Wino Mail 2.2.11

Wino Mail 2.2.11 brings new context menus and a calendar that opens at the current time. It also makes live notifications more reliable and fixes several crashes and annoyances.

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Highlights

New context menus. Right-clicking a mail or a contact now opens a smoother menu with Move, Categories and contact lists as submenus you can search, and larger rows that are easier to click (#1186).

Calendar opens at the current time. The day and week views now scroll to the current time and show a line marking it, which you can turn off in Settings > Calendar > Rendering (#1193).

New and improved

• Live notifications now stay connected more reliably, and Settings > Notifications shows a Reconnect now button while live updates are disconnected.
• Text and links in mails shown in dark mode now have higher contrast and are easier to read.

Fixes

• Fixed a crash that could happen when the reader or composer closed while it had keyboard focus, most often while deleting mails one by one (#1196).
• The reader now recovers on its own instead of showing "Render Failed" until you reopen it (#1198).
• Mails you drop on a subfolder now move into that subfolder instead of its parent folder (#1197).
• Saving changes to the custom theme you're using no longer fails with an "Access Denied" error, and the theme gallery now shows the new wallpaper. If you leave the editor without saving, your previous theme comes back (#1192).
• Clicking a day in the month calendar now creates a one-day event on that day instead of an event that runs into the next day (#1191).
• Updating to the new database no longer stops with "Wino could not finish this step" when an earlier update attempt was interrupted (#1164).
• Widgets and the Live Tile keep updating reliably, and the Live Tile no longer goes blank when a mail contains unusual characters.
• The composer recovers when its editor stops unexpectedly: it reloads your saved draft instead of showing the same error on every action.
• Typing in the To, Cc and Bcc boxes no longer runs into an error in some cases.
• Saving an attachment no longer reports it as blocked when Windows security settings skip the file check. The file is saved as usual.

Wino Mail 2.2.10

Wino Mail 2.2.10 brings Windows 11 widgets, a Live Tile for Windows 10, and a new way to group your mail list by date. It also makes it easier to connect to self-hosted servers and fixes several issues with the tray, notifications, and the reader.

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Highlights

Widgets and Live Tiles. Add Mail, Calendar, To Do, and People widgets in small, medium, or large sizes to the Windows 11 Widgets Board. On Windows 10, the Wino Mail tile rotates between your mail, calendar, and To Do. You can set them up in Settings > Widgets / Live Tiles (#1066, #634).

Group mail by date ranges. Choose "By day groups" in Settings > Message list > Date grouping type to sort your mail under Today, Yesterday, Last week, Last month, and older ranges (#794).

Trust your own servers. You can now connect to mail, calendar, and contacts servers that use self-signed, expired, or mismatched certificates. The trust dialog explains what is wrong with the certificate before you accept it (#1074, #487).

Rename any folder. You can rename folders, including system folders, and give them your own display names in Folder Customization. IMAP folders keep the names your server uses (#1084).

New and improved

• In Sent, collapsed conversations show the person you wrote to and their picture instead of your own name (#1190).
• When "Open unread badge location on launch" is on, Wino opens the account that has the unread mail, even if it isn't the account that loads first (#941).
• When the companion is turned off, one click on the tray icon opens Wino (#1171).
• Mail notifications show the sender's initials when they have no picture.
• When you add a new Outlook account, the Microsoft sign-in screen shows Wino Mail as a verified publisher. Outlook accounts you have already added keep working and you don't need to sign in again.

Fixes

• When you open a new mail, the reader starts at the top instead of at the previous mail's scroll position (#1181).
• Transparent images in dark mode now appear as the sender intended, without a white background behind them (#1126).
• If Wino started when you signed in to Windows, it stays in the tray after you use a notification action, such as Delete (#1160).
• The update prompt no longer offers the version you already have installed (#1180).
• If you reject a calendar or contacts server's certificate, mail sync keeps running.

Wino Mail 2.2.9

This update keeps your Gmail access tokens on your device when you use realtime push. It also fixes the privacy policy dialogs in small windows.

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New and improved

• Realtime push for Gmail no longer sends your mailbox access token to the push relay. Wino now proves your address with a sign-in token that cannot open your mailbox (#1179).

Fixes

• The privacy policy dialogs for Realtime Push Notifications and Wino Intelligence now fit small windows, so you can reach the checkbox and accept the policy (#1178).

Wino Mail 2.2.8

Wino Mail 2.2.8 can notify you about new mail as soon as it arrives, lets you edit your calendar events, and gives you more control over how messages look in dark mode. This release also supports Windows contrast themes, installs updates in place, and fixes problems with images, contact photos, and several crashes.

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Highlights

Instant push notifications. Turn on Realtime Push Notifications in Settings > Notifications, and Wino tells you about new mail as soon as it arrives instead of waiting for the next sync. You don't need a Wino Account for it. Wino asks you to accept the privacy policy before you turn it on. If the live connection drops, a small dot appears next to the Wino Account button, and Wino checks for mail on your sync intervals until the connection is back.

Edit your calendar events. Events you organize now have an Edit button. Use it to change the title, time, time zone, location, notes, attendees, reminder, show-as status, and repeat rule. You can edit a whole series or just one occurrence (#1131).

Dark mode for messages. More messages now get dark colors in the reader, and the new "Dark mode for messages" section in Settings > Reader & Composer lets messages follow Wino's theme or always stay light or dark. Choose "Invert everything" to darken every message that has no dark design of its own (#1126).

Windows contrast themes. When you turn on a Windows contrast theme, Wino uses its colors throughout the app, and the change applies without a restart (#1158).

Update and restart. "Update and restart" now shows download and install progress, and Wino opens again when the update finishes. If the update fails, Wino shows a message (#1173).

New and improved

• In the day, work week, and week views, a marker at the top or bottom of each day shows how many events are scrolled out of view, and clicking it scrolls to the nearest one (#1068).
• Calendar events have a new look: each event is tinted with its calendar's color, its times are easier to read, and its show-as status and response status are clearer.
• You can choose "None" as an event's reminder to create an event without a reminder.
• Screen readers now read the reminder, show-as, and calendar options by their names.
• The reader's light and dark button now keeps your choice across messages and restarts (#1172).
• When Wino is running in the tray and you open it from Start or the taskbar, it now opens the inbox behind the unread badge, as it already did when it started (#941).
• Replies to "reply via email" links from mailing lists now join the existing conversation on Gmail and IMAP accounts (#1097).
• The companion shows today's events on single lines and puts the rest behind a "more today" button.
• Clicking the tray icon while the companion is open now closes it.
• Replies and forwards no longer load remote images when "Show images" is off or when the original message is in Junk, and styles from the quoted message no longer change how your reply looks.
• Signature and template editors now open in the app's theme and use the composer font, and event notes use the composer font too.
• Printing a message or saving it as a PDF always uses light colors.
• When you allow remote images, Wino now loads images that a sender's server refuses to show inside other pages.
• The reader and composer no longer keep cookies.
• If you attach a file larger than 150 MB, Wino skips it and tells you, instead of crashing.

Fixes

• You can send messages with pasted images from Outlook and Hotmail accounts again (#1174).
• Inline images that some senders attach in an unusual way now show up instead of broken links (#1175).
• You can now set or remove contact photos on CardDAV address books (#1121).
• The companion now shows events from every calendar you have checked in Calendar, including recurring events (#1176).
• In Dark mode, custom themes no longer leave the navigation pane and title bar light (#1166).
• Accounts in a linked inbox stay selectable after you select them once.
• The calendar no longer crashes on very wide or high-resolution windows.
• Wino no longer crashes on startup when two database checks run at the same time.
• Wino no longer reports an error on startup when it checks which app modes to show.
• A formatting command no longer crashes Wino if it reaches a message window you just closed.

Wino Mail 2.2.7

Wino Mail 2.2.7 lets you shape the app around how you work. You can hide app modes you don't use, rearrange the reader's buttons, and give each account its own link browser and mail actions. This release also improves the calendar month view and fixes several sync and notification issues.

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Highlights

Only the app modes you use. The mode switcher at the bottom of the navigation pane now shows only the modes your accounts provide, and you can hide the rest in Settings > Personalization > App modes. A redesigned switcher slides to the mode you pick (#1167).

Arrange the reader's buttons. In the new Settings > Reader & Composer > Reader actions page, you drag the actions above an open message into the order you want. Uncheck an action to move it to the More menu, and preview the bar before you apply it (#817, #878).

Open links in the browser you choose. Use "Open links in" on the Reader & Composer settings page to pick a browser or browser profile for each account's links in messages, unsubscribe pages, and event descriptions (#663).

Hover and swipe actions for each account. Use the new "Configure for" picker under Settings > Message List to give an account its own hover and swipe actions, or leave it on the shared ones (#1019).

New and improved

• You can choose a signature, or no signature, from the Options tab while you write a message (#506).
• When a day has more events than the calendar can show, a "more events" button opens a list of all of them (#1145).
• A new "Hide notification content" option on an account's settings page makes notifications show only how many messages arrived or that an event is starting (#493).
• Wino can show a yellow dot on its tray icon while an account has unread mail; turn it on for each account under Unread badges (#1026).
• You can add iCloud+ accounts with a custom email domain by signing in with your iCloud address (#690).
• Compact, Medium, and Spacious mail rows now each have their own height and spacing, so the three modes look clearly different (#872).
• On Outlook and Gmail accounts, turning off People or To Do now turns the feature off for that account and removes its contacts or tasks from this device (#1167).
• Store updates now appear as a card in the corner of the window, so they no longer block the app.
• The linked inbox icon in the navigation pane is now drawn at a better size.

Fixes

• Clicking the linked inbox to return from one of its accounts keeps the group expanded (#1150).
• Event titles fit in month view cells, including the titles of short timed events (#1125).
• Pressing Tab in the To, Cc, or Bcc field accepts the address you typed, and typing quickly no longer cuts addresses short (#1134).
• Deleting or moving several messages at once works again on QQ Mail accounts (#1137).
• Completing or deleting some Gmail To Do tasks no longer fails with a "Precondition Failed" error (#1124).
• When Wino runs in the tray, using Delete or Mark as read on a notification no longer closes the app or loses the action (#1160).
• The Message List and Reader & Composer settings pages now slide in like the other settings pages (#1116).

Wino Mail 2.2.6

Wino Mail 2.2.6 makes calendar navigation continuous and improves links, dark-mode emails, and contact categories. It also fixes archiving in Gmail and keeps Outlook accounts syncing when they contain mail from another mailbox.

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Highlights

Move through your calendar without stopping. Drag with your mouse, pen, or finger, or scroll with the wheel, and the calendar keeps moving in both directions. Small drags follow your pointer smoothly, and Home takes you back to today (#963).

New and improved

• Hover over a link while reading an email to see its address at the bottom of the message. Links protected by Outlook show the original address (#1114).
• When you click a link in an email you are writing or in a signature, the link bubble now has an Open link button next to Remove link.
• Emails that declare dark mode support but stay mostly white now adapt to your dark theme.
• In Contacts, right-click Categories in the sidebar to create a new category, even if you have none yet.

Fixes

• Archiving a Gmail message now sticks, so it does not reappear in your Inbox after you restart Wino (#868).
• Outlook sync no longer stops on folders or messages that belong to another mailbox.
• Gmail sync retries downloads when Google temporarily slows requests, instead of stopping.
• Changes you make while an account needs you to sign in again are kept and sent after you sign in.
• An account that needs you to sign in stops retrying sync in the background until you fix it.
• In a linked inbox, recipients that are you now show which of your addresses received the message, such as "You name@example.com", instead of only "You" (#1149).
• Screen readers such as NVDA can read the text of opened emails again (#1146).
• Subjects sent in older Cyrillic encodings now display correctly instead of as garbled characters (#1112).
• Emptying a Gmail Spam folder that is already empty no longer shows an error (#1111).
• Text color, font, and size options work again while writing an email (#1063).
• After a restart or sleep, Wino alerts you about new mail and shows the unread count on the taskbar without being opened first (#975).
• Adding an Outlook account no longer freezes Wino (#906).
• CalDAV calendars sync again instead of stopping with an error (#876).

Wino Mail 2.2.0.0

Wino Mail recently got a big update that brings hundreds of fixes and improvements including Wino People, Wino To Do, companion and Native AOT for performance... There are bunch of details to be mentioned but before I share the full list of what has been improved and implemented I wanted to thank everybody who used the app, contributed to the source code, provided feedback and joined the discussions to make it happen. Without your love for the product none of them would've happened.

Sincerely, Burak.

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Highlights

• Native AOT and full trimming. Wino is now compiled to native code for x86, x64 and ARM64, so startup is faster and the whole app is more responsive.
• Wino People. A new mode for managing contacts across your accounts, with address books, lists, favorites, photos and a much richer contact editor.
• Wino To Do. Task lists, smart views, due dates, reminders and steps now sit next to Mail, Calendar and People.
• Wino Companion. A quick-access window in the system tray for unread mail, tasks and shortcuts into every Wino mode.
• New mail list. The mail list was rebuilt from scratch, which fixes the input lag when you select a mail or expand a thread.
• New Wino Editor. Jodit was replaced with a lighter editor built for Wino, used both to write and to display mail.
• Mail Filters. Wino now syncs your Outlook and Gmail filters, and you can also create more powerful local filters.
• Wino Intelligence (optional paid add-on). Message insights, summaries, translation, rewriting and Daily Briefing.
• Personalization. A theme gallery and theme editor, 15 new themes, colored icons, account profile pictures and configurable hover actions.
• Notification Settings. Choose which accounts notify you, how much detail is shown, quiet hours, snooze and reminder timing.
• Stronger IMAP support. Better connection testing, authentication, TLS handling, more than 25 built-in IMAP providers and faster connection warm-up.
• Encrypted backup and restore. Every backup now needs a password, and backups stored on Wino servers can't be decrypted by the servers.
• New languages. Hebrew (with right-to-left layout) and Vietnamese.
• New animations and flyouts

Performance: Native AOT and trimming

• The WinUI app and its supporting services now build with Native AOT and full trimming, with publishing profiles for x86, x64 and ARM64. Startup is close to, and sometimes faster than, the old UWP app.
• Startup is faster, and high memory use caused by an obsolete tokenizer and by the Companion has been fixed.
• Switching between mails is faster because less work is spent finding frames, and mail templates load faster.
• The mail list loads faster from a cold start, and its grouping is more stable.

Wino People

People is a new top-level Wino mode for managing contacts across accounts, not a small popup next to the inbox.

• Browse all contacts, filter to favorites, switch between address books and personal lists, or search for a person.
• Grouped views and contact counts make large collections easier to read. Account indicators show where each contact comes from when you have several providers.
• The contact editor was rebuilt. It supports multiple email addresses and phone numbers, company and job details, postal addresses, websites, birthdays, notes and list membership.
• Add, change or remove a contact photo. Photos are used throughout People.
• Add a contact to a list, or remove it, without creating a duplicate of the person.
• Start a new email directly from a contact.
• CardDAV rework: support for server-backed address books, creating new address books when the server allows it, and clearer read-only and pending states.
• Conflict handling: when a contact changes both locally and on the server, you choose whether to keep the server version, keep your version or keep both.
• People has its own icon and activation route, so Wino can open straight into contacts.

Wino To Do

• A dedicated To Do mode with task lists and the smart views My Day, Important, Planned, All and Completed.
• Create, rename, group and color lists. Counts in the navigation show the state of each view.
• Tasks support due dates, reminders, importance, notes, completion state and steps.
• Completing a task gives instant feedback, while synced changes are reconciled in the background.
• Works with Microsoft-backed tasks and other supported synced accounts, alongside Wino's local tasks.
• Better task summaries and task-list selection.

Wino Companion

Wino Companion is a new quick-access window that opens from the system tray (#1065).

• See unread mail and account information.
• Open Mail, Calendar, People and To Do from one place.
• Work with tasks without opening the main Wino window.
• Open Wino and Companion actions with keyboard shortcuts.
• The Companion follows your selected Wino theme and uses a Mica background.
• Settings include the Companion keyboard shortcut and unread badge behavior.

Mail experience

New mail list and threading

• Rendering, grouping, threading, selection, paging and initialization of the mail list moved to a dedicated controls library. Large mailboxes and threaded conversations are now smooth to browse.
• Semantic zoom is back, so you can jump quickly between groups of messages.
• Selection works better, including multiple selection and applying actions to many selected messages from the list or from swipe actions.
• Registered account avatars are now shown with priority in other accounts' mail lists.
• Conversation thread handling was fixed in several places.

Reader View

• Reader View turns a busy newsletter or heavily styled message into a clean reading layout inside Wino. You can return to the original formatting at any time.
• Messages are rendered in memory, and a shimmer placeholder replaces the blank flash you used to see while switching messages.

Searchable mail context flyout and move dialog

• The message menu was replaced by a new mail context flyout. It has clearer spacing, labels, icons, shortcut hints, section headers and better keyboard behavior.
• Type to filter commands instantly, so actions like move, mark, flag, archive and delete are easy to reach.
• The move dialog shows folders as a hierarchy with icons. Expandable groups now open like groups instead of acting as destinations.
• Context menus and flyouts across Wino were also improved.

Hover actions

• Hover actions were rebuilt with larger hit areas, clearer hover feedback, better contrast and positions that don't cover the subject or sender (#1032).
• Set any slot to None, choose small, medium or large buttons, choose where they appear on the message row, and pick a slide, popup or no-motion transition.
• The Message List settings page has a live preview for density, layout and hover actions.

Search

• The title-bar search box was rebuilt, with better history and cancellation behavior.

Composer and Wino Editor

• Compose uses the new Wino Editor with a redesigned toolbar for formatting, images, tables, links, fonts and editor actions.
• Code blocks are supported in the editor (#620).
• You can now choose the spell-checker language for the editor. Wino remembers your choice.
• Drafts can be opened in their own compose window.
• Locally saved drafts are now synced to the server in the background. Previously they stayed on your device.
• Draft deletion, draft sync and retrying drafts that can't be sent right away are more reliable.
• The editor handles rendering and switching between light and dark themes better.
• When sending through SMTP, Wino no longer adds the X-Wino-Header header, so your email client isn't revealed to recipients (#697).

Mail Filters

• Outlook and Gmail filters are now synced, and Wino adds its own local filters with a local action queue. Local filters are more powerful, and provider filters are also supported.
• The feature is opt-in. Outlook and Gmail accounts need to sign in again to grant the new permissions. This covers the spam-filter part of #1005.

More mail improvements

• Move to Focused and Move to Other, with their Always versions, are now available for Outlook (#464).
• Contact avatars share one loading and caching system, with colorful fallback avatars when no picture is available.
• Better HTML preview and mail rendering, including improved handling of S/MIME signed and encrypted messages.
• Attachment detection is more accurate, so Wino can choose the right action and apply Windows safety rules before opening a file (#1053).
• Attachments work better in new mail, received mail and calendar events.

Wino Intelligence (optional paid add-on)

Wino Intelligence is an optional paid add-on. Mail, Calendar, People, To Do an...