Fixes:
-
Resolves some scenarios that caused calendar and contact sync to crash during service autodiscovery, unnecessarily stopping email sync.
-
You can now add Instagram handles to your email signatures (Thanks @piotrzarycki!)
-
When switching layout modes, Mailspring clears the selection to avoid an immediate mark-as-read #1679
-
On macOS, you can now use the Ctrl key as a modifier for shortcuts defined from the Preferences > Shortcuts screen. (#1678)
-
The app's licenses file can now be viewed on Windows.
This is small patch release addressing #1659 (conversation list gets stuck in the "loading state") and #1660 (mailsync crashes when syncing some Google Apps for Business account).
Features:
Incoming Message Translation: Mailspring now offers to translate emails you receive in other languages. When you choose to translate an email, Mailspring sends the text of the message to a translation service (currently Yandex) and displays the result. Free users can translate up to 50 messages a week - Mailspring Pro removes the limit and allows you to "Automatically Translate" all messages in particular languages.
- Note: We're waiting on Google to approve Mailspring for access to the "Read-write Contacts" Oauth scope, so Gmail accounts will be read-only until ~December 2019.
Contact Management: Mailspring now includes a full-featured address book available from the Window
menu! You can create, update, and delete contacts and contact groups in connected Google and CardDAV-compatible accounts (iCloud, FastMail and others.) Mailspring also allows you to turn off automatic suggestions based on your sent mail, and delete individual contact suggestions. When composing an email, you can now type the name of a group to insert all of the contacts in that group as recipients.
Fixes:
-
Mailspring now displays unread mail notifications reliably, fixing a race-condition that occurred when new messages were synced too fast. #1467
-
You can now re-order your email acccounts via drag and drop in Preferences > Accounts. #1577
-
Mailspring always displays non-inline image attachments as files in the composer. Previously they looked identical to inline images. #1653
-
The French, Slovenian, Portuguese, German, Tamil, and Chinese translations have been improved. (Thanks struk3lj, @matheusreich, @danopz, @Cortys , @mpetitjean, @singer233, and @lizzards!)
-
Mailspring does a better job removing quoted text formatted by very old versions of Outlook.
-
Mailspring no longer freezes when you type a link with a "#" (hash character) and then press return.
-
On Linux and Windows, the system tray no longer turns blue whenever the app's window is hidden. #1467, #1017
-
A new option in Preferences > General allows you to disable the shortening of recipient names. #515, #505
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A new option in Preferences > General allows you to expand message headers by default. #1521 #1525
-
Mailspring's icon now appears square in the Windows Start menu.
-
You can now dismiss Mailspring's upgrade prompt on Linux. #1514, #913
-
Social links in Mailspring's sidebar now properly contain the www. prefix when required. #1559
-
You can now type date shorthands (eg: "2d" or "2w") into the snooze date picker. #1621
Developer:
-
On Debian Linux, we suggest rather than require gnomekeyring #998
-
The (broken) plugin template has been removed - the starter for a Mailspring plugin is now located at https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring-Plugin-Starter #1645
Fixes:
-
Drag and drop of files into the composer and drag and drop of threads into folders / labels in the left sidebar now works as expected in all cases. #1533, #1534
-
When typing in Japanese or another language that uses composition events / IME, the composer now always commits your text when the composition dropdown is dismissed. #1531
-
A small "download" icon on the event header displayed in calendar emails allows you to download the underlying ICS file. #1547
-
Resolves top issues reported via our automated error collection, including several problems causing instability in the composer.
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Right clicking an image or file attachment now gives you contextual menu options to save, open or preview the file. #1548
-
You can no longer select a Label as your Gmail "Trash" folder. This was the root cause of several crashes and is not really conceptually supported by Gmail.
-
Mailspring now warns when loading plugins that have not been compiled to JavaScript ahead of time. (We no longer ship TypeScript + Babel because relying on a specific verison is problematic and they are 30+ MB)
Highlights:
-
Mailspring now allows you to RSVP to calendar events directly from your inbox. Messages with .ics attachments or text/calendar mime-parts are displayed in a nice expanded format. The Calendar preview is back and more features are coming soon!
-
A new menu option, "Copy Mailbox Permalink", allows you to generate a
mailspring://
URL for a thread. Clicking this link from another application opens the thread in Mailspring. Note: this is separate from thread sharing (public links) and only works on computers with the account synced. -
The composer is faster, more reliable, and uses significantly less RAM over time thanks to a new version of the SlateJS text editor. You can also drag and drop selected text and drag/copy/paste inline images. #1446, #578, #727, #773, #950, #1211, #1437
Improvements:
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The message viewer and the composer now stretch the full width of their panels by default. To get the old behavior back, enable "Restrict width of messages to maximize readability." in Preferences > General. #251
-
Mailspring now supports snapcraft on Wayland properly. #1517 - thanks @e3b0c442!
-
In dark themes, copy-pasting text out of an email into the composer will no longer transfer the text color if it's the theme default. #1053, #1309, #641, #1290
-
The "Attach File" button has moved from the right to the left side of the composer's bottom bar, making it less likely that you'll tap the "Delete Draft" icon by accident. #1508
-
Open tracking now correctly filters out your own tracking pixels so viewing emails doesn't trigger notifications. (This was a regression in a recent release.) #1494
-
The "has: attachment" query now works when combined with other queries and search strings. #1480
-
Sender name validation ("Are you sure you want to send addressed to 'Ben'?") now supports hyphenated names correctly. #1445
-
On Linux, Mailspring handles icon themes without context keys properly. #1467
-
The Dutch and Czech translations have been improved - thanks @mathiasbosman and @stepa0648!
-
Mailspring displays a confirmation dialog before resetting accounts and settings. #1486 - thanks @joaolongo!
-
Mailspring now warns if a permission error prevents it from updating it's macOS launch-on-start settings. #1493
-
Incoming attachments without names are now given default names with file extensions inferred from their content type. #1487
-
Mailspring no longer displays some HTML messages with specific styles at a height of 0px. #1496
-
The color picker in the composer now includes a thin border so it's easier to see in all themes. #645
-
When copy-pasting out of the composer into a plain text destination, newlines and whitespace are preserved in your text and composer copy paste is generally more reliable. #1457, #803
-
Creating a signature with a
<style>
tag in it no longer applies the styles to the entire application window - style elements are now converted to inline styles in signatures. #964 -
On Windows, the font dropdowns in the composer no longer appear white-on-white in dark themes. #1500
-
Select-all and copy paste of email message contents now works reliably in all cases.
Development:
-
Mailspring now uses Electron 4.2.4, which includes several security patches and minor bug fixes.
-
Resizing Mailspring's main window is considerably faster thanks to better use of ResizeObserver.
Fixes:
-
Sync Mail Now now has a keyboard shortcut (F5). Thanks @StarScape!
-
Swipe-to-archive on a macOS trackpad is less "touchy" and ignores interactions that are primarily vertical. #690
-
Mail Rules run on every incoming message and always run after the message body has been fetched, fixing issues with some mail rules not being executed properly. #605, #513
-
The "Check for Updates" menu item no longer causes the app to crash when no update is available.
-
Fixes a regression in removing quoted text via the small "X" that appears over the quoted text marker. #1434
-
Update snapcraft.yml to include gtk-3-themes #1435
-
Spellcheck on large emails with more than 500 distinct words is much more performant thanks to a larger cache.
-
In the composer, you can delete a text selection that includes the first character in the email. (More composer fixes are coming soon - we've been unblocked upstream in SlateJS!)
-
The Japanese translation has been improved. Thanks @kometchtech!
-
The Russian translation has been improved. Thanks @ivan-nginx!
-
Mailspring now uses Electron 4.1.4, which fixes several crashes and an issue on KDE where tray icons would be displayed incorrectly as a 22x22 square cropped from the center.
Mailspring now uses the TypeScript compiler instead of Babel, and the entire project (92,000 LOC!) has been converted to TypeScript. 🎉 This took an enormous amount of effort - 9,800 TypeScript errors were resolved by hand - but will make the project more stable, easier to maintain, and easier to contribute to in the future.
-
The German translation has been improved (Thanks @ahahn94!) and Japanese is now listed as a fully reviewed language!
-
The Linux system tray icon is now larger and brighter when unread, which looks better on most Linux distros. (#1386)
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Mailspring now shows it's icon in notifications and correctly resolves the icon from your current theme is only supported for Gnome, Mate and Budgie. (Thanks @arkraft!)
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When clicking the track of a scrollbar, the view is scrolled by one page up or down rather than scrolling to the clicked position.
-
When switching between a mailbox and "Drafts" or "Activity" the left sidebar no longer scrolls back to the top.
-
Preferences styling has been slightly improved.
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Mailspring now uses Electron 4.0.8 which includes a recent security patch and is recommended for all users.
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Window controls are no longer “squished” in the darkside theme on Linux #1104
-
Double-clicking the window toolbar on macOS correctly maximizes / unmaximizes the window. #1388
-
When using the Outlook keybindings, Ctrl-F is no longer tied to both "Forward" and "Find in thread". "Find in thread" has been changed to Ctrl-Shift-F for consistency with Outlook.
-
Mailspring strips surrounding quotes from displayed contact namess. #1397
Fixes:
-
Emails in Gmail accounts no longer "flicker" in the thread list occasionally if you mark them as read and archive them in quick succession.
-
Duplicate sent emails (your copy + the recipient's copy) no longer appear in Gmail when open/link tracking are enabled. Gmail IMAP changed handling of IMAP Delete + Expunge in Sent Mail earlier this month causing this bug. This also resolves issues where viewing a message you sent would trigger read receipts. #1279 #1086 #937 #1162 #1049
-
Mailspring no longer erases all your account passwords when signing out of your Mailspring ID on macOS due to a race condition.
-
Cut/copy/paste and undo/redo now work in the "Create a Mailspring ID" and "Upgrade to Pro" webviews within the app. #15219
-
Mailspring now requests the "internal / received" date of emails to handle providers (including home.pl) which do not return message dates when asked for mailbox headers. This fixes an important issue where all emails could appear to be from 1969.
-
Mailspring now renders inline images attachments within the body of the email even if they're missing an "inline" content-disposition. Previously these images would appear as attachments at the bottom of the message.
-
Mailspring now supports home.pl accounts which advertised support for the IMAP XLIST extension but did not appear to implement it properly.
-
The contact sidebar now opens LinkedIn person profiles correctly - the "/in/" segment of the URL was previously missing.
-
The signature editor now allows you to add a link to your LinkedIn profile.
-
Mailspring shows the "Snoozed" folder name correctly in cases where it's called "Mailspring.Snoozed".
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Mailspring is now less aggressive about wrapping wide emails and prefers horizontal scrolling for large tables, etc.
-
French translations have been improved (thanks to @Gaspacchio!)
Performance:
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Mailspring now uses DOM ResizeObservers to implement scroll bars and properly size emails as they render which is a huge performance win, especially on slower machines.
-
Mailspring refreshes the data backing the conversation view asynchronously when threads are removed, eliminating jank that was especially noticable if you'd scrolled down in the list and were viewing a unified mailbox.
Development:
- Mailspring now uses Electron 4.0.5.
Features:
-
Mailspring now generates quick attachment previews of common "code" file types using Prism, including .html, .json, .txt, .log.
-
Italian, Japanese and French translations have been improved (Thanks to @kometchtech, @ecavicc and @gooodmorningopenstack!)
Fixes:
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Mailspring now configures Yandex email accounts on custom domains correctly. #1337
-
Emails that use
<style>
tags andclass
attributes without any inline styles are now rendered correctly. -
Selecting several lines of pasted text and enabling "Code Block" formatting now works correctly. #1346
-
Maispring now plays the "New Mail" sound correctly even if you haven't interacted with the window since the app was launched. (This was broken due to a recent new feature in Chromium blocking web pages from playing audio.)
Development:
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Mailspring now uses Electron 4.0.4 which fixes several memory leaks.
-
A preview of Mailspring's upcoming Calendar feature is available under the Developer menu. Right now, it only supports Google Calendar and the data shown on the calendar is read-only. Stay tuned! The UI was originally developed for Nylas Mail before it was shuttered and we'll be re-launching it this summer.
Features:
- Mailspring now shows visual previews of PDF, DOCX, XLSX, XLS, CSV, and Markdown attachments on Windows and Linux as well as macOS. Selecting an attachment in the message view and pressing the space bar or clicking the small "eye" icon shows a preview of the contents in a new window.
Fixes:
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Mailspring no longer crashes with a fatal error on CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.6 with a "CXXABI_1.3.9" message. When we upgraded to Electron 4, using GCC++5 to build parts of Mailspring resulted in libraries too new for some linux platforms.
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In dark mode, text in message bodies is no longer black.
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The
copy
andcut
context menu items are disabled when right-clicking a password field. -
The Brazillian Portuguese translation has been improved (Thanks @leoescarpellin!)
-
You can now view Mailspring's open source license and all of it's dependencies' licenses and copyright notices from the menu.
Improvements:
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An important bug that caused Mailspring to occasionally send blank or incomplete drafts (especially long relies or messages with significant quoted text) has been resolved! #948
-
Printing email messages now works reliably and a new "Save as PDF" option in the print window makes it easy to export an email thread. #1236 #1027
-
Extremely long messages now clip in the message panel and a "popout" option allows you to view their entire text in a separate window, similar to Gmail. This allows Mailspring to more reliably maintain good performance as you browse your email.
-
A Brazillian Portuguese translation has been added (Thanks @leoescarpellin!)
-
Russian and Japanese translations have been improved (Thanks @kometchtech, @TiiRiiX)
-
Mailspring now runs on Electron 4. This should fix the menu bar not appearing in Ubuntu 18.10 (#1258, #1158) and comes with a long list of bug fixes and improvements (Mailspring was previously on Electron 2.0.14.) As of this release, Mailspring and Electron no longer support macOS 10.9.
-
The
has:attachment
search filter has been added. Note that this clause only returns messages Mailspring has downloaded and has "seen" the attachments for. (Currently the last three months of mail.) #1260
Fixes:
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Sending emails with consecutive whitespaces now works as expected. #1270
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Mailspring now adds itself to the Dock in macOS Mavericks properly. #1256
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The
Send and Archive
option is no longer shown when you're composing a new message. #980 -
Mailspring no longer hangs when trying to sync a mailbox containing a message with an unidentified MIME part. #1266
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Mailspring no longer inserts an extra whitespace when you compose a reply with a default signature. #1264
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The tool tip displayed when scrolling in the message panel is now localized correctly.
-
Copy / paste and the Terms / Privacy links in billing and registration windows now work properly. #1280
-
Open tracking pixels now display as
Sent from Mailspring
when the recipient's email client shows image alt text. It's important we have alt text identifying the image in some way for highest deliverability, but the previousopen tracking
alt text was a bit too revealing for many users.
Improvements:
-
French and Japanese localizations have been improved. (Thanks @kometchtech, @shyne99!)
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Mailspring now honors "Do Not Disturb" on macOS and "Quiet Time" on Windows. Notifications do not appear and the "new mail" sound does not play.
-
Mailspring is more stable and handles a variety of edge cases better thanks to crash reports from Sentry.
-
Right-clicking an image and choosing "Copy Image" now works correctly on Linux.
-
Mailspring's Outlook keyboard shortcut preset now includes Ctrl-Q for "mark as read" and many other shortcuts. On Windows, Alt-F4 quits the program rather than the non-standard Ctrl-Q.
Development:
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Mailspring now uses it's own logo API rather than Clearbit's, since we cannot provide appropriate Clearbit attribution when the logo images are used in email signatures.
-
Mailspring now ships with Electron 2.0.14, which fixes a variety of small issues. We will move to Electron 4.x as soon as electron/electron#14260 is resolved.
Improvements:
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Mailspring now defaults to English for languages whose translations have not been manually reviewed by a contributor. You can customize the interface language via a new setting in Preferences > General.
-
Hundreds of translations have been manually reviewed and refined in German, Chinese, French and Korean. (Thanks to @pandanonyme @jungin500 @qitar888 @DarkSmile92!)
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When connecting a Yahoo Mail account, Mailspring notes that Yahoo requires an App Password. Provider-specific notes are also included in the "View Log" text for easier debugging.
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You can now change the "Sender Identity" (the name that is sent in the From field with your email address) for each account in Preferences > Accounts. #1169
Fixes:
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Mailspring no longer aggressively autocompletes :10 to the :100 emoji, or :12 to the :1234 emoji, to avoid conflicts with typing times. #1148
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On macOS, Mailspring's spellchecker correctly transitions to the language you're typing in consistent with Linux and Windows.
-
The Emoji picker now works correctly when using Mailspring in a language other than English. #1189
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Shrinking Mailspring's UI using the "inteface zoom" setting no longer causes spellchecking "squiggles" to become invisible.
-
The "Does Not Contain" mail rule now requires that every item in the field not contain the text as expected, rather than just requiring that any one of the items (senders, recipients, etc.) not contain the text. #1110
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Mailspring's "Upgrade to Pro" modal no longer appears badly clipped when using a custom interface zoom level.
-
The fixed size "Add an Account" window now ignores custom zoom levels so that fields and forms are not clipped.
Improvements:
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Thousands of translations have been improved or manually reviewed. Thanks to @odie2 @pamo @SimonVanacco @louim @DarkSmile92 @phylophyl and @renfliu for help in 6 languages!
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Mailspring now ships Linux appdata files (Thanks @kirbyfan64!)
Fixes:
- Reverts a change to IMAP message parsing that was designed to extend support for Proton Mail Bridge, which caused many emails from some IMAP servers to appear to be from "NIL".
Features:
-
Mailspring now supports localization! The app detects your system locale and all text, menus, buttons, etc. in the app appear in your language. Mailspring's core strings has been manually localized in 38 languages and the rest (mostly error messages and text describing features) have been automatically translated.
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We'd love your help improving these localizations! A new "Developer > Toggle Localizer Tools" menu option in Mailspring allows you to submit better translations right within the app. You can also edit the translation files directly and submit a pull request. See the new localizer guide here.
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If you use a RTL language, Mailspring's entire UI now appears right-justified, including the sidebar, preference panels, scrollbars, and more. If you use Mailspring in Arabic or Hebrew and notice issues in the right-to-left presentation, please file issues or submit pull requests.
-
Fixes:
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The "contact profiles" feature of Mailspring Pro is much more robust and reliable thanks to a new profile discovery mechanism.
-
The "contact profile" sidebar shows the Gravatar associated with the email address before falling back to the "empty box with initials".
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Mailspring now uses the latest version of libetpan, which improves stability and fixes several parsing bugs. It also more flexibly parses IMAP responses that include unquoted text fragments. #429
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On Linux, Mailspring now uses the pixmaps dir to show an icon in the corner of each window. #1135
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On Linux, Mailspring uses circular icons rather than square ones. #1098
-
The padding of the search bar in the Darkside theme has been fixed. #1048
Developer:
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Trying to open a package that does not define
engines
in it's package.json no longer crashes the app. -
Mailspring now uses Electron 2.0.11 which resolves #1108.
Fixes:
-
Mailspring no longer attempts CRAM-MD5 SMTP auth instead of PLAIN or LOGIN when both are supported. CRAM-MD5 and DIGEST-MD5 require you've exchanged a shared secret with the SMTP server which is almost never the case. #620
-
Mark as Spam now appears in the right-click dropdown menu for threads.
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The IMAP/SMTP port dropdowns no longer "stick" the first time you change them during setup.
-
Mailspring now lets you know if your SMTP server refused to relay a test message during setup.
-
Mailspring now correctly supports SMTP accounts that do not require a username or password. #469
-
Open and link tracking now work correctly for accounts using Courier IMAP, (where sent messages do not appear until re-selecting the folder via IMAP.)
Debugging:
- Mailspring now prints descriptive SMTP error strings instead of SMTP error codes in logs.
Fixes:
- Shift-I and Shift-U no longer trigger when typing in the composoer and mark as read / unread the current email thread when the Gmail keyboard shortcut set is active.
Mailspring 1.4 adds macOS Touch Bar support and expands the Thread
and View
menus to include a
wider range of functionality previously tied to keybindings but missing from the apps menus.
Mailspring 1.4 also brings a revised welcome screen that separates Office 365 and Outlook and adds presets for Yandex and GMX. The new welcome screens display tips specific to each provider, ensuring that you follow any required steps (like creating an App Password or enabling IMAP.)
Fixes:
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Mailspring now connects to SMTP servers that only support GSSAPI or Kerberos and PLAIN using the PLAIN method rather than trying to use Kerberos and failing. #341
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The "undo send" toast in Mailspring now has a countdown timer, and the undo button has been visually differentiated from the background. #872
-
Emails no longer get "stuck" when using undo send in some scenarios. #336
-
Undoing a send of an inline reply during the undo-send time window no longer leaves the composer "locked" or re-sends the original draft. #596, #390
-
Mailspring no longer throws an exception when parsing quoted text for some emails.
-
Removing the last account from Mailspring no longer causes it to return to the "Connect an Account" screen with errors that prevent you from moving forward without restarting the app.
-
The print window now warns you if one or more messages were omitted because they were collapsed, and renders properly in the dark theme.
-
The default SMTP port for Outlook is now the STARTTLS default and not port 25. #725
-
Mailspring 1.3 brings an overhauled search bar with powerful autocomplete that makes it easier to create advanced search queries.
-
In addition to searching for freeform text and using the Gmail query language (
subject:
,in:
,is:
,from:
,to:
), Mailspring now allows you to search by date using natural language terms likesince: "last week"
andbefore: "february 5th"
. Try combining them with other terms to search a specific time window! -
You can now right-click a thread to search for other threads from that sender or with that subject.
-
You can now focus the search bar and conduct searches entirely with keyboard shortcuts (use Escape to exit the search bar!) #960
-
-
Mailspring now uses Electron 2.0.2, which delivers some great bug fixes and new features:
- Chrome 61, Node 8.9.3, V8 6.1.534.41 with improved performance and lower memory footprints
- Better GTK+ theme support, including support for menu styling
- Better support for Linux desktop notifications
- The app will no longer cancel restart or shutdown
Fixes:
-
Mailspring no longer clips some messages containing images incorrectly. #569
-
The Reply-To header is now shown when you expand the message headers. #973
-
Dropping images onto the composer now reliably inserts them as inline attachments. #822
-
Mailspring now correctly opens attachments with filenames containing emoji on Windows.
-
You can now drag and attachment out of Mailspring by it's quicklook preview as well as it's title.
-
Using Mailspring on Windows in a user account containing accent characters or other special characters no longer prevents attachments from being cached. #810
-
Mailspring no longer throws an exception when trying to display a message with attachments but no downloaded body. #804
-
The "hamburger" icon in the top right of the main window no longer appears gray-on-gray in the "Ubuntu" theme. #801
-
Auto-hiding of the menu bar now works correctly on Linux. #938
-
Clicking on the open/link tracking "detail dot" now shows individual tracking events correctly. #945
-
The Print window no longer contains an incorrect menu bar on Windows. #958
-
Signatures with Facebook and Twitter profiles now display the service favicons reliably when viewed in Gmail and Outlook. #968
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Invalid themes no longer "brick" the app - Mailspring will present an alert with the error and offer to revert to the basic theme. (Mailspring-Theme-Starter/issues/1)
Fixes:
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Drafts sent with RTL text now appear correctly justified for recipients. #869
-
In the Linux Snapcraft release, app indicator compatibility has been improved by coercing XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP to Unity (Thanks Martin Wimpress at Canonical!)
-
On Linux, clicking on the system tray toggles the visibility of Mailspring's windows instead of always showing them. #650
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On macOS, Mailspring asks if it can move itself to Applications and handles the new app translocation rules in High Sierra correctly.
-
Drafts now allow file attachments up to 25MB in size, and the error message has been corrected. #854
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When linking email accounts, the IMAP/SMTP host fields correctly ignore whitespace to avoid connection errors. #876
-
Mailspring's sync process no longer crashes when the snooze / reminder actions of more than 200 threads need to be processed at once.
-
Mailspring now correctly auto-links email addresses in the composer into mailto: links #814
-
Searching by
subject:xxx
now works, thanks to fixes to the mailsync indexer. #860 -
Viewing a draft with no recognized
from
participant no longer causes the app to crash. #857
Development
- Bumped to Electron 1.8.7, which includes patches for security vulnerabilities (updated command-line backlist switches), and fixes a flickering issue on high-DPI macOS displays.
Fixes:
-
Copy / paste now works correctly in message contents and draft fields, correcting a regression in 1.2.0.
-
Right clicking words in the composer now correctly shows spelling suggestions. #747
-
Right clicking in the composer now presents a "Paste and Match Style" option. #655
-
The left 50px of "To" field of message headers is now clickable.
-
Signatures with images now display correctly in mail clients that don't support CSS. To take advantage of this improvement, remove and re-attach images to existing signatures.
-
URLs containing the format
#/xxxx?a=b
are now automatically linked correctly. -
The "learn more" link in the thread sharing modal now links to a public knowledgebase article.
Features:
- Thread Sharing allows you to easily sync an email thread to the cloud and share it using a link. Mailspring automatically syncs new emails that arrive on the thread and anyone with the link can view the thread or download attachments.
Fixes:
-
Searching your mailbox using the "in:folder" syntax no longer produces a limited / old set of results when many, many results match.
-
The composer cursor no longer gets "stuck" occasionally when typing diatric or multi-key composition characters. #718, #578
-
The composer no longer copies an empty string to the clipboard if you have no selected text when you press Ctrl/Cmd+C. #787
-
The thread toolbar buttons now have a grouped appearance which makes the UI more compact and usable. #283
-
Mailspring now uses the correct presets for Fastmail and Startmail accounts. #759, #756
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Clicking to collapse a message with expanded headers now works as expected. #636
-
Mailspring never shows images by default when you're viewing your spam folder. #784
Development:
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The "Download attachments when..." option, which was never implemented in the new sync engine, has been removed from Preferences > General.
-
When resetting an account, Mailspring correctly re-fetches open/read receipt and snoozing metadata
-
Mailspring now uses Electron 1.8.4.
Fixes:
-
Mailspring no longer crashes when trying to connect some IMAP accounts that it cannot resolve to a preset configuration. #739
-
Mailspring no longer requires you to manually provide information for IMAP accounts that are aliases of other proivders, like hotmail.it. #736
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An error no longer replaces the composer when an "emoji mark" cannot be found. #685
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When you click a mis-spelled word, Mailspring no longer selects the entire word. #677
-
When you send mail, Mailspring no longer puts your hostname in the MIME Message-ID.
-
In the composer you can now edit existing links and links don't open by default unless you control-click them. #702, #704, #639
-
The colon character (:) no longer breaks automatic link detection. #695
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When you remove an account, Mailspring resets its local cache for that account, removing stored data on disk. #724
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Images with width and height values containing decimals no longer break logic designed to autosize them for display.
Improvements:
- Mailspring now uses Electron 1.8.3, which includes two security improvements.
Fixes:
-
Searching in the
Sent
folder (and other folders assigned mailbox roles) now works reliably. -
Connecting accounts no longer throws
SIGABRT
/3221225477
errors in some scenarios. #292 -
Connecting accounts no longer fails when the email provider returns non-UTF8 characters in IMAP responses.
-
The open tracking pixel now has an
alt
tag that self-identifies it as a tracking pixel, which prevents messages from Mailspring from being flagged as spam by some providers. #668 -
Mailspring no longer registers for the Utility and Development application categories and appears in the
mail
package category on Debian systems. #673, #678 -
On Linux, the tray assets are larger again (48x48px) in an attempt to make them render properly in more distros.
-
In the Taiga theme, the selected item in dropdown menus is visible. #674
Improvements:
-
When adding an IMAP account, Mailspring now uses the domain's MX records to identify if it can use settings for a common email service to skip the full, complicated IMAP settings screen.
-
When adding a Gmail account, Mailspring now uses two-legged OAuth instead of three-legged OAuth which allows it to renew it's access token more rapidly. (Re-authenticate Gmail accounts for this to take effect.)
-
Mailspring
VACUUM
's the SQLite database every two weeks to prevent fragmentation that can eventually ruin performance. Unfortunately, data cannot be read or written during this process and it can take ~2 minutes for a 3GB database, so it is performed at launch with a new progress screen.
Fixes:
-
On linux, the system tray icon is smaller (22x22 with 18x18 content vs 32x32)
-
In dark themes, quoted text no longer appears a dark purple that is difficult to read.
-
Mailspring no longer becomes "blocked" when ingesting a large number of deletions in a mailbox and will no longer attempt to retrieve many, many new messages all at once.
-
When changing accounts in the composer the signature correctly updates to the new account's default. #570
-
In the message viewer, the "Download All Attachments" button appears if the email contains multiple images. #583
-
In the message viewer, inline images specified using a "cid:filename.png@RANDOM"-style URL now render correctly in the message body instead of as attachments. #569
-
Threads with only sent emails no longer appear as from "1969" in some places. #508, #457
-
The "Local Time" shown in the company sidebar is now correct and updates in realtime.
-
On Linux,
mailspring.desktop
no longer reports that the app is an editor fortext/plain
#602 -
Undo no longer triggers in both the email body and other recently edited text fields at the same time. #613
-
Creating a draft no longer clears the conversations's "snippet" in the thread list.
-
When printing a thread, Mailspring no longer prints
undefined
beside particicpants with no name. -
When pasting HTML, Mailspring now correctly preserves links that have other styling. #592
-
When using "two pane mode", viewing the same conversation repeatedly will mark any new messages as read. #617
-
When sending an email, the word "attachments" in your signature will no longer cause the app to complain about missing attachments. #610
-
Mailspring no longer attempts to create the folder
Mailspring..Snoozed
on providers that include the path delimiter in the IMAP namespace prefix. #634 -
When composing an email, Mailspring will display an alert if you need to choose a Drafts folder to send mail. #634
-
Mailspring now uses Electron 1.8.2-beta5, which includes stability and security fixes.
-
Exporting raw data from the Activity Dashboard now waits for the filesystem buffer to flush, preventing it from writing only some of the email data on slower hard drives.
-
Mailspring no longer briefly spawns duplicate sync processes in some scenarios when you have many accounts linked.
-
When your mailbox contains emails with the same subject and participants and no
Date
header, Mailspring now syncs them all instead of syncing them as a single message, which should prevent thrashing -
A subtle multithreading issue has been fixed which could cause your folders to become corrupted and prevent Mailspring from launching.
Memory and Performance:
-
Creating a draft is now ~16x faster in scenarios where lots of quoted text is present.
-
The undo history of the composer is cleared when you navigate away from a draft, reclaiming memory.
-
Completed tasks are purged from the app's task queue more rapidly so performing many, many actions on your mailbox does not cause the application to use more memory.
Fixes:
-
Mailspring creates the folder "Mailspring/Snoozed" on your email provider with the intermediate folder. [#588]
-
Switching to drafts, away from drafts, and back to drafts no longer causes a crash. [#590]
-
"Create a package manually" now works properly when the app is running without the
dev
flag. -
Drag and drop of emails now works again. [#586]
-
When removing quoted text, some emails no longer cause an exception to be thrown. [#589]
Features:
-
The new composer now supports additional Gmail shortcuts, which you can view from Preferences > Shortcuts, including Cmd-K (make link), Cmd-Shift-8 (make bulleted list), etc. (#555)
-
Mailspring now supports indicators in Ubuntu Gnome Session (Ubuntu 17+)
-
Mailspring now supports Secureserver (GoDaddy), Roundcube, 163.com, and several other providers that did not allow folder names to contain the
[
character.
Fixes:
-
The small "X" on the quoted text control is back, allowing you to easily remove the quoted text block when replying.
-
Performance of the new composer has been greatly improved by eliminating calls to
draft.body
during editing. -
In dark mode, text in the composer appears white instead of black.
-
Switching to a different font size and back to "normal" no longer makes text a slightly different size than it was originally.
-
Spellcheck now supports words with non-latin characters correctly. (#564)
-
The Less-is-More theme no longer contains small visual glitches with the new composer. (#547)
-
Undo/redo within the composer or any text field no longer trigger both text undo/redo and mail action undo/redo. (#577)
-
Mailspring now creates a "Mailspring" folder instead of a "[Mailspring]" folder because some providers do not allow the
[
character. (#551) Development: -
Mailspring no longer contains or supports Coffeescript or CJSX!
-
Moved to Electron 1.8.2-beta4
-
Moved to React 16.2
Features:
-
Overhauled composer with a great new editing toolbar and support for fonts, sizes, colors, right-to-left text, markdown shortcuts, and more.
-
Brand new template editor in Preferences > Templates with a more streamlined UI based on the new composer.
-
From the Activity screen, you can now export the raw data in the selected time range to perform custom analysis on your open and link tracking data.
Improvements:
- On Linux, Mailspring now lets you choose to auto-hide the menubar, or use the sleek, Windows-style unified window frame with the menu behind a hamburger button.
Fixes:
-
Mailspring no longer cleans up messages you've downloaded recently.
-
When you edit an existing account, it's credentials are prepopulated for editing. (#496)
-
The signature editor now supports Twitter profile pictures and autoformats your handle. (#493)
-
On Windows, Mailspring supports installation in user directories with special characters. (#113)
-
Generation of IDs in Mailspring is no longer timezone-sensitive on some machines.
-
Drafts no longer fail to sze when you exit the app in some scenarios.
Improvements:
-
Automatic CC / BCC: From Preferences > Accounts, you can now configure automatic CC / BCC on emails sent from an account. (#275)
-
The "Are you sure you want to send addressed to 'XXX'" warning is smarter and better phrased. (#381)
-
You can now change the interface zoom from Preferences > Appearance. (#176)
Fixes:
-
A regression from 1.0.11 has been fixed - Mailspring no longer fails to sync new mail for some accounts that do not support CONDSTORE. Mailspring will no longer give these messages timestamps from "1970". (#475)
-
Panel widths are now saved correctly on exit. (#41)
-
When waking from sleep, Mailspring checks for new mail immediately. (#468)
-
When linking an account, you can now omit the SMTP username for SMTP without authentication. (#469)
-
Mailspring allows all deprecated HTML attributes like
<strike>
, improving the rendering of emails. (#260) -
The
View
links in the contact sidebar now open the browser correctly. -
Electron has been bumped to 1.7.10, which fixes:
-
Subpixel font rendering with freetype on Linux.
-
Rendering issues with Nvidia GPU on High Sierra
-
Downloading updates twice on Windows
-
Auto-update for non-admin users on macOS.
-
Improvements:
-
You can now reset the cache for an individual account from Preferences > Accounts
-
Mailspring now creates its config directory with more appropriate unix permissions (thanks @agurz!)
Fixes:
-
On Windows, Mailspring now sends attachments with non-latin characters correctly.
-
Mailspring now moves mail correctly (via archiving, deleting, etc.), even if the provider does not support the IMAP MOVE extension.
-
Mailspring now fetches incoming messages correctly (and immediately) for providers that support both CONDSTORE and QRESYNC.
-
On Linux, the Mailspring snap no longer complains about missing typefaces on some machines.
-
Drang and drop from search results into folders/labels has been fixed.
-
The translation plugin has been fixed.
Features:
- A brand new signature editor makes it easy to create beautiful signatures with images and important contact details.
Performance:
- SQLite schema changes significantly improve Mailspring's sync performance on very large mailboxes.
Fixes:
-
A major memory leak on Windows has been fixed which caused Mailspring to slow down your computer, especially when waking from sleep.
-
Mailspring no longer reports that it is still "looking for messages" in some cases after sync has completed.
-
Search now correctly supports the "in:" syntax for all arbitrary folders and labels as well as built-in ones like "in:inbox".
-
Several exceptions thrown in UI edge-cases have been fixed.
Improvements:
-
Sync progress reporting and status messages have been improved.
-
Mailspring only attempts to passively fetch message contents once for each message, so bad messages no longer cause the app to "hang" in an "Syncing your Mailbox" state.
-
A new setting allows you to choose the default spellcheck language. (Thanks @oserban!)
-
A new setting allows you to choose whether Mailspring opens containing folders after downloading attachments. (Thanks @mattlyons0!)
-
You can now copy-paste a file from the Finder or Windows Explorer into the composer.
-
Mailspring now correctly sends mail with inline image attachments on all providers.
-
Many issues that caused search to "hang" have been resolved.
-
Mailspring now correctly linkifies URLs in more scenarios. (Thanks @agurz!)
-
Many small email rendering issues have been resolved thanks to a new message sanitizer.
-
Creating and immediately sending a draft with tracking enabled no longer fails in rare cases.
-
Undo send no longer causes other open composer windows to close when a message is sent.
Development:
-
Improved error collection will make it much easier to track down and fix remaining sync issues.
-
Password management errors are now considered fatal, since they break the app during onboarding.
-
The analytics package has been removed - we were not using the collected metrics.
Features:
- A brand new Activity View (in the sidebar beneath Drafts) provides quick mailbox statistics and analytics for read receipts and link tracking.
Improvements:
-
When snoozing, a setting in Preferences > General now allows you to choose whether emails should be moved to the top of your inbox or just returned to the inbox as unread. (Thanks @casuallancelot)
-
Space and shift-space now move you up and down in the thread view. (Thanks @victortrac)
-
The window title now carries the subject of the currently selected email. (Thanks @agurz)
-
The dark theme has been overhauled to improve readability and ensure visual queues are present for important UI. It looks more like Spotify and less "all gray."
Fixes:
-
Undo send now works correctly!
-
Mailspring no longer pre-processes HTML through
tidy
, which was too strict and causing emails to display incorrectly and links to break. -
The thread list no longer "flickers" when archiving / deleting unread email.
-
The spellchecker now handles non-ASCII characters in words correctly. (Thanks @jGleitz)
-
Undo toasts no longer re-appear after switching views.
-
In single pane mode, the "Back" button title with the folder name is no longer converted to titlecase.
-
Disabling read receipts and link tracking now effects the current draft correctly in addition to future drafts.
-
You can now provide any IMAP/SMTP hostname (e.g.
mail
) -
Starting and deleting a forwarded message no longer blocks you from creating another one in the same thread for a few seconds.
-
The secret "Show Original" feature is back.
-
Screenshot mode has been fixed. (Thanks @agurz)
-
Mailspring now corrects inconsistencies in it's data as you perform mail actions, so threads can't get "stuck" in the trash, snoozed folder, etc.
-
Drag and drop to the
starred
orunread
views now works properly. -
Snooze dates are properly synced to the Mailspring backend, so they're persisted when you clear your cache or re-install Mailspring.
-
On Windows, Mailspring no longer has problems saving attachments with extended UTF-16 characters, (eg Japanese or Polish.)
-
Mailsync no longer crashes when messages have more than ~150 references to other messages in their headers.
Fixes:
-
The
Starred
andUnread
views now correctly show threads with many starred/unread messages. (#100) -
The folder and label shortcuts are now separate and work properly for Gmail accounts. (#259 - thanks @casuallancelot)
-
Mailspring no longer segfaults when it's unable to connect to your SMTP server during onboarding, and error messages no longer "destroy" the layout of the window.
-
Mailspring no longer uses all memory on the computer in a rare scenario where your mail provider return an infinite range of message IDs. (#91)
-
Mailspring can now be put in a verbose logging mode using
AppEnv.mailsyncBridge.toggleVerboseLogging()
, in which all IMAP and SMTP traffic is logged. -
You can now dismiss the "Please pay for Mailspring Pro!" prompt in the bottom left when more than four accounts are syncing. (Thanks @mattlyons0)
-
On Linux, Mailspring no longer launches with the onboarding window in between monitors on dual-display setups. (Thanks @dbhowell)
-
The contact search index now includes the first names of contacts, so you can find them more easily when typing in address fields. (#227)
-
The default template no longer references Nylas incorrectly. (Thanks @Galaxias)
Features:
-
Mailspring now identifies an "Archive" folder if one is present in your Office 365 / IMAP accounts and enables the "Archive" button and "Swipe to Archive" behavior. If it is not picked up automatically, you can set it from Preferences > Folders.
-
Mailspring now warns you if you the salutation in your email ("Hey Ben!") doesn't match the name of a recipient or appears misspelled.
-
A new keyboard shortcut allows you to attach a file in the composer. (Ctrl-Shift-A by default!)
Fixes:
-
The contact sidebar now loads correctly if you switch to a contact with no name.
-
On Windows, Mailspring no longer needs to be restarted once before you can link a Gmail account.
-
When replying to a message you sent in a thread, Mailspring no longer incorrectly addresses the new message to yourself.
-
Mail rules now run correctly as new mail is received.
-
The label picker is now correctly hidden if your selection includes threads from non-Gmail accounts.
-
When you forward a message, it is now correctly associated with the existing thread.
-
When renaming folders / labels, the app no longer shows the old and new items side-by-side in the left panel for a few minutes.
-
When creating folders / labels, you can now use any characters supported by your provider, including emoji.
-
When you move an item to a folder in a generic IMAP account, undoing the action now works properly.
Features:
- A new bar appears when you view the Trash and Spam folders allowing you to permanently delete messages.
Fixes:
-
On Windows, Mailspring now uses the system font, which looks more crisp on Windows 10.
-
On Windows, swipe to archive now works on touch-screen laptops.
-
On Windows, we now ship the VS C++ Redistributable runtime, fixing issues many users had running the app after a fresh install.
-
The default Chomium "double-tap-to-zoom" behavior has been disabled on all platforms.
-
Preferences > Folders now shows UTF8 folder titles correctly.
-
On OpenSUSE, Mailspring now looks for certificates at the correct path, fixing authentication issues with servers that use SSL.
-
The undo/redo toast no longer appears when switching to Drafts and back.
Features:
-
Company profiles are now available in the right sidebar! See tons of great information about the people you're emailing, including their local time zone, the company's core business area, and more.
-
You can now choose folder associations explicitly if Mailspring is unable to correctly identify your Sent folder, for example.
-
The IMAP/SMTP authentication panel automatically defaults to security settings that match the ports you provide.
Fixes:
-
Sending mail is considerably faster for accounts that do not place the message in the Sent folder automatically.
-
Sent mail no longer appears to be from
Dec 31st 1969
when sent through some older SMTP gateways. -
New folders / labels appear faster after you create them, and adding folders now works properly on IMAP servers that use a namespace prefix like
INBOX.
. -
Improves display of "Identity is missing required fields" error and directs people to a knowledge base article.
-
Localhost is an allowed IMAP/SMTP server address.
-
<object>
tags are now completely blocked in message bodies.
Features:
-
You can now choose custom IMAP and SMTP ports when linking a custom email account.
-
You can now leave the SMTP username and password blank to connect to an SMTP gateway that does not require authentication.
Fixes:
-
On Linux, Mailspring looks for your trusted SSL certificate roots in more locations, fixing the "Certificate Errors" many Fedora and ArchLinux users were seeing when linking accounts.
-
On Linux, Mailspring bundles SASL2 and SASL2 plugins, resolving "Authentication Error" messages that users of non-Debian Linux distros saw when the local installation of SASL2 was an incompatible version.
-
On Linux, Mailspring now links against libsecret, resolving intermittent "Identity missing required fields" errors that were caused by the Node bindings to libgnome-keyring's API.
-
On Linux, composer and thread windows no longer have a "double window bar".
-
On Linux, window menu bars no longer hide until you press the Alt key.
-
The .rpm package now requires
libXss
, resolving installation issues for some users. -
Spellchecking on linux now works reliably.
-
On Mac OS X, some menu shortcuts (like Command-H) now appear in the menu bar properly.
-
Mailspring now correctly parses
mailto:
links with multiple semicolon-separated CC and BCC addresses. -
The "Raw HTML" signature editor is now the proper size.
Fixes:
-
During authentication, you can now view a "Raw Log" of the IMAP and SMTP communication with your servers for easy debugging of connection issues.
-
During authentication, Mailspring will warn you if you connect Gmail via IMAP.
-
The "Install Theme...", "Install a Plugin Manually..." and "Create a Plugin..." menu items now work. Note that Nylas Mail / N1 themes require some modifications to work with Mailspring!
-
On Windows and Linux, Mailspring can now make itself the default mail client.
-
The contact sidebar in the app now works reliably and is rate-limited for free users (The Clearbit API is very expensive!)
-
On Windows, Mailspring now displays emails with encoded subject lines (often containing emoji or foreign characters) correctly.
-
On Windows, you can now resize and maximize the Mailspring window.
-
Mailspring now skips folders it can't sync rather than stopping the entire account.
Fixes:
-
On Linux, Mailspring now syncs mail reliably thanks to fixed builds of curl and mailcore2.
-
On Windows, the app's icon now includes all the required resolutions.
-
Many other minor fixes and sync improvements.
Features:
-
Entirely re-written sync engine uses significantly less RAM and CPU, improving performance and battery life.
-
Mailspring launches 55% faster, thanks to a new package manager and theme manager and a thinner application bundle.
-
Improved quoted text detection makes it easier to read threads, especially messages sent from Exchange and older versions of Outlook.
Developer:
-
Mailspring now stores user preferences in the appropriate platform-specific location:
Library/Application Support
on the Mac,AppData/Roaming
on Windows, etc. -
NylasEnv
is now known asAppEnv
andnylas-exports
andnylas-component-kit
have been renamedmailspring-*
. Additionally, packages need to specify"engines": {"mailspring":"*"}
instead of listingnylas
. -
Much more of Mailspring has been converted to ES2016, and CoffeeScript is no longer supported for plugin development. The CoffeeScript interpreter will be removed in a future version. Please use ES2016 JavaScript instead.
-
Mailspring now uses
Prettier
— before submitting pull requests, ensurenpm run lint
is clean, or add a Prettier plugin to your text editor. (It's awesome!) -
A plugin browser / "store" is coming soon - stay tuned!
Privacy:
- Mailspring does not send your email credentials to the cloud. Features like Snooze, Send Later, and Send Reminders now run on your computer. Future versions may re-introduce the option to run these features in the cloud.