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.