Keyboard Shortcut to Archive an Email?

Frequently Asked Questions
1

How do we archive an email message from the keyboard?

2

There is a default shortcut defined at Ctrl+Shft+A.  Seems not be working for me currently.

3

Hello all,

Yes, the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+A works for those accounts which support this feature.

Russel

4

Thank you Russell.  The Ctrl+Shift+A shortcut is not working for me, as I said.  I recently changed from using IMAP to using POP3.  Would that explain the shortcut not working?

(I am using POP3 so that I won’t be “dinged” every time an email shows up on the server.)  

Gary

5

Hello Gary,

Yes, for the POP3 accounts, the archive feature would be meaningless. Actually, the POP3 protocol works just as Archive feature in IMAP accounts - The message is downloaded to be kept locally and then deleted from the server.

Russel

6

My archive folders are located on my desktop machine.  eM does not support archiving to “local” folders?  

Gary

7

Some other clients provide a way to move selected messages into an “Archive” folder manually by pressing a single key, such as “a”, “y”, or “e”. This would be useful.

8

This works if your server supports a compatible archiving feature. Gmail is an example where using Ctrl+Shift+A will archive the message. 

You can change the shortcut key in Menu > Tools > Settings > Shortcuts.

9

I use POP, so I want a keyboard shortcut that will simply move one or more selected messages into a different folder that is pre-specified.

10

So it is not about archiving, you simply want a shortcut to move the message to a folder. Unfortunately eM Client doesn’t support that, but you can right-click on the messages and choose Move To Folder, or simply drag them across to the destination.

11

Thank you. My suggestion for a new feature is to enable what I have described. This is a very common method of processing messages, from the user’s perspective.

12

You can create an Idea on this forum, rather than asking a question, and depending on the interest that is shown, it may be considered for future versions.

13

Thanks! 

14 
if you like the mail archive function with "A" key, I suggest you to install thunderbird
15

Further to my comment 7 months ago, version 8 now supports archiving for all IMAP accounts, not just Gmail. This is done by selecting the message, then using the shortcut Ctrl+Shift +A.