One major need for eM Client is intuitive rule creation. I should be able to right click on an email or email address and be able to create a rule with the information automatically populating the rule to be created (per Outlook). To have to create every rule from scratch is laborious and frustrating and may be enough to make me abandon eM Clinet.
With the new major version (3.5) we introduced ability to not only move email to Junk but also to create email/domain blacklist from the email - it will create a rule in your Tools->Rules and you can modify it any way you want.
But I want the ability to direct received emails to specific folders, not junk, and certainly not email/domain blacklist. For instance, every week I get an email with a prayer for the following Sunday, When that email is received, Iâd like to have a rule that automatically puts that email in the âWeekly Prayersâ folder and notifies me with a pop up box or something. I know I can do that manually, but I would like to just be able to click on that email address or even subject box and create a filter with the email address and/or subject box already populated in the rule I am creating. Right now I would have to manually type the information or cut and paste. That is too time consuming.
It is indeed good idea to simplify rule creation - I will place it to our feature requests list and we will consider it to one of the future versions.
Thank you!
I see this has not made in the feature list road map.
Are we going to see this feature anytime soon. I and other friends are waiting for this feature.
As filter import from Thunderbird is not working for all rules, I squeezed my teeth and decided to recreate every rule from scratch because I really wanted to switch from Thunderbird.
But then I realised that there is no âCreate rule from this messageâ feature. Im disappointed because emClient is not young client and it is still missing base âevery dayâ features.
Sticking with Thunderbird for another year
Another rule feature Iâd like to see is the ability to right click an email, either when opened, or just from the list of emails in a particular mailbox and select âAdd to Ruleâ or some such. As it stands, I must open the email, then right click on the sender and âCopy Addressâ, then go to âTools > Rulesâ, select the rule I want to add it to, click âModify Ruleâ, Click on the âFromâ section, then right click and paste that address. Then save my way out before that email address is added to the rule. It would be so much easier to just right click the email without having to open it and add it to an existing rule. Is this something that can be done?
It was this same kind of clunky filter setup in Thunderbird that was the last straw that made me move to Outlook (i did not know about eM Client then). What i was using filters for was a round-about way of filing emails after i had dealt with them in my inbox. Finally i switched to an Outlook plugin (Quick File) that makes filing an email a simple 3-click matter.
Now i am looking at using filters again to work around eM Clientâs lack of a quick and automatic âfile itâ mechanism.
I really donât understand why an e-mail client doesnât support simple rule handling like Outlook indeed does for heres. I almost love this program, but this is a real real flaw. Simply make a rule with a right-mouse-button-handling is a key feature to organize your mail.Â
After going through all the features of eM Client, itâs obvious that it copies most of the features of Outlook and some of the features of Thunderbird. That is probably a clever thing to do if you want to capture those segments of users. But i donât think itâs a good excuse for not going beyond the best of both and improving the whole filtering experience so it doesnât take so much time to use.
For me this would also include adding a bit of intelligence to the âmove toâ feature so that it remembers the folder where you last moved something from the same sender or recipient, and also so it gives you a short list of folders to pick from (the most recently used ones), avoiding the time it takes to go through a long list of folders.
Hi Shanna, thank you for the suggestion, weâll consider improving the âmove toâ feature in future releases.
Thank you for your input on this,
Paul.
I have only just installed eM Client and it seems that this issue still has not been addressed. I think I need to look elswhere.
Hi Richard, sorry but this is not an issue, we do not support this way of creating Rules, you can create all your Rules in the Rules setup under Tools > Rules.
Thank you for understanding,
Paul.
Well⌠so much for what the customer wants⌠Thanks for nothingâŚ
Hi again, I was just trying to point out a difference between an issue and a feature request, we understand that this is a missing feature for some of our users and weâll consider adding the feature to future releases, but it is not an issue, itâs just not currently supported.
Thank you for understanding,
Paul.
There is an option under âActionsâ to create a meeting from a message and one to create a task from a message. I think there used to be one for creating a rule from a message. Even tho it was clunky, it was better than trying to create a new rule now. I agree with previous posters that this âfeature requestâ should upgraded to be an âissueâ. At this point, that is the only problem that keeps me from thinking this is an excellent program.
Hi Peggy, Actions are not for rule creating, creating meeting or a task from the message takes the message content and creates the following, there was no intention for using these options for Rule creation, i.e. itâs not an issue. Intuitive rule creation is not supported in eM client.
Thank you for understanding,
Paul.
Hi Paul,
I think you should rename âissueâ to âbugâ or so ⌠because a missing feature can be an âissueâ for an end-user, but it is no âbugâ. Nevertheless, as above thread (and other threads) show: sometimes people will categorize missing features as âissuesâ, not as âfeature requestâ.
Back to the real topic of this thread: if âintuitive rule creationâ is currently not supported in eM Client, then maybe it can be added to a future release?
By the way: I donât think we should call this topic âintuitive rule creationâ, but maybe âcreating rules from e-mailsâ or so. What for one person can be âintuitiveâ doesnât have to be âintuitiveâ for another person
Hi Hans, thank you for the suggestion, as posted above, we will consider adding the feature to future releases, as you can see the post has already been marked as âUnder considerationâ.
Regards,
Paul.