MailVault v2.13.0

Changed

• Accounts can be reordered directly in Your Accounts. Drag an account by its grip to change the order in the sidebar and account menus. The separate Account order controls have been removed; keyboard users can move accounts with the arrow keys while a grip is focused.

Added

• Incoming mail can play a Mac sound. Settings → Mail preferences → Notifications offers Glass, Ping, Pop, Purr, and Tink, with a preview button and an Off option. Sound is off by default and waits with notifications during a Focus session.
• Insights shows who you hear from and when. A new sidebar workspace combines a sender map, a timeline by sender, and a daily sent/received calendar. Bubble size reflects frequency and distance reflects recency. Shared filters and message drill-down use available cached and vaulted headers across folders; incomplete coverage and fallback dates are disclosed. Your ordinary mail view stays in place when you return.
• Explorer gives your mailbox another way to browse. Switch between List and Explorer, then browse by Date, Sender, or Date → Conversation. Groups show email, unread and vault counts, support selection and local search, and remember where you left off. Optional day groups add detail; opening a message uses the existing reader and actions. These are automatic views of your mail, with explicit loading for larger mailboxes.
• Settings can minimize beside your drafts. Use the minimize button to return to mail, then restore Settings from its bubble or the usual Settings button. Your page, section, scroll position and unfinished edits stay where you left them.
• The message list can mark what you are reading instead of what the pointer touches. Settings → General → Appearance → Highlighting offers two ways for the list to show where you are. Follow the pointer is the default and is what MailVault has always done: a row lights up under the mouse, and the message you opened carries a tinted band. Mark what I'm reading turns it around, the way Apple Mail does: the pointer changes nothing, the open message is filled with a solid grey, and the other messages of the same conversation take a lighter grey, so one look tells you what you are reading and what it belongs to. Both work in every folder and every list layout, and the greys are tuned separately for the light and dark themes.
• Deleting the message you are reading can open the next one. Settings → General → Behavior → After Deleting chooses what the reading pane does once the open message is deleted: nothing, which is what MailVault has always done and is still the default, or open the next message in the list. Delete the last message in a folder and the one above it opens instead. The selection bar's delete follows the same choice, and the setup screen on first run asks for it too.

Fixed

• Stars stay visible beside other message indicators. Rows with tracker, warning, or attachment icons keep their star visible; rows without those indicators still reveal an unmarked star on hover.
• Explorer navigation keeps focus where it belongs. The main folder no longer shows an unusable Back button, and opening groups with the mouse no longer adds a keyboard focus outline to Back.
• Insights has one clear selection. Its sidebar entry aligns with the account rows and is highlighted on its own. Insights uses one account at a time, and sender bubbles reveal their details immediately beside the pointer.
• The Sent folder catches up after a message goes out, even on a fast server. MailVault files its own copy of a sent message on the server and waits to hear that it landed before re-reading the Sent list. When the server answered that quickly, and one running on the same machine does (Proton Mail Bridge, for instance), the news arrived before MailVault was listening for it: the Sent list then kept MailVault's provisional copy of the message next to the server's, showing it twice, and the working copy in the vault was never tidied away.
• A newsletter that ships its own dark mode is readable again. Some senders swap only their backgrounds when your Mac is set to dark and leave the writing black, and MailVault let that swap happen inside the message view: the mail painted itself black under its own black text, whether the message was drawn light or dark. Messages are now always drawn from the sender's ordinary design, and MailVault does the dark rendering itself, the way it was meant to.