I’m currently evaluating eM Client. My main focus is to handle E-Mail efficiently. I get lots of mails which require several activities from me. For legal reasons I have to keep a copy of those mails but I want to keep my inbox clean. My workflow is as described below:
new mail arrives in inbox (no rules apply)
I read the mail
I perform required activity
I move the mail to an archive folder
goto step 1
Step 4 is tedious in eM client:
select the mail
press shortcut for “Move to folder…”
select the target folder
press OK.
My feature request:
allow to trigger the execution of a rule manually
the rule must be defined previously
there must be a shortcut assigned to the rule
the rule will be applied on any item of the current selection
there can be more than one “manual” rules with different shortcuts
no confirmation or selection dialogs pop up
Step 4 of my workflow will change to
Hello Markus, unfortunately it is not possible to setup a shortcut for a custom rule or to apply rule on a single message only. However you can apply rules manually on your items by defining the rule in Tools > Rules, and running the rule manually on your mail folder (e.g. Inbox), right click the folder in the left pane and select “Apply Rule”, you can select which rule will be run on the folder and perform the action.
This would be a really great feature. Outlook has this feature and I use it all the time at work. It would be great if eM Client supported this. Then I would have no need for Outlook!
Actually this doesn’t work (according to elsewhere in this forum). Because there are only two triggers, the rules don’t work manually because they have not JUST BEEN RECEIVED or sent.