Telex 0.6.0

Folders on this PC, backups, and drag and drop

Folders on this PC keep mail only on your disk, off the server and out of its quota: the archive The Bat! users know. They have their own group under your accounts, with Archive and Trash; make, rename (F2) and remove your own folders right in the tree, with its + or a right-click. Mail moved there leaves the server; moved back, it is uploaded again with its read state and flag. Rules can file mail there from any account.

Any folder saves as an mbox file, and mail comes in from Thunderbird, The Bat! and other programs as .eml or mbox files: choose them from a folder's right-click menu, or drop them on a folder on this PC.

Backups, in Settings › Backups: the whole mail base in one file while you work, by hand or every day or week, into a folder you pick (another disk or OneDrive is best), keeping the newest few. Restoring keeps the mail base as it was next to it, lets the servers' state win at the next check, and moves mail waiting in the Outbox to Drafts so nothing goes out twice. Compact gives the space of deleted mail back to the disk.

Drag messages onto a folder to move them. The folder fills up while you rest on it and takes them only then, so nothing moves by accident; Esc stops, Z puts them back. Resting on a closed account or "more" opens it.

Double-click a message, or press Enter, to read it in a window of its own; reply right there.

Hover the ? at the right of the status bar, or press ? or F1, for every key and the tips that aren't obvious. The message header is easier to read, and the storage bar in the status bar fills in the account's own color and says how much room is left.

This version upgrades the mail base when it first starts; Telex 0.5 can't open it afterwards.