QuickMail v0.8.72 Release Notes

New

• Install QuickMail with winget. QuickMail is now in the Windows Package Manager, so winget install quickmail installs it, picking the right version for your computer, whether it has an Intel, AMD or ARM processor. You only need it once; QuickMail keeps itself up to date from then on. See Installing with winget in the User Guide.
• Hide folders you never use. Choose Hide Folder on the folder tree's context menu, on the Folder menu, or in the Command Palette to take a folder, and everything inside it, out of the folder tree and Go to Folder. Show All Hidden Folders, in the same places, brings them all back. Hidden folders still sync, still count in All Mail and the other combined folders, and are still offered when you move or copy messages or set up a rule. The Inbox, accounts, calendars and saved views cannot be hidden. See Hiding Folders in the User Guide.
• Confirm before sending. Turn on Settings → General → Composing → Confirm before sending a message for a safety check before sending or queuing mail. The setting is off by default and takes effect for open compose windows when you save Settings. No is selected initially; choose Yes to send, or No, Cancel, or Escape to keep editing.

Changed

• Updating a sound scheme from the gallery keeps your changes. Update in Browse schemes… used to replace your copy's sounds with the new version, losing any changes you had made. Now QuickMail remembers the sounds of the gallery version you added: an event you left alone gets the new version's sound, an event you changed keeps yours, and an event the new version adds, such as Reached the end of a list, is added. Your own sound files stay. Before anything changes, a message says what will happen, for example "3 events get the new version's sounds, 1 new event is added, 2 events you changed are kept." For a scheme you added before this version, QuickMail can't tell your changes from the gallery's, so a window asks whether to Add only what's missing or Replace everything as before. Nothing changes until you choose Save. See Sound Schemes in the User Guide. (#971)
• Hear when a sound scheme update is waiting. If you have added a scheme from the Sound Scheme Gallery, QuickMail checks the gallery at most once a day, a couple of minutes after it starts, and when a scheme you added has a newer version, says so in the status bar and out loud, once for each new version: "An update is available for the Maya Voicing Glass sound scheme. Settings, Sounds, Browse schemes." Like QuickMail's own update notice, it is an action result, so Announce action results decides whether you hear it. Nothing is updated without you. Turn the check off with Check for updates to sound schemes from the gallery in Settings → Sounds. The check asks the gallery only for its public list, and is skipped when your computer is offline; the privacy policy has the details. (#971)
• Hear when you reach the top or bottom of the message list. Pressing Up or Home on the first message, or Down or End on the last, used to do nothing you could hear, so there was no telling the end of the list from a key that didn't register. Now QuickMail plays a new sound, Reached the end of a list: one short, soft note. If sounds are off or muted, your sound scheme has no sound for it, or another sound is still playing, QuickMail says "Top of list" or "Bottom of list" instead, without interrupting what your screen reader is saying. It is an action result, so Announce action results decides whether you hear it. It works in every view: Messages, Conversations, From and To. Each press at the end tells you again; holding the key down tells you once. Glass, Soft bell and Wood have the new sound. Schemes you made yourself or added from the Sound Scheme Gallery have no sound for it until you choose one in Settings → Sounds (or the gallery offers an update), and QuickMail says "Top of list" or "Bottom of list" instead. Thanks to the person who reported this. (#923)

Fixed

• Repeated Send commands cannot send the same compose twice. QuickMail ignores another Send command while confirmation or sending is underway, and after the message has been sent or queued. This also protects messages when send confirmation is off. If a draft is still saving, Send tells you to try again in a moment.
• A message opens ready to read even when its pictures are slow to arrive. Pressing Enter on a message could leave a screen reader saying only the subject and reading nothing more, until you pressed Escape and Enter again, most often while several accounts were syncing. A message's page waited for its pictures, which can mean downloading the whole message over a busy connection, and after four seconds QuickMail moved into the page before it had finished loading. Pictures no longer hold the message back: its text is ready, and focused, straight away, and the pictures appear when they arrive. A picture that takes more than ten seconds to arrive is left out, and shows the next time you open the message. Bug reports now also say which version of the WebView2 runtime shows your messages. (#959, #851)
• QuickMail builds from a fresh clone of the source. build.bat and dotnet build failed with four "does not exist in the current context" errors until two credential files were written by hand. The build now writes empty placeholders for them when they are missing. (#859)
• Web and email addresses are no longer called misspellings. In a compose window, moving through https://…, www.…, mailto: links, addresses such as github.com/kellylford/QuickMail, or email addresses no longer says "Misspelling" (the text of a Markdown link is still checked), and Next and Previous Misspelling (Ctrl+F7 and Ctrl+Shift+F7), Check Spelling (F7) and the Alt+1, 2 and 3 suggestions pass over them.
• Next Misspelling says the misspelling once. Ctrl+F7 and Ctrl+Shift+F7 said "Misspelling: …" twice for the same word; they now say it once, in plain text and HTML. Pressing Ctrl+F7 again in plain text now moves on to the next misspelling instead of staying on the same word.
• Ctrl+C copies in a message opened in its own window. With messages set to open in a window, Ctrl+C copied nothing: not the message text, not Select All, and not the Subject, From, To or Date fields, so pasting into another message brought back whatever was copied before. Ctrl+C now copies there as it does in the reading pane; on the attachment list it still copies the attachment. (#978)
• Several addresses paste as one address each. Pasting a list separated by semicolons into To, Cc or Bcc, such as recipients copied from Outlook or several addresses copied from another QuickMail address field, made a single address of the whole list. Each address now becomes its own entry, names such as "Smith, John" included. A recipient whose name has a comma in it is also sent correctly: such a name was split at the comma when the message was sent, which added a stray recipient called "Smith". (#979)
• A list of addresses on separate lines pastes in full. Pasting addresses one per line into To, Cc or Bcc kept only the first line and dropped the rest. Every line is now added. (#980)
• Newsletters that came up blank now show their content. Some newsletters, made from web pages, put everything they say inside a web form. QuickMail removes forms from messages for safety, and it removed everything inside them too, so the message opened with nothing to read. Now only the form itself is removed and its text and links stay. Thanks to the person who reported this. (#1001)
• The offline auto-save message no longer interrupts editing. "Auto-save is keeping your draft on this computer until you're online" was spoken while you were typing or moving through the message. It now waits until you pause for a couple of seconds, and is said at most once per compose window; the status row at the bottom still shows each time the draft is kept on this computer.

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.

You can also install QuickMail with the Windows Package Manager: winget install quickmail. It picks the right version for your computer, whether it has an Intel, AMD or ARM processor, and QuickMail keeps itself up to date from then on.