Mailbell 0.2.0

What's new

• Notification sound preference (#10)

Signed with Developer ID, hardened runtime, notarized and stapled.

Mailbell 0.1.2

An expired sign-in now reaches you instead of waiting to be noticed.

Google OAuth unverified beta. Unchanged from 0.1.0: Google shows an
"unverified app" screen during sign-in and limits unverified clients to
100 new users.

Added

• A notification when an account's sign-in expires. Until now the only
  signal was the menu bar alert icon, which helps only if you happen to look at
  it — Mailbell could stop watching your mail quietly. The alert names the
  account, fires once per expiry, and is not a preference, for the same reason
  the alert icon is not.

Mailbell 0.1.1

Settings now follows macOS System Settings conventions, and a preview defect
that reached real notifications is fixed.

Google OAuth unverified beta. Unchanged from 0.1.0: Google shows an
"unverified app" screen during sign-in and limits unverified clients to
100 new users.

Fixed

• Notification previews no longer leak Markdown. A message whose plain-text
  alternative was Markdown could reach the notification as
  [![]( [IMG] broadcast\_body\_warning. Escaped punctuation is now unescaped,
  image and link scaffolding is unwrapped, and heading, quote, and rule markers
  are stripped.
• The account toggle no longer reads as its own opposite. It was labelled
  "Disable Account" while switched on; it now says "Watch this account for new
  mail".

Changed

• Settings is four panes instead of six. Everything about an account —
  status, review count, where its mail opens, reconnecting, removal — now lives
  in that account's own section, instead of being split between Accounts and
  Advanced. Spam moved to a "Watched Mailboxes" section that states plainly that
  Inbox is always watched, and Updates folded into General.
• Controls follow the platform. Action buttons are sized to their content
  and trailing-aligned, placed by scope the way System Settings places them:
  in the row for a row-scoped action, as the box's last row for a section-scoped
  one, and below every box for a pane-scoped one such as Restore Defaults.
  Explanations sit under their own control's label rather than in a footer.
• Sign-in now warns about Google's unverified-app screen before you meet it.
• The review count per account no longer hides behind the menu bar count
  preference.

Internal

• One build number derivation shared by the local and CI release paths.
• Settings control-semantics rules moved into repository validation.

Mailbell 0.1.0

First public beta.

Google OAuth unverified beta. Mailbell's Google OAuth client has not been
verified by Google yet. During sign-in Google shows an "unverified app" screen,
and Google limits unverified clients to 100 new users. Mailbell still runs
entirely on your Mac and no Gmail data passes through any server operated by
this project.

New

• Mark All as Read clears the whole review queue and marks every message read
  in Gmail, using one authenticated IMAP session per account instead of one
  connection per message.
• Dismiss All clears the review queue locally without touching Gmail.
  Dismissed messages stay unread in your mailbox and do not come back.
• Menu bar alert icon. When an account needs you to sign in again, or has a
  surfaced error, the menu bar shows an alert symbol instead of the normal bell,
  so Mailbell can no longer look idle while it is monitoring nothing.
• Automatic updates via Sparkle, verified
  against the release signature before replacing the app.
• Updates pane in Settings with an automatic-check toggle, the current
  version, and a manual check.
• Restore Defaults in Settings, which resets menu bar and mail preferences
  without touching accounts, sign-ins, or notification permission.
• About pane with links to the website, source, issue tracker, latest
  release, privacy policy, terms, and Google access management.
• A public website with the privacy
  policy and terms of service.

Changed

• Mailbell is now distributed as a signed, notarized, stapled DMG through GitHub
  Releases, with the Google OAuth client already configured. You no longer need
  to create your own Google Cloud client to use it.
• When a build is packaged without OAuth credentials, Settings reports it as a
  build problem with a link to the issue tracker, rather than instructing you to
  create a Google Cloud client.
• Settings panes share one window size, so switching panes no longer resizes the
  window.
• Every packaging path (install, DMG, release) now goes through one bundle
  builder, so the layout and the Sparkle nested-signing order have a single
  definition.

Internal

• Marking messages read batches UID sets per mailbox over a single IMAP session.
• Repository invariants are enforced by Scripts/validate.sh and run in CI.