I just purchased MS Office Pro via my employer for $9.95 (Wow! I know - what a deal!) and now remember the things I miss in eM Client:
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The ability to run MULTIPLE rules at the same time using a checkbox by each rule to run. Benefit: Saves much time when creating/modifying and re-running rules by being able to run it all at one time on any or all messages/folders, rather than babysit and wait for each rule to run every time you change it.
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The ability to create a new rule on the fly by simply right-clicking on an email and create the rule using whatever properties the email has, e.g. From, To, Subject, Message, Text, Category, etc., then to perform any available action, including Bounce (to remove Spam from Spammer’s server) or Auto-Reply to sender. Benefit: Saves much more time to create/modify rules, organize mail, and eliminate Spam
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The ability to de-dupe identical emails/contacts by prioritizing properties (e.g. keeping x email from/to y sender/domain/receiver and deleting duplicate email from/to z sender/domain/receiver with identical message content). Benefit: Keep email file smaller, easier to manage, more efficient to read/process, and most importantly to keep email useful for communication and again, save time.
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The ability to filter/reading pane and/or create/modify rules based on wildcards/sender domain name/server (e.g. a) Reading Pane: Show only emails from *.eBay.com [make sure to include PROMINENT flag that user is viewing FILTERED content] or b) Rule Changes: Move all emails from *.ebay.com to folder “eBay”). Benefit: Save time to view ONLY important emails by domain or other properties and to create/modify rules based on these additional wildcard/domain properties to save time and make email more useful to user.
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The ability to Expand/Collapse all views based on data properties (e.g. if file sorted by subject, collapse all headings so I can view all headings at once and expand only those I want to read). Benefit: Save time and make email viewing more useful and efficient.
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The ability to sort on multiple levels based on message properties (e.g. by sender, then by date, then by subject). Benefit: Customize the view that is most useful and efficient for the user preferences and needs and again, save time.
Some other things that could help you serve us better:
- I have frequent loss of my wireless connection due to my Panasonic Microwave which obviously has nothing whatever to do with eMC. ALL email clients will error out when network disconnection occurs for whatever reason.
The primary difference between eMC and other clients is in how the error is displayed and handled. Perhaps the primary complaint about eMC is more to do with the annoying pop-up window that requires a navigation/click action every time eMC errors out - what a pain! Once my microwave is off, my wireless connection reactivates and my mail is received, but I still have to babysit the numerous and frequent eMC pop-ups.
Solution: show a hyper-linked error icon on the bottom status bar (like Outlook does) that will give the users more details only if they CHOOSE to click the icon. This will eliminate a major eMC-related complaint that was caused by outside conditions unrelated to eMC.
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An Idea Icon and/or menu link to this page for suggestions - you could even place a small light bulb icon on each viewing pane so you can receive specific suggestions based on the view the user wishes to improve.
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A “stoplight” panel on your support website showing the most requested features from users that will be implemented and being developed (green), are under review (yellow), or can’t be done (red). You could hyperlink the idea subject line to detailed posts. I know this is partially implemented on your Get Satisfaction page, but not quite as concise as I am suggesting.
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Make this suggestion pane bigger when I click into it, so I can read all my post at a glance, without so much scrolling.
Cheers!