The one where your inbox stops believing every email about when it was sent. Trust issues, but healthy ones.

Fixed

• Late mail now shows up where new mail belongs: on top. A message that took two days to reach you used to file itself under its two-day-old Date header, deep in last week, quietly keeping the unread counter at "1" while you searched for a ghost. Skim now sorts by when the message actually arrived, like Gmail does. Ghost found, exorcism complete.

• AI provider outages get a human sentence instead of error code: 522. When the provider (or the Cloudflare in front of it) is having a moment, Skim retries once, then tells you in your own language that the provider isn't responding and to try again in a minute. No more raw HTTP codes.

• Opening a just-arrived message no longer starts from scratch. Background prefetch used to abandon a half-downloaded body the moment you clicked, dropping the connection it had paid for, so your click waited for a fresh login. Now a body that's started always finishes, and your click gets the warm connection.

Housekeeping

The one where a new email no longer holds you in a queue behind itself. You tap the notification, Skim was already downloading that exact message, and it used to make you wait for that download, give up on it, then start again from scratch. Efficiency!

Fixed

• Opening a message you just got is quick again. Clicking a message that had just arrived could hang on "Fetching from the server " for up to a minute. Your click used to wait in line behind the background download that runs when mail lands, including the download of the very message you clicked. Now clicks go first.

• Work in progress isn't thrown away. If you open the message Skim is already downloading, the open waits for that download to finish and uses it. Before, it cancelled the download, reconnected and fetched the same message again.

• Bursts of mail don't pile up. When several messages land at once, their background downloads merge into one batch with one time limit. They used to queue up one after another, each with its own 15 seconds.

Housekeeping

Hey guys, I personally use Windows, so I developed Skim for Windows only.

But I see a lot of intent among people to use it on Linux.

The one where Skim stops impersonating a corpse.

A self-update could relaunch Skim into a window with a titlebar and nothing. Restarts didn't help. Reinstalling didn't help. Then, hours later, it just came back which is somehow more unsettling than staying broken.

Turns out nothing was broken. The whole UI was waiting on the first mailbox query, that query was politely queued behind the catch-up sync, and the app had no way to say "hang on, I'm reading" so it said nothing at all. For hours. In an empty window. Cool.

Fixed

The one where Chinese, Japanese and Korean mail stops looking like a row of . Turns out "just assume UTF-8" isn't a real internationalization strategy. Who knew.

Fixed

• CJK charsets decode properly. GBK, GB18030, Big5, Shift_JIS and EUC-KR subjects and bodies now come through as actual text, not replacement characters (#53).

• Already-garbled mail repairs itself. Folders that were holding the broken messages get refetched once on the next sync, this time decoded properly. You don't need to do anything.

• A stale connection no longer shows up as an error. When the server quietly drops the socket, sync reconnects once and carries on instead of complaining to you about it.

Housekeeping

The one where a big grouped inbox stops making you wait a full minute to open an email. Turns out asking SQLite to rescan the whole folder once per message is bad for business. Who knew. (We should have.)

Faster

• Grouped inboxes are fast again. Picking the newest message in each thread used to walk the entire folder once per message. That's quadratic, and on a 15k-message inbox it took over a minute, and every other read waited in line behind it. So after launch you got a blank list and a nice long think. One new index later, the same query takes 68 s 20 ms. A test now pins the query plan so it can't quietly come back.

• Inline images no longer freeze the window while a sync is running. They're now loaded off the UI thread, where they should have been all along.

New

The one where Skim stops being picky about which AI you talk to, and the whole app goes on a diet at the same time. Efficiency and choice, in one download. You're welcome.

New

• Bring your own AI endpoint (OpenAI-compatible). A third provider joins Anthropic and OpenRouter: point Skim at any OpenAI-compatible API Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, your homelab gateway, whatever. Just a Base URL and a Model ID; the API key is optional (leave it blank for local servers that don't want one). No key = no Authorization header, so your Ollama box stops complaining. (Closes #12.)

• AI chat that can actually breathe. The command palette (Ctrl+K) can now expand to near-fullscreen for reading long answers one toggle in the corner, only in chat mode. Repeat Ctrl+K flips it open/closed instead of nuking the palette. It remembers your preference, and text stays in a comfy ~760px reading column instead of sprawling edge-to-edge.

Fixed

The one where your mail finally stops introducing itself as a.very.long.address@example.com and starts signing off like a grown-up.

New

• Your name on outgoing mail. Skim always had a slot for a display name it just never bothered to fill it. Now it does, per account. And it doesn't ask you: it takes a quiet look at your Sent folder, notices what you actually sign with, and adopts it. Guess once, never again, and never after you've touched the field yourself. (Microsoft OAuth hands the name over at connect time, because it's already right there in the token. Google makes us do it the hard way.) closes #43

• Per-mailbox signatures. One plain-text sign-off per account, inserted into the draft the moment you open the composer so what you see is exactly what goes out, and the copy in IMAP Drafts matches. Comes with the proper -- delimiter pre-typed, which also means the AI co-author and the language detector politely skip over your sign-off instead of studying it. closes #42

Fixed

The one where your second computer stops greeting you with a breathless "12 NEW MESSAGES!" about mail you finished reading at lunch.

Fixed

• No more ghost notifications. Read your mail at work all day, come home, boot the other machine and Skim used to toast about every single message that arrived meanwhile, badge and all. It had the "already read" flag right there in its hands the whole time. It just... didn't look. Now it looks. Only mail the server still holds unread gets a toast.

• The tray badge tells the truth on startup. It used to paint yesterday's unread count the instant the icon appeared, then quietly correct itself minutes later after a full folder sweep. Now the badge waits for the first inbox sync and shows the real number no stale flash, no "wait, where did those 12 go?"

• Badge follows push, not the 5-minute poll. The IDLE-driven inbox sync the one that actually fires when mail lands never repainted the badge. Now it does, on success and on failure (offline still gets the cached count, just honestly).

Housekeeping