email in admin

VIBE/CHAT_LOG.md

@@ -246,6 +246,26 @@ Create a Spanish, German, French and Dutch locale.
 ### Assistant outcome
 Added complete Spanish (`es`), German (`de`), French (`fr`), and Dutch (`nl`) Firefox locale catalogs and updated XPI packaging and validation to include all four locales.
 
+## 2026-08-26
+
+### User
+On the admin page add the SMTP settings (with the validation button).
+
+### Assistant outcome
+Added administrator-only SMTP settings APIs and an admin-page form for loading, saving, and validating SMTP delivery. SMTP passwords are never returned and blank password updates preserve the existing credential. The validation email is sent to the signed-in administrator.
+
+### User
+Populate the SMTP fields with current values except the password. Send test mail to the authenticated administrator, use unsaved fields for testing, and apply the configuration page's testing limits.
+
+### Assistant outcome
+The admin form now loads effective SMTP settings without exposing the password. Validation sends the current form values directly to the authenticated administrator, without saving them first, while enforcing the same five-send limit, 20-second interval, two-minute cooldown, and countdown behavior used by initial setup.
+
+### User
+Report any errors that may occur from the SMTP module to the user.
+
+### Assistant outcome
+Updated admin SMTP, user-creation, and validation error handling to display backend SMTP error details and network failures in the UI. Added regression coverage confirming SMTP delivery errors are returned as actionable `503` details.
+
 ### User
 Show the avatar with each entry on the home page. On the specific /<user>/ page don't show the avatar and user name with each entry