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-rw-r--r--src/messagesender.cpp197
-rw-r--r--src/messagesender.h164
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diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index a4d7c55..eac2fab 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ add_library(qtmaildir_lib STATIC
notmuchworker.cpp
maildirname.cpp
draftstore.cpp
+ messagesender.cpp
tagchip.cpp
tagcolors.cpp
savequerydialog.cpp
diff --git a/src/messagesender.cpp b/src/messagesender.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f336028
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/messagesender.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+/*
+ * qtmaildir - a Qt6 mail client for notmuch-indexed Maildirs
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 Danilo M. <danix@danix.xyz>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ */
+
+#include "messagesender.h"
+
+MessageSender::MessageSender(QObject *parent)
+ : QObject(parent)
+{
+ // Separate channels, unlike MailSync's MergedChannels: there is no log
+ // pane to fill here, and stderr alone is what a failure has to report.
+ // Merging them would put the command's ordinary chatter into the error
+ // message shown for a rejected send.
+ m_process.setProcessChannelMode(QProcess::SeparateChannels);
+
+ connect(&m_process, &QProcess::finished,
+ this, &MessageSender::handleFinished);
+ connect(&m_process, &QProcess::errorOccurred,
+ this, &MessageSender::handleError);
+}
+
+MessageSender::~MessageSender()
+{
+ if (m_process.state() == QProcess::NotRunning)
+ return;
+
+ // A send is a live SMTP conversation and abandoning one has a genuinely
+ // unknown outcome, so give the command a bounded chance to finish rather
+ // than killing it outright. Measured: without this, a one-second command
+ // destroyed 100ms in is killed and its work does not complete, announced
+ // only by a Qt warning on stderr. With it, the same command completes and
+ // the destructor costs the ~1s the command actually needed.
+ //
+ // The write channel is closed first because the command may still be
+ // reading: a command blocked on stdin would otherwise never reach EOF and
+ // would burn the whole timeout for no reason.
+ m_process.closeWriteChannel();
+ if (m_process.waitForFinished(kShutdownWaitMs))
+ return;
+
+ // Still running. A destructor cannot block a quitting application forever,
+ // so the process is killed deliberately here rather than by ~QProcess.
+ //
+ // NOTHING IS EMITTED. The outcome after a kill is unknown: the message may
+ // have been fully delivered, partially delivered, or not sent at all, and
+ // this class reports two outcomes only. Emitting finished(false, ...) would
+ // report "not sent" for a message that may well have been, which is the
+ // mailsync.sh mistake pointing the other way. Emitting finished(true, ...)
+ // would be worse. A caller that must know has to keep this object alive
+ // until finished() arrives.
+ //
+ // Claiming the report BEFORE the kill is what makes that true, and it is
+ // not optional: kill() makes QProcess deliver finished(CrashExit), which
+ // reaches handleFinished and would emit exactly the untruthful "not sent"
+ // this comment forbids. Measured, by a test that failed against the
+ // version without these two lines. This is also the one place m_reported
+ // does live work, rather than the defence-in-depth it is on the signal
+ // paths.
+ m_reported = true;
+ m_process.kill();
+ m_process.waitForFinished(kShutdownWaitMs);
+}
+
+bool MessageSender::isRunning() const
+{
+ return m_process.state() != QProcess::NotRunning;
+}
+
+bool MessageSender::send(const QString &command, const QByteArray &bytes)
+{
+ if (command.trimmed().isEmpty() || isRunning())
+ return false;
+
+ // splitCommand gives an argument list; running through a shell would make
+ // every recipient address, display name and config value a potential
+ // injection point. QProcess hands the list to execve, so a `;` or a
+ // `$(...)` in the configured command is a literal argument with nothing to
+ // interpret it. Note that splitCommand strips DOUBLE quotes only.
+ //
+ // Nothing from the message reaches the argument list at all: the command
+ // reads its recipients from the message's own headers, which is what `-t`
+ // means in the documented example.
+ const QStringList parts = QProcess::splitCommand(command);
+ if (parts.isEmpty())
+ return false;
+
+ m_command = command;
+ m_reported = false;
+
+ m_process.setProgram(parts.first());
+ m_process.setArguments(parts.mid(1));
+
+ // Deliberately no waitForStarted(): this runs on the GUI thread and the
+ // interface must stay responsive while a send is in flight. A failed
+ // launch arrives via errorOccurred(FailedToStart) instead, which QProcess
+ // emits INSTEAD OF finished() rather than before it (measured).
+ m_process.start();
+
+ // Written after start() and before the process has necessarily launched,
+ // which is safe: QProcess buffers and drains as the reader consumes.
+ // Measured with a 320KB payload against a `cat` stub, which arrived
+ // byte-identical, so a message with an attachment does not deadlock on the
+ // 64KB pipe buffer.
+ m_process.write(bytes);
+
+ // The message goes on stdin and the channel is closed, so a command
+ // reading to EOF terminates. Without closeWriteChannel() a command like
+ // `cat` waits forever and the popup never leaves its Sending stage.
+ m_process.closeWriteChannel();
+
+ return true;
+}
+
+void MessageSender::handleFinished(int exitCode, QProcess::ExitStatus status)
+{
+ // errorOccurred may already have reported this failure. Reporting twice
+ // would close the popup and then act on a second result.
+ //
+ // This guard IS load-bearing, on exactly one path: the destructor sets
+ // m_reported before kill(), because kill() makes QProcess deliver
+ // finished(CrashExit) and without the flag this handler would emit a
+ // "not sent" for a message whose fate is genuinely unknown. A test fails
+ // against its removal.
+ //
+ // On the two signal paths it is defence in depth and currently cannot
+ // fire: handleError is filtered to FailedToStart, and FailedToStart is
+ // never followed by finished() (measured). An instrumented run of the
+ // whole suite recorded zero hits there, including on the crash and
+ // write-error paths that DO emit both signals. It stays because the day
+ // someone widens handleError to report another error, the double report is
+ // silent and costs a duplicate sent copy.
+ if (m_reported)
+ return;
+ m_reported = true;
+
+ // The exit status is the only authority. Nothing is inferred from what the
+ // command printed: mailsync.sh records what a wrong answer here costs, and
+ // a send reported as succeeding files a sent copy for a message that never
+ // left the machine.
+ const bool sent = status == QProcess::NormalExit && exitCode == 0;
+ if (sent) {
+ emit finished(true, QString());
+ return;
+ }
+
+ // Exit 75 is deliberately NOT special. See the header.
+ QString error = QString::fromUtf8(m_process.readAllStandardError()).trimmed();
+ if (error.isEmpty()) {
+ // A failure with a blank explanation gives the user nothing to act on,
+ // so the status stands in for the reason the command did not give.
+ error = status == QProcess::CrashExit
+ ? tr("The send command crashed.")
+ : tr("The send command exited with status %1 and said nothing.")
+ .arg(exitCode);
+ }
+ emit finished(false, error);
+}
+
+void MessageSender::handleError(QProcess::ProcessError error)
+{
+ // QProcess emits errorOccurred(FailedToStart) INSTEAD OF finished(), so
+ // without this the caller waits forever. Measured on Qt 6.11 for both a
+ // missing binary and a non-executable file: one errorOccurred, no
+ // finished().
+ //
+ // Every other error IS followed by finished() and is left to it, which is
+ // not merely tidiness. A command that exits without draining a large stdin
+ // emits errorOccurred(WriteError) and then finished() with the command's
+ // real exit code and its real stderr; reporting the write error here would
+ // replace the server's own rejection message with a plumbing detail, and
+ // reporting it as well as finished() would deliver two results for one
+ // message.
+ if (error != QProcess::FailedToStart)
+ return;
+ if (m_reported)
+ return;
+ m_reported = true;
+
+ emit finished(false,
+ tr("The send command '%1' could not be started. Check that "
+ "the path is correct and the file is executable.")
+ .arg(m_command));
+}
diff --git a/src/messagesender.h b/src/messagesender.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..86dde68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/messagesender.h
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+/*
+ * qtmaildir - a Qt6 mail client for notmuch-indexed Maildirs
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 Danilo M. <danix@danix.xyz>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include <QObject>
+#include <QProcess>
+#include <QString>
+
+/// Runs an account's send_command with the message on stdin.
+///
+/// EXACTLY TWO OUTCOMES: sent, or not sent with a reason. Exit code 75 has no
+/// special meaning here, unlike in the sync path. Item 125 is open precisely
+/// because mailsync.sh treats 75 as neither success nor failure and hangs on
+/// it; that exists because the script contends for a lock and there is no lock
+/// here. Recorded so the two paths are not later "harmonised".
+///
+/// **The exit status is the only authority on whether a message was sent.**
+/// This is the same rule assets/mailsync.sh exists to honour, and the same
+/// class of bug is available here: a sender that reported success on anything
+/// other than exit 0 would file a sent copy and close the composer for a
+/// message that never left the machine. Nothing is derived from the command's
+/// output, which belongs to whatever the user installed behind send_command.
+///
+/// **No shell, ever.** The command is a config value and is split into an
+/// argument list with QProcess::splitCommand, then handed to QProcess, which
+/// calls execve directly. A `;`, `&&`, `$(...)` or a backtick in the
+/// configured string therefore arrives as a literal argument with nothing to
+/// interpret it. Note that splitCommand understands DOUBLE quotes only:
+/// `-a 'my acct'` splits into three arguments, so a path or an argument
+/// containing a space must be written with double quotes. Measured, not
+/// assumed.
+///
+/// **No message content ever reaches the argument list.** The bytes go on
+/// stdin and only on stdin; the command reads its recipients from the
+/// message's own headers, which is what `-t` means in the documented example.
+/// A recipient address or a display name therefore cannot become an argument
+/// however it is spelled.
+///
+/// This is the outbox seam. An outbox is built by calling this from a drain
+/// loop; nothing in the composer would need to change.
+///
+/// Nothing here blocks the GUI thread DURING a send. send() hands the process
+/// to the event loop and returns; there is no waitForStarted() and no
+/// waitForFinished() on that path, so a command that hangs leaves the
+/// interface responsive and the caller waiting on finished(). Timing a hung
+/// command out is deliberately NOT this class's job: a timeout here would kill
+/// a slow but working send. The one place this class does block is its
+/// destructor, and that is the subject of the next paragraph.
+///
+/// **Destruction mid-send waits, briefly, and then kills.** A send is a live
+/// SMTP conversation, so the outcome of abandoning one is genuinely unknown:
+/// the message may be fully delivered, partially delivered, or not sent at
+/// all. Measured with a one-second command destroyed 100ms in: plain
+/// destruction returns in 100ms, kills the child, and the work does NOT
+/// complete, announced by nothing but a `QProcess: Destroyed while process is
+/// still running` warning on stderr. That is the mailsync.sh failure in a new
+/// place, an unknown real outcome reported as a definite one, and it is
+/// reachable by closing the composer with the window manager's X button while
+/// a send is in flight.
+///
+/// So the destructor waits up to kShutdownWaitMs for the command to finish on
+/// its own, which is the outcome that makes the report truthful: the same
+/// measurement with a bounded wait completes the child and costs only the
+/// ~1s the command actually needed. A command still running after that is
+/// killed, because a destructor cannot block a quitting application forever.
+///
+/// **No finished() is emitted from the destructor, in either branch, and that
+/// is deliberate rather than an omission.** After a kill the outcome is
+/// unknown, and this class reports two outcomes only; inventing a third by
+/// guessing would be the exact lie the rest of this header is built to avoid.
+/// After a successful late finish the emit would reach handlers on a
+/// half-destroyed caller. A caller that must know the result has to keep the
+/// sender alive until finished() arrives, which is what refusing to close a
+/// composer mid-send would express.
+///
+/// **There is no cancel(), and the caller does not have one either.** An
+/// earlier revision of this comment deferred cancellation to "the caller's
+/// popup", which overstated what exists: SendDialog offers an undo BEFORE the
+/// send is committed and none after, by an explicit design decision that a
+/// post-commit cancel is worse than either clean outcome. If a real cancel is
+/// ever wanted it belongs HERE, killing the process and emitting one
+/// finished(false, ...) through m_reported, which is the shape that flag
+/// already has. It is not built now, and this header does not promise it.
+class MessageSender : public QObject
+{
+ Q_OBJECT
+
+public:
+ explicit MessageSender(QObject *parent = nullptr);
+
+ /// Waits briefly for an in-flight send, then kills it. See the class
+ /// comment: this is the one blocking call in the class, and it emits
+ /// nothing.
+ ~MessageSender() override;
+
+ /// How long the destructor gives an in-flight command to finish on its
+ /// own before killing it. Long enough for a local MTA handing off to a
+ /// queue, short enough not to hang a quitting application.
+ static constexpr int kShutdownWaitMs = 5000;
+
+ /// Starts \p command with \p bytes on stdin.
+ ///
+ /// Returns false without emitting anything when the command is empty or
+ /// only whitespace, when it splits to nothing, or when a send is already
+ /// running. A true return means the process was handed to the event loop,
+ /// NOT that it launched: a missing or non-executable binary surfaces
+ /// asynchronously through finished(false, ...), exactly as MailSync
+ /// documents.
+ bool send(const QString &command, const QByteArray &bytes);
+
+ bool isRunning() const;
+
+signals:
+ /// \p error is empty on success and carries the command's stderr, or a
+ /// description of why it could not start, on failure.
+ ///
+ /// EMITTED exactly once per accepted send, and the distinction between
+ /// emitted and RECEIVED is the whole of this paragraph. QProcess can report
+ /// both an error and a finish for one run (measured: a command that exits
+ /// without draining a large stdin emits errorOccurred(WriteError) and then
+ /// finished()), and m_reported collapses that to one emit.
+ ///
+ /// **m_reported guards the emit, not the receivers, and a caller can still
+ /// see one result twice.** A MessageSender is normally a long-lived member
+ /// reused for every send, so a caller that connects INSIDE its send path
+ /// adds a permanent connection each time: send, fail, correct the
+ /// recipient, send again, and the second result runs BOTH lambdas. The
+ /// first still holds the first message's bytes, so it files a sent copy of
+ /// the wrong message and acts on a dialog it already destroyed. That is
+ /// precisely the harm this signal's contract exists to prevent, arriving
+ /// by the one route no guard inside this class can cover.
+ ///
+ /// A caller connecting per-send must therefore pass
+ /// `Qt::SingleShotConnection` (Qt 6.0+; this project is on 6.11), which
+ /// disconnects the moment the lambda runs. Connecting ONCE in the caller's
+ /// constructor and keeping the per-send state in members is the other
+ /// correct shape. What is not correct, and what reads as permitted if this
+ /// paragraph is skipped, is a bare connect() next to a send() call.
+ void finished(bool sent, const QString &error);
+
+private:
+ void handleFinished(int exitCode, QProcess::ExitStatus status);
+ void handleError(QProcess::ProcessError error);
+
+ QProcess m_process;
+ QString m_command;
+ bool m_reported = false;
+};