The Idea Place Projects QuickMail 0.8.69: copy, cut and paste your mail

[Kelly Ford]

Hello everyone,

QuickMail 0.8.69 lets you copy, cut and paste messages the way you do files in Explorer. Press Ctrl+C or Ctrl+X in the message list, go to a folder in the folder tree, and press Ctrl+V. It works between accounts too, so a message that landed in your work account can go to your personal one with two keystrokes. Copy a message and paste it into a message you're writing, and it goes along as an attached email, as Outlook does.

There's more around that. QuickMail now opens email files (.eml), including emails attached to other messages. You can save a message's attachments from the message list without opening it, and IMAP messages show whether they have attachments before you open them. And sounds have grown up: you can make your own sound scheme, reset the built-in ones, and share a scheme with someone else as a single file.

If you already have QuickMail installed, it updates itself the next time it starts. To get it for the first time, or to read these notes online:

https://github.com/kellylford/QuickMail/releases/tag/v0.8.69

The user guide is at https://kellylford.github.io/QuickMail/ and in the app under Help > Open User Guide (F1).

The full release notes follow.

QuickMail 0.8.69
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New
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- Copy, cut and paste messages, as in Outlook. In the message list, press Ctrl+C to copy messages or Ctrl+X to cut them, then go to a folder in the folder tree and press Ctrl+V. Copied messages are copied there; cut messages move there. As in Explorer, cutting removes nothing until you paste. Ctrl+V in the message list pastes into the folder it is showing. The commands are also on the Message menu and the context menus.

- Paste a copied message into a new message to attach it. A message copied with Ctrl+C pastes into a message you are writing as an attached email, as Outlook does, and into Explorer or onto the desktop as an email file.

- Copy attachments. Press Ctrl+C on an attachment, or choose Copy or Copy All in the attachment list's context menu, then paste the files into Explorer or into a message you are writing.

- Move and copy messages between accounts. Move to Folder, Copy to Folder and paste now offer your other accounts' folders. A copy leaves the original where it was; a move puts the original in its own account's Trash once the copy is safely in place. Microsoft 365 accounts cannot take messages from other accounts yet.

- Open email files. An email attached to a message now opens in QuickMail, in its own window, instead of being handed to Windows. A .eml file in Explorer, such as a message you pasted there, opens in QuickMail too: it is offered in Open with, without becoming the default. Reply and Forward go from your default account.

- Save a message's attachments without opening it. Open the context menu on a message in the message list (Shift+F10 or the Applications key) and choose Save All Attachments. QuickMail asks for a folder and saves every attachment there. It works on several selected messages at once, and on a whole conversation or sender group when its heading is selected. If there is nothing to save, QuickMail says the message has no attachments instead of asking for a folder. It is in the command palette too, and you can give it a key in keyboard customizations.

- Sound schemes: make your own set of sounds. The Style box in Settings > Sounds is now Sound scheme, and each scheme keeps its own choices: changing an event in Glass no longer changes Wood. Choose New scheme to start a scheme of your own with every event silent, then give sounds only to the events you want, using any built-in sound in any tone or your own files. Copy scheme starts from the scheme showing instead. Schemes of your own can be renamed and deleted. Your existing choices move into the scheme you had chosen.

- Reset a built-in scheme. Reset scheme puts Glass, Soft bell or Wood back to how it ships, so you no longer need to remember what each event used to be.

- Share a scheme. Export scheme saves a scheme and its sound files as one .qmsounds file, and Import scheme adds one. If you make a set of sounds you like, I would love to hear it.

- A gallery of sound schemes is on its way. Browse schemes in Settings > Sounds will list schemes made and shared by others, and Add will bring one in. The gallery isn't open yet, so for now it says the gallery could not be reached; you don't need to update QuickMail when it opens. Every scheme in the gallery will be checked before it is published, and QuickMail checks the gallery's signature and each file again before using it.

- Remove a sound file. Remove file deletes one of your own sound files from QuickMail, after saying which schemes and rules still use it. Until now files could only pile up.

- Choose the default rule sound. "A rule matched" is now in the list of events, and is what a rule set to Default sound plays.

Changed
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- The message list knows which IMAP messages have attachments. Until now an IMAP message showed as having attachments only after you had opened it. QuickMail now learns it when the message arrives, as it already did for Microsoft 365 and POP3, so the Attachments field in the message list, the has:attachment search, and rules that look for attachments all work on IMAP mail you have not opened. After you update, QuickMail checks the mail it already has once, quietly in the background after the first sync; if an account is offline it carries on at the next start. Rules with a Has attachments condition on an IMAP account may now match mail they used to skip.

- Saving attachments no longer replaces files with the same name. When two attachments share a name, or the folder already has a file by that name, the new copy is saved as, for example, "image001 (2).png". This applies to Save All in the attachment list as well.

- After you choose a sound file, you hear which one. Choosing a file in Settings or the rule editor now puts focus on the sound box, which reads the file's name, instead of back on the button.

Fixed
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- Folders made in QuickMail now show in other mail programs. A folder created, copied or renamed in QuickMail on an IMAP account was on the server, but programs such as Outlook didn't show it, because QuickMail didn't subscribe to it. It does now, and renaming or deleting a folder updates its subscription. A folder made before this release stays hidden in those programs until you subscribe to it there, for example with IMAP Folders in Outlook.

- A forwarded or attached email arrived as a file. An email attached to a message you sent was encoded in a way the standard does not allow, so many mail programs showed it as a file rather than an email the recipient could open. It is now attached as an email.

- A failed Copy to Folder was not always spoken. It now says so whatever your announcement settings for background progress.

- Screen readers could read an internal name instead of a message. You could hear "QuickMail.Models.MailMessageSummary" in the message list, at times that were hard to predict. QuickMail now gives a screen reader the message for a row that isn't on screen yet, normally in the fields and order you chose in Message List Fields, which should stop this.

Questions and feedback
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To talk about this release, reply to this message or write to projects at theideaplace.net. Either way it goes to everyone on the list. Bug reports still do the most good as issues on GitHub, at https://github.com/kellylford/QuickMail/issues, or through Help > Report a Bug inside QuickMail, but if you're not sure whether something is a bug, asking on the list first is fine.

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Kelly