Build log · Phase 25

Your Own Folders, Filed by Dragging

July 29, 2026 · 1 min read · kritchie

v0.3.0: users can create their own folders and drag messages onto them to file — the two pieces missing from feeling like a real mail client rather than a working demo of one. The standard folders (Inbox, Sent, Drafts, Trash, Spam) stay protected — only a folder a user created can be renamed or deleted.

Two things only showed up once this was clicked through:

  • Creating or deleting a folder failed with an IMAP error, because the library performed an extra cleanup step that didn’t apply to those operations. That step is switched off now.
  • Native browser drag-and-drop can’t be driven by automated test tooling, so the move was verified by hand, with the underlying endpoint checked directly first.
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