Monday 12 October 2015

Windows 10 Mail App: History of Updates

Here's a list of updates to the Mail app as and when they happen on Windows 10 v1511, including any changes I notice, which will be largely any visual and functional ones. 
Note:

  • I'm concentrating solely on the Mail App, not the Calendar App. 
  • Plus, only the PC version of the App.
  • Only the version that gets released on Windows 10 RTM, not Insider PC.


Updates in Blue came from other sources, such as the posting on Microsoft's Insider Forum Here


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17.6769.40721.0

RTM (v1511): 2nd April 2016

Changes

1. Move to Junk Folder

You can right-click an email and send it straight to that account's Junk Mail folder.


2. Message Preview

You can now turn off (or keep on) email message previews that you see in the inbox.


3. Create, Rename & Delete Mail Folders.

You can now open up your mail folders view, right-click a folder and do stuff!


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17.6568.46361.0

RTM (v1511): 26th March 2016

Changes

NONE

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17.6568.46331.0 

RTM (v1511): 19th March 2016

Changes

NONE

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17.6568.46271.0

RTM (v1511): 5th March 2016

Changes

NONE

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17.6568.46121.0 

Insiders: NA

RTM (v1511): 26th February 2016

Changes

NONE

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17.6568.46051.0 

Insiders: NA

RTM (v1511): 20th February 2016

Changes

NONE

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17.6568.16902.0

Insiders: NA

RTM (v1511): 13th February 2016

Changes

NONE

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17.6568.16731.0

Insiders: NA

RTM (v1511): 6th February 2016

Changes

1. Multiple ways to "Find" (i.e. search) content of emails has been introduced. 

You can now select an email in the inbox, right-click, and choose "Find" and you'll get a search/find box in the message preview pane to type your search keywords in.



You can also get to this a rather cumbersome way when you have an email open by using the top right menu hamburger and selecting Find.



Additionally, in new emails, you can now "Find/Search" them via clicking on the options menu and selecting "Find" to bring up the searchbar. 



Annoyingly, neither CTRL-F key combo or CTRL-S start this Find/Search process.

3. Zoom emails (not 100% sure if this is new)

Certainly you could always do this for emails you were reading, but you can now zoom on new emails under the options menu as shown in previous picture.

4. What's New

Less exciting, but highly appreciated, "What's New" has been added to the Settings Menu as an option. Rather oddly, it takes you to a Microsoft Webpage listing various new features you may or may not see in the app right now.


Might Be New

Don't remember seeing such a "fancy" paragraph selection choice under "Options" menu when creating a new email before. i.e. the special indent option.





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17.6525.42271.0

Insiders: NA

RTM (v1511): 31st December 2015

Changes

1. Pop-Up "What's New" Window!


After you update and first load up the app, there's this "What's New" window! I know this isn't revolutionary, but in a Windows 10 world, where finding out changelogs is much harder work than anyone would like, this is much welcome. Sadly, two of the changes it lists aren't new in this version but were new in a previous build. i.e. Linked Inboxes and Select All features.

2. Undo Mistakes

This is very useful and also very welcome. Now when you delete the wrong email, like I do often, you can undo the mistake:




3. Don't Sync This Folder

I've noticed that some folders, if you right-click them, now have the option to not sync them, but it's only a few. I'm not sure why some folders are treated differently.





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17.6515.64021.0



Insiders: NA

RTM (v1511): 17th December 2015



Changes

None noticed thus far


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17.6509.64001.0



Insiders: NA

RTM (v1511): 11th December 2015



Changes



1. Linked Inboxes



If you go to Settings/Manage Accounts, you can now set up a linked inbox.




2. Redesigned Settings

Instead of having everything under Settings/Options, they've expanded everything into their own individual menu options under settings. 



There's no new settings, other than Linking Inboxes, but, most of the settings have a useful "Apply to All Accounts" tick box now, so you can, for example, say apply the same signature to all accounts.




3. Empty Folder Option for Favourites

Not sure why anyone would want to do this, but you can now right click a favourite folder and, umm, empty it. 


4. Misc Changes

"Email Security" is in list of settings now, but I'm told from other sources that if your account supported extra security (like exchange) you would see security settings under options previously. However, now, the setting is there in list, although in my case it just says that none of my accounts are applicable for extra security.




Seen suggestion that you can now select all email, although I have no idea if that wasn't there before. Wasn't observant enough. :)





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17.6416.42001.0



Insiders: NA

RTM: 17th November 2015



Improvements



NONE

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17.6410.42011.0


Insiders: NA

RTM: 13th November 2015



Improvements



Windows Store says:

  • Added portrait week view for mobiles
  • Added context menu quick actions for calender events on mobiles
  • Added full screen reading for phablets
  • Fixed top bugs and top crashes

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17.6409.42011.0





Insiders: 10th November 2015

RTM: NA



Improvements



Can't see any noticeable differences.

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17.6403.42001.0


Insiders: 5th November 2015
RTM:NA

Improvements

Can't see any noticeable differences.

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17.6328.42031.0

Insiders: 31st October 2015
RTM: NA

Improvements

None 


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17.6326.42021.0


Insiders: 28th October 2015
RTM: NA

Improvements

None 


Oddities

Pop-out for email has gone. Still there in Calendar.
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17.6319.42021.0

Insiders: 22nd October 2015
RTM: NA

Improvements
  • Light/Dark Theme extends into Settings pane too
  • Personalisation Menu now shows a preview screen of how change of colour changes the look of app
  • New Email pop-out option

Oddities

Less Security Options - Settings for Digital Emails and Encryption no longer under Options/Accounts for my IMAP, Outlook.com and Gmail accounts. I've heard they might still remain for Office 365/Exchange accounts.

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17.6310.42251.0

Insiders: NA
RTM: 21st October 2015

Improvements

Unknown - No obvious visual changes
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17.6309.32261.0

Insiders: 13th October 2015
RTM: NA

Improvements

Unknown - No obvious visual changes
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17.6308.42271.0 

Insiders: 11th October 2015
RTM: NA

Improvements

Unknown - No obvious visual changes

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17.6306.42251.0

Insiders: 8th October 2015
RTM: 8th October 2015

Improvements

Unknown - No obvious visual changes

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17.6224.42271.0

Insiders: 29th September 2015
RTM: ?

Improvements

Unknown - No obvious visual changes

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17.6221.4228

Insiders: 22nd September 2015
RTM: ?

Improvements

Added background images to Personalization settings

Yup, this was the only change I noticed from previous BIG update, which were the new pre-installed background designs you can see in the bottom half of screenshot below.

Bug fixes 
  • Fixed other top crashes and bugs.
  • Fixed Calendar crash on boot and Mail crash navigating within the drafts folder.
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17.6216.4227

Insiders: 20th September 2015
RTM: ?

See my blog post here on the massive visual changes in this version of the app Here



Improvements
  • Moved the Mail accounts list to the top of the navigation pane for easier account switching
  • Added unread count to the Mail accounts list
  • Added dark theme
  • Added personalization settings to set accent color and background image improvements
  • Added quick actions on calendar items via right click menu
  • Added support for additional calendar types
  • Added week numbers to calendar week view and day views.
  • Fixed top crashes, bugs, and made performance improvements.
                 
Bug fixes 
  • Fixed top crashes, bugs, and made performance improvements.
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17.6208.4200

Improvements
  • Added a feature to disable conversation view 
  • Improved calendar experience across upgrades.
Bug fixes 
  • Addressed the issue that would change your default swipe action after an upgrade.
  • Addressed a number of bugs and top crash scenarios. 
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17.6204.4202

Bug fixes 
  • Addressed the issue that would change your default swipe action after an upgrade.
  • Fix the issue that would cause crashing after you've changed your conversation view and set an auto-reply.
  • Addressed syncing issues for EASI ID accounts.
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17.6131.4200

Improvements 
  • Added a feature to disable conversation view 
  • Improved calendar experience across upgrades.
  • Improvements for attachments.
Bug fixes 
  • Addressed a number of bugs and top crash scenarios. 
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17.6121.4200

Bug fixes 
  • Addressed an issue with Narrator occasionally losing focus in reply/reply all.
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17.6120.4201

Improvements 
  • Added a Calendar weather setting to set Celsius/Fahrenheit temperature scale.
Bug fixes 
  • Addressed a number of top crash scenarios. 
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17.6118.4201

Improvements
  • Mail settings, like swipe actions, are now retained across app updates.
  • Accessibility improvements for large text.
Bug fixes
  • Addressed an issue where the reading pane `will occasionally show off the screen
  • Addressed an intermittent crash when attempting to share pictures from the photos app
  • Fixed a number of top crash scenarios
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