Postbox • A Modern Mailbox & Mail Manager

1.60.0

Postbox now runs in World of Warcraft: Forever as well as retail, from the same download: please report any bugs you find as an issue on GitHub or a CurseForge comment (Report a bug, at the foot of the options, gives you a report to paste in). Restart the game once after updating (a /reload is not enough).

World of Warcraft: Forever

• Full names: Postbox uses Forever's first name and surname everywhere, in recipients, replies, Character Groups, Mail Memory and History, so two of your characters with the same first name never get mixed up. Type "Abla Stone" or "Abla-Stone".
• Forever's mail rules: Postbox files your characters by ruleset as you log in on them, and warns before mail to one on another ruleset or to a first name alone. It never suggests the Warband bank, and promises instant delivery only when the game does.
• A slow send isn't called failed: Postbox waits for the server, and if you close the mailbox meanwhile, tells you to check it before sending again.
• Reload now works after a style change (in combat, type /reload), and controller players get Blizzard's mailbox with the Gamepad interface style.
• Also: senders wear their class colors, From alts counts your alts' mail, EllesmereUI's WoW Forever look is matched, the options drawings show Forever's goods and the minimap icon's Blizzard style its mail art, and the quality-mark options are hidden, since vanilla goods have none. Forever keeps its own settings.

Expiring mail

• Expiring mail says where it goes: when a mail still holding gold or items is down to its last three days (one for C.O.D.), a curved arrow before its amber time means it goes back to its sender, a bin that it will be deleted. Its tooltip and Mail Memory say so too; Expiry marks (Options, Mail tab) turns the marks off, and the tooltip still says.
• One choice for both warnings: Warn about (General, Expiring mail) sets what the login line and the minimap marker warn of: Mail to be deleted, Mail to be deleted or sent back (as before), or Off. Mail last seen before 1.60 counts as possibly deleted, to be safe. Minimap marker moved there from the Minimap tab, and your choices carry over.
• The warnings agree: the marker, its tooltip and the login line name every character you haven't hidden, the one you're on included, and only for mail holding gold or items (or a C.O.D.).

The bar over finished mail

• Quieter, and out of the way: a little shorter than a row, on the list's own background, its words centered ("Done (3)"). While that mail is below the view, the bar waits at the list's foot as a small island over a soft shadow; scroll down or click it and it opens. Delete all turns red when you point at it, and takes a click only once the bar is open.
• Make it yours under Options, Mail tab, in a new Finished mail group: Bar look (Island, Hairline or Full row), Bar says (Done, Nothing left, Collected or your own words), Count, Bar icon, Bar color and Shadow color. Where it goes there is the choice 1.50 called Read mail.

At the mailbox

• Gold from strangers waits for your answer. Where the game asks before you take gold from someone it doesn't know (in Forever, and on retail from patch 12.1.7), collecting pauses on that mail: Accept and the gold comes, Cancel and it stays while the rest carries on. Postbox never answers for you.
• A C.O.D. price is red, as spent gold is, so amber means only time running out; the totals band adds the C.O.D. still to pay.
• Tooltips end with one gesture per line, in smaller type, so "Right-click to..." and "Shift-click to..." no longer run together.

Options

• A General tab comes first: every character's mail as its box was last seen, with a total, and mail about to go back or be deleted first, even on an alt you haven't played in months. Click a character to open its box in Mail Memory. Mail Memory's settings live here now, with Expiring mail and New mail.
• Choose the sound for new mail: four soft sounds made for Postbox, the mail chime, four of the game's, or any your other addons share, such as ElvUI's or WeakAuras', with a button to hear it first. It stays quiet for your own auction house purchases, which the game already announces. If you had the sound on, it stays the mail chime.
• Try your settings on sample mail: Test, beside Arrange under Options, Mail tab, works at a mailbox or anywhere else, and nothing in it can be collected.
• Windows open beside what opened them, and with Dock beside game windows on, the options follow the Postbox window as it moves or resizes. Mail Memory has the options cog too.
• The options say each thing once: no tooltip repeating the panel's description, and a grayed-out setting says what turns it on.
• What's new opens by itself, once, beside the mail window the first time you open a mailbox with 1.60 (never in combat), to say Postbox now supports WoW Forever. What's new?, at the foot of the options, opens it any time.
• Also: Reset to defaults opens downward; arranging from the options leaves them open; /postbox debug's report says which game it runs in, still without naming anyone; Battle.net friends are suggested only from a game Blizzard can deliver mail to; Keep bag slots free's first choice reads Never; a button's words no longer grow when you point at it; the quality mark on Larger mail rows is a touch smaller.

Fixed

• When the game asks you to confirm sending gold or items to someone it doesn't know, the Send tab waits for your answer, and Cancel keeps your draft.
• Sending more than 12 items in one press sends every mail in full, and Send waits while the game asks about a refundable item you are attaching.
• Delete when done deletes every letter you empty, however quickly it empties and even from the fan, and History keeps its words.
• A new C.O.D. mail no longer sets off the expiry warnings: they count it once it has under a day left, as the Mail tab's amber does.
• Reset this tab on the Minimap tab also forgets where you dragged the icon.

1.50.0

Make Postbox yours. Arrange the window your way, pick the new Postbox style in Dark or Light, and let Postbox do more of the work at the mailbox. Restart the game once after updating (a /reload is not enough). Coming from 1.40? So much changed that your settings start fresh on 1.50's defaults: on the default UI that's the new Postbox style (the Blizzard look is under Options, Window). Your recipients, Mail Memory and History are kept.

Arrange your window

• Arrange: click the mark beside the cog, then drag any column by its heading or straight from a row, right-click to hide it, click it for its choices. The totals, All mail and the category buttons move too. A panel beside the window explains it all, and Escape steps back.
• Each list keeps its own layout: one-line rows, Larger mail rows and History. Test mail fills the list while you arrange, even away from a mailbox.
• Row layout: Columns lines every figure up like a table; Packed keeps each mail's figures together and gives the subject the rest of the row.
• Character Groups: put characters together (bank alts, crafters) and give each group its own collect button.

New looks

• The Postbox style replaces Postbox Modern and is the default on the game's own UI: Dark or Light mode (crisp dark text on paper, your accent in the underlines and ticks), with your accent (Gold, White, your class color or any color), background, border, corners, row stripes, font and text size. In Dark, the tabs, Inbox and History and the other buttons like them are a clean neutral gray whose words brighten when you point at them; under EllesmereUI the Mail and Send tabs match the options.
• Window scale from 80% to 130%, in every style.
• Text stays readable at any opacity: in the Postbox style its color follows what it sits on, and an accent too dark to read is lifted, under EllesmereUI and ElvUI too.

At the mailbox

• Collecting follows your list: every button, search and selection takes mail in the order shown, and a mail with several stacks of a limited item gives you the largest first.
• Keep bag slots free (1 to 12) while collecting. Full bags stop a run cleanly, saying how many mails are left; make room and click again.
• Stuck means one mail's own problem: a small triangle and the game's own words, cleared as soon as the mail can come out.
• Sort by time left: newest first or expiring first, on the Mail tab and in Mail Memory, remembered.
• Senders in their class color, stack counts and larger quality marks on item icons, and time left on every mail ("9h", "3d").
• Take one item without opening the mail: set Attachments on hover to Fan out and click the one you want. C.O.D. still asks first.
• Tooltips read the same everywhere, with only what the row doesn't already show.
• The status line counts what you send too: "Collected: 20 · Sent: 1".
• An opened letter shows only the buttons it needs: nothing to collect, no Collect button, and emptying a mail while it's open leaves exactly the buttons reopening it would show.
• Category buttons are off by default, so All mail and the list get the room. Show category buttons (Options, Mail tab) brings back the sweeps by kind and your groups' buttons.

The minimap icon

• When to show: New mail, Mail on any character, or Always (resting in gray until something arrives).
• Expiring mail: a small marker, red unless you pick another color, when mail on any character is close to being lost. Choose its shape (dot, ring, square, bar, "!" or a triangle that fits its spot), put it on any corner, side or the center of the icon, and nudge it a pixel at a time with Offset X and Offset Y. On Always it stays on the map while the icon is hidden, the same size and in the same place; Larger when alone makes it bigger there.
• Glow color: gold, your accent, your class color, white or any color you pick, for the glow, its pulse and the new-mail flash. It replaces Accent tint.
• A tidier Minimap tab in five groups (When it shows, Icon, Glow, Expiring mail, Place), with a big live preview beside the icon at its real size. Settings with choices show them side by side, and a grayed-out setting says what turns it on.
• Count on icon, and sizes from 16 to 40 px.
• A tidier tooltip: your own mailbox first, then each of your other characters with mail.
• The Minimal badge style is retired: its dot clashed with the expiring-mail marker.

History and Mail Memory

• History has its own layout, shows when you collected ("3d ago" or the date), and its search can look through every character.
• Keep History for: Never turns History off, after asking.
• Mail Memory shows what each mail holds, and you can hide characters you no longer play.

Sending

• Sending gold asks first, and asks again if the name, the amount or C.O.D. changes before you answer.
• Ctrl+Enter sends from any box, the gold included (a setting, on by default).
• After sending, keep nothing, the recipient, or the recipient and subject.
• Shift-click an attached item to link it, Ctrl-click to try it on.

Options and commands

• Five tabs, and a panel beside them that explains and previews whatever you point at, in a sentence or two.
• The Window and Mail tabs preview the Mail window, small: its tabs, mail rows, the totals band, the category buttons and All mail, wearing each tab's settings live.
• Reset to defaults opens a menu: Reset this tab, Reset settings or Reset everything, each saying what it clears before it asks.
• What's new? in game, from the options or /postbox whatsnew. /pb works like /postbox, and either on its own opens the options.
• French, German and Spanish with their proper accents; Chinese gold amounts in 万/亿 and 萬/億.

Fits your UI

• EllesmereUI: your font everywhere from login, your accent, and Match EllesmereUI opacity and border, like the windows beside Postbox (atrocityEssentials' included). EllesmereUI's Blizzard Style puts Postbox in its Blizzard look to match.
• ElvUI: your ElvUI accent, live.
• Baganator and EllesmereUI bags gray out unmailable items correctly when you switch to Send.

Lighter

• A fraction of the memory garbage: a 50-mail list refresh leaves under 2 KB behind (35 KB in 1.40), a collect run about a third of before, and switching Mail/Send redraws your bags once. Away from a mailbox, nothing runs on a repeating timer.

Fixed

• Updated for patch 12.1.5.
• Everything Postbox does stays with the exact mail you chose, even when the mailbox reorders itself while it works: a C.O.D. you confirm pays once, and "C.O.D. paid" appears only once the payment is seen; deleting in bulk only ever removes finished mail you chose.
• Send refuses C.O.D. with queued attachments instead of sending, and Ctrl+Enter sends a mail once.
• A C.O.D. mail with several items comes out whole after you pay.
• A letter holding only gold keeps its words in History, and Delete when done removes every letter you empty, the first after login included.
• A slow server reply no longer marks a mail stuck, and the reagent bag no longer counts as room for collecting.
• Collecting auction mail no longer flashes a "Read, nothing left (1)" bar.
• Grayed-out bag items keep one steady gray while you attach, and Baganator repaints cleanly.
• Short gold figures never round up: 12,960g reads 12.9k.
• The mail list stops at its last mail, its scroll arrows point the right way, and slot counts are never cut short.
• Postbox's questions open in front of its other windows.
• On EllesmereUI: your look is there from login, a chosen border no longer shows a shadowed frame inside the window, and the icon sits right on round minimaps and the Classic ring.
• Flash on new mail plays for the mail that brings the minimap icon up.
• Recent recipients remember their realm: a name you mailed on one realm is offered with its realm on every other, and your characters on other realms wear their class color in the Send tab, Manage Recipients and the groups.

1.40.1

Improved

• Read mail stays in the list, under a divider that waits at the foot of a long inbox with Delete all. Click the divider to fold it away; Postbox remembers.

Fixed

• No more stray scroll bar on a list that already fits.
• The resize hint no longer reappears while you drag.
• The "Read, nothing left" bar no longer shows mail through it or leaves a gap at the bottom.

1.40.0

The biggest Postbox update yet. Every character's mailbox in one place, a History of everything you collect, and a tidier inbox. After updating, restart the game once (a /reload is not enough) so Postbox shows up in the minimap's addon menu.

New

• Every character's mailbox, in one place. Mail Memory remembers what each of your characters has waiting. Check any of them from the minimap icon, wherever you are, or right in the Mail tab when you are at a mailbox, and search all of them at once.
• History. The clock beside Inbox lists everything Postbox collected: when, from whom, what it was worth, and what each letter said. It keeps a week, or up to a month if you like.
• Warnings before mail is lost. Postbox tells you when mail on another character is about to expire, or has been waiting on a character you have not played in weeks.
• See new mail before you reach a mailbox. Auctions that sell, expire or are bought while you are away show up in Mail Memory by item name.
• From alts. A new button collects everything your own characters sent you, on any realm.
• Alt+right-click attaches every stack of an item at once; whatever does not fit waits in the queue.
• Postbox speaks Traditional Chinese (繁體中文), translated by samuelbears, who also brought us Simplified Chinese. Thank you! If a word reads oddly, please say so on GitHub.

Improved

• One tidy inbox. Mail still to collect comes first. Read mail with nothing left in it folds away under a divider that deletes it in one click. Rather have it elsewhere? Options can give it a tab of its own, or delete it for you as you go (History keeps what it said).
• Compact rows by default, lined up in neat columns. You choose what each row shows (gold, slots, time left) and in what order; "Larger mail rows" brings the two-line rows back.
• Clearer counts. Inbox counts everything in the box, each button counts what it would collect, and a button with nothing to do is greyed out.
• Crafted items and reagents show their quality mark on the icon.
• Handy shortcuts: click "Stuck" in the title bar to see only the mail the game would not hand over, right-click "Attachments" to empty a mail you are writing, and clear a search with one click. "AH Bought" is back, and its button now leads the row.
• Faster on big mailboxes and long histories, and the options fit on screen again.
• Also: names without the realm, searching "sold" or "AH" finds auction mail, Mail Memory can list what expires first and be made wider, the resize grips explain themselves, and the new-mail sound and flash work with Mail Memory switched off.

Fixed

• The minimap icon's tooltip could say "Nothing waiting" on a character whose mail had arrived while it was logged out.
• "Stuck" warnings could appear on mail that was never refused.
• Buying from the auction house played the new-mail alert twice.
• The Postbox Modern look could interfere with other addons' tooltips.
• Mail Memory lost track past 50 mails, and one of its tooltips could cause an error.

1.39.0

New

• Postbox speaks Simplified Chinese: every window, message and tooltip, translated by samuelbears. Thank you!
• Traditional Chinese still shows English. It needs a translation of its own, and contributions are welcome.

Every earlier version is in the full changelog on GitHub.