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Messages you schedule with Send later wait in a Scheduled list in the sidebar, from every account, soonest first. Change Time, Edit, Send Now or Delete each one. Messages that couldn't be sent are at the top, with why and Retry.

Snooze, Send later and Remind me open with a text field: type "tomorrow 9am", "fri 3pm", "in 2 hours" or "next week" and press Return. The calendar below follows what you type.

Replying to a message further up a conversation keeps that message in view and marks it while you write. Click "Replying to the message from…" to scroll back to it.

Settings › Accounts › Account picture › Choose… sets the picture an account shows in the sidebar. You can also click the account's badge or drop an image on it. Use Default goes back.

Sender pictures lost their ring in the account's colour, which read like a status. Settings › Reading › Picture outline offers the account colour, a thin grey line (the default) or none, and syncs to your Macs and iPhone.

With more than one account, new mail and codes in the notch carry a small tag in that account's colour.

Move to Folder (V) and the label picker put the cursor in their search box as soon as they open.

Suggested replies and replies written from your notes get to the point in one to three short sentences, without "I hope you're well".

The account picture in Settings › Accounts has a pencil badge, and the IMAP and SMTP server names are drawn as fields you can edit.

Plain-text emails written in Markdown no longer show a "#" before the greeting or labels with nothing after them in the list, banners and the notch.

Pasting a screenshot or a copied image into a new message or a reply did nothing. It now attaches the image.

Designed mail sent from one of your own addresses, like Shopify order notifications, showed as a plain chat bubble. It now appears as it was designed.

Opening Settings › Sidebar could freeze the window for a few seconds with many folders. Every section now opens straight away.

The progress could stay on "Downloading 55,951 of 55,956" for good. The count now stays up to date and the bar goes away when it's done.

NetEase accounts now sync, and the right outgoing server is filled in when you add one. Use the client authorization code from your NetEase settings as the password.

After updating to 1.8.27, bytemail could open on sample accounts while it prepared your mail. It now shows "Getting your mail ready" and opens your mail by itself. Nothing of yours was changed.

Marking messages read one after another could turn some unread again a few seconds later. Read, unread and flags now stay as you set them, on every kind of account.

Double-click a conversation or press ⌘O to read it in a separate window. File › New Message Window (⌥⌘N) writes a new message in its own window, and several can be open at once. They come back after you quit and reopen bytemail.

A rule condition can be AI decides: describe the mail in your own words, like "is a receipt" or "needs a reply from me", and your AI model decides for each new message. When no model can answer, the rule leaves the message alone.

Drag Flagged, To Reply, Notifications, pinned folders and sidebar filters into any order, and folders and labels inside each account too. The order follows you to your other Macs.

Right-click a folder or label and choose Edit Folder… to rename it on your server and pick one of 50 icons. New Folder… and Delete Folder… are there too.

With read receipts on, the sidebar has a Read Receipts page listing each message you sent with one: who it went to, whether it was read and when.

Put someone in To and From switches to the account and address you last wrote to them from. Choosing From yourself keeps your choice. Turn it off in Settings › Writing.

A filter can look at the subject, recipients, text, mailing list or attachments, and you can add a conversation to a filter yourself by dragging it there.

bytemail downloads every message in your inboxes, Archive and Sent, so older mail opens at once and search finds it without asking the server. A bar shows how far it has got, with Pause and Resume. Turn it off in Settings › Storage.

Settings › Storage sets how much space message text and pictures may use, from 512 MB to no limit, and shows how much each account takes.

Lists load as quickly with 100,000 messages as with a few hundred, and stay responsive while new mail comes in.

Settings lists its sections down the left, as System Settings does, and the window can be narrower.

A large email with several files could list only the first one. Every file now shows, including ones sent "inline".

In a big mailbox, typing in a new message could lag seconds behind. It's immediate again.

Drag it to move through a long list. It follows System Settings › Appearance › Show scroll bars.

A reply you received no longer moves a conversation to the top of Sent.

It shows your newest unread conversations, and leaves out notification senders when you keep them out of All.

On hosts that don't list the inbox among their folders, new mail now reaches Inbox and All inboxes.

Marking a message Not Spam and emptying Spam a moment later could delete it for good. Empty Spam now waits for the move to finish, and Empty Trash does the same.

Send Now or Retry around a freeze or restart could send a message twice. If the connection drops just as your server takes a message, bytemail asks you to check Sent instead of sending again.

Clicking + could reopen an old unsent message. It now always starts blank.

A message with To empty and only Bcc filled in now goes out.

A signature with a logo, colours or a table showed only "--" in the reply box. It now shows as it will be sent.

Text you select in a message above an open reply now copies with ⌘C, and Cc and Bcc suggest people as you type.

Sending a draft just as it was being saved could leave a copy in your server's Drafts folder.

Once your reply goes out, the message it answers is marked read, in bytemail and on your server.

On a MacBook with a camera notch, new mail grows out of it for a moment with the sender's picture and the subject. Hover to keep it open, click to open the message.

A verification code shows with a Copy button. A paper plane takes off when you send, with Undo. Two eyes peek out when someone reads your tracked message, and a snoozed conversation comes back with an alarm clock.

Drag files onto the notch and let go to start a new message with them attached.

Switch each kind on or off, pick which accounts and senders get the notch, choose how long it stays open, and keep it quiet over full-screen apps. Try It plays each one with sample mail.

Three widgets: Unread counts unread mail, Inbox lists your newest conversations, and Accounts shows each account's unread count in its colour. Click one to open it in bytemail. Right-click the desktop and choose Edit Widgets to add them.

The Notifications tab now has banners on. Turn them off in the tab's settings if you want it quiet. Mail your rules move into a folder gets a banner too.

Widget text no longer disappears when another app is in front, on any macOS version, and widgets update straight after bytemail does.

Misspelt words are underlined in red and grammar mistakes in green. Settings › Writing › Spelling sets autocorrect and the language, and Automatic checks each paragraph in its own language.

Settings › General › Dock › Unread count offers Per account: each account with unread mail gets its own badge on the Dock icon, in its colour. Count folders takes in folders your rules file mail into.

Spam is one of the swipe actions in Settings › Reading › Swipe, with Undo.

Settings › Reading › List › Preview now offers 2 lines, as on iPhone.

A row says "9 · 2 new" when two of nine messages are unread. Grouped senders in Notifications show it too, like "90 · 3 new".

Turn off Settings › Reading › Show notifications in All, and mail from GitHub, Jira and other notification senders is listed only in Notifications.

The second action takes over a little under halfway across, and the strip keeps showing the action being done.

Spam in All inboxes is ready when you open it, folders still loading say so instead of "No messages", and archived conversations leave the list straight away.

A summary is saved once written and shows straight away next time, even after quitting. It's written again only when new messages arrive.

Settings › Signatures › Add Signature makes another one for the same account, such as Work or Personal. A menu next to the signature picks which one a message carries.

Settings › Accounts › Always Bcc sends a hidden copy of every message from that account to the addresses you add, such as a CRM or a shared archive.

Move to folder in Settings › Rules lists the folders of your other accounts too.

Settings › Writing › Replies go to sets whether the reply under a conversation answers the Sender or Everyone. The reply box also shows the signature it will carry, with Edit and Remove.

Each account's picture shows how many unread messages its inbox has.

Click ✨ at the top of any conversation to summarise it, instead of every conversation summarising as soon as it opens.

Grouped tabs and filters gather all of a sender's mail into one row, even when other mail arrived in between.

What you type under Describe your reply… is worked into a reply that still answers the message's questions.

Signatures with a logo, colours or a table keep their formatting when you reveal them.

Requests from AI apps no longer fail with "not activated" on Macs with an active licence.

Control-click a picture and choose Download Image or Save Image As….

Full screen can no longer trap the window, ⌘Z after closing a reply no longer quits bytemail, and the unread count shows on the Dock icon from the start.

An older version on another device could turn a Fastmail or Microsoft Graph account back into IMAP. Affected accounts are set back when bytemail opens.

The tab editor scrolls instead of hiding Save, replies no longer spill over the header in a short window, and progress bars finish when the work does.

Right-click mail from GitHub, Jira, ClickUp or any sender that never needs a reply and choose Treat Sender as Notifications. Their mail, now and later, moves out of Primary into a Notifications tab with its own row and unread count in the sidebar, with banners off.

Mail grouped by sender shows as one row with a count. Click it to see them all, or mark them read, archive or delete them together. Any tab of your own and any sidebar filter can group too.

Like Mail's smart mailboxes: name one, list addresses or domains such as github.com and pick the accounts. That mail is in one place in the sidebar while it stays where it is on your server.

Each tab of your own has a Banners switch, and Updates and Promos can stay silent. Verification codes always show.

Click Describe your reply… and type a few words, such as "yes to Thursday, ask for the agenda". Your AI model writes the whole reply in your voice, with your usual greeting and sign-off. ✨ › Describe a Change… reworks what you wrote, and Suggest replies works on any conversation.

Connect through Microsoft Graph from the Microsoft sign-in screen, or switch an account you already have in Settings › Accounts › Server Settings. Drafts started in Outlook open, edit and send in bytemail. Your organisation's admin may have to approve bytemail.

Settings › General › Interface size goes from Small to Extra Large, each size laid out on its own, and Message text (⌘+ and ⌘−) makes just the words of your mail bigger on top.

⌘F highlights every match as you type, in designed emails too, with "3 of 12" to show where you are. ⌘G and ⇧⌘G step through them.

Drop files on the Dock icon, select text or files and use the Services menu, or make bytemail your default mail app in Settings › Writing so email links open its composer.

Pick any accent colour and any account colour from the Mac's colour panel. They sync to your other Macs with iCloud.

⇧⌘↩ sends your reply and files the conversation away, so it doesn't jump back to the top of your inbox. Undo Send brings both back.

Type @ and a name to pick someone from your contacts. If they aren't on the email yet, they're added to To.

Settings › Reading › Message order can show a conversation with its newest message at the top, in Chat and Classic.

Pasted text keeps bold, italics and links but takes on the composer's font and colour, so it stays readable in dark mode. Or turn on Always paste without formatting.

Settings › AI › AI model › Other connects to Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM or LiteLLM on another computer, and errors say what failed and what to check.

In a narrow window or at a larger size, Send and the conversation's buttons no longer slide past the window's edge.

On Microsoft 365 over IMAP, drafts saved by Outlook no longer merge into one conversation.

Add inbox tabs like Receipts or Team next to Primary, Updates and Promos, each with a name and an optional symbol. A tab takes mail by sender address or domain, and optionally by words in the subject or the mailing list. Right-click a conversation and choose Move to to put it in a tab, once or always for that sender.

Right-click any folder or label and choose Pin to Sidebar to keep it at the top, next to Flagged and To Reply, with its unread count. Drag pins into your own order; they follow a folder the server renames and sync to your other Macs.

⌘1 to ⌘9 open each account's inbox in sidebar order and ⌘0 opens All inboxes, on any keyboard layout. Clicking an account's picture switches to it without unfolding its folders.

Add Fastmail from its new tile with an API token, or another JMAP server such as Stalwart or Cyrus. Reading, new mail, moving, drafts, search and sending work as they do for your other accounts.

Every message has a reply arrow next to its time, and Reply, Reply All and Forward in its right-click menu. When someone answers you privately in a group conversation, you can still reply to everyone.

The reply shows who it goes to in one line, such as "To Maya, +2". Click it to add or remove people in To, Cc and Bcc. The reply stays in the same conversation.

Choose Message › Labels… or press ⌥⌘L to tick as many as you like, or type a new one. The conversation stays where it is, and taking a label off never deletes the email.

Use Move to Folder…, the Move to menu or drag onto another account's folder. Choose Copy to, or hold ⌥, to keep the original. Emails arrive whole with their attachments, date, and read and flag state.

Conversations leave the list at once. Settings › Reading › Undo archive and delete sets how long Undo is on offer: 5 seconds, 10, or Off.

Save All under an email's attachments saves every file to one folder, without replacing files already there.

Settings › AI › Summary language writes conversation summaries in the language you pick.

Reads show on all your devices, and while bytemail runs on your Mac your other devices get instant, content-free new-mail alerts.

Drafts saved by another app, such as an AI assistant, stay drafts and can be finished in bytemail.

On iCloud and Microsoft 365, saving a draft no longer adds another copy to Drafts.

Messages another app filed away no longer go missing from conversations, and archived or deleted mail stays gone.

Forwards and designed newsletters no longer open blank or as a small box, and saved PDFs keep their pictures.

The app icon has the same shape and corners as Apple's own apps, and the menu bar icon turns on reliably.

Armenian, Dutch, French, German, Russian and Spanish join English. It follows your Mac's language, or pick one in Settings › General › Language. Your mail stays in the language it was written in.

Turn on read receipts in Settings › Privacy, or for one message with the tick button in the composer. Grey ticks turn your accent colour when it's read, in the conversation and the message list. Hover the ticks to see when.

One notification within seconds the first time one of your messages is read, and clicking it opens the message. Turn it off in Settings › Privacy.

Always works between bytemail users, even when they keep remote images off. Messages also ask for a standard read receipt, so Outlook and Thunderbird users can tell you they read it.

The copy in your Sent folder never carries the read-receipt image, so looking at it in Gmail or on your phone doesn't mark it read.

In the EU, checking whether someone opened an email can need their consent, so bytemail explains this and asks you to accept it first. Our server keeps only a hash of a random code, the time, whether the image loaded automatically and your device's push token, all deleted after 60 days.

Opening one no longer waits for every list to be read again first. What's already on your Mac shows at once and the rest follows, where big mailboxes used to take up to 10 seconds.

The list shows a couple of hundred at a time and brings in more as you scroll, while tabs and badges still count them all. Catching up on older unread mail now takes minutes rather than most of a day.

Typing stays smooth under messages with big pasted screenshots, and messages with pictures open and scroll faster.

Subfolders sit under their parent in the sidebar, nested the way they are on your mail server. Click the arrow beside a folder to fold it away.

Every folder and label gets the same choices Gmail gives you. Hidden ones wait under More at the end of the account's list.

General is split into Sidebar, Reading, Writing and Privacy, and the window opens wider so every tab fits.

Drop files from Finder anywhere onto a new message or a reply to attach them, including onto the text you're writing.

More safeguards for AI apps, and when one sends a reply you can let it keep replying in that conversation without asking again.

With Apple Intelligence on, To Reply is double-checked in the background without slowing the app.

Switches like "Sign replies too" say what happens when they're off.

Open the reply to a conversation and bytemail offers two or three replies under the editor. Point at one to see the whole reply in grey, click it to write it in, and ↻ suggests others.

With Claude, OpenAI or OpenRouter picked in Settings › AI › AI model, reply ideas and summaries read a long conversation whole, and say which model wrote them.

An envelope in the menu bar with a dot or your unread count. Click it to open any inbox, write a new message or check for mail. Dock › Hidden takes bytemail out of the Dock and ⌘Tab.

A reply goes out from the address the message was sent to on your own domain, even if it isn't set up as an alias. The From menu still lets you switch back.

The drafts and archived mail of every account, each in one list. Gmail accounts bring their archived mail from All Mail.

Settings › General › Sidebar turns Flagged, To Reply, Subscriptions and each folder under All inboxes on or off.

Rest the pointer on someone in the To field to see their address, and right-click to copy it.

With the whole draft, its recipients and Send. The trash button on a reply discards just that reply. Undo brings it back.

Select all, ⌘-click and ⇧-click tick messages, and ↑ ↓, Delete, Archive and Move to Folder work from the keyboard.

Suggested recipients sit on a solid background.

Switching AI model takes effect right away, and a model missing its API key says so instead of quietly using Apple Intelligence.

Connect Claude, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, LM Studio or any MCP app in Settings › AI. They can search and read the accounts you pick, find attachments, write drafts, and archive, move, flag, snooze and more.

Sending, adding a mail rule, removing a label, unsubscribing and blocking a sender show you what's proposed in bytemail and happen only when you say yes.

Add to Claude opens the bytemail extension in Claude's desktop app, ready to install. Claude Code and Codex get a command to copy.

Anything touching more than 25 conversations asks first, and Settings › AI › Activity lets you undo what an AI did.

One-time codes, sign-in links, Spam and Trash are never visible to AI apps, and drafts an AI writes are tagged "Drafted by" that app.

Summaries, suggested replies and Rewrite can use Claude, OpenAI or OpenRouter with your own API key, or a model on your Mac in LM Studio or Ollama. The key stays in your Keychain.

The AI switches moved from Settings › General to Settings › AI, next to the model and MCP.

A message that tries to send you on to a website as soon as it opens now stays as it is.

Settings › Shortcuts offers Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail and Superhuman keys, or Custom keys you can change. ? lists them all, and they work on any keyboard layout.

Once you pause typing, bytemail also asks your mail server, however old the message is. Results are newest first, and after:, before: and is:unread narrow them down.

Senders show their Gravatar, their company's logo or their website's icon, and each account in the sidebar shows your own picture.

Sync shows which account and folder it's checking. Moving lots of conversations shows its progress and no longer times out. Undo is instant, and Empty Trash is new.

Swipe to move, mark mail as read yourself, go back to the list after deleting, and hide the inbox tabs. The unread filter works in every folder.

With Include passwords on, accounts added on one device start on your others without signing in again. Nothing goes through our servers.

Pick your own ports and SSL/TLS or STARTTLS, and change servers and passwords any time. Proton Mail Bridge now connects.

Pictures and layout included, from Settings › Signatures, and paste signatures with their logo.

Separate emails with the same subject from the same sender come together, and each conversation shows how many messages it holds.

The window sits on Glass by default, with rounder corners that the panes follow. Help › bytemail Roadmap shows what's coming next.

Older unread mail always appears, and a collapsed sidebar stays collapsed.

Forwarding keeps the attachment, and opening a reply no longer leaves an empty draft behind.

Designed emails load without jumping, and confirmation links from notifications open properly.

Settings › Accounts › Conversations has Chat and Classic, per account. Classic shows every message whole, one under another, with who sent it to whom and when.

From Aa › Write in Markdown, or make it the default. The syntax is coloured as you type, and mail goes out formatted.

Add links with the new link button beside B, I and U. Select text to link it, or click inside a link to change or remove it.

Click through them or step with ↑↓, J and K; Esc goes back. ⌘K puts the cursor straight in the search field.

Drag the sidebar, the message list and the reply box by their edges; double-click to reset. Long swipes add a second action in each direction.

The same window colours, text and borders as the Mac's own apps, in Light and Dark, with your accent colour on buttons and selection.

Inbox, Sent, Spam and Trash, each showing that folder from every account. Empty spam clears every account at once.

Pictures pasted into messages show where the sender put them, and are no longer listed again as image.png attachments.

Opens the ⋯ menu for the conversation you're reading. Pick an item with the arrow keys and Return.

Gmail signatures below the quoted history fold away, and accented subjects and names no longer show as garbled characters.

Accounts whose sign-in name differs from their email address now connect, and Check for Updates always answers.

Signatures and lines like "Sent from my iPhone" tuck under the ••• button with the quoted history, whichever app the sender uses.

Settings › General › Inbox › Open to: the tab you used last, All, Primary, Updates or Promos.

The menu on a message shows keyboard shortcuts beside Reply, Forward, Archive, Mute and the rest.

Press ⌫ or click Delete and confirm. Turn the prompt off with "Don't ask again", and back on in Settings › General.

Format your signature with the rich editor, or paste or import your own HTML, with a live preview of what recipients see.

⇧⌘D opens any message you sent as a new one, with the same recipients, text and attachments.

Hover a sender's name for their address, copy it from the menu, or show addresses right in the list.

Conversation summaries and suggested replies can be switched off one by one.

Your accounts, signatures, templates, rules and settings stay the same on all your Macs. Mail and passwords never leave each Mac.

Start it right from the app, then choose monthly or yearly, or buy a one-time lifetime licence. bytemail activates itself the moment payment completes.

Settings › Licence shows your plan and when it renews, with Manage Subscription to switch plans or cancel.

Activation links from your purchase email bring bytemail to the front and finish activating.

The Add Account screen has its own close button, and Esc closes the account picker.

Help and feedback go to hello@bytemailapp.com.

Activate with a key or a link from your email, and restore any time with a code sent to your purchase address. Licences are signed and keep working offline.

bytemail checks for new versions in the background and installs them for you.

The setup screen fills in Google's servers and links straight to the page where you create one.

Signing in with Microsoft finishes on a proper bytemail page, with clear signed-in, cancelled and failed states.

A Copy Code button on the new-mail banner, a copy chip on the row and a card in the thread. Magic sign-in links get Open Link.

Sender verification, look-alike domains, brand impersonation and deceptive links, with Report as Spam, Block Sender and It's Safe.

A smart mailbox of the conversations waiting on your answer, with a Needs reply chip on each row.

Thread summaries, suggested replies and Rewrite on macOS 26, all on your Mac.

One bold line per row, senders aligned, quieter chips and steadier times.

Suggested replies learn your usual length, greeting and sign-off from Sent mail, on your Mac.

Two-finger swipe to Read, Flag, Snooze, Archive or Trash, configurable per side.

Reply inline, Mark as Read, Archive and Delete without bringing the app forward.

As plain text with Not Spam and Delete, and "Empty spam now" permanently deletes it, Gmail included.

Drafts, Sent, Archive, Spam and Trash read the same in every account.

Message text can be selected by dragging, and the window moves by its top bars.

Quoted history and signatures are hidden more reliably, including replies from Fastmail.

Five of them in Settings › Templates.

Click a sender's name, or "to me", for from, reply-to, cc, mailed-by and signed-by.

Replies that arrive out of order, or skip the first message, no longer start a new one.

Plain web and email addresses in designed mail are clickable, and previews lose stray Markdown.

Messages wait 5–30 seconds before leaving, with an Undo button and ⌘Z. Archive, trash, spam and move can be undone too.

Tracking pixels are stripped from every message, and tracking parameters are removed from links you open.

Leave mailing lists in one click, and review every sender in Settings › Subscriptions.

An invite card with Accept, Maybe and Decline, and Add to Calendar.

"Remind me if no reply" brings a conversation back if nobody answers.

File new mail as it arrives, with Create Rule from This Sender….

Each with its own signature and Reply-To.

Move a sender to Primary, Updates or Promos and their mail follows.

Reply All and Forward, flags, move to any folder, multi-select with bulk actions, and templates.

Quick Look, open, save and drag out attachments; print or save a conversation as PDF; mute and block.

System, Light or Dark in Settings › General. System follows your Mac and changes with it.

Newsletters and receipts keep their own light card in the dark, the way their sender built them.

A conversation lands on the top of its newest message, so a long update is read from its first line.

Tables in designed mail size their columns correctly.

Accounts and folders, message list, and a threaded reading pane with the reply docked underneath.

With account-coloured rings and per-account unread counts.

Microsoft through the browser; Gmail, iCloud, Yahoo and any IMAP server with an app password, in the macOS Keychain.

Over IMAP IDLE, with native notifications and a Dock badge.

Across every account and folder, indexed on your Mac, with from:, subject:, file: and has:attachment.

With an optional helper that keeps both working while the app is closed.

Attachments, drafts autosaved and mirrored to your Drafts folder, and a signature per account.

Rendered as sent, with scripts off and remote images blocked until you load them.