Special Holiday Offer from Runbox

We are feeling extra merry this month and would like to make the holidays brighter with a special limited time offer:

Throughout December you get a FREE YEAR with main account renewals on the Medium plan or larger!

Giftbox

This means that your existing account plan will be immediately upgraded for TWO YEARS if you purchase the Medium, Max, Max100, or Max250 plan now.

The additional subscription time will automatically be added to the end of your current subscription.

Just go to Plans & Upgrades and log in, and then select the Medium plan or larger. Finally, proceed to the shopping cart in the top right corner and complete your payment.

Happy Holidays from all of us at Runbox!

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New message action menu, search functionality, and HTML editor in Runbox 7

We have recently upgraded Runbox 7 with a new message list action menu. Per popular request from our customers we have now implemented a new menu that is always shown above the message list, instead of as a popup menu shown only when messages are selected:

We have also upgraded the HTML editor in Compose and added font selections so that you can change the font face when writing messages.

And if you search for email often (like us) you will be happy to know that searches now support date ranges. Here are a few examples of date searches that you can use either directly in the basic search field or via the advanced search pane:

  • date:2023 All messages in 2023
  • date:202310 All messages in October 2023
  • date:20231001 All messages on October 1, 2023
  • date:2022..2023 All messages from 2022 to (and including) 2023
  • date:20231001..202311 All messages from October 1, 2023 to (and including) November 2023

For more help on email searches in Runbox 7, please see message search help.

To see all changes to Runbox 7, please go see the Changelog in the app.

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Email malware botnet dismantled by the FBI

Runbox was recently informed via our Internet Service Provider that a global botnet (robot network) consisting of hundreds of thousands of computers has been disrupted by the FBI.

In a coordinated operation taking place on August 29 in the US and several European countries, the malware (malicious software) known as Qakbot was removed from a large number of infected computers around the world.

What is Qaknet?

Since 2008, Qakbot had spread to victim computers mainly through spam email messages that contained malicious attachments or links. The infected computers effectively comprised a multinational infrastructure that cybercriminals utilized to commit ransomware, financial fraud, and other criminal activities.

In recent years the Qaknet botnet grew rapidly and some estimates state that it was related to around 25% of malware websites and responsible for extorting their victims through ransom payments amounting to tens of millions of dollars over the past couple of years.

Protecting your email account

As a security and privacy conscious email service we welcome this news and congratulate law enforcement on disrupting a vast network of cyber criminals who have victimized individuals and businesses on a large scale for decades.

Qaknet has also impacted some Runbox customers and we are contacting those affected directly via email in order to ensure their accounts are secured.

We strongly recommend that all email users utilize antivirus and antimalware software in addition to the spam and virus filters that are available in your email account. You can find a comparison of such software for various platforms at Wikipedia.

More information

More information about the dismantling of Qaknet can be found here:

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Better search functionality and HTML view controls in Runbox 7

With this release we are adding more advanced search features including date range searches, as well as improved HTML view controls that let you save display preferences per individual sender.

💡 To access these features, ensure that Runbox 7 is updated by reloading it in a web browser or restarting it on your phone.

More advanced search functionality

Search field controls

By clicking the wrench icon next to the search field you can now easily search only for messages that:

  • Have one or more attachments.
  • Have been replied to.
  • Are flagged.
  • Are unread.

This screenshot shows the advanced search area that provides you with extensive options for message search:

Advanced search screenshot
Advanced search area screenshot

Additionally you can now search by date ranges, for instance messages that were:

  • Received in 2023: date:2023
  • Received between 2020 and 2021: date:2020..2021
  • Received in 2021 or later: date:2021..

Improved HTML message view controls

We have also improved the HTML message view controls that allow you to save HTML and image display preferences for individual senders or for all senders.

The examples below illustrate how this functionality can be used.

HTML view options example 1

Show the text version for the current message:

HTML view options example 2

Show the HTML version with images for all messages from this sender:

Larger popular recipients list

The popular recipients list in Compose has also been improved by increasing the number of contacts from 5 to 10.

The addresses shown beneath the To field can be added to the To field by clicking on them, or dragged to the To, CC, or BCC fields.

Note that this functionality is only available when using the local search index, which is controlled by the “Synchronize index” button in the lower left corner.

Changelog since the previous release

For the more technically inclined, a list of the changes made to Runbox 7 since the previous release can be found below.

Please see https://runbox.com/app/changelog for the complete and categorized changelog.

Commits from fd5c902 to d6c1dca:

  1. Visual changes (preview): Improve formatting of the empty preview pane. (60fcacf)
  2. Visual changes (mailviewer): Increase vertical flexibility of subject field. (364272b)
  3. Visual changes (mail menu): Improve read and unread icons. (93e75ae)
  4. New feature (search): Add more options to advanced search pane. (f2104ac)
  5. Visual changes (preview): Improve HTML display buttons. (16b7a77)
  6. Internal changes (preview): Update test. (7cfda5f)
  7. New feature (search): Enable date range searches (6e8acdb)
  8. New feature (search): Enable Unread Only checkbox only if other options set (45ee5be)
  9. Bug fix (preview): Add tooltip for all senders button. (d86b6eb)
  10. Visual changes (compose): Improve and fix recently used recipients list. (ccbf85b)
  11. Bug fix (payments): Always show “payment not loading” for stripe (ff53567)
  12. Bug fix (payments): Change “payment not loading” to “not working” (e137b26)
  13. Bug fix (payments): Change “legacy” to “alternative” (d6c1dca)

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Runbox 7 updates March – May 2023: Framework upgrades and interface improvements

This constitutes a major upgrade to the framework and libraries that Runbox 7 is built on, which will facilitate further continuous upgrades and features.

It also includes several bug fixes and improvements, including storing display preferences on the server. This will make the user interface work more consistently across browsers, devices, and sessions and result in a more streamlined experience.

  1. Internal changes (deps): bump ua-parser-js from 0.7.31 to 0.7.33 (75df34d)
  2. Internal changes (deps): bump jszip from 3.7.1 to 3.10.1 (ef32ab1)
  3. Bug fix (drafts): Ensure we only refresh drafts once per folders update (f024af2)
  4. Bug fix (delete): Catch/Prevent more errors by ensuring defaults (5e83f89)
  5. New feature (mailviewer): Display incoming attachment sizes (926ab4b)
  6. Bug fix (compose): More readable attachment file size display (e44fc63)
  7. Visual changes (security): Specify which special characters are allowed in passwords. (#1401) (c575f06)
  8. Internal changes (deps): Update angular2-hotkeys to v13 (85aee64)
  9. Internal changes (deps): Upgrade to angular 12 (11b3aeb)
  10. Internal changes (deps): Update nodejs version for CI (a5cd077)
  11. Internal changes (deps): Upgrade angular-datetime-picker (2a87817)
  12. Internal changes (deps): Upgrade to v13 (4c744c1)
  13. Internal changes (deps): Change swupdate.available to swupdates.versionUpdates (ad7b36a)
  14. Internal changes (deps): Move from tslint to eslint (c010fca)
  15. Internal changes (deps): Remove –aot for start-use-mockserver (08afe91)
  16. Internal changes (deps): Remove SingleMailViewerComponent from rmm6.module.ts (ddebc3f)
  17. Internal changes (deps): Upgrade cypress to 9.7 (c38f460)
  18. Internal changes (deps): Update ical.js to 1.5.0 and use ES2020 modules (9bf6dda)
  19. Internal changes (deps): Fix selectFile file path (ee83c8f)
  20. Internal changes (deps): Update dependant packages (2c11d60)
  21. Internal changes (deps): Upgrade to angular v14 (cddac42)
  22. Internal changes (deps): Explicitly specify runbox7 for build (1b07233)
  23. Internal changes (deps): Upgrade angular/material to v13 (adef6c3)
  24. Internal changes (deps): Revert to angular/material v11 for auto upgrade (97f89cc)
  25. Internal changes (deps): Manually upgrade to angular material v12 (3e04baa)
  26. Internal changes (deps): Upgrade material to v13 (3096d97)
  27. Internal changes (deps): Upgrade angular-datetime-picker to v14 (3876111)
  28. Internal changes (deps): Upgrade to material v14 (c280c39)
  29. Internal changes (deps): Fix missing hues for SCSS (6a916d5)
  30. Internal changes (deps): Update @angular-eslint packages (8b0c16f)
  31. Internal changes (deps): Upgrade to angular v15 (2374336)
  32. Internal changes (deps): Upgrade to angular material v15 (6dc73b2)
  33. Internal changes (deps): Remove duplicate @include from SCSS (b35a68a)
  34. Internal changes (deps): Change default browser for CI to firefox (ab522f6)
  35. Internal changes (deps): Upgrade npm, comment out pre-build.js integrity check (ff13958)
  36. Internal changes (deps): remove –browser firefox from e2e tests (ab8b437)
  37. Internal changes (tests): Add DISPLAY=” to ci-tests (8441a51)
  38. Internal changes (deps): Remove unused protractor dependency (6e0f935)
  39. Internal changes (deps): Upgrade core.js to v3 (7aa65d3)
  40. Internal changes (deps): Remove unused protractor files (b7c312b)
  41. Internal changes (deps): Upgrade @angular-devkit/build-angular and move angular/compiler-cli to devDependencies (4cd4bc2)
  42. Internal changes (deps): Remove unused ajv dependency (b447972)
  43. Internal changes (deps): Upgrade angular-calendar (a273376)
  44. Internal changes (deps): Update rxjs to v7 (a87c0b3)
  45. Internal changes (deps): Upgrade @angular/pwa (d4850f0)
  46. Internal changes (deps): Remove array-flat-polyfill (8c527d8)
  47. Internal changes (deps): Update moment-timezone and remove uneeded @types/moment-timezone (478eb5a)
  48. Internal changes (deps): Update rest of dependencies (excluding timymce) (5ed129b)
  49. Internal changes (deps): Update jasmine to latest version (d0084df)
  50. Internal changes (deps): Upgrade karma to latest version (da8a151)
  51. Internal changes (deps): Update ts-* deps and node types (0b7abb4)
  52. Internal changes (deps): Update start-server-and-test (ee77754)
  53. Internal changes (deps): Update eslint and @typescript-eslint (4285f0d)
  54. Internal changes (deps): Update cypress to v10 (d350af9)
  55. Internal changes (deps): Update cypress to v11 (480b506)
  56. New feature (all): Store user preferences on the server (1409515)
  57. New feature (compose): Store last used HTML compose setting (dc1a75e)
  58. Bug fix (mailview): Store “prompted for local index” preference on server (0d9085e)
  59. Internal changes (preferences): Ensures tests set defaults, test correct values (035f28c)
  60. Bug fix (preferences): Remove old style local storage after conversion (7ca13b7)
  61. Bug fix (preferences): Ensure higher server version takes precedence (d8766f8)
  62. Bug fix (preferences): Load screensize before settings (da76123)
  63. Internal changes (deps): Update cypress to v12 (4ba7f7e)
  64. Internal changes (lint): Only include src/ else we run out of js heap memory (f359c38)
  65. Internal changes (deps): bump @npmcli/arborist and npm (9cf4279)
  66. Bug fix (compose): Generate Reply/Fwd header text only when needed (7afcbf7)
  67. Bug fix (compose): Convert reply/fwd text if compose HTML default is on (c512556)
  68. Bug fix (maillist): Store and reload column widths from preferences (cfb732d)
  69. Visual changes (preview): Improve formatting of the empty preview pane. (60fcacf)
  70. Visual changes (mailviewer): Increase vertical flexibility of subject field. (364272b)
  71. Visual changes (mail menu): Improve read and unread icons. (93e75ae)
  72. Bug fix (changelog): Add missing categories and improve formatting. (fd5c902)

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Runbox 7 updates November 2022 – March 2023: Performance improvements and other upgrades

Improvements to the app performance as well as several bug fixes.

  1. Visual changes (start): Improve formatting. (cdd4304)
  2. New feature ure(index): Separate message updating into its own thread (0c5470a)
  3. Internal changes (index): Tweak tests (and code to pass tests) for web workers (0a9f4b0)
  4. Bug fix (index): Ensure we verify folder counts against the api (1830cbb)
  5. style(payment): Clarify main accounts vs sub-accounts. (f5bd0ef)
  6. Visual changes (payment): Improve tables and buttons, and default to USD. (bf9d7a2)
  7. Visual changes (payment): Correct button style declarations. (6ed082a)
  8. Bug fix (test): Update tests. (5bcb46d)
  9. Internal changes (index): Tidy up some debugging code (6c80615)
  10. Internal changes (deps): bump engine.io and socket.io (9f38fd3)
  11. Internal changes (deps): bump decode-uri-component from 0.2.0 to 0.2.2 (f6d83a1)
  12. Internal changes (deps): bump tinymce from 5.10.0 to 5.10.7 (e0637d9)
  13. Internal changes (deps): bump express from 4.17.1 to 4.18.2 (f173b2c)
  14. Internal changes (index): Remove some index/worker console logging (f257902)
  15. Bug fix (messagelist): Ensure drag&drop of selected emails moves them all (633515d)
  16. New feature (messagelist): Allow drag&drop from more table columns (db21e68)
  17. Geir/condensed layout 2 (#1338) (8640b1d)
  18. Bug fix (inbox): Show notification when new messages appear (ef603ef)
  19. Geir/condensed layout 2 (#1344) (42a7a72)
  20. Bug fix (maillist): Add error catching for the mail list updating (89499bd)
  21. Bug fix (messagelist): Ensure user-actions don’t stop the index updates (509839a)
  22. Bug fix (messagelist): Log errors thrown by postMessage, keep worker alive (034dbb9)
  23. Visual changes (payment): Add link to Sub-account section. (2384b37)
  24. Internal changes (deps): bump json5 from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2 (6b8514b)
  25. Internal changes (deps): bump luxon and rrule (fe0405e)
  26. Internal changes (deps): bump qs from 6.5.2 to 6.5.3 (ac8703c)
  27. Internal changes (deps): bump moment-timezone from 0.5.28 to 0.5.35 (3516498)
  28. New feature (overview): Improve time span options. (02358ef)
  29. Internal changes (deps): bump ua-parser-js from 0.7.31 to 0.7.33 (75df34d)
  30. Internal changes (deps): bump jszip from 3.7.1 to 3.10.1 (ef32ab1)
  31. Internal changes (deps): bump http-cache-semantics from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 (0f6c62f)
  32. Visual changes (payment): Change description of pending/incomplete transactions. (#1371) (6952fa6)
  33. Bug fix (overview): Make Inbox selection more lenient. (50d5218)
  34. Bug fix (folders): Ensures we refresh the folder list on a name change (5fd354a)
  35. Internal changes (api): Filter for successes in te API folder calls (c13796f)
  36. Visual changes (login): Simplify and improve login screen. (#1377) (a5c5f85)
  37. Bug fix (drafts): Ensure we only refresh drafts once per folders update (f024af2)
  38. Visual changes (folders): Increase width of folders modal. (a50aa6d)

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Christmas wrap-up: Runbox 7 Upgrades in 2022

Here at Runbox we have been hard at work over the past several months making improvements to Runbox 7, our cutting edge webmail app available at https://runbox.com/app.

Our goal is to develop the fastest and most user-friendly email service available, and as we’re winding down a bit for the holidays we take the opportunity to tell you all about the many bug fixes and other improvements we have made based on feedback from you, our customers.

The most noticeable change is that we have decreased the font sizes slightly, which allows a much more efficient use of the available space in your browser:

Runbox 7 screenshot

Based on your feedback we have fixed a large number of issues that makes the Runbox 7 app more streamlined in everyday use. Through a series of Quality Milestones and a thorough review of Runbox 7 feedback along with diverse support requests we have made over 70 improvements to:

  • The overall performance and reliability of the app
  • Folder and message list displays
  • Compose and the Draft Desk, including attachment handling
  • Message view including the display of HTML and images
  • Settings including Identities and Account Security
  • Contacts and Calendar interfaces
  • Product and payment pages

You can find a complete list of all the updates made to Runbox 7 as well as a detailed changelog in the Runbox 7 app itself.

After this period dedicated to improving the quality of existing functionality in Runbox 7 we are gearing up to continue implementing the Runbox 7 Roadmap in 2023, so stay tuned for new features and improvements coming your way in 2023!

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Runbox 7 updates August-November 2022: Streamlining and bug fixing

Improvements and bug fixes to several parts of the app.

  1. Internal changes (deps-dev): bump karma from 6.3.2 to 6.3.16 (cf19be5)
  2. Bug fix (account-security): Load App Passwords switch enabled, if in use (cdbef1c)
  3. Internal changes (deps): bump terser from 4.8.0 to 4.8.1 (4234974)
  4. Bug fix (2fa): QRCodes for 2fa should be readable in more browsers (f450220)
  5. Bug fix (tests): Github actions tests failing, try more heap size (d96715c)
  6. Internal changes (deps): bump moment from 2.29.2 to 2.29.4 (7f25bbc)
  7. Checks the msg IDs given to API for certain endpoints are valid (ef6acfa)
  8. Replaced text for alias as per request from #1091 (dccf1a9)
  9. Adds a link to caldav sync guide on calendar (c30f4ab)
  10. Bug fix (api): Don’t show errors while loading data in the background (ac23654)
  11. Bug fix (searchservice): Fix compilation error (d4156c8)
  12. sstyle(payment): Clarify main accounts vs sub-accounts. (e7a2c18)
  13. Visual changes (payment): Improve tables and buttons, and default to USD. (84dc7e9)
  14. Visual changes (payment): Correct button style declarations. (4f4f50a)
  15. Bug fix (test): Update tests. (24ac6d0)
  16. Internal changes (calendar): Correctly ad/modify events in calendar service tests (ddeaf33)
  17. Bug fix (changelog): Ensure typos in commit entries do not break the page (09ed2e4)
  18. Visual changes (payment): Payment interface updates. (#1319) (ee47246)
  19. Bug fix (compose): Ensure we can attach same file twice in compose (014c462)
  20. Bug fix (compose): Only run one draft saving attempt at a time (bf44d90)
  21. Bug fix (compose): Adds code checks to fix issues from sentry reports (3769663)
  22. Bug fix (messaging): Ensure msg fetching works after network is restored (0233288)
  23. Bug fix (calendar): Setting “all day” flag on events now saves properly (007b2d5)
  24. Bug fix (compose): Enable drag&drop of images into HTML compose window (87a06f9)
  25. Bug fix (compose): Enable inserting attached files into HTML compose (ea1d989)
  26. Bug fix (compose): Remove drag&drop to compose html window (788fb1a)

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Runbox 7 updates May-July 2022: Improvements to Compose and mail viewer

Improved HTML handling and numerous other fixes.

  1. Visual changes (login): Reorder links. (2f1947e)
  2. Bug fix (index): Ensure deleting index and resyncing doesnt stop updates (eb40fec)
  3. Bug fix (mailviewer): Default dates to 1970 where not supplied (0dcc9da)
  4. New feature ure(mailviewer): Store “show html images” per sender (2e32a9f)
  5. Internal changes (deps): bump async from 2.6.3 to 2.6.4 (4e88aab)
  6. New feature ure(mailviewer): Store “show html images” per sender (94dbc1e)
  7. Bug fix (mailviewer): Ensure “with images” always turns them off/on (31b6440)
  8. Bug fix (mailviewer): HTML status buttons indicate state has been saved (#1254) (ddb0440)
  9. Visual changes (mailviewer): Adjust message display option style and formatting. (8b01d16)
  10. Bug fix (print): Print full width email with non-full viewpane (f8e89de)
  11. Bug fix (compose): Do not run a search after index loaded on compose (8e7193c)
  12. Bug fix (compose): Allow a mix of contact and typed recipients (e6d91ce)
  13. Internal changes (mailviewer): Improving the errors when an email won’t load (c79f9f5)
  14. Bug fix (mailviewer): Output mail load error message strings (f7b0f72)
  15. Bug fix (mailviewer): Cope with non-standard js errors on email fetch (1729a19)
  16. Internal changes (mailviewer): Fix tests hanging (0f2de33)
  17. Internal changes (all): Fix dev test e2e issue (mockserver crashing) (8c70f1e)
  18. Internal changes (deps): bump dexie from 3.0.3 to 3.2.2 (1759231)
  19. Bug fix (drafts): Ensure drafts sent/edited outside runbox7 are updated (2264440)
  20. Bug fix (messagelist): Enable showing empty folders, when index is off (c4a0c46)
  21. Internal changes (api): Improve error/catching debugging on msg updates (8429855)
  22. Bug fix (all): Remove unused imports (lint complains) (b1a6556)
  23. Internal changes (deps): bump eventsource from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1 (8727e1f)
  24. Bug fix (mailviewer): Don’t try to go to the url msg id if no rows loaded (4a03350)
  25. Bug fix (compose): Keep any in-progress drafts when refreshing all drafts (0814ba9)
  26. Internal changes (all): Ensure we wait long enough in e2e tests (fbcc262)
  27. Bug fix (compose): Only create new draft (new=true) once (34588b2)
  28. Bug fix (compose): Tidy up navigate “back” from compose (fde01e4)
  29. Bug fix (compose): Ensure we don’t lose content of in-progress drafts (6b0c16d)
  30. Bug fix (compose): Ensure drafts refresh keeps compose in-progress (0f4f4c9)
  31. Bug fix (compose): Speed up drag&drop of attachments onto compose editor (def6506)
  32. Bug fix (maillist): Ensure we display errors when api returns them (7d7a201)
  33. Bug fix (compose): Display drop zone (again) when files are dragged over (582dd97)
  34. Bug fix (folderlist): Check current folder counts for all folder types (987904c)
  35. Bug fix (compose): Display compose drag/drop zone (again) (cd320b7)
  36. Bug fix (compose): Keep edited draft open after refresh (7bf4fd1)
  37. Bug fix (folders): Ensure creating a new folder does not show above Inbox (4c153b3)
  38. Bug fix (compose): Refreshing drafts should not current edited draft (969cad6)

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