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Settings

Press Ctrl+, to open Settings.

General

Reading Mode — Reading Pane, Tab, or Window
Mark messages read — automatically on open, or manually only
Default compose mode — Plain Text, Markdown, or HTML
Auto-save drafts — on/off and interval

Accounts

Add, edit, or remove accounts. Sign out of OAuth accounts.

Advanced

QuickMail Logging

Enable logging — when checked, QuickMail writes activity to quickmail.log in your profile directory (usually %APPDATA%\QuickMail). Uncheck to stop writing the log file. Changes take effect when you select Save.
Delete QuickMail log — deletes the log file immediately after confirmation. If logging is still on, a new log file is created the next time an activity is logged.

Note: If QuickMail was launched with the /debug flag, logging always runs regardless of the Enable logging setting. The /debug flag is intended for diagnosing problems and overrides this preference so that nothing is missed.

Log Format

Controls the order of timestamp and message text in each log line. Action first (default) places the message before the timestamp, which is easier to scan since the log is already in chronological order. Time first uses the original format with the timestamp at the start of each line.

Keyboard

Reassign shortcuts for any registered command.

Appearance

Choose how QuickMail looks and adjust it to your vision needs.

Theme — the color scheme for the whole app:

System (default) — follows the Windows light or dark setting automatically.
Parchment — the standard light look: warm off-whites with a muted steel-blue accent.
Parchment Dark — the dark counterpart.
Ember, Fjord, Heather — warm, cool, and muted variations on the light look.
Any theme you created or imported in the Theme Manager also appears here.

Theme changes apply immediately — no restart. Open messages re-render in the new colors.

Font — override the app font. (Theme default) uses the theme’s own font.

Text size — a dropdown with fixed stops at 100%, 110%, 125%, 150%, 175%, and 200%, independent of Windows display scaling.

Vision settings:

Always underline links — underlines every link in message content, even when the sender removed the underline.
Thicker keyboard focus indicators — doubles the width of the keyboard focus ring.
Apply theme colors to message content — overrides the colors and fonts chosen by a message’s sender with your theme’s colors. Turn on when messages arrive with hard-to-read colors; turn off to see messages as their senders designed them.

Windows High Contrast: when High Contrast is on, QuickMail steps aside entirely — every color comes from your Windows High Contrast palette, and QuickMail’s own styling is withdrawn. Your theme choice is remembered and returns when High Contrast is turned off. Font and text-size settings continue to apply.

See Themes for the Theme Manager and a description of each built-in theme.

Control which categories of announcements QuickMail makes:

Setting	What it controls
Custom Announcements	Master on/off for all programmatic announcements
Announce hints	Instructional tips (“Press Escape to return”)
Announce status	Background progress (sync, loading, connection state)
Announce results	Action outcomes (messages moved, addresses saved, flag changes)
Announce formatting while navigating	Block type announced when caret enters a new paragraph type in HTML compose
Announce flag status	Flag name prepended to message row when navigating the list
Announce spelling suggestions	Suggestions included when a misspelling is announced
Spelling Suggestions Verbosity	Numbers with suggestions (default) or just suggestions

All settings default to on except Announce flag status and Announce spelling while typing (off by default). Spelling Suggestions Verbosity defaults to Numbers with suggestions. Turn off Custom Announcements to silence everything at once; turn it back on to restore your individual preferences.