1.1 (Build 400) [02/28/2005]

• Additions
• Support for Unicode character sets
• Support for Windows XP themes
• New Mail Alert logo provided by Keith Amodio (amodiodesign.com)
• New Czech translation provided by Vaclav Panenka
• Completely new installer built with NSIS 2.05
• Mail Alert will now try to use the best available language for the current locale
• Added a link to the bettaSoft Community Forums
• Reply, Reply All, and Forward actions will now cause the message to be marked as read
• Alert preview now shows context menu options (click the "More Options..." button or right-click on the alert window)
• Added ability to have no actions assigned to the alert window and alert window buttons
• Changes
• Minor changes to the Welcome and Credits dialogs
• Fixes
• Fixed a crash on Outlook 2000 when starting up
• Fixed a crash when Mail Alert is run with DEP (Data Execution Prevention) enabled; DEP is available on WinXP SP2 running on AMD64/Itanium processors
• Fixed incompatibilities with ActiveSync
• Fixed a few issues when Outlook is loaded in the background, such as when you select File->New->Message from Internet Explorer
• Setting the option to "Limit the body of the message to x characters" to 0 characters will now prevent Mail Alert from retrieving the message body at all. Mail Alert will also correctly display nothing for the message body on the alert window instead of "..."
• Some new exception handling that will provide better information if an exception occurs
• Fixed a couple of exceptions (one caused when a meeting request was received)
• Exiting Outlook with a Mail Alert dialog open will no longer cause Outlook to hang
• If alert windows will now wrap if they tile all the way across the screen
• Fixed a sizing issue with the Mail Alert Welcome dialog with some languages
• Mail Alert should now support languages with non-western character sets
• Some common (and benign) MAPI failures will no longer be logged to MAException.txt

1.0 (Build 310) [09/22/2004]

• Additions
• New "Welcome to Mail Alert" dialog
• New Spanish translation provided by Elena Santos
• New Catalan translation provided by Elena Santos
• New option to close the desktop alert window once an action executed by left-clicking on the alert window is completed
• New appearance option to control whether or not alerts fade in and out of view
• New appearance option to control the format of the alert captions
• Changes
• When tracing is enabled we no longer trace the body of the message
• Fixes
• All dutch strings are now translated
• Fixed an issue where incoming e-mail moved by client-side rules into filtered out folders still caused an alert to be displayed
• Fixed an issue where no alerts are shown for incoming e-mail when using Outlook 2000 and Exchange 2000 (5.5)

1.0 beta2 (Build 285) [08/17/2004]

• Additions
• Multiple e-mail accounts (stores) are now supported
• IMAP e-mail accounts are now supported
• International language support (currently limited to English and Dutch). Contact us if you would like to translate Mail Alert into a new language. Mail Alert will choose a language based on your Windows Regional and Language Options, if available. Though it can be overridden by adding a 'LocaleID' entry to \Documents and Settings\\Application Data\MailAlert\MailAlert.xml as follows: {LCID}, where {LCID} is the Locale ID of the language. A chart of Locale IDs can be found at Microsoft's MSDN site.
• New Dutch translation provided by Johan Geertsma
• New desktop alert appearance options: fonts and colors, sizing, transparency, and more!
• Mail Alert settings are now stored in \Documents and Settings\\Application Data\MailAlert\MailAlert.xml
• Mail Alert now respects Outlook profiles when saving settings (the settings for all profiles are stored in MailAlert.xml)
• A welcome message is now displayed the first time you load Mail Alert
• New option to close the desktop alert window once an action executed from one of the action buttons is completed
• New option to auto size alerts to the contents of the message
• New action button option to "Delete the item permanently"
• New action to permanently delete an item by shift-clicking on a "Delete the item" or "Delete the item and mark it read" action button
• New delete action icons
• New credits dialog
• Mail Alert now adds its own toolbar to the main Outlook window
• New check for update service
• Changes
• Minor installer changes (bettaSoft.dll is now installed to \Program Files\Common Files\bettaSoft\, since it is a shared component)
• Fixes
• Fixed a crash on Outlook 2000 when trying to open a new outlook (explorer) window
• Fixed an issue where a desktop alert set to auto-size could be larger than the windows desktop
• Fixed an issue where profile names with spaces in them were no stored correctly

1.0 beta1 (Build 190) [06/06/2004] - Initial release