fix(email): don't probe IMAP for send-only (SMTP-only) accounts (#4830)

An account configured with SMTP only (no imap_host) has no inbox, but the
inbox list path still called _imap_connect, which handed an empty host to
imaplib. imaplib.IMAP4("", 993) silently dials localhost:993 and fails with
"[Errno 111] Connection refused", so the email panel's poll logged a
"Failed to list emails" ERROR every ~60s and surfaced a scary error in the UI.

_imap_connect now fails fast with a typed EmailNotConfiguredError (subclass of
RuntimeError, so existing broad handlers keep working) when no imap_host is set,
and the inbox list returns an empty result for that case instead of an error.
SMTP send is unaffected.

routes/email_helpers.py

@@ -40,6 +40,16 @@ from src.secret_storage import decrypt as _decrypt
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
+class EmailNotConfiguredError(RuntimeError):
+    """Raised when an IMAP operation is attempted on an account that has no
+    inbox configured (e.g. a send-only / SMTP-only account).
+
+    Subclasses RuntimeError so existing broad ``except Exception`` handlers
+    keep working; callers that want to treat "no inbox" as an empty result
+    rather than a failure can catch this type specifically.
+    """
+
+
 def _xoauth2_raw(user: str, access_token: str) -> str:
     """The SASL XOAUTH2 initial-response string (unencoded).
 
@@ -929,6 +939,14 @@ def _imap_connect(account_id: str | None = None, owner: str = "",
     # `timeout` is overridable so short-lived callers (e.g. the service-health
     # probe) can impose a tighter budget than the default IMAP timeout.
     cfg = _get_email_config(account_id, owner=owner)
+    # Send-only (SMTP-only) account: no IMAP host means there is no inbox to
+    # read. Bail out with a clear, typed error instead of handing an empty
+    # host to imaplib — IMAP4("", 993) silently dials localhost:993 and fails
+    # with a confusing "[Errno 111] Connection refused" on every inbox poll.
+    if not cfg.get("imap_host"):
+        raise EmailNotConfiguredError(
+            f"IMAP is not configured for account {cfg.get('account_name') or 'default'!r}"
+        )
     # Connection mode:
     #   STARTTLS on → plain + upgrade
     #   STARTTLS off + port 993 → implicit SSL (IMAPS)

routes/email_routes.py

@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ from routes.email_helpers import (
     _send_smtp_message, _smtp_security_mode,
     _IMAP_TIMEOUT_SECONDS, _open_imap_connection,
     make_oauth_state, verify_oauth_state,
+    EmailNotConfiguredError,
     _imap_connect, _imap, _decode_header, _detect_sent_folder, _detect_drafts_folder,
     _extract_attachment_text, _list_attachments_from_msg, _has_visible_attachments, _is_likely_signature_image_attachment,
     _extract_attachment_to_disk, _extract_html, _extract_text,
@@ -1029,6 +1030,11 @@ def setup_email_routes():
                 logger.debug(f"Bulk summary attach skipped: {_summary_err}")
 
             return {"emails": emails, "total": total, "folder": folder, "offset": offset}
+        except EmailNotConfiguredError:
+            # Send-only (SMTP-only) account: there is no inbox to read, so the
+            # poll returns an empty list instead of a per-minute error. SMTP
+            # send is unaffected.
+            return {"emails": [], "total": 0, "folder": folder, "offset": offset}
         except Exception as e:
             logger.error(f"Failed to list emails: {e}")
             detail = str(e).strip()