Irony? Certainly not, perhaps I misspoke given my limited English skills. Not everyone needs IMAP’s synchronization capabilities. And, like POP, IMAP has its set of disadvantages, such as the need for a reliable Internet connection, the obligation to trust the server provider for certain safety aspects, greater resource consumption and possibly a performance problem. For my part, I use POP because I manage my e-mail accounts on a unique device (desktop PC) and keep my data as secure as possible.
I took the liberty of replying to your email because I regret the general tendency to always suggest using IMAP instead of POP when the choice should be well thought out.
That’s not true, for IMAP you need a direct internet connection, but in almost every mail programme you can set that mails are also saved offline, i.e. downloaded. So you don’t have the disadvantages of POP3, but you still have everything offline.
Of course you should look for a good mail provider with a high level of data protection, gmail is certainly not one of them Without active payment, you ALWAYS pay with your data…
Of course you should look for a good mail provider with a high level of data protection, gmail is certainly not one of them.
I am my personal and business friends have been using Gmail with IMAP home & business accounts since they started and “never had any security issues at all”. They have 2 step verification in their account setups and also now have Passkeys as well to access Google accounts. They also use secure cloud billing. So I personally would highly recommend them to any eM Client user.
eM Client also sets up the desktop and mobile apps so it is 100% secure with Gmail accounts using OAuth 2 tokens. So not sure why you say it doesn’t have a high level of protection.
I never go by things like that, and they are in my opinion just as secure with data as any other major Mail Server on the planet. What mail server do you think has good data protection ?
I know this, but in the context of my needs, it doesn’t make up for IMAP’s other disadvantages. And, BTW, I’ve never used Gmail, I encourage all my friends to abandon Google and the like and, already more than ten years ago, I set up email hosting for my friends and myself.
I don’t understand this point. Deleting a message from my mailbox view does exactly what you want - moves me to the next message on the list. And opening the message full-screen and deleting it brings up the next message full-screen. Again, exactly what you describe. Maybe you are deleting the messages from some view I don’t use?
In eM Client, when deleting a message, focus moves to the next oldest message. If you have 3 messages in your inbox, and your inbox is sorted newest to oldest…
2025-01-09 10:49
2025-01-09 10:45
2025-01-09 09:30
…and you open the message from 10:45…
…when you delete the 10:45 message, eM Client moves focus to the 09:30 message — the previous message.
Some users want focus to move to the 10:49 message — the next newer message.
This is especially important if you have older messages in your inbox, but you’re trying to work through the newest. If you’re just looking at messages from today, the way eM Client currently works, there’s no way to start with the oldest message from today and automatically work your way forward. After deleting today’s oldest message, you end up looking at yesterday’s newest message.
Thank God directional delete is coming. For me, it’s the biggest shortcoming of this great mail client. Oh, and the absence of a “woosh” sound when you send mail. They got to work on that, too.
Unfortunately (as is so often the case) big promises were made and not kept. Originally it was said that the first major update with the most important Postbox functions would be released by the end of last year.
It’s now almost the end of January and there hasn’t even been a small update. I have therefore claimed my 30-day money-back guarantee today for the licence I have already purchased.
I’ll keep an eye on it for a few more weeks and see what really happens.
Oh man, I went through the list of feature requests, answered the survey for Postbox, and I realized that there’s one feature I didn’t request (or it exists and I just haven’t figured how to configure it). It’s both an Outlook and Postbox feature.
Please tell me it exists or that you’re working on it.
Based on these forum threads, it doesn’t look good for me, as it’s been asked in the eM client forums for a decade.
The 10.2 update with the Postbox features is much bigger that we originally expected, so it took more time than we thought. But we have almost everything ready and we’ll start testing it so we are able to release it as soon as possible. The list of Postbox related features is quite large.
Great to hear! Thank you for your efforts to make eM Client the best mail app.
Can you add “move replies to folder of original message”—at the very least if that folder is the inbox (most common use case for me)—as part of the batch of next features? This is very important.
This is not planned for 10.2, please note that any additional feature request for 10.2 would further delay its release, but we’ve heard this request multiple times so we’ll consider adding it to 10.3 or 11.0.
Now TB have some problems with imported MBox files, whose content (on Mac) is suddenly not visible, it turned out to be a CR LF problem, if wrong control character mails are not visible in the programme, although available.
What bothers me about IM is that it seems to use a complete database - I would prefer MailDir directories!
In which file are the mails themselves located?
And can these databases be easily transferred between different operating systems (Mac, Windows, Linux)?
In which file are the mails themselves located?
And can these databases be easily transferred between different operating systems (Mac, Windows, Linux)?
The eM Client sqlite databases are in the following hidden folders on Pc or Mac. They are interchangeable between eM Client Windows and Mac if you have the same version installed on both. I doubt the database would be compatible with other non eM Client mailers “if that’s what you are querying” as it’s custom written.
(Windows hidden eM Client database folder)
“Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\eM Client”
(Mac Hidden hidden eM Client database folder)
“Users\yourusername\Library\Application Support\eM Client”
Without active payment, you ALWAYS pay with your data…