v0.3.3

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Fixed the emoji picker in Safari and on iPhone. Nearly every cell of the grid was blank, with a handful of emoji scattered through it, and an emoji typed into a message from the iOS keyboard could not be seen in the message. plMail ships its own emoji font so the picker looks the same everywhere, in a format Safari does not draw; the browser found each emoji in the font and painted nothing. The font is now only used where the browser can draw it. On an iPhone, iPad and in Safari on a Mac the picker and the message show Apple's own emoji instead. #39.

New accounts import their newest mail first. Adding an account used to bring its whole history in through the sync itself: every IMAP folder from its oldest message to its newest, or every Gmail message or Microsoft folder listed before one message was fetched, in one job on the queue all new mail arrives on. A large account showed an empty Inbox for most of an hour, new mail on every other account waited behind it, and the worker doing it was shown as dead. #42.

• Newest first, Inbox first. The most recent mail of the Inbox arrives within about a minute, then the rest of it, then Sent, Drafts and your own folders, the archive, and Spam and the bin last. Several accounts added together take turns, so each has a usable Inbox early.
• Its own queue and worker. History is imported on ingest_backlog by a new worker-backlog process, a page at a time. Mail arriving now stays on ingest and is never behind it. The worker starts by itself; there is nothing to configure.
• You can see it. A chip beside the search box says Importing and how far along it is while an import runs. It opens a list of each importing account with how much is in and which folder it is on, and says so when an import is waiting.
• Repeated sync requests collapse. The quarter-hour poll, a push and the Sync button used to queue a full sync each, one behind the other. A request a later sync has already covered is skipped.
• One message that will not import costs itself. It is retried with its page five times and then passed over, with an error in the log, instead of stopping its folder.

This covers IMAP, Gmail and Microsoft accounts alike. Folders that had already synced are untouched; a folder that was in the middle of its first sync when you upgrade is picked up again from the top, and what it had stored is not fetched twice. One migration adds four columns to the folder table.

Two things change for Microsoft accounts beyond the import. A folder whose sync state expired on Microsoft's side used to be read again from end to end inside the sync; it is handed to the import instead. And a message deleted in Outlook while another folder's sync was failing is now removed here once that folder answers, where it used to stay behind: in no list, and counted in every total.

The Background work button updates live. It never did on a mail page: the controller that refreshes it was not loaded there, so a bulk action's progress showed whatever it had reached when the page was drawn. Where it was loaded, it refreshed once and then not again, and a refresh shut the open list. All three are fixed.

Separate password for sending. The account form has one password field, as before, and under the SMTP settings a new Use a different password for sending, which reveals a second. Zoho issues an app password per protocol, and an account set up with one of them synced and then failed every send on authentication, with nowhere to enter the other. The username stays shared. The connection test uses both, and a config backup carries both. One migration adds a column to the account table; it runs by itself and rewrites nothing. #42.

Fixed one message stopping an IMAP folder's sync. A multipart message whose header puts spaces around the equals sign — boundary = "…", which the standard allows and some mailers write — could not be read, and because that failed while a page of mail was being fetched, the whole folder's sync failed with no content found on every poll until the message was deleted on the server. Nothing newer in that folder arrived, and nothing in plMail said so. Such a message is read now. And a message that cannot be read for any other reason no longer takes its folder with it: the rest of the page is stored, the message is asked for again on the next five syncs, and then it is skipped with an error in the log naming the folder and the UID. A folder that was stuck this way catches up by itself on the next poll after upgrading. No migration. #45.

Reading pane. Opening a message used to replace the list; Settings → Reading pane now offers Right, which puts the message beside the list on a screen that has room for both. The open row is marked, the back arrow closes the message and leaves the list where it was, and the divider between the two can be dragged (or moved with the arrow keys; double-click resets it). Its position is stored as a percentage of the mail card, 25 to 75, rather than in pixels, so it keeps its meaning when the calendar pane opens or is resized. It is drawn only while the card is at least 52rem wide — a narrow window, a phone, or a docked calendar that leaves the mail too little room fall back to one pane at a time. Off by default, so nothing changes until someone chooses it. Per person, not part of an exported theme, and carried by a config backup. No migration.

Settings has a Features group, with a page each for the reading pane and the keyboard shortcuts. The shortcuts switch moved there from General.

Simpler selection toolbar. Archive, Delete and Move to stay; star, mark as read or unread, snooze, label and spam are under More. Nine buttons in a row were wider than the list whenever it shared its card — with a docked calendar, or now with a message open beside it — and the row was cut off at the edge. The keys still reach all of them directly.

Fixed shortcuts after ticking a row. A click left the focus on the row's checkbox, which counted as typing, so e after ticking three rows did nothing; rows ticked with x were unaffected.

A message opened by its own address (a reload, a bookmark) has no list behind it, so with the reading pane on the right it is shown beside the Inbox, whichever folder it was opened from.

Category tabs fit on phones. On a narrow screen the tabs (Primary, Social, Promotions, …) ran into each other, labels underneath the next tab's icon. They now keep their size and the strip scrolls sideways inside itself, opening on the tab you are on. No migration.

The Immich picker hides Live Photo videos. Immich keeps it as an asset of its own, hidden from its timeline and without a preview, so the picker showed it as a grey tile that could only be attached as a three-second clip — on a library full of iPhone photos, a large share of the grid. Library, search, album and person views now leave those clips out. Archived photos stay, and so does anything a server that predates the visibility field sends. No migration. #46.

Gmail-style keyboard shortcuts. j and k move through a list, o opens, u goes back, x selects, e archives, # deletes, s stars, r a f reply, reply to all and forward, c writes, / searches, g then a letter goes to a list, z undoes. ? shows all of them, and so does the keyboard button above a mail list. A key acts on the selection, otherwise on the open conversation, otherwise on the highlighted row, and does exactly what the button it stands for does. Nothing happens while you are typing or while a dialog or menu is open. On for everyone; Settings → Keyboard shortcuts switches them off per person. No migration. #36.

a replies on a message that has only one recipient, where there is no Reply to all to press. The toolbar above a selection has a Star button, and s presses it; before, s did nothing with rows ticked. An open conversation has a Snooze button in its toolbar, which is what b presses there.

Config backups include sorting settings. Settings → Categories — rules or the assistant, whether that overrules the provider's own categories, and whether the inbox has tabs at all — was never written into the file, so a restore put everyone back on rules, the provider's categories and a tabbed inbox. All three now travel with the user. Backups made before this still restore, onto those same defaults. No migration.

French parcel tracking. Colissimo, Chronopost, Mondial Relay, Colis Privé, DPD France and Cainiao mail now yields a parcel card, with their number shapes, French wording for the stage and for the day ("sera livré après-demain", "prévue le 14/11"), and Amazon.fr alongside the other Amazon shops — its button now opens amazon.fr, not the German site. A parcel waiting at a relay point or locker is a new stage, Ready for pickup. The satisfaction survey a carrier sends after delivery is ignored, where it would otherwise have turned a delivered card back. A French S10 number from a shop of unknown carrier reads as La Poste instead of Deutsche Post. Not read yet: GLS France and the Pickup relay network (no number to recognise), and "returned" and "attempt failed". Existing mail is not re-read on its own; app:backfill insights picks it up. No migration.

Choose which IMAP folders to sync. Settings → Accounts has a new Choose which folders to sync button on every IMAP account's row. It opens the account's folders with a switch beside each: switch one off and plMail stops fetching it, the mail already stored stays where it is, and switching it back on resumes from where it stopped. The inbox has no switch. Nested folders are indented under their parent, and a folder that only groups others — Gmail's [Gmail] — is greyed out with no switch to press, since the server will not open it. Gmail and Microsoft accounts, which sync through their provider's API, do not get the button. A message you move in another mail client into a folder that is switched off disappears from plMail, because the check for mail deleted elsewhere only looks in the folders that are on; switching the folder back on fetches it again. One migration adds a column to the folder table; it runs by itself and rewrites nothing.

Fixed errors on Gmail's [Gmail] folder. Over IMAP, Gmail lists [Gmail] as a folder, but it is only a placeholder that groups All Mail, Sent Mail and the rest: the server marks it \Noselect and refuses to open it. plMail tried anyway, logged an error each time, and — because the folder could never be swept — withheld the check that lets mail deleted elsewhere disappear from the account. A folder marked \Noselect is now created with sync off, and one that already exists is switched off on the next folder sync, with nothing to do on your part. It held no mail, so nothing is lost. No migration.