At last, OE Classic 4.0 is here!
Full list of features in OE Classic 4.0 follows:
New features
- OAUTH2 support for Google/Microsoft/Yahoo/AOL accounts (IMAP/POP/SMTP)
- Completely rewritten IMAP/POP/SMTP implementation which now all support TLS 1.3
- Set as default option in Options/General
- MAPI support (e.g. Send to - Mail recipient)
- Set as default program for opening external .EML files (also "Open with" shell menu)
- Set as default program for "mailto:" links and "Email Link" functionality in some web browsers
- Improved Emoji selection panel in the Message Editor and expanded and updated Emoji set
- New localization files - Turkish, Ukrainian
- Safety Options (Safe/Blocked senders): Load/Save/Copy/Paste/Select All buttons and popup menu for lists, enter keypress to add a new text value into the list
- Paste of comma or new line separated list of email addresses into To/Cc/Bcc is automatically converted to individual items
- Drag and drop of attachments to the message editor
- Completely rewritten message encoder which addresses a number of encoding issues and make a message more valid and more compatible with other programs
- Completely rewritten message decoder which is now 63% faster and more accurate
- Optimized From/To/Cc/Bcc header encoder to create smaller email address items
- More strict error checking in the Account Properties for port settings
- Duplicate recipients are removed automatically when sending a message
- Message editor size optimization creates as small message as possible
- More responsive UI - no longer blocking the communication thread
- Message structure and other information shown in Message Properties/Expert
- Edit/Copy in the main menu copies selected message text to clipboard
- High DPI support (per monitor)
- Improved messaging between Accounts/Options and various windows (Main/Editor/Viewer/Sync) to update modified settings instantly on all windows
- New keyboard shortcut in the Main Window - CTRL+I (jump to Inbox)
- New keyboard shortcuts in the Message Editor - CTRL+SHIFT+S (Insert default signature), CTRL+TAB (Cycle tabs Edit->Source->Preview), CTRL+SHIFT+TAB (Reverse cycle tabs Preview->Source->Edit), CTRL+Enter (Send Message)
- Message HTML now entirely created in memory for faster display
- New command line parameter (-identity "Name" "Password") - starts identity "Name" (optional "Password")
- More modular design makes startup faster
- Automatically fix incorrectly specified image file extensions for some emails
- CTRL+drag-and-drop to the Message Editor to copy text from a text editing application or normal drag-and-drop to move text
- Support for separate popup menus for images, hyperlinks and normal text in the Message Viewer/Editor
- Complete rewrite of the HTML display component which fixes its bugs, limitations and memory leaks
- Visual indicator in status bar of the Message Editor modified status
- Options/Advanced: Browser engine (IE7-legacy for obsolete stationery, IE-Edge for modern engine)
- Improved HTML rendering using IE11 engine
- Percent-encoded URLs are decoded to show international characters in the status bar when hovering over links using the mouse pointer
- Improved "mailto:" URI scheme parser supporting UTF-8 characters and the fields To/Cc/Bcc/Subject/Body/In-Reply-To
- Main window status bar can be clicked to open Send/Receive window (if not shown) to monitor details of the ongoing Send/Receive operation
- Options/General: Choose how often the errors will be displayed when checking for messages automatically (Always/After n errors/Never)
- Message rules editing - Double click to edit, right click menu, enter keypress to add a new text value into the list
- Options/Advanced: Warnings are made optional for permanent message delete, empty "Deleted Items" and empty "Junk Email"
Bug fixes
- Fixed spell checker freezing on rare occasions
- Print/Print Preview headers were too tiny on a high DPI system
- Reply/Forward on certain messages could freeze the Message Editor so it would never show up
- Check Names in the Message Editor now checks for duplicate email addresses across all fields (To/Cc/Bcc) instead of just one like before
- Copy/Paste of single image did not work in the Message Editor (copying image and then pasting into another area of the text)
- Switching between Edit/Source/Preview now stops running sounds and effects to avoid audio duplication in stationery
- Preview tab in the Message Editor didn't work for VBScript on Windows 10 or newer
- Embedded images no longer disappear after a message being edited is saved to Drafts
- IMAP fixes for unrecognized message lists (5 fixes)
- Fixed crash on program exit under some circumstances
- Message Editor preview didn't allow clicking on links and link preview in the status bar
- Message Editor popup menu Properties now enabled
- Blocked content bar appeared for a short time if the first opened message had external images
- No more slowdown on messages with invalid external links (showing/replying/forwarding)
- Zoom over 100% didn't scroll initial message to top
- Clicking into Message Editor uses font set by user
- Improved detection of modified message in the Message Editor
- Mouse wheel scrolling no longer shifts keyboard focus to the HTML viewer or editor
- Dragged text object no longer covers drop location in the Message Editor
- Mouse actions didn't set Message Editor modified status
- CTRL-S didn't work while in the Message Editor
- Right-to-left document wasn't properly set when opening RTL drafts
- Tab key in preview pane no longer jumps through message viewer links
- Right click in the Message Editor did not activate Paste button
- Save as Stationery used incorrect filename
- Standard folders (Inbox/Sent/Deleted...) were not localized in the Copy/Move window
- Safety Options window no longer deletes blocked senders if OK is clicked without list modification
- Updated SQLite library (v3.40.0.0)
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