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Get the Latest OwluCustom Email, Organizations & Teams, Agent Chat & DataSheet
Owlu's biggest release yet: custom & self-hosted email, organizations and shared mailboxes, a conversational agent with dedicated screens, typed DataSheets, and a mail engine rebuilt on NWConnection.
- Custom & self-hosted email: connect any custom-domain or company IMAP account via a full-screen setup wizard, with real-time IDLE delivery and Owlu-hosted mailboxes gated behind DNS domain-ownership verification
- Organizations & Teams: redesigned member invites (production-grade emails + web landing), shared mailboxes and addresses, and Owlu-hosted organization domains
- Agent chat: dedicated compose-confirm and find-mail screens backed by MCP tools, recommended-workflow preset cards, resumable build agents, and cross-domain unified search
- Workflows & DataSheet: typed columns with CSV persistence, one-source → multiple-rows distribution, web-search fan-out, approval cards showing real node results, and a per-node sending-account picker
- Attachments: large-attachment sending via OneDrive offload (Outlook) and a unified end-to-end download path
- Mail engine: MailCore IMAP transport migrated to NWConnection (11 operations), one-click List-Unsubscribe, and UIDVALIDITY change recovery
- Outlook: real-time Sent folder, self-send identity rotation & restore, and Graph draft server sync
- Permissions & reconnect: a universal permission gate with a Settings grant window, plus active 'reconnect account' banners
- Fixed crashes on new-mail receipt, account unlink, and draft restore
- Sending: double-send idempotency guard, optimistic background send, and removal of the Gmail delete 'flicker'
- AI summaries: fixed summaries that never arrived or stayed stuck until restart (WebSocket reconnect)
- Calendar: remind rows now render, event start/end timezones corrected, and duplicate schedule rows removed
- Security: raw email addresses removed from telemetry, account-deletion cascade hardening; signed, notarized & Gatekeeper-verified
Network Canvas Filtering, Workflow Polish & Notification Approvals
Multi-select sender filtering on Network Canvas, a resizable agent chat with a mail-edit node, fully localized workflow UI, and approvals straight from notifications.
- Network Canvas: multi-select sender bubbles to filter mail, plus a mail action bar (share / remind / label) and right-side list selection
- Workflow: resizable agent chat and a mail-edit node (watermark / AI rework)
- Workflow: horizontally scrollable home & tab bar, shareable presets with privacy sanitization
- Workflow: fully localized UI (English / Korean / French / Spanish / Japanese)
- Approvals: accept or decline directly from the inbox and system notifications
- Sign-in: removed false 're-authenticate' alerts, fixed login-screen bounce on restart, session-expiry recovery & de-duplication
- Calendar: fixed weekly-view scroll ghosting
- Fixed blank organization AI summaries, a missing guided-tour card, a draft-restore crash, and approval / cold-launch races
- Optimistic background sending and a redesigned OAuth callback
- More efficient mail overview with a token-usage guard
- Security hardening & code-audit fixes; signed, notarized, and Gatekeeper-verified
Workflow Automation, Network Canvas & Guided Onboarding
A ground-up workflow automation editor, an AI-powered Network Canvas rebuilt with Metal, a guided first-run tour, and redesigned search.
- Workflow automation, fully revamped: node-based editor, calendar integration, background execution, and a persistent notification inbox
- Network Canvas: AI-powered organization & contact recommendations, rebuilt with Metal rendering
- Guided onboarding tour for first-time users (Mail · Calendar · Network)
- Redesigned search: Outlook-style bar with scope filters and inline highlighting
- AI email summaries: thread-level summarization with collapsible cards
- Gmail custom label sync & starring
- Settings moved to a dedicated, redesigned screen
- Dark-mode readability, a redesigned compose button, and list animations
- More reliable sign-in: automatic OAuth re-authentication & reconnection fixes
- Signed, notarized, and verified by macOS Gatekeeper
Mail List Performance & IMAP Operation Improvements
Focused on caching, pagination, and IMAP command reliability for faster inbox loading.
- MainUI left/right resize performance optimization
- TOS link insertion in onboarding
- Trash move operation stabilization
- Google login view link improvements
- Workflow easter egg insertion
Body Sync 15× Speedup, Security & Multi-Account Stabilization
Massive performance improvement in email body sync, OWASP security compliance, and multi-account bug fixes.
- Email body sync speed improved 15× with work-stealing architecture
- OWASP ASVS security requirements compliance
- IDLE monitoring stabilization and recovery
- Access token refresh system error resolution
- Email list left/right resize lag fix
- EmailWindowStore removal — list architecture refactoring
- Header sync architecture improvement with work-stealing
- Additional account AI data transmission stabilization
- CustomIDLE 45-second timeout crash fix
- Duplicate body sync execution prevention
- Folder switch UI bug fix and header sync improvements for additional accounts
- preAI: cross-account email AI data processing support
- Network canvas issue resolution
- Calendar error fixes and workflow creation improvements
- Select All functionality for email list
- Navigator folder tree bug fixes
- Session token extraction changed to fragment-based approach
- Read/unread error fix, header sync work-stealing applied
Email Business Card & ControlView Stabilization
Business card editor added, EmailControlView restored to stable state, and release-mode app deletion instructions documented.
- Business card editor: create and attach professional email signatures
- Logo and photo square cropping support
- EmailControlView (email detail) fully stabilized
- List rendering performance improvements
- Release-mode complete app deletion documented
Security-First IMAP Architecture
Rebuilt email access on a direct IMAP-based architecture — emails are fetched on-device and never stored on Owlu servers.
- IMAP-based direct email access architecture implemented
- Zero email storage policy on Owlu infrastructure
- OAuth 2.0 authentication flow enhanced
- TLS encryption enforced for all IMAP, API, and WebSocket connections
- Session token-based IMAP connection with multi-account support
- Parallel sync optimization for IMAP operations
Shortcut Enhancements & Performance
Optimized launch routines and expanded keyboard command handling across all views.
- Expanded keyboard shortcuts for navigation, archiving, and undo
- App launch routine optimization
- Faster keyboard command handling
Sharp Shortcuts, Smarter Flow
Refined interactions from navigation to archiving to undo.
- Navigation shortcut refinements
- Archive workflow improvements
- Undo/redo stabilization
AI Summaries, IMAP 2-Stage Sync & Email Compose
Foundation release with AI email summaries, IMAP sync, and full email composition.
- AI summary generation for emails
- IMAP 2-stage sync: header-first, then body download
- GmailMessageID-based storage refactoring
- NavigatorViewModel section logic and per-account InboxType UI
- Inbox filter and navigation bar decoder
- CoreData model refactoring: UserEntity consolidation
- EmailControlView: full-screen email detail with CoreBridge state continuity
- Email compose and send implementation (SMTP)
- Email filtering and UI integration full refactoring
- CategoryView UI improvements and AIPersonaView adaptive layout fix
- WebSocket persistent connection improvements
- Secure auto-updates via Sparkle
- APP_README.md + CR_README.md full documentation renewal