Thanks for your response. I don’t think I’m unique in how I use my email accounts but for allot of us we have an email account from our local isp that we’ve used for years to contact friends and family, but we also use a web account such as gmail, hotmail or yahoo mail to collect all our mail because they work no matter where you travel. While we get some mail through these web accounts we get most of our mail via ghe local isp and having that address as a default would be great. Any consideration for a future update would be appreciated.
Thank you
Larr
I just want to add my wish that eM Client will add this feature. It is very frustrating and a waste of time to continually have to switch to my default account before composing a message. What is the point of having a default account if it doesn’t actually work that way? I think you have missed a very vital part of what “default account” means to us. I do not view my mail in the combined folder because I need to know where mail is coming from and to. Please add the ability to chose a single From address regardless of which folder we happen to be viewing at the time we open the compose window.
+1 for this feature. I have sent from the wrong email address several times because I use an account to manage other accounts as the OP did, and would LOVE to have this feature added to emClient.
Almost year leater, but I enjoy to this feature request with entire soul. I just ordered the license, added a few accounts and immediately it started to be more than annoying that I always need to member to set up “sender” from default account, instead of “random” one. I receive a lot of different mails for different accounts, but my reply needs to be only from single account. When I tried to move messages over different folders, the “From” started to be random, really random.
So, again, default account should be default account, including sender address, so here request as well, please add such feature. One checkbox in the “mail → reply/forward” configuration like “ Always use default account as sender”, and so on. Thanks!
I receive a lot of different mails for different accounts, but my reply needs to be only from single account.
As @Martin_Svoboda advised at the top of this thread then go to “Menu / Accounts” and click on your account on the left and there is a “Set Default” button at the top.
So then when you reply to any senders account email, your default address you set will be your reply address.
eM Client support page how to set default account
Now if you have already set the default account then this is happening as @Paul_Technical_Suppo advised “because you are selected on another non default Account Inbox” or another non default Account folder and not using “Favourites Global Folders All Inboxes” at the top left of eM Client.
When you use Global All Inboxes and the email arrives, your default address will be the correct default reply address no matter what account. That works fine for me with 4 different IMAP accounts on eM Client desktop and mobile.
Now if you are trying to set an Alias address as the default reply address, you carn’t normally as @Olivia_Rust advised above in her post further up this thread.
The only way to make an Alias address default is to “change the account email address to be the actual alias” email address.
The thing is that nope, it IS NOT.
Sorry, but these are too simple basics that I did at the very beginning, so they have no connection with how it works in practice.
Of course, in many cases the default account is used, but not in the case of the solution I requested.
I proposed option “Always use default account as sender” with some reason.
Of course, that’s why this option is necessary, because not everyone needs it, I suppose. But some users, besides me, do.
The rest of what you wrote has no sense too much, sorry - you were writing about completely not related things to the issue. Aliases? Folders? Nope, it’s not about these. I clearly said that “I receive a lot of different mails for different accounts, but my reply needs to be only from single account” (I meant only from one specified account).
Okay, maybe I wasn’t specific enough. Let’s talk about an example.
For example, I have 3 accounts:
[email protected] (default account)
[email protected]
[email protected]
These are all accounts. Not aliases (though I think this option would work for aliases as well).
5 mails came, 2 mails came to base@…, 2 mails came to user1@… and 1 mail came to user2@…
What happens when I click “Reply” to each of these emails?
If I click reply to mails which came to base@… all is good. The sender is set up as “base@…”.
And now comes the thing I would avoid.
If I click reply to mails which came to user1@… the sender is set as user1@… not base@…
and
If I click reply to mails whcih cams to user2@… the sender is set as user2@… not base@…
The location of the mail has nothing to do with it, it works this way in all folders.
This is what I want to avoid by selecting the “Always use default account as sender” option.
Do you understand now? The em Client selects the sender based on the recipient’s address, which is generally fine, but in this case, I always need to have a specified “default” sender for all replies, not matter on which account the mail came. That’s why I requested this option.
I do not use global folders etc., just “Local Folders” and IMAP account folders.
The reply address is indeed currently selected based on the recipient address, though we are considering adding more options in future updates.
At this time, the only workaround would be to disable sending from the other emails if you NEVER want to use them for sending emails, then the program will use the default.
So if these are separate accounts that for example use SMTP for sending, you can uncheck the SMTP service in Menu>Accounts for them.
(Or for aliases you can just remove them from aliases in the General settings too)
This solution unfortunately would not work for Exchange accounts.
My original request is now 11 years old. I have pretty much given up hope of you implementing this, although I’m not the only person requesting it, and surely it is not a difficult thing to code???
Dear Olivia, yeah, now that’s the support. Thank you.
Disabling SMTP worked. Thank you.
Of course it is temporary solution for now. When I need to use other account, I’ll have to enable SMTP for a moment, but in the current situation it’s way much better than by mistake use the wrong sender.
Once the option is added, I will restore SMTP for the accounts and use the option instead. Please do not forget about this. Thank you in advance.
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