Almost ready to release a (pre) alpha version for testing - pretty much all I need to implement for that is the signaling between the GUI and daemon.

In the meantime:

Video of the new welcome screen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLnHd8wqJl0
Video of searching / reading a message: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzuiKDXNcvc

I said everything was looking nice and fast - there were over 700 mails in its DB for this test