QuickMail v0.8.70 Release Notes

New

• The Sound Scheme Gallery is open. Settings → Sounds → Browse schemes… now lists schemes you can add with one key press. It starts with two:
  • Essentials has sounds only for the events you might otherwise miss: new mail, a send that failed, an action that failed, and the connection dropping and coming back. Everything else is quiet.
  • Maya Voicing Glass plays each event's Glass sound, then an AI voice says what the event was. It's a good way to learn the sounds: once you know them, switch back to Glass.
• The sound gallery shows which schemes you already have. In Settings → Sounds → Browse schemes…, a scheme you have added says "Added." When the gallery has a newer version of it, it says "Update available." and Add becomes Update, which replaces your copy's sounds with the new version after asking. Your copy keeps its name. (#937)

Changed

• Sound schemes work the same way in QuickMail and The Chat Place. A .qmsounds file now says it is for QuickMail and keeps the scheme's description. If you import a scheme made for another app, QuickMail says which app it is for. (#937)
• Export scheme now turns MP3 sounds into WAV files inside the exported file, so the scheme works in any app and in the gallery. Your own MP3s stay as they are, and QuickMail still plays them. A sound that can't be turned into a WAV file of 5 MB and 30 seconds or less is left out, and Export scheme… says how many events have no sound in the file. Schemes exported from QuickMail 0.8.69 still import with their MP3s. (#937)
• One large sound no longer stops an import. A sound file in a scheme that is too large is left out, and QuickMail says how many events have no sound, instead of refusing the whole scheme. (#937)
• Sound file names with hidden formatting characters are no longer used. A name containing an invisible character that changes how text is shown, such as a right-to-left mark, could make one file look like another, so QuickMail no longer accepts it. If one of your own sounds has a name like that, QuickMail stops playing it; rename the file and choose it again. Emoji in names are fine. (#937)
• Each sound scheme keeps its sound files in a folder of its own, and deleting a scheme deletes them. A sound file you choose for an event, in any scheme including Glass, Soft bell and Wood, is copied into that scheme's folder, and an imported scheme's sound files go into its folder too. Delete scheme… now says it deletes the scheme's sound files, and no other scheme is affected; if you choose Cancel instead of Save, the scheme and its files stay. Copy scheme… copies the sound files along with the scheme, and Remove file… now removes the file from the scheme showing only. A rule's own sound file is kept separately, so changing schemes never affects it. The first time QuickMail 0.8.70 starts, it moves the sound files you already have into the folder of each scheme that uses them, copying a file into each scheme if more than one uses it; this happens once, and your schemes sound the same afterwards. A file that no scheme uses is left where it is, and so is one a rule uses. Earlier versions of QuickMail look for sound files only in the old shared folder, so if you go back to one, your schemes' own sound files play a built-in sound instead. (#948)
• Reset scheme… now deletes the sound files you added to Glass, Soft bell or Wood, once you choose Save, since the reset scheme no longer uses them. A file you give to an event again after the reset is kept, and Cancel keeps everything. QuickMail says so when it asks whether to reset. (#955)
• A sound that several schemes use counts once toward the 32 MB of sounds a settings file can carry, so copying a scheme no longer makes Export Settings leave sounds out. (#955)
• Test and Run on Existing Mail now say what they counted. In the Rules Manager, Test says it checked only the selected rule against the message list, for example "This rule would match 1,108 of the 2,526 messages in the message list for the XS4All account." Run on Existing Mail says how many rules ran, on how many stored Inbox messages, and what each rule moved or deleted, for example "Ran 3 rules on 2,900 stored Inbox messages for the XS4All account. They moved 1,936 messages and deleted 6: techtalk moved 1,886; Newsletters moved 50; Spam deleted 6." A rule name that could be mistaken for part of the sentence, because it contains a number, a period, comma, colon or semicolon, or the word moved, deleted or failed, is shown in quotation marks, such as “Top 10” moved 5. Before, the two numbers could not be compared, and looked wrong side by side. Both messages now group large numbers, such as 1,942 rather than 1942. (#949)

Fixed

• New Folder in the folder picker can now create a folder at the top level of a single account. When the picker showed only one account, such as when choosing a rule's move to folder or moving messages that all come from one account, a new folder was always made inside the selected folder. The picker now shows the account as the top of the tree, as the main folder tree does. Select the account and choose New Folder (or press Alt+N) to create the folder beside Inbox and Sent. The picker still opens on the folder you came from. (#950)
• Move Folder and Copy Folder can now put a folder at the top level of its account. The picker for Move Folder… and Copy Folder… offered only other folders, so a folder inside another one could never be moved back out beside Inbox and Sent. The picker now shows the account name at the top of the tree; select it and press Enter (or Alt+O) to move or copy the folder to the top level. This works for IMAP, Microsoft 365 and POP3 accounts. Some IMAP servers keep every folder inside Inbox; on those, QuickMail says the folder cannot go above Inbox instead of moving it. A folder that is already at the top level is left where it is, and QuickMail says so. The picker still opens on the folder you came from. (#954)
• Sound files no scheme uses any more are cleaned up. A scheme's sound files could be left behind with no scheme if QuickMail closed while Settings had a new, copied or imported scheme that wasn't saved, or when a settings file brought sounds without the preferences that use them, and they took up room in exported settings files. QuickMail now notes the folder of each scheme that isn't saved yet, and removes it when it starts or when you open or save Settings if the scheme was never saved. Only folders it noted that way are ever removed, so a scheme you saved keeps its files even if config.ini is lost or reset. It never removes the files of a scheme you have, one open in Settings, or one in a backup made by a settings import. (#955)
• A gallery Update no longer leaves the old version's sound files behind. When you choose Save, the files of the old version that the new one doesn't use are deleted, keeping any an event still uses. Choosing Cancel instead now removes the sound files the update brought in, so your copy of the scheme is left exactly as it was. (#955)
• When Copy scheme… can't copy all of a scheme's sound files, screen readers now hear it. The message was spoken just as the name dialog closed, and could be cut off by the move back to Settings; it is now said once focus has settled, and stays in the Sounds tab as well. (#955)
• Importing a settings file from QuickMail 0.8.69 no longer leaves a scheme playing a missing sound when the other computer already had a sound of the same name. The sound already there is kept, as before, and now each scheme from the file that uses that name gets a copy of it. (#955)

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.