QuickMail v0.8.67 Release Notes

Added

Sounds

QuickMail can now play sounds. They are off until you turn them on, in Settings → Sounds → Play sounds for mail events, and they add to QuickMail's announcements and status text rather than replacing them. (#912)

This is a first version, and we want your feedback. We have made our best guess at which events should have a sound and what those sounds should be. Please tell us:

• Are these the right events? Which are missing, and which would you never use?
• What do you think of the sounds? Which style do you prefer, and are any two sounds too alike, harsh, or easy to confuse with your screen reader's own sounds?
• How do the sounds work alongside your screen reader's speech?

Reply on the sounds feedback issue, or if you would rather not use GitHub, Report a Bug on the Help menu or email to support@theideaplace.net both reach us.

Development of the sounds QuickMail uses will continue, and the current audio is just a first attempt. Contributions of audio files are welcome if you are interested in creating sounds for QuickMail. Please reach out to support@theideaplace.net or submit a pull request on GitHub.

• Sounds for mail events: message sent, message queued to send later, send failed, new mail, mail in a conversation you are watching, a delete, move, archive or empty trash that failed, connection lost and restored, calendar reminders, a message deleted, archived or moved, and trash emptied. If you delete or file a lot of mail in a row, you may prefer to set those three message sounds to None.
• Three styles: Glass, Soft bell and Wood. Each has the same sounds with the same melodies, and the tone changes, though Wood is also a little quieter. Preview plays the style showing, so you can compare them before saving.
• Your own sounds: use a WAV or MP3 file of up to 5 MB and 30 seconds for any event. QuickMail keeps its own copy, and your sounds travel with your settings when you move them to another computer.
• A sound for a rule: a client-side rule can now Play a sound, so you can tell mail from a particular sender by ear, or hear when something has been filed. Use a From addresses or Sender contains condition with your own sound file to give someone their own sound. A rule's sound plays even with event sounds off, as adding it to a rule already asks for it. (#129)
• Mute All Sounds: on the Tools menu and in the Command Palette, with no keyboard shortcut until you give it one. It silences everything, including whatever is playing, except Preview, which you have asked to hear.

Good to know:

• While Play sounds for mail events or Mute all sounds is on, notifications leave out the Windows notification sound, so you hear QuickMail's sound and not both. A notification for mail a rule has just played a sound for leaves it out as well.
• Windows Do Not Disturb does not silence QuickMail's sounds, because Windows gives apps no way to tell when it is on. Use Mute All Sounds for that. Sounds for things that happen on their own do stay quiet during a presentation or while an app is running full screen.
• New mail and rule sounds stay silent for mail that came in while QuickMail was closed. New mail also stays silent when more than five messages arrive at once, such as when your computer wakes up, and a rule when more than five messages match it at once.
• The new-mail sound is for the Inbox, and the calendar reminder sound needs calendar reminders turned on.

See Sounds in the User Guide.

Fixed

• Empty Trash reports what really happened. With the network down it could say the trash was emptied while the mail was still on the server. Each account is now tried and reported on its own, so one that can't be reached doesn't stop the others, and you're told which worked and which didn't. On a POP3 account set to remove mail from the server, messages now stay in Trash if the server can't be reached, so you can empty it again later.
• Empty Trash no longer touches Junk. On a server with no Trash folder but a Junk or Spam folder, Empty Trash permanently deleted everything in the Junk folder. It now says no trash folder was found.

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.