This is a workflow feature that would make cleaning my inboxes work much faster.
I get a lot of emails from the same company, like ads, newsletters, lots of notifications, alerts, etc. In other mail clients I’ve had the ability to do something like right-click a message and choose “find similar” or at least find all message by the same sender, etc.
I’d like some way to quickly filter the current folder to all messages with same sender or similar subject lines or something like that. Then I can quickly process all those similar messages.
I realize I can just go to the search features and open the advanced area and enter an email to find, and then go select to make sure I’m in the current folder only etc etc. But first I have to open the email, open the headers, find the sender email and copy it, go to the search bar, make sure it’s only on the current folder, then open the advanced area, paste the email and search. And then when I’m done I have to clear the search to get back to normal.
Like I said this is only a workflow shortcut. I just want to right-click a message, select “find same” or whatever, and then it filters the current folder with all those similar emails. Two clicks instead of 10 or more.
You could even use the existing “filter by” dropdown, just add a couple contextual options that only show up when one email is selected, saying “Same sender” and “Same Subject” for example.
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I’m testing out em client. One feature I’m looking for is described in this 2022 post, the ability to quickly isolate (find) messages from a sender. My in-box fills with promotions, notifications, etc. I am looking for a feature to “find all messages from this sender”. Ultimately I will select-all, delete.
My work-around is to right click on the sender’s email address > copy > paste into search box > hit enter. This works but a feature would be nice.
Thanks Gary, that works very well! I hadn’t noticed the right sidebar with the email history. That is very handy as it summarizes emails with that one correspondent, it’s a nice feature!
The sidebar is okay but is still lacking some of the convenience features.
The preview is really small, like barely 100px high making it hard to quickly scan the content. If the preview filled the screen more, it would be fine.
Double-clicking the message in the sidebar opens a popup instead of the main window. Perhaps people might like popup OR main window, I would prefer main window, or some other combination like disable the hover preview and just click to open in main window etc.
Lack of multi-select or select-all so they can be archived or deleted quicker.
No easy-access quick action button like delete or forward. I know there is one icon with a dropdown, but that means another action to find something. It’s all about reducing steps and clicks!
It appears to list emails whever they exist in other folders, but I typically want to limit my preview/bulk actions to just the inbox. If I archive a message to some other folder, I don’t need to see it again or accidentally delete it. I only want to work on the inbox and/or unread messages.
I’ve migrated to em client after the announced demise of PostBox. I’m using em client as my daily email client. This is one of the most common actions I need to do, filter to email sent by one sender. Yes, the Contact Details on the right shows the history, but there is no way to see the entire message easily in the message pane.
FEATURE REQUEST. This should be simple, right click on a contact in the message list and offer in the drop down menu a search by this email address. This would the same as if I manually entered that email address in the search bar but offer it as one right-click, one left-click. This would give me all the emails from that sender in the message list and show the message body in the main window.
I perform this search by sender throughout the day, it’s probably the most frequently repeated action I do with em client.