Mailbird Next Release Notes

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Mailbird Next for Windows 4.37.1

Mailbird Release Notes

You're going to love this update too! We listened to all your feedback after the launch and added the most requested features and improvements. This release brings +25 features and improvements, including conversation grouping, sidebar background pictures and font sizes in the composer. Enjoy :)

🚀 New Features

  • 🗂️ Conversation grouping -- A new Group by menu sorts the conversation list by date or by sender. Collapse the groups you don't need; collapsed groups further down stay one click away at the bottom of the list.
  • 🖼️ Sidebar background pictures -- Give the sidebar a picture: choose one of the included favorites, add your own, or create one with AI.
  • 🔠 Font sizes in the composer -- Pick a font size from the compose toolbar, and set a default size in Settings → Composing.
  • ✅ To Do and To Read for every account -- Mailbird now creates the To Do and To Read folders for all your IMAP and Exchange accounts, so the lists and their Move to actions are always there.
  • 📎 Attachments stay in view -- In a long message, the attachments now stay visible at the edge of the message list while you scroll.
  • ✍️ Reply toolbars stay in view -- While you write a long Quick Reply, its formatting and Send buttons stay visible at the bottom of the message list.
  • 📁 Create a folder while moving -- Move to and Copy to can now create a folder with the name you searched for and move or copy the email straight into it.
  • 📅 Duplicate events -- The event editor's menu has a new Duplicate option that opens a copy of the event.
  • ↔️ Right-to-left writing -- Turn on Enable RTL support in the composer's spellcheck menu to write right to left; drafts keep the direction, and recipients see it too.
  • 🇮🇱 Hebrew -- Mailbird is now available in Hebrew, with a right-to-left layout.
  • 🈶 Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Hindi -- These languages are now available for the Mailbird interface.
  • 📧 Email addresses next to names -- A new Reading option shows each sender's email address next to their name in the conversation list.
  • ✒️ Signatures on new emails only -- A new Composing option leaves your signature out of replies and forwards.
  • 🤖 Signatures in AI drafts -- Drafts and emails your AI assistant creates in Mailbird now include your default signature.
  • 🖱️ Scroll while dragging -- Dragging a conversation near the top or bottom of the folder list now scrolls the list.

🛠️ Fixes & Improvements

  • 📤 Send to Mail recipient -- Send to › Mail recipient in File Explorer and Send as attachment in Office now open a Mailbird compose window with the files attached.
  • 🖼️ Inline images -- Images embedded in received emails now display.
  • 🧷 Opening attachments -- Fixed a crash that occurred when opening an attachment that has no default app.
  • 🔔 System sound -- The System sound notification option now plays the default Windows sound.
  • 🖱️ Scrollbar clicks -- Clicking below the scrollbar in an email now scrolls a full page.
  • 👤 Conversation avatars -- After you reply, a conversation keeps showing the other person's picture instead of yours.
  • 📇 Deleted contacts -- Contacts you delete in Outlook or Google on the web are now removed from Mailbird too.
  • 🔡 Underscores in addresses -- Email addresses with an underscore now keep it when contacts sync from Google.
  • 🌍 Better translations -- Improved wording in every language, and French (Canada), Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Mexico) and Arabic (Egypt) now show their own translations.
  • 🪟 Onboarding on small screens -- The welcome window now fits small or highly scaled screens, so you can always reach Continue.
  • 🖥️ Full-screen view -- You can now drag messages in full-screen view, and browsing unread mail with the keyboard no longer marks it as read.
  • 📋 Right-click menu -- The right-click menu on a conversation with attachments no longer gets cut off.
  • 📦 Smaller app -- Built-in images, videos and animations were optimized, so Mailbird takes up less space.
  • 🚀 Startup stability -- Fixed a crash that could occur shortly after Mailbird starts.
  • ✉️ Closing compose windows -- Fixed a crash that could occur when closing a compose window.
  • 📋 Closing a window with a menu open -- Fixed a crash that occurred when closing a window while one of its right-click menus was open.

Mailbird Next for Windows 4.37.0

Mailbird Release Notes

You're going to love this update too! We listened to all your feedback after the launch and added the most requested features and improvements. This release brings +25 features and improvements, including conversation grouping, sidebar background pictures and font sizes in the composer. Enjoy :)

🚀 New Features

  • 🗂️ Conversation grouping -- A new Group by menu sorts the conversation list by date or by sender. Collapse the groups you don't need; collapsed groups further down stay one click away at the bottom of the list.
  • 🖼️ Sidebar background pictures -- Give the sidebar a picture: choose one of the included favorites, add your own, or create one with AI.
  • 🔠 Font sizes in the composer -- Pick a font size from the compose toolbar, and set a default size in Settings → Composing.
  • ✅ To Do and To Read for every account -- Mailbird now creates the To Do and To Read folders for all your IMAP and Exchange accounts, so the lists and their Move to actions are always there.
  • 📎 Attachments stay in view -- In a long message, the attachments now stay visible at the edge of the message list while you scroll.
  • ✍️ Reply toolbars stay in view -- While you write a long Quick Reply, its formatting and Send buttons stay visible at the bottom of the message list.
  • 📁 Create a folder while moving -- Move to and Copy to can now create a folder with the name you searched for and move or copy the email straight into it.
  • 📅 Duplicate events -- The event editor's menu has a new Duplicate option that opens a copy of the event.
  • ↔️ Right-to-left writing -- Turn on Enable RTL support in the composer's spellcheck menu to write right to left; drafts keep the direction, and recipients see it too.
  • 🇮🇱 Hebrew -- Mailbird is now available in Hebrew, with a right-to-left layout.
  • 🈶 Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Hindi -- These languages are now available for the Mailbird interface.
  • 📧 Email addresses next to names -- A new Reading option shows each sender's email address next to their name in the conversation list.
  • ✒️ Signatures on new emails only -- A new Composing option leaves your signature out of replies and forwards.
  • 🤖 Signatures in AI drafts -- Drafts and emails your AI assistant creates in Mailbird now include your default signature.
  • 🖱️ Scroll while dragging -- Dragging a conversation near the top or bottom of the folder list now scrolls the list.

🛠️ Fixes & Improvements

  • 📤 Send to Mail recipient -- Send to › Mail recipient in File Explorer and Send as attachment in Office now open a Mailbird compose window with the files attached.
  • 🖼️ Inline images -- Images embedded in received emails now display.
  • 🧷 Opening attachments -- Fixed a crash that occurred when opening an attachment that has no default app.
  • 🔔 System sound -- The System sound notification option now plays the default Windows sound.
  • 🖱️ Scrollbar clicks -- Clicking below the scrollbar in an email now scrolls a full page.
  • 👤 Conversation avatars -- After you reply, a conversation keeps showing the other person's picture instead of yours.
  • 📇 Deleted contacts -- Contacts you delete in Outlook or Google on the web are now removed from Mailbird too.
  • 🔡 Underscores in addresses -- Email addresses with an underscore now keep it when contacts sync from Google.
  • 🌍 Better translations -- Improved wording in every language, and French (Canada), Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Mexico) and Arabic (Egypt) now show their own translations.
  • 🪟 Onboarding on small screens -- The welcome window now fits small or highly scaled screens, so you can always reach Continue.
  • 🖥️ Full-screen view -- You can now drag messages in full-screen view, and browsing unread mail with the keyboard no longer marks it as read.
  • 📋 Right-click menu -- The right-click menu on a conversation with attachments no longer gets cut off.
  • 📦 Smaller app -- Built-in images, videos and animations were optimized, so Mailbird takes up less space.

Mailbird Next for Windows 4.36.0

Mailbird Release Notes

This release brings Instant send, animated folder icons and folder search across all your accounts ✨

🚀 New Features

  • ⚡ Instant send -- While Undo Send is holding a message, a new Instant send button sends it right away.
  • 📁 Animated folder icons -- Folder icons in the left menu now animate when mail moves into them, and dragging conversations onto a folder shows clear feedback as you go.
  • 🔎 Move or copy across accounts -- Searching in Move to or Copy to now also lists matching folders from your other accounts.
  • ⏳ Loading indicator -- A message that is still downloading now shows a "Loading" label in its header instead of looking empty.
  • 🔕 Silent notifications -- A new "None" sound keeps the new-message popup but plays no sound.
  • ℹ️ Port hints -- A help icon next to the Port fields in account server settings shows the typical port for each encryption option.
  • ✅ Easier Todoist sign-in -- Opening the Todoist app while signed out now takes you straight to the login page.
  • 🖼️ Refreshed Insert image icon -- The composer's Insert image button has a new, cleaner icon.

🛠️ Fixes & Improvements

  • 👤 Contact photos as avatars -- Sender avatars now use the photos from your synced and custom contacts, and no longer show an internet provider's logo for personal senders.
  • 🤖 Easier AI assistant setup -- The Wingman AI settings now let you regenerate the access token, copy a ready-made configuration and open a setup guide.
  • ✍️ Last edits are kept -- Sending or closing a draft right after typing no longer loses your final changes.
  • 📅 Recurring events end on time -- Recurring events now end on the date you pick in every time zone, in Mailbird as well as Google and Outlook calendars.
  • 🪟 Window size after Minimal layout -- Leaving the Minimal layout now restores the main window to its previous size.
  • ↩️ Undo auto-bullets -- Pressing Undo or Backspace right after typing a list marker turns the bullet back into the text you typed.
  • 💬 Quick Reply drafts -- A reply sent from a conversation's own window no longer leaves an outdated draft in the main window.
  • 🌳 Folder list stability -- Fixed a crash that occurred when an account or folder was removed while it was expanded in the folder list.
  • 🧷 Account reordering -- Fixed a crash that occurred when an account was removed while you were dragging it to reorder the account list.
  • 🧹 Conversation list stability -- Fixed a crash that could occur when a conversation was deselected while the conversation list was closing.
  • 🔠 Long subjects -- Long subjects above the message list now shrink to fit instead of being cut off.
  • 🌙 Full Dark Mode spacing -- Emails in Full Dark Mode no longer get extra margins compared with Light Mode.
  • ➕ Tidier account list -- The Add Account button now hides automatically after your first week or once you have two or more accounts.
  • 🎛️ Quick action icons -- Disabled quick action icons in the conversation list now keep their normal color and are simply dimmed.
  • 🗓️ Calendar hover -- Hovering a calendar event no longer covers the events around it.
  • 🔢 To Do and To Read counts -- The To Do and To Read counts in the left menu are now easy to read on light themes.
  • 🟢 WhatsApp sign-in -- The WhatsApp QR login screen no longer cuts off its text and stays readable in dark themes.
  • 📎 WhatsApp attachments -- Attaching an image in the narrow WhatsApp view now opens the editor across the whole message area.
  • 📧 Default email client -- The reminder to set Mailbird as your default email client now goes away once it is set, and Mailbird no longer loses its email link handling when Mailbird Classic is also installed.
  • 🖥️ Multiple monitors -- The reading pane and windows now display correctly after moving to another monitor or changing the display scale, without a restart.
  • 🎬 WhatsApp videos and downloads -- WhatsApp videos can now be played and downloaded, and files you download from built-in apps such as WhatsApp or Slack open a Save dialog.
  • ⌨️ Global compose shortcut -- The Global Compose shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+Space) now opens the compose window.
  • 📌 Startup window position -- The main window no longer opens below the taskbar when Mailbird starts with Windows.
  • 📥 Mailbird Classic import -- Exchange accounts imported from Mailbird Classic are now set up correctly.

Mailbird Next for Windows 4.35.1

Mailbird Release Notes

🔧 Fixes & Improvements

  • 🛡️ No crash when selecting and deselecting conversations — Fixed a crash that could happen when you changed your selection quickly, such as selecting and deselecting several conversations in a row.

Mailbird Next for Windows 4.35.0

Mailbird Release Notes

We're moving from the 1.x versioning to 4.x to align Mailbird Next with Mailbird Classic as a new major version upgrade as we prepare for the product launch. This is a versioning alignment step, not a sign of a skipped public release or a separate upgrade requirement.

This release brings the Mailbird Classic import in your own language, a much faster Snoozed folder, and Calendar and Contacts ready out of the box 🌍

✨ New Features

  • 🌐 Data import in your language — The Mailbird Classic import now speaks all 30 supported languages, from the first welcome screen through to the final summary.
  • 📅 Calendar and Contacts ready to go — Both apps are now switched on by default when you set Mailbird up, so your schedule and address book are there from day one.
  • 🎛️ Sidebar toggle moved down — The expand/collapse control now sits at the bottom of the right rail, closer to where your hand already is.

🔧 Fixes & Improvements

  • 🚀 Snoozed folder opens quickly — Fixed the long delay when opening Snoozed after snoozing several conversations, and snoozed Gmail conversations no longer linger in Archive.
  • 🖥️ Minimal layout leaves fullscreen cleanly — Switching to the Minimal layout while in fullscreen now exits fullscreen properly and keeps your reading pane size and position.
  • ⚡ Smoother imports — Fixed the folder list freezing after a large import from Mailbird Classic, and tidied up the spacing on the import screens.
  • 📨 Calendar invites work again — Invitations arriving as .ics attachments now show the accept, maybe and decline buttons.
  • 🔁 No more duplicate calendar entries — Birthdays and events under an Outlook account no longer appear twice until you restart.
  • 💬 ChatGPT app stays responsive — Fixed the freeze that could lock up the ChatGPT app panel.
  • ⌨️ Advanced search types properly — Typing "c" or "v" in the advanced search fields now enters the letter instead of triggering a shortcut.
  • 💡 Tooltip dismisses on click — The info tooltip now closes when you click the button, instead of lingering.

Mailbird Next for Windows 1.34.0

Mailbird Release Notes

This release brings your Mailbird Classic data, new To Do and To Read lists, and noticeably faster email opening 🚀

✨ New Features

  • ✅ To Do and To Read lists -- Two new lists in the folder menu. Move any conversation to either from the toolbar or the right-click menu, and turn each list on or off in Settings.
  • ⚡ Faster email opening -- Messages open noticeably quicker when a lot of mail is syncing in the background.
  • 💬 Quick Reply keeps your conversations open -- Replying no longer collapses conversations you already had expanded.
  • 👤 Import contacts from vCard and CSV -- Bring contacts in from files exported by Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook and other services.
  • 🔗 Open Mailbird from a link -- Links elsewhere on your PC can now open straight into Mailbird Next.
  • ✍️ Choose your default composing font -- Set the font new emails start with.
  • 📅 Calendar refreshes itself -- Your calendar updates as soon as you come back to the Calendar or the Mailbird window.
  • 🏷️ Clearer draft and sending labels -- Refreshed styling makes it easier to tell drafts from messages on their way out.
  • 🚫 Smarter unsubscribe detection -- Mailbird now spots unsubscribe links even when the newsletter labels them with generic wording.
  • 📎 Better pinned-attachment spacing -- More comfortable spacing for attachments pinned at the top of a message.
  • 💚 Narrower WhatsApp panel -- WhatsApp now fits comfortably when you make the app window smaller.
  • 📦 Bring your data from Mailbird Classic -- Mailbird Next now finds your Mailbird Classic installation and offers to move everything across: accounts, folders, signatures, filters, snippets, app settings and contacts. You see exactly what will and won't transfer before you start, and the import runs in the background while you keep working. You can also pick a Classic database file by hand from Settings.

🔧 Fixes & Improvements

  • 🔍 Search results stay put -- Conversations no longer vanish from your search results when they get updated.
  • 📰 Unsubscribe works from forwarded newsletters -- The unsubscribe action now completes when the newsletter reached you as a forward.
  • 🔑 No more crash when OAuth falls back -- Fixed a crash when an account had to fall back to a username-and-password sign-in.
  • 📜 Scroll to the end of long emails -- Pinned attachments no longer block you from scrolling to the bottom of a message.
  • 📁 Drag-and-drop highlight on every folder -- Generic folders now light up when you drag a message over them, like the rest do.
  • 📐 Tidier menu on short windows -- Optional icons at the bottom-left now hide themselves when the window is too short to fit them.
  • 🪟 No more grey flash when composing -- Composer and forward windows no longer flash dark grey as they open.
  • 🖥️ Onboarding layout options fit properly -- The Minimal layout option is no longer cut off during setup.
  • 🔤 Crisper account names -- Bold text for unified accounts is no longer pixelated in the menu and full folder list.
  • 🛡️ Fixed a crash opening Wingman logs -- Opening the Wingman log no longer crashes when the log file isn't there.

What’s next for Mailbird

A high-level look at where Mailbird Next is heading.
Plans may evolve as we build and learn.

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Next Early Access

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Open to everyone

Mailbird Next is available to everyone on Windows and Mac.

Mailbird Mobile

Now on iPhone and Android, so your inbox goes wherever you do.

Mailbird for Linux

Bringing Mailbird Next to the Linux desktop.

Wingman AI

Smarter AI assistance built into your everyday email workflow.

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