Startup

By default QuickMail opens to All Mail. You can tell it to open anywhere you like instead — one account’s Inbox, a project folder, or All Inboxes.

Choose your startup folder

The quickest way is from the folder tree itself:

1. Move to the folder you want (Ctrl+1 puts you in the folder tree).
2. Press the Applications key, or Shift+F10, to open the folder’s context menu.
3. Choose Set as Startup Folder.

QuickMail confirms the change, and opens there every time it starts from then on.

You can also do it from File → Settings → Startup, where the Opens in field shows your current choice. Select Choose… to pick a different folder from the folder tree, or Clear to go back to All Mail. Clear Startup Folder in the folder context menu does the same thing.

If the folder later disappears — you delete it, rename it, or remove the account — QuickMail opens in All Mail and tells you why. Nothing is lost and nothing needs repairing.

Choose how much is checked at startup

Also under File → Settings → Startup, Startup Sync controls how much mail QuickMail checks while it is starting. This matters most if you have several accounts and a lot of folders.

• Just my startup folder (recommended) — checks only what your startup folder shows. If your startup folder is All Inboxes, that is every inbox; if it is All Mail, that is everything.
• Every account’s inbox — checks each account’s inbox, whichever folder you open in.
• Every folder — checks everything before settling. This is how QuickMail behaved before this setting existed.

New mail still arrives in your inboxes straight away whichever you choose, so notifications are unaffected. Other folders are caught up by the background check — the Check for new mail every setting on the General tab. If you have set that to Off, other folders are only checked when you open them.

Start QuickMail when you sign in to Windows

QuickMail can start by itself each time you sign in to Windows. This is off unless you turn it on.

1. Open File → Settings and go to the Startup tab.
2. Under Windows Sign-In, check Start QuickMail automatically when I sign in to Windows.
3. Choose Save.

Start minimized, just below, decides how QuickMail appears when Windows starts it. It is on by default, so QuickMail does not open its window over whatever you have started doing: it starts in the notification area if Keep running in the notification area when I close the window is on (General tab), and otherwise minimized on the taskbar. Mail is checked and notifications arrive as usual; open QuickMail from the taskbar, Alt+Tab, the tray icon, or the Start menu when you want it. Turn Start minimized off to have QuickMail open normally instead.

QuickMail uses the standard Windows startup list, so it also appears in Task Manager under Startup apps and in Windows Settings → Apps → Startup. You can turn it off from either place, and QuickMail respects that: its own check box then reads unchecked, with a note that Windows’ startup settings have it turned off. Checking it in QuickMail and saving turns it back on.

Some things to know:

• Installed copies only. The installed QuickMail stays in the same place across updates, so the startup entry always works. A portable copy can be moved, which would leave Windows pointing at nothing, so on a portable copy the Startup tab explains this instead of offering the setting.
• Uninstalling QuickMail removes the startup entry. Nothing is left behind in your startup list.
• If QuickMail is already open when Windows gets round to starting it — you opened it yourself right after signing in — nothing happens; your window is not brought to the front.
• Each profile is separate. If you run QuickMail with --profileDir, turning this on starts that profile, and it has its own entry in the startup list.