I’m trying to migrate from Postbox to eM client. All has gone OK EXCEPT none of the 100s of folders I set up in Postbox (where I would file emails that I did not want to delete for records, etc.) were captured by eM client. Did I miss something? This is a deal breaker if I cannot move them over. (Email servers are a mix of POP3 and IMAP.)
Any chance that now is a good time (and excuse) to make the switch to all IMAP servers for future ease in managing your email? I bit the bullet and did it several years ago. Fortunately PostBox’s mailboxes I think are still compatible with Thunderbird so if PostBox eventually stops working for you, you can use Thunderbird to view old mail. But now make the change to entirely IMAP? I know it’ll be some work but it would make your life easier going forward. The other advantage is now I can grab any device and do email. So use PostBox (or Thunderbird if you have to) to view your old email. Then switch any POP mail servers to IMAP and move on in em client.
The other advantage is email in the cloud is better backed up than my sporadic backup procedures when I remembered to do it and not often enough.
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Thanks, Tony. My understanding is that Postbox is going the way of the dodo bird, having been acquired by eM Client. So I am trying to migrate from Postbox to eM Client. But I need all my folders with their email. I appreciate the suggestion to move to IMAP. But that doesn’t resolve my current issue. It’s not a question of being able simply to view ‘old’ email–it is my my filing system for email conversations and subjects. I need easy and immediate access.
Adding my voice as a “me, too!” 
I used to file my email too back in the days of Eudora email (which folded and I migrated to PostBox) but now I use search to find the emails I need and no longer file my messages in folders. I used to also detach attachments and file those on my harddrive but with search I can find the email pretty quickly. Also the attachments are there too and are backed up on the IMAP server. It was a huge leap to stop filing and just have a giant in-box. However, I can understand that if your filing system works for you, that’s what you want to retain.
It’s another topic but I used to file my photos by month and subject but with facial recognition and geolocation, I can find my photos pretty fast on a map or by face. So new tools offer a different work flow.
Thanks, Tony. Searching works when you can recall key terms and etc. Often I cannot. So the folders help narrow things down. Re. the photos–that is useful info. Thank you!
Thanks - Good to know I am not the only one having this issue with both Themes and filters. I LOVED Postbox and have used it nearly from the beginning. SO SAD to see eM Client hasn’t used the best of Postbox features in their product. Not as happy with being unable to get the theme to same after having multiple times edited it.
Also I can’t figure out how to quite run the filters yet. Having a simple RUN button on Postbox’s toolbar made it easy when for me with having 6 email addresses and multiple filters to move into multiple folders.
I followed this exactly, per the directions, and my Save As theme appeared just like your screen shot, but when I tried to click on it…it wouldn’t load as I had designed it. I spent over 90 minutes editing the theme, again and again, and saving it…And it didn’t appear when selected the same way as I wanted it to. Has anyone found a fix?
All I wanted was to echo Postbox theme with the left side mail column a darker background and the tool bar at the top darker. I did finally import from eM Client one almost similar and it works, but it is still not quite right and tough when on a large monitor.
Yes, my biggest nit so far is the convoluted issues with filters/ rules. Not only are then they not working properly, but I can’t even figure out easily how to run them. As mentioned, Non of my migrated Postbox filters (which took years to perfect, given 6 email accounts coming from gmail and different servers, has made me wonder if this is the right email client for someone with large multiple emails at once.
SO SAD to see eM Client hasn’t used the best of Postbox features in their product.
eM Client is currently looking at implementing Postbox features to eM Client as you will see in the below Announcement page where you can also “vote for those ideas” and also “add any other features you would like that aren’t there” on the Sleekplan suggestion and ideas page.
All new updates once implemented will then be available via the release history page.
My Save As theme appeared just like your screen shot, but when I tried to click on it…it wouldn’t load as I had designed it.
I spent over 90 minutes editing the theme, again and again, and saving it…And it didn’t appear when selected the same way as I wanted it to.
If you are editing an existing theme to customise it do the following.
1). First “click on the theme you like” and then save the theme via the “Advanced button” at the bottom right in “Menu / Settings (Preferences) / Appearance / Themes” as per screenshot example below.
2). Then open the Theme editor and “open that saved theme”.
3). Then “edit the theme” and then “save the theme” once finished via the “Save As” button.
4). Next import your new saved theme “via the import button” at the bottom of Themes.
5). Then “click on your imported theme” at the bottom of Themes and click “Apply” and “Save Settings” as per my custom theme example below. Lastly close & reopen eM Client.
There is also eM Client user created themes you can check out as well apart from your own.
Also I can’t figure out how to quite run the filters yet.
Having a simple RUN button on Postbox’s toolbar made it easy when for me.
In “Menu / Rules” (Pc) or “Tools / Rules” (Mac) you can also just click “Apply” on the toolbar to run either a single rule or multiple selected rules".
SO SAD to see eM Client hasn’t used the best of Postbox features in their product.
Give them time. They just acquired Postbox a few weeks ago.
@Michal_Burger Any chance you could add “links to individual messages for external use” to your list of requested features from Postbox?
Useful for using in external apps.
E.g., right-click an e-mail, get link to it, copy and paste in to a task management program like ClickUp. When you click the link, it opens emClient and the e-mail.
Obviously would only work on computers with emClient installed.
Any chance you could add “links to individual messages for external use” to your list of requested features from Postbox?
This might help you with linking messages to other programs.
You can currently eg: drag the email subject onto your desktop which creates an .eml message, and then drag that to whatever other program you want.
That will then open in eM Client when clicked to view or open in whatever mail client is set as default if it was then sent to other peeps not using eM Client.