Email forwarding, personal pilot invitations, and delivery failures in Outbox

Email forwarding now lives under Profile in Settings: confirm an outside address to receive copies of new mail that reaches your inbox, while keeping your mail in BTC.email. Personally invited pilot members receive a greeting and a private link to choose their password once their inbox is ready. When our email provider accepts a message and then cannot deliver it, Outbox and the send notice now say so with the reason, Contacts opens straight from a link, and connecting an agent starts with no permission checked.

Historical update · October 31, 2026

Bitcoin activity searches now keep addresses and notes out of request URLs, and the optional invoice note explains who can read it before you create the invoice.

The wallet’s Leaving note now explains that withdrawals through BTC.email require the service and its wallet provider to be available, without promising an independent recovery path that has not been proven.

The inbox now opens with your conversations already listed, instead of showing an empty list until the page has loaded and asked for them, and it loads far less code before you can read: the editor arrives when you first write, and every page of the site now loads only the styles it uses.

The combined limit for new draft attachments now leaves more room below the mail service’s draft limit. File sending remains paused until its safety checks pass.

Forwarding confirmation requests now share a limit for each outside destination across accounts, so several accounts cannot repeatedly send codes to one address.

Community email unsubscribe requests no longer share one small limit across everyone whose mail service uses the same network address.

Connecting an agent now explains the five-minute approval window and why opening a newer connection link replaces an earlier request, with steps for signing in from another computer.

Inbox shortcuts now keep your place when you return from an Islands conversation. Shift+Esc returns focus to the inbox while keeping your draft open, Gmail’s font and From keys work in the composer, the sample inbox honors Reply all after closing a reply, and shortcut help explains the keys BTC.email uses differently.

The reading-pane position select in the reader toolbar and the writing-mode select in the composer now sit inside the bar with room above and below, the same size as the hover wash of the buttons beside them, and hover the same way those buttons do.

Opening a Community conversation now keeps the reply box and Post reply in view under the replies, instead of behind a Reply to conversation line that also hid the button below the fold.

Community member lists and the Mention a member list now show each name beside its picture, and Members, Muted members, and Subscribed threads describe themselves instead of repeating the room's description.

Soft Square is the new BTC.email mark across the site, app icons, email templates, and share cards, with matching social artwork and launch films. The homepage wordmark, Watch the film, and footer Video open the film with sound; About plays it muted.

A draft that was not sent because of a recipient now says why each time you open it, even after a reload or on another device: You haven't written with them yet, with Add and send, or Unblock them first for someone you blocked.

Add and send in the composer now sends right away, as Add and send in the notice already did, instead of starting a second Undo send wait.

The Senders list beside your folders now marks anyone who is also in your contacts, as Settings does, and Settings now links straight to Contacts, which opens over your inbox.

Removing someone who is still in your contacts from the Senders list beside your folders now offers Open Contacts, as Settings does, so you can delete the contact too.

A message from someone in your contacts now shows the name you saved for them and In your contacts, instead of their bare address and New sender, when no sender rule names them.

Mail from anyone who is not among the people you know is now kept out of your inbox and unread counts from the moment it arrives, while mail from people you know still arrives right away.

When our email provider accepts a message and then cannot deliver it, for example because the address does not exist, Outbox now says Not delivered with the provider's reason, and the message's notice changes from Message sent to Message not delivered.

After you send, the notice now checks again more often and for longer while your inbox stays open, so Message not delivered appears soon after our email provider reports the failure.

When you connect an agent, no permission starts checked, so you choose each one before you review, and the Connect your agent guide now leads with a command that asks only for read access and offline access, which stays unchecked unless you turn it on.

When an agent asks for offline access, the approval page now always shows Allow offline access, still unchecked, including for agents that sign in without asking you to confirm again.

An open Connections tab in Settings now updates when each agent last used its connection as soon as you come back to the window, without Refresh connections.

A personal invitation opens the password setup form, then lets you sign in with your new address or personal email.

Forwarding starts only after you confirm the destination address. Changing it needs a new confirmation, and you can turn forwarding off in Settings. The FAQ explains how copies reach another inbox while originals stay in BTC.email.

Mail kept out of your inbox is never forwarded. Your forwarding address stays private and does not change your sign-in email or public profile.

The Coming from Gmail guide and Privacy Policy now explain optional forwarding and the copies sent to your chosen email service.

On a phone, the inbox header’s balance chip now fills its row from the left edge, so the row lines up with the search field under it.

Keyboard focus on an icon control, a dialog’s Close, or a row menu’s items now draws its ring inside the control, so it no longer disappears behind the next row, a dialog edge, or the menu edge.

In Search options on a phone, the Date within span now fills its column and its label stays on the first line, as Search in does.

Show formatted message and Open in a new tab are now a matching pair of buttons, and on a phone they, the reply bar, and the composer’s Save draft, Send, and Schedule send fill their rows edge to edge.

In Settings, your referral link now sits in one field beside its On/Off switch, with Copy link under it, instead of a switch and a separate Shareable link row.

On the narrowest phones the inbox header no longer wraps the bitcoin price onto a row of its own; the Bitcoin tab in Settings still shows it.

In Search options on a narrow phone, every field now stays on one line beside its label.

Download original in a message’s Details is now a button like Mark unread from here, Print, and Filter messages like these beside it.

On a phone the composer’s Save draft, Send, Schedule send, and Add Bitcoin now sit in two even columns above the tool icons, which fill each row in turn, instead of four uneven rows.

A scheduled send your agent queued, which waited while we paused agent scheduling and then sent, no longer reports that wait as an error.

The footer's Product column now lists Agents in place of Release notes, and these release notes have a new front-page design with a pinned day in the margin and numbered briefs.

A Lightning invoice you pay now shows Completed in Bitcoin activity when the payment goes through, instead of staying Pending.

BTC.email is now on X as @BTCemail, linked from the footer under Company, and the Sub-Processors page is reached from the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service instead of the footer.

On the About page, the original concept sketch, its caption, and its milestone now open the founder's post on X that published the sketches, in a new tab, and every historical source off the site opens in a new tab too.

The footer's large wordmark no longer trims the top of the dot on its i.

You can no longer change your address while it is listed for sale on the Marketplace; cancel the listing, or let its sale finish, first.

Retrying a Marketplace purchase after its first payment went through no longer reports insufficient funds for money you already sent.

The Profile tab in Settings now uses the whole width of the page: fields sit two to a row on a desktop, your picture's controls share one row, the public page facts sit side by side, each wallet address sits beside the other with the QR code beside its choice, and every section is shorter, so the tab takes far less scrolling at every size.

Account mail from BTC.email, such as a password reset or a new-device alert, no longer offers an Unsubscribe control, and a reply to it reaches support instead of an unmonitored address.

The sign-in, confirmation, and recovery emails now say that their link or code expires in one hour and works once, and the email that confirms a new sign-in address now tells the current address holder not to confirm a change they did not ask for and how to lock the account.

Security notices now include a Review account security link to your devices.

A message that bounced for a temporary reason, such as a full mailbox, no longer blocks every later message to that person; only a permanent bounce or a complaint does.

A forwarded copy to your outside address now says that BTC.email forwarded it and whether the sender's domain was authenticated, and a text-only forward dates the original in UTC.

Mail to one of your addresses can no longer be held back for an hour by a stranger sending many messages to it; only mail that actually reaches you counts toward that address's hourly allowance.