Main Window

The main window has four panes reachable by pressing F6 to cycle forward or Shift+F6 to cycle backward:

1. Account list — your email accounts
2. Folder tree — folders for the selected account, or all accounts in unified view
3. Message list — messages in the selected folder
4. Reading pane — the currently selected message

You can also jump directly to any pane:

Unified Inbox

Select All Inboxes at the top of the folder tree to see messages from all accounts merged into one list, sorted by date.

Moving and Copying Messages

Select one or more messages (or a sender/recipient group, or a conversation) and choose Move to Folder… or Copy to Folder… from the context menu (Shift+F10) or the command palette. Both open a folder picker showing the same hierarchical tree used in the main folder panel — folders nested under their parent, with account names as headers when more than one account is present. Arrow through the tree and press Enter to complete the move or copy.

Message List Views

Press Ctrl+Shift+V (or use the View menu) to switch how messages are grouped:

• Messages — flat list, newest first
• Conversations — messages grouped by thread
• From — messages grouped by sender
• To — messages grouped by recipient

Searching

Press Ctrl+Shift+S to open the search box. Type your query and press Enter. Results appear in the message list. Press Escape to clear the search and return to the full folder.

Searching Folders

Press Ctrl+Shift+F to search folder names. Type to filter the tree, press Enter to navigate to the matching folder.

Refreshing

Press F5 to manually refresh the current folder.

Command Palette

Press Ctrl+Shift+P to open the command palette. Type any part of a command name to find it. Press Enter to run it. This is the fastest way to discover and run any action in the app.

Keyboard Customization

Open Settings → Keyboard to reassign any shortcut to a different key. Type in the field for a command to capture a new key combination. Changes take effect immediately and survive restarts.

Checking for Updates

QuickMail checks for a newer release in the background each time it starts. The top entry of the Help menu always shows the result: “No updates available — running version X.Y.Z” when you are current, or “Update available: vX.Y.Z” when a newer release exists. If an update is found, a spoken announcement follows a few seconds after launch; the background check itself is silent when you are already up to date.

Installed copies download and install updates automatically, and both that behavior and its notifications are configurable — see Installing and Updating QuickMail for the full walkthrough.

The portable exe does not update itself. If you run the standalone QuickMail.exe, the Help menu entry still tells you when a new version exists; activating it opens the releases page, and updating remains a manual download of the new exe.

The Help menu also has a Keyboard Tutorial entry, a short interactive walkthrough of core navigation (F6 pane cycling, Ctrl+1/2/3, the command palette, and Escape) for anyone new to the app.

Reporting a Bug

Choose Report a Bug from the Help menu (also available from the command palette) to open a report window without needing a GitHub account. Fill in a summary and, optionally, what happened, what you expected, and steps to reproduce; a Preview box below the fields always shows exactly what will be sent, built fresh from those fields. Press Send to submit — QuickMail creates the GitHub issue directly using its own limited-scope credential, and the window shows a link to the created issue. No log content is ever collected or sent.

If sending fails, or you’d rather review the report yourself, choose Copy report and open GitHub instead: your report is copied to the clipboard and a pre-filled GitHub issue page opens in your browser, ready to paste and submit.