I use several email accounts in eM Client (v10.3, Windows 11) and often send messages from the wrong one.
Since eM Client apparently has no option to require account selection before sending, what are the best practices to avoid this mistake?
Thank you in advance.
Hi Ernst1.
eM Client does offer the option to require account selection before sending.
Go to “New.” Once open, you’ll see the default email option at the top, next to “Send.” There you’ll see a checkmark, and all your accounts installed in eM Client will appear.
Choose the account you want to send the email from, and you’re done.
You can also do this if you want to reply to a specific email.
Hi Quesito.
Though I can select the sending email before sending, in haste I have sent a work email from my personal account. It creates a real mess because now replies come back to my personal email account and get lost. Worse it doesn’t look very professional.
@Earnst1 My practices.
After eM client is open (for some reason it defaults to my personal account) then I’ll right click on my business account and “Open in New Window”. So I have two instances of eM client and I must switch windows. This more or less keeps me working only in one account per window
On the window showing my business account, in the account list I click on Inbox to make it the active inbox. When I click New for a new message, it is coming from my business email account If I leave the selection the account name, sometimes the sending email is my personal email account, though this seems to have been remedied by v. 10.3.4341
I changed the account icons to some bright, colored icons for my personal and business account so I have a bit of a visual clue as to which account I’m sending the new message from.
I have made the sending error too many times, I check the sending email account before sending as practice.
Check out this Feature Request. Vote if you are so inclined for a means so that for certain recipients (a white list) are associated with an account, if you send from another account, eM client raises a warning. Visually differentiate E-Mail Accounts when composing messages
The possibility to choose an account is not a requirement to choose an account. The possibility is not sufficient. See reply of @Tony_W and other postings / topics in this forum also. I would prefer the option for an enforced choice / pop-up of the account one want’s to send with in that moment. Others in the forum ask for more visual hints like colored borders per account etc. Anyway: Seems to be a problem for users with several accounts. In Microsoft Outlook wrong sender account happened more rarely. I can’t remember why.
Yes, I had read your work-arounds in your forum topic. I’ll try them. Thank you.
I have six eMail accounts set up in my eM client. Therefore opening several windows for every account each time I open eM, is not really an option for me. But thank you.
@Ernst1 What strategies have you seen in various email clients to increase chances of sending messages from the correct account (more so, from the correct email address that the recipient sees and responds to)?
PostBox had Domain Fencing. Essentially a white list of domains or email addresses associated with a sending email address. If I tried to send a message to an address or domain in the white list from an email address not associated with the white list then I would get a warning. This was pretty effective.
This has always been an issue for me with email clients. Thunderbird has a plug in that addresses this issue. When I moved to emclient this was one of the things that I worried about. But emclient has a fairly simple solution — don’t specify a default sending account. Then for each email you have to make a conscious choice. Works for me.
Dear fillmore,
that sounds like the solution. Thank you so much.
I immediately tried it. But within “Accounts” (see attached screenshot w/ German GUI language) I seemingly may only enable but not disable a standard / default account.
Is there another place / option to disable the default flag of an account?
Kind regards from Germany
Ernst
Dear fillmore,
great. That’s the solution. So simple. Thank you so much. I should dig through the settings more often.
Kind regards
Ernst
Excellent! Glad I could help.
Regards,
