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Latest News (08/May/2012)

The latest release Version 3.4 (Full version details below) stabilizes the functionalities around filters, making it easier to manage many filters. The filter list dialog is tidier, giving you a preview of what is hopefully going to become part of Thunderbird in a future version: See [Bug 450302] for the gory details. Now includes count of the displayed filters when a search term is entered (Thunderbird only)

The current folder toolbar is now even more configurable - navigation buttons can be removed as you can use the Keys [P], [N] and [T] for them, and there is a new button to show the most important mail context menus directly.

Thunderbird deprecated some intermediate CSS rules so that border radius & shadows weren't shown anymore, so this is fixed as well.

Also, the options screen got a good overhaul, by splitting the overloaded first "General" tab into two separate areas. I also made most of the User Interface options apply instantly, so that is now much easier to customize QuickFolders to provide a more pleasant user experience. Some of the hidden options for customizing the buttons on the current folder bar are now integrated on the new 'advanced' tab:
Advanced options

Major Features


Filter Learning

You can start creating filters by either clicking the filter button on the current Folder bar or by selecting the "Create Message Filters..." command from the QuickFolders options menu. To end this mode, simply click filter button again. See below for a detailed description.

New Theming Engine

This feature boasts a lot of layout enhancements and a redesigned set of option tabs. The look of QuickFolders is now selectable via the new "Themes" drop down.
Themes Selection

The new "Apple Pills" look was suggested and designed by Christopher White, to better blend in with a Mac based operating system
Apple Pills

The Current Folder Bar

I have been planning to add the Current Folder (Tool)bar for a while and it took more than a year of gestating this idea and around 3 weeks to implement. I noticed that despite best efforts I would still reach over to the folder tree for such mundane tasks as removing junk mail or flagging all mails of the current folder as "read"; usually this would be because the current folder was not actually a quickfolders tab or I couldn't actually see it as I wouldn't bother looking "up there", so I thought to myself 'having all these commands at my fingertips for the current folder, while I am reading my mail, now that would be helpful...' So I came up with the "Current Folder Tab", which is "like a quickfolder" but always representing the folder currently viewed.

It is located on the top of the Email preview area (unless you do not display the email in a separate window):

Current Folder Bar

Additionally, I was always missing quick navigation commands that would allow me to delve into subfolders, go to parent folders or go to the next "sibling" - this is what the buttons directly adjacent to the tab ar for:
Navigation Buttons
left, for the previous mail folder, the tab itself (which automatically pops up all subfolders when you click on it), right for the next mail folder, and you can probably guess what the up button is for: that's right the current parent. One speciality is that you can actually drag the current folder tab around like a folder itself and put it on the QuickFolders toolbar as a new tab.

Then to the left is a mail envelope which can also be dragged, this represents the currently viewed mail itself. And beside it the ubiquitous recent folders button:
Drag Mail Button

I am planning to create some videos that demonstrate how the new toolbar can be used.

I let you, my faithful users, be the judges of whether the new toolbar is an improvement or not... You can always switch it off by clicking the close button to the right:
Bye bye, Current Folders Toolbar!
to get it back, simply use the new command "Display Current Folder Tools" on the main QuickFolders menu:
Hello, New toolbar!

I wish everybody lots of fun with the new features, and a very productive mail year!

Older Versions, Beta Versions

Older versions can be downloaded here, although I do not recommend it; also you can download some of the betas that I am generating when I fix ongoing issues. Some of these might also be on bugzilla as patches.
I usually fix bugs fairly quickly but you might find some of these buggy - you have been warned:

http://downloads.mozdev.org/quickfolders/

Version Details

All dates are displayed in UK format: dd/mm/yyyy - you can request any version that is marked as not released or any old version listed; just send me a personal email from the quickfolders options dialog / on the Support tab - [(Jump to Screen Shot)].