QuickMail v0.8.34 Release Notes

Released July 21, 2026 — downloads for this release

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Two options are available for v0.8.34:

Both downloads include the .NET 8 runtime — you do not need to install .NET separately.

This release adds archiving — move messages out of your inbox into an Archive folder instead of deleting them, with a dedicated shortcut — and lets you turn off the delete and archive announcements on their own so they stop interrupting the screen reader as it reads the next message. If you installed QuickMail from the MSI, this update is delivered automatically.

New: Archive messages

You can now archive a message — move it to your account’s Archive folder — instead of deleting it. This is for mail you want out of your inbox but kept, not thrown away.

• Press Ctrl+Shift+M to archive the selected message. The command is named Move to Archive (on the message menu, the context menu, and in the Command Palette), and the shortcut is rebindable in Settings → Keyboard. Delete still works exactly as before (moves to Trash).
• Archiving works from every view. In the From, To, and Conversations groupings, archiving a group moves the whole group at once — the same way Delete does.
• Each account archives to its own folder. QuickMail uses the folder your mail provider marks as the Archive folder automatically, so for most accounts there is nothing to set up. To choose a different folder, activate a folder in the folder tree, open its context menu, and select Set as Archive Folder (or Use Automatic Archive Folder to go back to the automatic one). There is no single shared archive folder — the choice is per account.
• If an account has no Archive folder and you have not set one, QuickMail tells you so instead of doing nothing.

New: Turn off delete and archive announcements on their own

When you delete or archive a message, QuickMail announces “Deleting message…” and “1 message deleted.” Because those announcements shared the same setting as background loading and sync progress, turning them off also silenced sync progress — and left on, they can interrupt the screen reader as it starts reading the next message in the list.

Delete and archive announcements now have their own setting. In Settings → Screen Reader Announcements, clear Announce delete and archive actions to silence just that chatter while keeping everything else. It is on by default, and the change takes effect immediately. Failure messages (for example, if a delete may not have completed) are still announced even when this is off.

Thank You to Contributors

Thank you, as always, to everyone who contributes to QuickMail through code, bug reports, feature suggestions, and other feedback — including the requests that shaped archiving and the report that the delete announcements were interrupting the reading of the next message.

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 quickmailissues@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.

Internal

Per-account message archiving (issue #318, PR #319)

• New mail.archive command, titled Move to Archive (default Ctrl+Shift+M, rebindable, in the Command Palette). Registered in MainViewModel.RegisterCommands and overridden in MainWindow with the same focus-aware guard as mail.delete so multi-selection in the list and group-tree nodes archive the whole selection/group via the controls’ own PreviewKeyDown (an IsArchiveGesture helper). Ctrl+Shift+M was chosen over Alt+Delete, which collides with the common screen-reader “announce cursor position” command.
• MainViewModel.ArchiveMessagesAsync mirrors DeleteMessagesAsync’s optimistic UI + focus landing, but the server op is a move (like MoveSelectedMessagesToFolderAsync): folder counts reconcile via ScheduleFolderCountRefresh and the account unread total is left intact (archived mail still belongs to the account). Messages are grouped by (AccountId, FolderName), so one call on a From/To/conversation group archives across every account it spans, each to its own Archive folder. Already-archived messages are skipped; accounts with no Archive folder surface guidance rather than a silent no-op.
• Archive folder resolution: explicit per-account override wins, else the server-flagged Archive folder. New SpecialFolderKind.Archive, detected in ImapMailService.GetSpecialFolderKind (IMAP \Archive attribute + name fallback) and GraphMailService (well-known archive + display-name fallback); Archive is not excluded from the All Mail aggregate. New AccountModel.ArchiveFolderFullName (nullable, auto-persists to accounts.json), set/cleared from the folder-tree context menu (Set as Archive Folder / Use Automatic Archive Folder). No global archive folder.
• Gmail has no \Archive; pointing an account’s archive folder at [Gmail]/All Mail archives correctly (the move removes the Inbox label). Tests: command registration + gesture; Graph “Archive” maps to SpecialFolderKind.Archive.

Message-action announcement category (issue #317, PR #320)

• Delete/archive status announcements were emitted as AnnouncementCategory.Status (every StatusText change is announced by the View), so they rode the same toggle as sync/loading and interrupted the screen reader reading the next message. New AnnouncementCategory.MessageAction + ConfigModel.AnnounceMessageActions (default on; config.ini under [global]; honored in AccessibilityHelper, applied immediately by ConfigService.Save → AccessibilityHelper.Configure). Settings dialog: Announce delete and archive actions.
• Status-bar announcements can now carry a category. MainViewModel.SetStatus(text, category) sets a one-shot StatusAnnouncementCategory and assigns StatusText; the View’s PropertyChanged handler reads it synchronously (WPF raises PropertyChanged inline) in QueueStatusAnnounce, capturing the category at queue time before the VM resets it. Plain StatusText = … stays Status. Delete/archive progress/success/cancel route through MessageAction; failures and the archive “no Archive folder” guidance stay Result so they’re heard even when the toggle is off. Reusable — move/copy can adopt MessageAction later.
• Tests: AnnounceMessageActions default-on + config round-trip; settings-VM load/save round-trip.