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Penguin Mail 0.1.5

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@github-actions github-actions released this 22 Sep 16:50
· 290 commits to main since this release

New

  • Penguin Mail has an apt repository. Add it once, or install the .deb,
    and sudo apt upgrade brings each new version.
  • An Archive mailbox lists the mail you took out of the inbox, across all
    accounts and under each one. Drag mail onto it to archive it.
  • You can label mail from several accounts at once by picking a label name.
  • An invitation to one meeting of a repeating series now says how the
    series runs, such as "Every Wednesday, 6 left", read from your Google
    Calendar.
  • An encrypted message can carry a Bcc when it goes out with OpenPGP. The
    people in To and Cc cannot tell who got the blind copy. S/MIME cannot
    hide one, so the Encrypt button says why it stays off there.
  • A message waiting in the Outbox or in Send Later opens in the reading
    pane, with why it has not gone or when it goes, and buttons to edit,
    send or delete it.

Improved

  • With several accounts open in the sidebar, each account's heading has
    space above it, so you can tell where one account ends.
  • Menu or Shift+F10 opens the menu of the conversation in focus, so Export
    and the Outbox's Edit, Send Now and Delete work from the keyboard.
  • The Outbox stays in the sidebar, so you can check it before a message
    gets stuck there.
  • A new account finishes its first sync sooner: Penguin Mail fetches each
    conversation in one request instead of one request per message.
  • A conversation with several results in a search, the Trash or Junk opens
    without waiting on Gmail again.
  • Labelling mail by name asks before it creates the label in an account
    that lacks it. Say no, and only mail in accounts with the label gets it.
  • A short message in another language, such as "Ok, obrigado!", now gets
    the offer to translate it, and so does a short reply from someone who
    wrote to you in that language earlier in the conversation.
  • The composer's formatting bar is one Tab stop: the arrow keys move
    between its buttons, and a screen reader hears it as a toolbar.
  • Ctrl+Shift+P inserts an image in the composer, and the Keyboard
    Shortcuts window lists it.
  • You can reach any recipient in an address field from the keyboard: Left
    from the start of the field steps onto the addresses, and Delete removes
    the one you are on.

Fixed

  • Dates name the weekday and month in the language the app speaks, so a
    Portuguese window says "sex 11 set" instead of "Fri 11 Sep".
  • The offer to translate a message no longer names the wrong language
    when it could be Portuguese or Spanish, or German or Dutch. When the
    words leave it close, it says the message is in another language.
  • A conversation opened right after a sync shows its older replies too,
    not only the recent messages kept on this computer.
  • Declining a rule the assistant proposed no longer leaves its new label
    behind in Gmail.
  • Mail archived in Gmail no longer stays in Penguin Mail's inbox when the
    app missed the change. It now checks its inbox against Gmail's when it
    starts and every hour after.
  • An action Gmail refuses part way, such as archiving a long conversation
    when the connection drops, leaves the messages Gmail did change as Gmail
    has them, and no longer undoes changes made in the browser meanwhile.
  • In demo mode, a message you send now shows up in Sent and in its
    conversation.
  • The inbox category switcher fits a narrow list without scrolling
    sideways: when the chosen category's name has no room, it shows icons
    alone.
  • The assistant no longer loses its right edge in a window about 1000
    pixels wide, or in a narrow window with the app in Portuguese. In a
    window narrower than 1100 pixels it opens over the mail.
  • An encrypted message you send without signing it stays readable in your
    Sent folder.
  • A draft of an encrypted message no longer waits in Gmail as readable
    text. Penguin Mail saves it encrypted to your own key, and Edit opens it
    with its Bcc, its files and Encrypt on again.
  • An encrypted message you undo the send of, or that comes back from the
    Outbox, reopens with Encrypt on. If a recipient's key has gone missing,
    Send asks before the message goes out readable.
  • Edit on a draft brings back its Bcc, its files and the message it
    replies to, and so does a draft the assistant schedules with Send Later.
  • Cancel Send no longer tells you to look in Drafts for a message you
    scheduled while offline. Gmail never had that one, and the toast now
    says it is gone.
  • A message waiting in Send Later shows the day it goes, such as
    "Tomorrow at 08:00", instead of "Today" for any day to come.
  • A waiting message opened in a window of its own has working Edit, Send
    Now, Delete and Cancel Send buttons, and they act on that message
    rather than on the row selected in the main window.
  • A template's {{date}} comes out in the language the app speaks, so a
    Portuguese window writes "22 de setembro de 2026".
  • A Send Later message due tomorrow or later in the week says so in the
    list, not only the hour it goes out.