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Penguin Mail 0.1.3

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@github-actions github-actions released this 21 Sep 18:27
· 373 commits to main since this release

New

  • Preferences has a Contacts & Calendar page. Google contacts turn on and
    off for each account, and it shows which accounts GNOME Calendar can see,
    with a button to add the others.
  • Translation can use a model of its own, such as a small local one while
    the assistant runs on Claude. Preferences calls the page AI now.
  • The assistant shows what the model thought and each tool it ran, as
    rows under your question that open to show the details, with a line
    underneath saying what it is doing now: waiting, thinking, running a
    tool, waiting for your answer, or writing.
  • The assistant can search the web and read pages. Claude uses Anthropic's
    own search; a local model can search with Brave Search or your own
    SearXNG server, chosen under Web Search on the AI page.
  • The assistant can use your Google calendar: it lists what is on, finds
    free time, adds, moves and deletes events, and answers invitations,
    asking you before each change.
  • The assistant can mute conversations, delete mail forever, send mail
    later, write from your templates, unsubscribe you from lists, read
    text, web page and PDF attachments, and look people up in your
    contacts.
  • The assistant can use tools from MCP servers you add on the AI page, by
    a command or a URL. It asks before each call, and Always Allow stops the
    asking for a tool you trust.
  • The assistant can follow skills: folders of instructions for one kind of
    task, from Penguin Mail's own skills folder or Claude Code's. Turn each
    one on under Skills on the AI page. A skill's scripts run in a sandbox
    with no access to your mail or home folder, after you allow each
    command, and reach the internet only if you allow it for that skill.

Improved

  • The thinking and tool rows under an answer use smaller, dimmer text and
    a smaller arrow, so they sit quietly beside the reply.
  • Your mail, settings and cache folders can only be opened by your own
    user account, not by other people who use the same computer.

Fixed

  • Asking the assistant something scrolls the chat down to your question
    when the chat is already full. The chat glides down with the answer
    only while you are at the end, so reading an earlier answer keeps your
    place.
  • Updates download even while GitHub's download links are failing, and a
    brief server error no longer stops an update.
  • Rules open for an account that has none yet, instead of showing an
    error.
  • Contacts load for every account, not only the first one.
  • When the Google Cloud project has the People or Calendar API switched
    off, Penguin Mail says which one and opens the page that turns it on,
    instead of doing nothing. An invitation answer still reaches the
    organizer by email.
  • The focus ring in a new message is a single thin line around the whole
    row, with room around the text.