QuickMail v0.8.58 Release Notes

Fixed

A message you send is in the Sent folder once, not twice

Many mail services, Gmail, iCloud and Outlook.com among them, file their own copy of every
message they send for you, and QuickMail then added a second one. QuickMail now checks the Sent
folder for the service's copy and adds its own only when there isn't one. Messages sent before
this release keep their duplicate copies; delete either one (#811, #150).

Rules, Find mail from this contact, and search now can find a sender by address on every account type

On Gmail, other IMAP accounts and POP3 accounts, QuickMail kept only the sender's name for the
message list, so anything that looked for the sender's email address had nothing to find. A
client-side rule with a From addresses condition never matched mail from a sender who has a
display name, Find mail from this contact in the address book came up empty for those senders,
and a search such as from:@example.com missed them. Microsoft 365 and Outlook.com accounts did
support this as expected. QuickMail now properly supports it for all account types by keeping each
sender's address alongside the name on every account type. From now on, rules, Find mail from this
contact, and both kinds of search can find a sender by their address as well as their name (#803).

Create Rule from Message now fills in the sender's email address instead of their name, so a
rule made from a message from "PayPal" no longer also catches someone else calling themselves
"PayPal". Where QuickMail doesn't have the address yet, it fills in the name, as before. When a
client-side rule's Sender contains or From addresses holds an email address, or part of one
such as @example.com, it is checked against the sender's actual address, so a sender can't match
it by putting that address in their display name. Find mail from this contact works the same
way. Text without an @, such as a name, still matches the display name. Until the one-time update
described below has reached a message, QuickMail has only the name to check, as before.

The first time you start this version, QuickMail fills in the address for mail it already has.
Most of it comes from what is already on this computer. For IMAP mail whose text has not been
downloaded, it asks the server for the sender alone, a batch at a time, and shows its progress in
its own part of the status bar, which goes away when it's done. To check on it, press Ctrl+9 to
reach the status bar and Right to move along it. Nothing is moved, deleted or marked, and your
rules do not run again.

Contributed by valiant8086.

A Microsoft account's message list says the sender's name

On a Microsoft 365 or Outlook.com account, each row in the message list showed and spoke the
sender's address after the name like News <news@example.com>, where every other kind of
account says the name alone. Microsoft accounts now work like the rest, saying the name, or the
address when the sender has none (#801).

Contributed by valiant8086.

Message properties now always show both the sender's name and address

Properties (Alt+Enter) on an individual message now shows both the display name (when
available) and the email address, on every account, even for a message whose text has not been
downloaded. Previously, it tended to only show the display name (#801).

The same goes for a conversation, and for a sender's group in the From view: their Properties now
list each sender as name and address. A sender's group is gathered by name, so if mail under that
name came from more than one address, each address is listed, and someone else using a familiar
name shows up there.

Contributed by valiant8086.

Thank You

Thank you to valiant8086, who noticed that Microsoft accounts
were the only ones putting the sender's address in the message list, traced that to every other
account type keeping no address at all, and wrote the fix for both. Their careful manual testing
also caught problems that a code review alone would have missed.

Reporting Issues

Found a problem or have a suggestion? There are three ways to reach us — pick the one that fits:

1. Report a Bug → Send (Help menu, inside QuickMail). Files the report for you anonymously — it includes no email address or other identifying information, so there is no way to follow up with you. Best when you don't want any follow-up.
2. Report a Bug → Copy report and open GitHub (Help menu). Opens a pre-filled issue that you submit under your own GitHub account, so your GitHub contact information is attached. Best when you have a GitHub account and want automatic filing plus direct contact.
3. Email support@theideaplace.net. Best when you don't mind sending email and want a personal follow-up.

Full details, including exactly what a report contains (and what it never contains), are in the Reporting Issues section of the User Guide.

Download

There are four downloads. Take a regular one unless you know your PC has an ARM processor — to check, open Settings → System → About and read System type.

The regular downloads run on every supported PC, ARM ones included — just not as quickly there. The ARM downloads will not start at all on a non-ARM PC, so if you are unsure, the regular one is the safe guess.

All downloads include the .NET 10 runtime — you do not need to install .NET separately.