Hard to say in that case. It was the first time I started EMClient for the day, that day. It is possible the machine was shut down with EMClient open, even though I essentially NEVER shut down my machine with anything running. Still, things happen.
JUST NOW, I tried to start EMClient after having shut it down normally yesterday, and after NEVER HAVING TURNED OFF MY MACHINE in the meantime, and it again claimed it did not shut down properly last time and checked for a corrupted database. It took ten minutes to start. This is a VERY bad sign for the usability of this software.
I am accustomed to the database structure and behavior of the Opera mail client, which, with HUGE volumes of mail never went corrupt on me in 12 years of use, and which has an inbuilt database reconciliation routine it runs periodically, that takes two or three minutes ON SHUTDOWN, not on startup.
I went to the Opera client because Outlook Express, Thunderbird, and Eudora all either had database corruptions occur with my volume of mail, or, at one point, keeled over dead just trying to import my existing mail accounts, halfway through the task.
I am looking for EMClient to not have database problems or, if it does, to be able to fix itself without going into a blue funk for 20 minutes on startup, trying to do it.
In the case above, the client eventually started fine, and then was working fine, until just now. This time I know FOR SURE it was properly shut down. I find a startup verification process which takes forever and never displays any progress indicator to be a very user-unfriendly feature.
I’m a paying customer. There are some traits of this software that are beginning to make me wonder if I made a wise decision.
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There is no context menu item to “permanently delete.” You have to delete and then empty trash. To make matters worse, with regular IMAP setup, although the “global trash” shows the right trash count, you there is no context menu commend to empty it. You have to go into each individual account and empty its trash, one account at a time. And if you do so, when you right-click the trash to empty it, you are taken out of the inbox and have to click back to it.
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There is no conversation view, though it has been promised for three years. This is a serious drawback.
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There is a mail size column, but it doesn’t show in compact list view. Mail size will not display in anything but single line view, which requires taking up half the screen with the list and defeats mail pane on right view. If you can’t display mail size in compact view, at least show it in a hover tooltip.
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List column selection and reordering does not work fully. One is forced to have the date on the first line. I prefer Sender and Date on the second line, and subject on the first line, with a line all to itself. This is not possible.
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There is no global column view setup. You have to build each view.
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I’m getting this bad startup behavior. That makes me nervous.
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The command bar is non-configurable. I can’t move the “send and receive” button where I want it (at the far left), and there is no “icons only” option. I am stuck with text labels on the command bar.
So thanks for asking. I’m afraid I turned this into a gripe session. In case you can’t tell, I’m getting very frustrated trying to find a MAPI client with high database reliability, configurable display, ergonomic design, that syncs with my GMail contacts and has a syncable calendar.
