fix(email): persist import provenance evidence for dedupe review

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Current authority — 2026-09-22 KST

Refs #1086, #1717.

• protected develop: 042b0c70531b229af3acbd0421a2f23098d848b3
• canonical email identity/dedupe + POP3 collection-progress owner/base: #1195@52d2cc6fc136c931dda609a0129e3cd78048eebb
• canonical feat(email): deterministic dedupe provenance — gate strong fingerprints on genuine Date (naruon#1086) #1195 tree: 4366e36e2bf5cb92dc1aa823b2eee69cafe6485c
• prior provenance head: 61920344e987f3405d4963168726be1274215e82
• ordinary/non-force owner-follow convergence / exact current head: 0f4cad2d5b6ee725a268745f7a56eb63a9ad6e0c
• fresh compare from current feat(email): deterministic dedupe provenance — gate strong fingerprints on genuine Date (naruon#1086) #1195: ahead 17 / behind 0 / zero changed files
• lifecycle: Draft / zero-effective-delta provenance descendant / do not merge or close yet

#1195 advanced after this provenance lane last followed it. The canonical owner now includes both durable POP3 progress repairs: persistent message-level -ERR retry state and the later interrupted-session repair that marks only the currently attempted UIDL retryable before terminating an untrusted connection, so a persistently failing newest UIDL cannot repeatedly masquerade as never attempted and starve lower fresh backlog.

0f4cad2d... repairs the stale descendant ordinary-forward. It preserves 61920344... as first-parent provenance, adopts exact current #1195 52d2cc6f... as an additional parent, and points to the exact canonical #1195 tree. No force push, destructive rebase, copied owner source, migration rewrite, or product/test delta was introduced. Fresh compare from current #1195 has zero changed files.

#1195 remains the sole canonical owner. This branch must not revive its rejected date_evidence / message_id_evidence vocabulary, sibling email_metadata_provenance_1086 migration, separate UIDL retry schema, or alternate RETR policy. Provider UIDL is collection-progress identity only; sender-authored Date/Message-ID/source-fingerprint semantics remain on #1195.

The current parent is still source-repaired, integrated acceptance incomplete. #1195 must ordinary/non-force reconcile its branch-local email/POP3 migrations after #1503 reaches protected ancestry, then prove one Alembic head, PostgreSQL fresh/historical upgrades, repeated-poll/restart/reconnect progress, exact-head repository/security/coverage checks, and qualifying post-last-push independent review.

Zero-delta convergence does not transfer historical #1656 checks/reviews or manufacture acceptance for #1195. Keep Draft until the canonical parent normally integrates or a verified complete successor inherits all valid source, tests, migration lineage and evidence; only then may retirement be considered under the complete-successor rule.

No self-approval, stale evidence transfer, source-neutral wake commit, blind rerun, temporary retarget, synthetic status, force push/destructive rebase, competing migration, duplicate domain writer, or gate weakening.

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The change adds email date and message-ID provenance fields, classifies parser evidence, changes deduplication fingerprint rules, reports review-required imports, and documents and tests the migration and provenance contract.

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Email provenance flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Persist provenance fields backend/alembic/versions/email_metadata_provenance_1086.py, backend/db/models.py, backend/tests/test_alembic_migrations.py, backend/tests/test_email_provenance_review_contract.py	The migration and Email model add nullable evidence fields. Tests inspect the migration and live PostgreSQL schema.
Classify parsed metadata backend/services/email_parser.py, backend/tests/test_email_parser.py, backend/tests/test_email_date_evidence_rfc5322.py, docs/doctoring/email-date-zone-provenance.md	The parser records missing, invalid, or parsed date evidence and embedded or missing message-ID evidence.
Apply provenance to import deduplication backend/services/email_import_service.py, backend/tests/test_email_import_service.py, backend/tests/test_email_provenance_review_contract.py	Metadata fingerprints require parsed date evidence and complete fields. Message-ID matching remains active, provenance is persisted, and incomplete evidence produces dedupe_review_required.
Validate the provenance contract docs/operations/email-dedupe-provenance.md, backend/tests/test_email_dedupe_provenance_documentation.py	The runbook documents evidence values, duplicate bases, reason codes, migration application, and contract limitations. A test checks the documented terms.

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Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Import as _import_single_eml
  participant Parser as email_parser
  participant Dedupe as _find_existing_email
  participant Database as email_records
  Import->>Parser: parse EML metadata
  Parser-->>Import: return evidence fields and datetime
  Import->>Dedupe: evaluate message ID and optional fingerprint
  Dedupe->>Database: query duplicate conditions
  Database-->>Import: return duplicate or no match
  Import->>Database: save email provenance

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Revalidated exact head f89ae11 locally without source changes: tests/test_email_dedupe_service.py tests/test_emails_api.py tests/test_email_import_service.py tests/test_email_parser.py tests/test_alembic_migrations.py tests/test_email_dedupe_provenance_documentation.py -q -W error::DeprecationWarning => 178 passed, 1 skipped. This confirms persisted date/message-id evidence, match_reason API exposure, dedupe behavior, import review codes, migration graph checks, and runbook alignment. PostgreSQL migration smoke and merge-governance requirements remain outstanding.

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Additional verification at exact head f89ae11: Ruff on all changed production/test modules and git diff --check pass. The PostgreSQL selector pytest -m postgres tests/test_emails_api.py -k "import or dedupe or provenance" -q -W error::DeprecationWarning collected no matching smoke test (61 deselected), so the remaining PostgreSQL evidence gap is absence of an integration test, not a local failure. No source changes made in this verification step.

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Commit 5891174 adds a read-only @pytest.mark.postgres Alembic smoke test that inspects the live email_records schema for date_evidence and message_id_evidence. Connection-layer failures skip only when the configured PostgreSQL instance is unavailable; connected schema inspection failures remain hard failures. Verification at the pushed head: 118 passed, 1 skipped under -W error::DeprecationWarning; Ruff and git diff --check clean. Local skip reason was the configured test database rejecting role test, so hosted PostgreSQL evidence is still required.

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Full backend regression verification at exact head 5891174: python -m pytest -q -W error::DeprecationWarning => 1815 passed, 34 skipped in 48.64s. This includes the new provenance PostgreSQL schema smoke (skipped locally because the configured database rejects role test), all import/parser/dedupe/migration tests, and existing backend coverage.

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Hosted status update for exact head 5891174: backend (Python 3.14), CodeQL, and Security are SUCCESS. Frontend remains IN_PROGRESS and trivy-fs remains QUEUED. The backend hosted pass aligns with local full-suite evidence of 1815 passed and 34 skipped under strict deprecation warnings.

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Hosted status update for exact head 5891174: frontend has now passed alongside backend (Python 3.14), CodeQL, and Security. Only trivy-fs remains queued; no application or test failure has appeared.

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Trivy job 103116913861 completed with real dependency findings at exact head 5891174: CRITICAL CVE-2026-75604 and GHSA-2xp9-vwfh-vxw4 for next in frontend/pnpm-lock.yaml, plus HIGH GHSA-rgj7-g3m4-5g8c for sharp. These are pre-existing frontend dependency findings covered by canonical open PR #1631 (Next 16.3.3) and frontend security-floor PR #1623; this provenance PR does not own frontend/package.json or frontend/pnpm-lock.yaml and will not duplicate that remediation.

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In `@backend/services/email_import_service.py`:
- Line 949: Update the import review condition around _email_fingerprint() so
any import with fingerprint equal to None returns reason_code
"dedupe_review_required", regardless of date_evidence. Preserve existing
handling for imports with a valid fingerprint, and add a regression case
covering date_evidence="parsed" with one required metadata field blank.

In `@backend/tests/test_alembic_migrations.py`:
- Line 478: Update the nullability assertion in the migration test to verify
that nullable=True is declared for each provenance column, rather than only
checking for one occurrence; retain the existing migration-text validation and
ensure both column declarations are covered.

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