QuickMail

Version 0.8.67 adds sounds for mail events, off until you turn them on — email, calendar and contacts in one Windows app.

A keyboard and screen reader friendly email program for Windows that works with IMAP, POP3 and Microsoft 365 accounts. It reads and writes mail offline and sends it when you reconnect, opens shared mailboxes from work and school Microsoft accounts, and searches the whole message, or the server, with searches you can save. Rules sort mail as it arrives, on the server or in QuickMail itself. The calendar imports .ics files and lets you choose which calendar an appointment goes on, and an appointment on an online calendar can invite people, who get a meeting invitation they can accept or decline. Messages can be saved and printed, and pictures you add while writing carry alt text.

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Audio tours

Guided tours of QuickMail by two AI hosts, with real recordings of a screen reader using the app. Every tour is also on the audio tours page.

QuickMail tour, with Windows Narrator

QuickMail is a free email program for Windows, built screen reader first. In this tour, two hosts, Michael and Maya, walk through the program, and every demo you hear is the real QuickMail running on a Windows test machine with Windows Narrator reading it (Microsoft Zira voice). Real keys were pressed and Narrator was recorded exactly as it spoke. The only editing was trimming long pauses. The test machine is offline, so you also hear how QuickMail works without a connection.

25 minutes, with Windows Narrator.

Parts and start times: QuickMail tour, with Windows Narrator
  1. Welcome, at 0:00
  2. Starting QuickMail, offline, at 0:53
  3. Getting around: F6 and the command palette, at 2:07
  4. Message List Fields: choose what each message says, at 4:34
  5. Four ways to view a folder, and conversation fields, at 6:31
  6. Reading mail, at 10:47
  7. Search, at 12:12
  8. Writing, and two ways to check spelling, at 13:17
  9. Staying organized: watched conversations and the calendar, at 16:42
  10. Context menus, the archive folder and the startup folder, at 18:54
  11. Properties with Alt+Enter, at 21:46
  12. You're in control: settings and shortcuts, at 23:28
  13. Summing up, and where to get QuickMail, at 24:20

QuickMail tour, with NVDA

QuickMail is a free email program for Windows, built screen reader first. In this tour, two hosts, Michael and Maya, walk through the program, and every demo you hear is the real QuickMail running on a Windows test machine with NVDA reading it: NVDA 2026.2 with its out-of-the-box settings and the standard Windows voice. The hosts are AI voices; NVDA is not. A script pressed the keys and NVDA was recorded as it spoke. Afterwards a soft click was added at each key press, the volume was evened out, and long pauses were shortened; NVDA's words were not changed. The test machine is offline, so you also hear how QuickMail works without a connection. (There is also an edition with Windows Narrator.)

25 minutes, with NVDA.

Parts and start times: QuickMail tour, with NVDA
  1. Welcome, at 0:00
  2. Starting QuickMail, offline, at 1:09
  3. Getting around: F6 and the command palette, at 2:09
  4. Message List Fields: choose what each message says, at 4:28
  5. Four ways to view a folder, and conversation fields, at 6:28
  6. Reading mail, at 10:51
  7. Search, at 12:29
  8. Writing, and two ways to check spelling, at 13:39
  9. Staying organized: watched conversations and the calendar, at 17:10
  10. Context menus, the archive folder and the startup folder, at 19:00
  11. Properties with Alt+Enter, at 21:48
  12. You're in control: settings and shortcuts, at 23:30
  13. Summing up, and where to get QuickMail, at 24:22

QuickMail tour, with JAWS

QuickMail is a free email program for Windows, built screen reader first. In this tour, two hosts, Michael and Maya, walk through the program, and every demo you hear is the real QuickMail running on a Windows test machine with JAWS reading it: JAWS 2026 with its standard Eloquence voice, typing echo set to words, and tutor and access key messages turned off. The hosts are AI voices; JAWS is not. A script pressed the keys and JAWS was recorded as it spoke. Afterwards a soft click was added at each key press, the volume was evened out, and long pauses were shortened; JAWS's words were not changed. The test machine is offline, so you also hear how QuickMail works without a connection. (There are also editions with NVDA and with Windows Narrator.)

26 minutes, with JAWS, recorded with QuickMail 0.8.63.

Parts and start times: QuickMail tour, with JAWS
  1. Welcome, at 0:00
  2. Starting QuickMail, offline, at 1:19
  3. Getting around: F6 and the command palette, at 2:31
  4. Message List Fields: choose what each message says, at 4:59
  5. Four ways to view a folder, and conversation fields, at 7:00
  6. Reading mail, at 11:19
  7. Search, at 12:57
  8. Writing, and two ways to check spelling, at 14:09
  9. Staying organized: watched conversations and the calendar, at 17:51
  10. Context menus, the archive folder and the startup folder, at 19:57
  11. Properties with Alt+Enter, at 23:00
  12. You're in control: settings and shortcuts, at 24:46
  13. Summing up, and where to get QuickMail, at 25:38

More QuickMail tours

These are on the audio tours page.

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