Released September 24, 2026 — downloads for this release
Forward has moved from Ctrl+F to Ctrl+Shift+F, in the main window, the reading pane, and a message opened in its own window. A message body is web content, and some screen readers use Ctrl+F there for their own find command, so pressing it while reading a message never reached QuickMail. Ctrl+Shift+F works wherever you are.
To make room, Search Folders has moved from Ctrl+Shift+F to Ctrl+Shift+Y, next to Ctrl+Y, which moves to the folder tree.
If you would rather keep the old keys, give either command the key you want in File → Settings → Keyboard Shortcuts. Keys you have already customized are not changed.
In the compose window, Ctrl+K now inserts a link when you are in the message body, as it does in Outlook. Anywhere else in the compose window, such as the To, Cc and Bcc fields, it still checks addresses. Ctrl+L still inserts a link too. Insert Link has moved from the Format menu to the new Insert menu.
You can now put pictures in the body of a message in Markdown or HTML mode. Every picture has to have a description (alternative text) or be marked decorative before it goes in, so the people you write to always get one or the other.
The User Guide has a new Pictures page covering putting pictures in, sending them, what QuickMail shows when you read mail, and how pictures are kept safe.
A picture that travels with a message — a photo in the body, a logo in a signature, or a picture you put in with QuickMail — now shows in the reading pane, in message tabs and in message windows. Showing it contacts no one but your own mail server, because it is part of the message itself, so the sender cannot tell you looked. Screen readers read it by its description, and pictures with no description or marked decorative are passed over, as before.
To show descriptions only, as before, uncheck Show pictures included in messages in Settings → General.
Pictures a message links to on the web are still not loaded on their own, because fetching them tells the sender you opened the message. Now, when a message has them, its first line says “Pictures from the web are not shown.” with a Load pictures link. Activate the link, press Ctrl+Shift+U, or choose View → Load Pictures to show that message’s pictures. This works in the reading pane, message tabs and message windows, and lasts while the message is open.
To load them in every message, check Load pictures from the web automatically in Settings → General. It is off by default.
QuickMail fetches these pictures itself rather than letting the message do it. It sends no cookies and does not say which message a picture is in. It contacts only public internet addresses, never your computer or local network. It keeps a file only if it really is a picture, and skips pictures sized like tracking pixels. See Pictures in the User Guide.
Saving a message as a web page or PDF, or printing it, now shows the same pictures as the reading pane. Pictures included in the message are written into the file itself, so a saved web page still opens anywhere without contacting anything. Pictures from the web are included only if you already loaded them; saving and printing never fetch one.
A forwarded HTML message kept its pictures’ references but not the pictures themselves, so the people you forwarded to saw broken images. The pictures now travel with the forward.
A message whose formatting ended with an unclosed tag could cover itself with a blank or different page in the reading pane. Such tags are now shown as plain text.