Reference (the Updates card), The Control Deck (the Update view: a 6.3.4 server's live update trusts the releases after it, where the signing job was written and had not yet run), the Project Handbook's section 10 and the Settings Reference's UpdateSourceRepository row (the three settings at the path the project began at keep a server to it, so that it refuses every release from 6.3.6, and since the move a server from 6.2.28 to 6.3.3 is upgraded by hand; the row's link to UpdateFeed.md now at the group's path). Home: the Atom feed's entries' ids are made from each release's tag alone, so that they do not change when a release is edited or the project moves, as UpdateFeed.md's The Atom feed says, where they were to keep their ids when the project moved into the group. The sections for one release - Changes Since 6.2.10's 4e and Upgrading hMailServer's 18.4c, written for 6.3.4 - and Capabilities and Configuration's paragraph marked as of 6.3.4 say it as 6.3.4 stood, and stay as written. Signed-off-by: Christopher Holloway <chris.holloway@progressiverobot.com>

    Christopher Holloway committed Oct 18, 2026
  • Every page's header says whether 6.3.7 is reflected in it, and none calls 6.3.6 the latest release, where thirty-seven headers still said "6.3.6, the latest release (6 October 2026...". The guide and reference pages brought up on 5 October 2026 to 6.3.6 say so with its date and schema, and that 6.3.7, the latest release (17 October 2026, schema 6108), is not yet reflected on them: Aliases, Lists and Public Folders, the APIs Reference, Compliance and eDiscovery, Connecting a Mail Client, Control Panel Pages, the Control Panel Reference, DNS for Your Domain, Encryption and Certificates, Encryption for People, How Email Works, Mail In to a Webhook, Mailing Lists, Message Storage, Migration, Monitoring and Health, Outbound Shaping, the Ports Reference, Profiles and Environment, Rooms and Equipment, Routes and Relays, Rules and Sieve, the Runbooks Digest, Security Hardening, Settings Overview, Sign-in and Identity, Stopping Spam, Stopping Viruses, The Control Deck, The Control Panel, The REST API, The Webmail, Troubleshooting, What hMailServer Is and Is Not and Your First Domain and Mailbox. Backup and Restore says that 6.3.7 is reflected only in the release a failed full restore is made again on, Capabilities and Configuration only in the releases the release jobs have made, and the Settings Reference that its keys were last re-checked at v6.3.6, where its re-check of 5 October 2026 called v6.3.6 the latest release. The COM API and Scripting and the Glossary, whose headers said nothing of a release after 6.3.4, say that 6.3.7 is not yet reflected, the Glossary that its stamp names it; Version History to 6.2.10 that its history ends at 6.2.10 and what came after, up to 6.3.7, is in Changes Since 6.2.10; and the Project Handbook that its status note, and what sections 7, 8, 9 and 11 say of how a change lands, who can approve it, which runners run what and which releases the release jobs have made, are brought up to the tree at 6.3.7, the rest not yet, and that 6.3.7, published on 17 October 2026, was the first of the security releases that go on until 30 September 2027. Signed-off-by: Christopher Holloway <chris.holloway@progressiverobot.com>

    Christopher Holloway committed Oct 18, 2026
  • Backup and Restore, the Settings Reference, Capabilities and Configuration and the Project Handbook say what is true with 6.3.7 out, where they named 6.3.6 as the release to upgrade to, 6.3.4 as the current release, the release jobs as written and not yet run, and GitLab's shared runners as where the checkers run. Backup and Restore: a full restore that failed on an installation made new with 6.3.4 or 6.3.5 is made again from the same archive after an upgrade to 6.3.6 or a later release, where it said to 6.3.6. The Settings Reference: the database is the store of the [Settings] keys from 6.3.4, and in 6.3.7, the current release, where it called 6.3.4 the current release. Capabilities and Configuration: the release jobs for 6.3.5 onwards were written and not yet run when 6.3.4 was made, and have made every release since - 6.3.5 on 29 September 2026, 6.3.6 on 6 October 2026 and 6.3.7 on 17 October 2026 - where it called them not yet run. The Project Handbook, section 8: the checkers run on the project's own runners for master, a batch* branch and a v* tag and on GitLab's hosted runners for a merge request and any other branch, as CONTRIBUTING.md at v6.3.7 says under What GitLab CI runs, where it said GitLab's shared runners; and the release jobs made 6.3.7 on 17 October 2026 as well as 6.3.5 and 6.3.6. Signed-off-by: Christopher Holloway <chris.holloway@progressiverobot.com>

    Christopher Holloway committed Oct 18, 2026
  • The reference pages carry what 6.3.6 adds and changes: the live update's trust read from hMailServer.ini alone, the never-ban list by reverse name, each SMTP listener's AUTH, the FQDN checks, the SURBL score, the sessions' bounds, the folders made private, and the COM members, routes, states and figures that go with them. APIs Reference: days to keep with one meaning and the 409 for a page left open; Utilities' helpers answering a signed-in caller; the members added in 6.3.6 with their dispids; UpdateState 6 and 7 and GET /api/v1/update's new fields; the never-ban routes; smtp_authentication on /api/v1/ports; the three anti-spam keys and auto_ban_widen_by_reverse_name; the breach-check test, the audit put-back and the trust keys refused on /settings/ini; the invitation reply's occurrences; the administrator password's delay, the Host the loopback port answers, the IPv6 /64, fifty sessions a holder, API keys' source restrictions, the audit trail's new records. The REST API: the same on its own tables. Settings Reference: the five trust keys file-only, the UpdateSourceRepository row, the four hm_settings rows 6.3.6 adds with hm_neverbannames and portsmtpauth, HelpWikiBaseUrl at the group's path, the [Settings] baseline unchanged, DNSServer and the IP forms refused, DnssecValidationEnabled's IPv6 servers, DaneEnforcementEnabled's resolver, AutoBanCommand's ledger, AutoBanNeverBan's older forms, HttpProxy's callers, the XOAUTH2 token request through it, the Updates folder left out of backups, HM4401. Settings Overview: the five cannot be set over COM, REST, the Control Panel or the Deck. Control Panel Reference: the external account's wording, the update settings shown and not edited, the status card's states 6 and 7 and Install update under NT SERVICE\hMailServer, the thirteenth checklist item, the search phrase, the live logs' message, the Deck's script policy. The Control Panel and The Control Deck: thirteen items, the live logs' message, the Deck's 6.3.6 behaviour. Capabilities and Configuration: the version and schema stamps, the trust keys, the update states, HttpProxy's callers, the never-ban names and the widening, OpenSSL 4.0.3, libpq 18.6, QuickJS 2026-06-04. Ports Reference: portsmtpauth, each listener's AUTH, ManageSieve's deadlines, the bind addresses in older forms, SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE, the forward proxy's callers. The COM API and Scripting: Send a message from a script through Application.CreateMessage, OnExternalAccountDownload's answers for IMAP, QuickJS 2026-06-04 and ES2025, scripting off, the Service Desk address at the group's path. Project Handbook: the libraries and the address. Runbooks Digest: days to keep -1. Architecture: HttpsClient's callers, and the flowchart of an error report that no longer recurses on a missing UseScriptServer. Troubleshooting: the by-hand install and Install update, HM7465 to HM7469 and HM5480, port 25's Honeypot, a disk that fills as a message's last bytes are written. Each page's header says it was brought up on 5 October 2026 to 6.3.6 for what 6.3.6 changes on it; where 6.3.5 changed the page too (the sidebar's order, the quarantine review, its fields and members), the header says that is not yet written in. 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
  • What the check of 2e1d40e against the tag v6.3.4 (8adce850a) found, put right. Changes Since 6.2.10, section 4e, named the seven High findings of GitLab's SAST as .gitlab/security-exceptions.yml at the tag does not: the seven are the crash-dump helper's dbghelp.dll, the Control Panel's elevated restart, DBSetupQuick handing DBUpdater the password on its command line (two), the backup index parser (two) and a MIME parser test that compared pointers into two arrays; the MySQL client's DLL search, the installer's command line and the %FILE% scanner path were found beside them. The audit item said an app password could change the account's keys; it could replace the own S/MIME key and publish an OpenPGP key, and a support session could change any of them or switch zero access off (CHANGELOG 6.3.4). Release Process: the note at step 9 said no pipeline had run the scans on the project's own runners; the first pipeline, on master 40c7d3e0c, ran dependency-scan, static-analysis and semgrep, which failed as they may without failing the pipeline, and semgrep-sast came in batch40. The note at step 12 said a tree lands on master by fast-forward with no merge request; that is so up to 6.3.4, and from the first landing after it a batch lands through an approved merge request (ContinuousIntegration.md, "Landing on master"). Installing hMailServer: the administrator password "may hold any character" and HM_ADMIN_PASSWORD "takes any character" were wider than the tag, which refuses a password holding U+0000 and whose /adminpassword switch drops a double quote; they now say what the variable carries. Control Panel Reference: the tag adds no page, text or index entry but rewrites one text, the one that explains ProtectStoredSecretsWithDPAPI, in every catalogue. Settings Reference: no passkey is taken while a relying party is set without PasskeyAllowedOrigins, not "until then". Regression Test Environment: the header says this copy gives the [Test] count where the document says roughly 2,000.

    Christopher Holloway committed Sep 26, 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
  • What the check of the merged wiki found, put right. The landing page counted 61 pages, 34 guides and 'the other 60', and listed none of the four pages written for 6.3.4: it counts 65, 38 and 64, and Message Storage, Compliance and eDiscovery, Rooms and Equipment and Mail In to a Webhook have their rows where the sidebar groups them. Twelve sentences named the next release as 6.3.5; each now says the releases after 6.3.4, since nothing after 6.3.4 has a number yet. Installing on Linux said the AppImages began in 6.3.2, where the GitLab releases of 6.3.0 and 6.3.1 carry both of them. Capabilities and Configuration gave 23 per-account tables as today's count, where AccountStores.cpp declares 62 in 6.3.4, 24 carried and 38 exceptions; the old figures stay, labelled with 3233b0cc4. The Settings Reference counted 26 bootstrap keys, where build/ini-settings-baseline.txt has 29. And Stopping Spam said the quarantine digest needs its domain's switch and hour, when an account may hold a value of its own for both (EffectiveSetting.cpp, QuarantineDigestTask.cpp).

    Christopher Holloway committed Sep 26, 2026
  • What the check of the wiki's 6.3.4 pages found, read against 92b8f9f63: the compiled-in security.txt Policy URL has named SECURITY.md on GitLab since commit 9660893f1, so the APIs Reference no longer says it points at GitHub and that moving it is not done; the Runbooks Digest no longer says .github/SECURITY.md exists. No job on the project's own runners had run when 6.3.4 was made, and the fuzz job waits for the owner's schedule, so the home page, the gate table, the CI entry and the capabilities page say the Linux suite and the fuzzing are defined there and were run by hand, and the old nightly-fuzzing entry says it stopped with the GitHub account. DeckParity's census reads 586 routes, 258 of them writes, in 6.3.4, not 553 and 243. Roles cover 27 permissions, not 24. A backup carries an account's own stores, not everything an account has: passkeys, shares, recoverable and expiring mail, IMAP annotations and the out-of-office memory stay out, as AccountStores.cpp says. --decompress goes with --compress-store; the PST reader reports codes 7550 to 7553, and the administrator copies the file in; a spam trap bans the connecting address and blocks the envelope sender; a shaping wait spares retries only while the message is within its retry schedule; the quarantine digest is off until a domain or an account turns it on. /Register no longer uses ServiceAccountName and ServiceAccountPassword, which are still read rather than retired, and under the virtual account an administrator downloads the installer from the release page and checks its Authenticode signature rather than running the copy the server downloaded. Settings Reference section 17 counts its server-written rows as seven, and three labels that still said 'in the tree' say 6.3.4. The one piped wiki link whose text differed from its page becomes a plain Markdown link.

    Christopher Holloway committed Sep 26, 2026
  • The reference pages, the figures and the release notes now describe 6.3.4, the latest release, published on 26 September 2026 at schema 6103, read from 92b8f9f63, the tree it was cut from. What the pages called the tree after 6.3.3, not yet released, is in 6.3.4 and is labelled so, and what landed after master 540347500 is added as 6.3.4's. Changes Since 6.2.10 gains 6.3.4 as a release: its row in the timeline and the picture, its gate size (3,698 tests), the seven schema steps 6097 to 6103 with what each script does, the four steps that deserve planning (6101 on hm_messages and 6102, which rebuilds every MySQL and MariaDB table, beside 6025 and 6030), the upgrading note, section 4e retitled as New in 6.3.4 with a new part for batches 34 to 39 - eDiscovery, storage compression and de-duplication, mailbox encryption at rest, mail in to a webhook, rooms and equipment, utf8mb4, secrets at rest, the JScript escaping fix, event scripts on Linux in QuickJS, PST import and its reader process, SNMP, secure defaults and the service account, database TLS, object storage, the update feed off GitHub and the Updates folders, address erasure, the scan fixes and 7-Zip 26.03, the IMAP fixes, the webmail at 100,000 messages, the load generator, Windows on ARM and the CI on the project's own runners, each with its schema step, its commits and its repository document - and eleven more behaviour changes without a switch (items 36 to 46). Windows on ARM, the published numbers and the webmail's timings are said to be written, empty and unmeasured, as they are. The landing page and the footer stamp 6.3.4 as the latest release; the figures are recounted from 92b8f9f63: 65 Control Panel pages, 441 OpenAPI paths and 621 operations, 40 Deck views and DeckParity.md's 458 of 466, 3,698 [Test] attributes. The download line says 6.3.4 has x86-64 packages only and points the AArch64 packages and the AppImage at 6.3.3's release, and the PKGBUILD's GitHub source is named for what it is. The APIs Reference and The REST API gain the 24 paths added after 540347500 (nine for eDiscovery, seven for the inbound webhooks, four for mailbox encryption at rest, the booking policy, the store's two and the webmail's bulk action) and the routes that answer differently; The COM API and Scripting gains Settings.MessageStoreCompression, MessageStoreDedupMinKB, MessageStoreStatus and Account.Kind, what a COM change to a shared configuration object now does (a copy, in effect at Save(), commit 15cfff25d), the JScript escaping fix of 5a3de9001 and what an administrator with a JScript EventHandlers.js must do (a rule's Run function name a plain identifier), and event scripts on Linux in JavaScript, with what a handler cannot reach. Settings Overview and Settings Reference gain the 27 hm_settings rows of 6.3.4 (191 in all), [Database] TlsMode and TlsCaFile, [Security] StoredSecretsKey and the sealed secrets, and ServiceAccountName no longer used by /Register. Ports Reference gains the SNMP agent, the secure defaults a new installation's listeners get, and the outbound connections 6.3.4 adds. Upgrading hMailServer gains 18.4c: every server installs 6.3.4 by hand, since it carries no Sigstore bundle; the UpdateFeedUrl line for 6.2.28 to 6.3.3; the slow steps and what 6102 needs; what an upgrade keeps. Capabilities and Configuration, the Glossary (eDiscovery and legal hold, object store, sealed secret, stored-secrets key and the rest) and the Runbooks Digest (the nineteen new documents) are brought up to the same tree.

    Christopher Holloway committed Sep 26, 2026
  • What the adversarial check of the wiki's catch-up found, put right. The REST API's route counts left out the settings groups: RestApiSettings.cpp writes /api/v1/settings and its named groups into the OpenAPI document from its group tables, so no path literal shows them, and the document names 146 paths and 219 operations in 6.3.3 and 417 and 588 at master 540347500, not the 137 and 202 and 404 and 563 the literals alone give; the landing page, The REST API, the APIs Reference and Capabilities and Configuration now say so. The landing page counted 53 pages and listed none of the eight new ones: it counts 61, lists all eight where the sidebar has them, says fifteen pages carry a Source of truth note rather than eight, and names the eight among the guides. A documentation error was said to become an issue with the documentation label, which neither the Default template nor a visitor can set; the sidebar, the footer and the landing page ask for an issue naming the page. Regulatory Scope's table linked Changes Since 6.2.10 as [[Page|Page]], which GitLab splits at the pipe. Capabilities and Configuration placed the 6.3.3 version stamp at 3233b0cc4; it is still 6.3.3 build 42 at 540347500. The Webmail counted Greek, Korean and European Portuguese among what the tree adds, when 6.3.3's twenty already had them; Connecting a Mail Client listed S/MIME in the page as new, which it has been since 6.3.2, where the new thing is a domain's S/MIME authority; Changes Since 6.2.10's collection sweep read 87 calls, six fixed and 84 others, which is three loops and three members; the COM page said every class now carries ISupportErrorInfo, where the checker holds every class that raises an error. And the wiki's own pages stop saying that GitHub's CI runs: Encryption for People's GnuPG proof, the Linux builds on the ARM runner and with both compilers, the translation-unit census, the Compose file and the chart, the settings-index generator, the ini-coverage checker, the account-stores checker and the C++ CodeQL job ran there until 18 September 2026 and are run by hand, or not at all, since. The APIs Reference's server states gain 5, Draining.

    Christopher Holloway committed Sep 24, 2026
  • The reference pages that name GitHub because the code still does now say, beside each such fact, that GitHub is unavailable and that moving it off GitHub is planned roadmap work, not yet done. The update check's default feed is api.github.com and has answered 404 since 18 September 2026 (Settings Reference, Settings Overview, The REST API, APIs Reference); the three signing-trust defaults name GitHub's release workflow and token service, which only GitHub Actions can issue, so no release after 6.3.3 can carry that identity (Settings Reference, Settings Overview, the Glossary's Sigstore row); and the Policy URL compiled into the served security.txt is a GitHub address (APIs Reference). Each was checked against master 540347500: UpdateChecker.cpp's STABLE_FEED and PRERELEASE_FEED, SigstoreVerifier.cpp's three constants and WebServicesServer.cpp's policy URL are still GitHub's. The Glossary's CodeQL row is put in the past tense and says nothing runs it on GitLab yet.

    Christopher Holloway committed Sep 24, 2026
  • The Settings Reference's coverage note for the settings store stopped at the gate of 15 September; it now names the latest, batch 33's of 24 September - 3,390 tests in two halves, none failing - and the fixture that proves a save applies what its mark says.

    Christopher Holloway committed Sep 24, 2026
  • The Settings Reference is re-checked at master 540347500. It said, in three places, that a saved [Settings] value applies at the next start or reinitialise because nothing in SetIniSetting re-runs LoadSettings; that is 6.3.3, and each place now says so and points at a new section 4b for the tree after it, where a save publishes. Section 4b lists every key that does not apply on save - the 28 that wait for a reinitialise and the 2 that wait for a restart, read from the baseline's applies field - the pending list and where it is shown, the one [Settings] key with levels (QuotaWarningPercent, to the account), and every key's name in the environment, HM_SETTING_<key>, with what the environment then refuses. The [Database] table gains UpgradeOnStart, the one bootstrap key added. The CalDavRedirectUrl row said that this server implements neither CalDAV nor CardDAV; it has served CardDAV since 6.3.3 and serves CalDAV in the tree, where an empty value now points discovery at the server's own /dav/, and both rows say what an empty and an unusable value do in each. The baseline is counted again at 267 keys, 241 of them [Settings]; the schema is 6096; the API key file gains its Role and send-API fields; and a new section 17 lists the 164 hm_settings rows the tree has added since 6.3.3, grouped by feature with their defaults from SettingsDefaults.h, since every new setting is such a row now.

    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
  • The Linux suite on the tree now on master: 1,606 tests, 1,326 passed, none failed, 280 skipped The pages carried a placeholder for the Linux figures until the run finished. It ran on 00bec4412, which is the gated 3233b0cc4 with one change to the Linux test shim - it now puts [Settings] back through the settings store instead of rewriting hMailServer.ini before every test - so the server it tested is the one the Windows gate tested. Six pages name the figures where they named the placeholder.

    @chrisholloway5 chrisholloway5 committed Sep 15, 2026
  • Two pages that still called the file the settings store, and six figures in the tree's pages settled against the code The stalled-mail guide and the Control Panel pages table were written when hMailServer.ini was where a setting lived, and neither was in the sets the writers of the last commit covered. Both keep what is true of 6.3.3 and say what the tree after it does, in the wording the repository's own copy of the guide took at 5e7555a99: the keys are stored in the database from schema 6042, changed in the Control Panel, over PUT /api/v1/settings/ini/{name}, with hmctl ini set or Settings.SetIniSetting, still copied into [Settings], and an edit to the file is reported as HM5804 and put back at the next start. The pages table gets one paragraph for every cell that says INI, checked against IniFeatureStore.cs as it now is - reads over COM with the file as the fallback when there is no session, writes over COM only, and a Control Panel without a session says so instead of writing a line the server would undo - and the seven cells that named the file carry the release beside it. Six doubts the checkers left were settled by reading the code at 00bec4412, and four of them were wrong on the page. The Deck's Reports view does draw two bar charts, as SVG, for traffic and storage, and the page now says which. A report is not "at most three grouped queries": the four sections counted from the trace are one each, mailboxes one, storage two and volume six, one per metric, with the trace query capped at 100,000 grouped rows as the page said. The Deck harness figure is written as current - 458 checks at 00bec4412 - with the 336 and 292 kept as the history they were, since both were reproduced by running the harness from the languages commit and its parent. The X-hMailServer-External stamp is shown by the webmail as a warning line above the message, and the page now gives the words and the badge that stands beside it whether or not the domain stamps; the first-contact line is named too. docs/Syslog.md does hold rsyslog configurations for all three transports, and that bullet stands. The settings reference's arithmetic for the keys outside the bootstrap sections was two counts side by side, one of them wrong: there are 21 [LDAP] keys in LdapSettings.cpp, not 20, and the sentence is now one set of numbers, 242 + 4 + 21, with a note that the baseline file holds none of the 25 because it lists only what IniFileSettings reads. The Linux page's proof table still said the schema was built at 6031 without saying when that was true; one sentence after the table gives the schema each release shipped and the tree's 6045. Line endings are each page's own: four are CRLF, the Linux page is LF, and the edit was made on bytes.

    @chrisholloway5 chrisholloway5 committed Sep 15, 2026
  • The wiki describes the tree after 6.3.3 as it lands on master: the settings store, the audit trail and alerts, what a domain does to a message, remote-domain policy, a backup that carries everything, and the rest of three batches Twenty-seven pages, each written from the code at 3233b0cc4 and then checked sentence by sentence against it by a second reader: 166 claims verified, 23 corrected before this commit. Everything the tree holds that no release has is labelled as in the tree after 6.3.3 and not yet released, and the next release is called that rather than given a number. The changes page carries the four schema steps 6042 to 6045 in section 2, the second and third batches in section 4e beside the first, the gate for 3233b0cc4 (2,410 tests, 2,402 passed, none failed, 8 skipped; the Linux figures are a placeholder until that run lands), and in section 5 the changes an upgrade makes with no switch - above all that the database is the settings store, that an edit to [Settings] in hMailServer.ini is undone at the next start and reported as HM5804, what to do instead, and that the password pepper stays in the file and out of every backup, so a restore onto new hardware needs it brought along. Fourteen pages that told a reader to edit the file now say how the same setting is changed once the store lands, and what an edit to the file does then; the settings reference says the table of INI keys is closed. The feature pages cover the backup that carries every per-account store, the audit trail and alerts with what each does not yet record or raise, syslog export, per-domain reports, remote-domain policy and mandatory TLS, SPF as RFC 7208, hmctl's configuration document, the tours, and the REST routes counted at the commit rather than guessed at. The checking found things the tree itself gets wrong, which are recorded for the next batch rather than papered over here: hmctl's configuration document has an empty ini section because it reads a route that answers names only; the packaged Linux ini's RestApiPort=0 is adopted into the store at first start, so the packaging README's edit-the-file way of turning the REST listener on no longer works; the OpenAPI text for the ini routes and the note the server writes into hMailServer.ini still describe the file as the store; and five repository documents say what their wiki copies said before this commit.

    @chrisholloway5 chrisholloway5 committed Sep 15, 2026
  • The wiki catches up with the tree after 6.3.3, and one thing the code says that no page said. Section 4e of the changes page is what is on master and in no release at all - checked line by line against the code at 916dec6a1 rather than against the commit messages, which is how three of the draft's claims came to be corrected: the Control Deck speaks twenty languages and the webmail twenty-three, so it is twenty of the webmail's languages rather than "the same twenty"; the server settings page has twenty-nine tabs, not thirty-one; and the Control Panel redesign added thirteen texts to each of the seventeen catalogues, not twenty-six. Everything else in it was verified where it could be: the 592 zone names counted out of the built-in table in ICalendar.cpp, the 501 texts counted in a Deck catalogue and the 631 in a webmail one, the eighteen dialogs counted as the classes deriving from FluentDialogWindow, the two calendar tables read out of Upgrade6040to6041, the schema step read out of DBUpdater's registration and REQUIRED_DB_VERSION, and the four new routes read out of the router rather than out of the OpenAPI prose. The gate numbers are the one thing left blank: the full Windows suite was still running on this exact tree, so the section carries a marked placeholder and section 1's master row says so, because a number invented here is a number somebody quotes. Schema 6041 is in section 2 as a row of its own, marked as in the tree and in no release, and the two places that said "6040" now say what is where. The Control Panel pages describe the program as it is now. The redesign of 15 September is in the tree and unreleased, and every paragraph about it says so, because a reader on 6.3.3 opens a window with the old chrome: the command bar with its search, status pill, theme toggle and administrator menu, the sidebar that collapses to a rail below a thousand pixels, the ten scaffold components, and eighteen dialogs sized to their content rather than to a pixel width typed into a constructor. What did not move is what a reader has learned - the navigation map, the page titles, the tab headers, the setting captions, the automation ids - and the pages say that too, which is why Control Panel Pages was not rewritten around it. Three counts were behind and are corrected from the code: 393 settings in the Ctrl+K index rather than 389, 343 captions with an Alt key rather than 340, and 3,403 texts in each catalogue rather than 3,376. Two of the four settings that moved the index shipped in 6.3.2 and the reference had missed them, so the per-page table's auto-ban and web-services rows are re-counted as well. The settings pages carry the rule adopted on 15 September: a new setting goes in the database, in hm_settings with a Control Panel editor, and no new key is added to hMailServer.ini's [Settings] section. Both pages say the part that matters more than the rule - that nothing already there has moved. The 238 keys are still read from the file, in 6.3.3 and in the tree, and the Settings Reference is still their reference; the migration that flips which store is the truth is a roadmap row, not an event. The file keeps the directories, the database connection and the administrator password and second factor, and anything that genuinely has to be readable before the database opens is an argued-for exception. The API reference gains what the server publishes and the page did not. Comparing the route table with the OpenAPI document the server emits found seventy-four paths of a hundred and forty-five unnamed, so the administration families are now all there: the six anti-spam collections and the blocked attachments as resources, an account's application passwords, folders, folder permissions and message object, all of which shipped in 6.3.3 and were nowhere on the wiki - and then the four that are in the tree and unreleased, groups with their members, the message copy, the rule-criterion probe and the calendar expansion, each with the body it takes and what it answers. The roughly forty /api/v1/me routes the webmail uses are still families rather than rows, and the page now says so in its own words and points at the OpenAPI document as the authority rather than leaving a reader to think the table is complete. Stopping Spam was left alone deliberately. The brief said SPF was being replaced this week; at this commit it is not. The evaluator is still the original one with the ten-term limit and the void-lookup cap, nothing under AntiSpam or SMTP/SPF has changed since v6.3.3, and the page describes it correctly - so the honest edit was none. The finding is on Backup and Restore, and it is the reason this pass was worth running against the code. The built-in backup's XML index is built by each business object's XMLStore. An account's record carries its password, its TOTP secret, its fetch accounts, its application passwords, its rules and its folders. Nothing anywhere writes hm_contacts, hm_accountprefs, hm_scheduled, hm_files, hm_smimekeys, hm_calendars or hm_calendarobjects - no XMLStore reads them - and Message::XMLStore writes Flags but not messagekeywords. So the address book, every webmail preference a user chose, their labels, their second and third stars, their follow-up flags, their scheduled and snoozed mail, their file links, their S/MIME keys and (in the tree) their calendars are in no archive this server writes. Worse than absent: every one of those tables cascades from hm_accounts, and a restore calls Domains::DeleteAll before it puts the backup's domains back, so a restore deletes them. The page now says it, in the short version and in a section of its own, with what to do instead - back the database up with the database server's own tool, and restore from that when recovering a whole server. No page said any of this before. Monitoring and Health was re-checked rather than rewritten: not one metric family, bucket bound, probe condition, reason string or default has moved since it was verified at 6.2.28, and the only change to MetricsServer.cpp is the Linux accept-loop stop. It gains a section on reading the server from a shell - hmctl status, log list, log tail and backup, with the routes behind them - marked as in the tree and unreleased, since a reader on 6.3.3 has neither client. Smaller corrections found while checking: the capabilities page's web-services entry predated CardDAV entirely and now carries both DAV protocols, their paths, their HTTPS-only rule and what CalDAV does not do; the installing page has a paragraph on winget and Chocolatey that says plainly they do not work yet, because a first submission is reviewed by a person; What hMailServer Is and Is Not still called 6.3.3 unreleased and said the webmail speaks twenty languages; the Control Panel reference still called 6.3.0 the current release; and the fuzzing page's "iCalendar reached through attachment handling" is now also reached by an authenticated CalDAV PUT, which is a shorter path to a parser that expands attacker-chosen numbers - the COUNT=100000000 defect fixed by hand this week is the argument for the target.

    @chrisholloway5 chrisholloway5 committed Sep 15, 2026
  • Linux: an Installing on Linux page from the packages to a delivered message, the relocation runbook as a page, the Installation paths diagnostic in the Monitoring table, the domain routes on the REST page, and the platform notes the Settings and Capabilities pages needed

    @chrisholloway5 chrisholloway5 committed Sep 9, 2026