Migration to em client from Postbox - how it's going for me

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@Poetnerd

Because eM Client harvests messages from all folders, suddenly the Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) I keep in my SENT folder means that all conversations now have two copies of any reply I make.

That’s normally how conversations show / work if you BCC to emails. Other mail clients i’ve personally used do the same thing. Sounds like your previous mail client had a unique option within conversions settings not to do that. If there is a way not to do that in eM Client someone will update this thread.

Worse, if I use the “delete the whole conversation” feature, my BCC in the SENT folder will be deleted too.

That’s also normal with other mail clients I’ve personally used when you enable conversation view if you delete the entire conversation, as the sent messages “are all connected to the same conversation” so they also get deleted.

So to avoid that in eM Client, you could instead delete a specific message within the conversation (rather than deleting the entire conversation) by “clicking / expanding the message numbers on the right of the conversation” where then “at the end of each specific message in the conversation” you can individually delete a message and maybe then keep the rest of the conversation you want, to then keep your sent BCC message.

With Categories enabled, new email that’s been classified, for example as, “Other” the message is not visible in the default INBOX folder.

That’s how Category’s work. That’s not a fault. If a new email has been determined to be in a specific Category type, it will then only show in that Category tab & initially also show in the Unread folder within Favourites (unified global folders) till its been read.

If you then want that email to always be in your Primary Inbox for future, you can either “drag the message back to your Primary Inbox Tab” Or “Right click on the subject of the message” and select Category tabs and select your Primary Inbox Tab.

Either way, you will see a prompt confirmation box appear with shortcut keys for future emails. Those emails will then always be in the Primary tab. If its a “non Gmail account” once moved, you will then have a rule created in eM Client to then always move that email to the Primary Tab.

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Hello @cyberzork,
Thanks for the reply.
Which email clients did you use that had those behaviors? That’s not what I found with Apple Mail, Thunderbird, PostBox or Spark. No duplication of BCC’d messages in those clients, and Spark categorized but didn’t hide new Messages from Inbox.

If this is the UI paradigm that eM Client has, with no way to support the model I use every day, then we’ll have to agree to disagree, and I’ll look elsewhere for a PostBox replacement.

-Bill

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I don’t use Apple Mail, Postbox or Spark.

I have used Thunderbird and Outlook and many other mail clients which behaved exactly the same as eM Client as far as conversations go.

Maybe there is an option in Thunderbird and Outlook somewhere to change how conversations work, but i leave everything default. So i don’t find eM Client any different from using them.

If this is the UI paradigm that eM Client has, with no way to support the model I use every day, then we’ll have to agree to disagree, and I’ll look elsewhere for a PostBox replacement.

You can suggest ideas on the Sleekplan share and vote for eM Client ideas page.

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I did a little bit of digging into how Thunderbird behaves.

I see that I have gotten tripped up on “Conversations” vs. “Threads.”

I don’t know how to get stock Thunderbird to behave as you experience it, but I will accept that it is set up that way for you, and that you like that behavior. I found an extension that adds conversations to Thunderbird and changes what seems to be documented as the default behavior of “Threading messages within a single folder” into the cross-folder behavior that’s default in em Client.

So, I think I understand the situation better.

On my Linux hosts, I use Thunderbird. I’m giving it a try again on my Mac.

I expect that if a suggestion was made to offer the single-folder model of Threading, and it was accepted and implemented, it would be delivered too late for me to take advantage of the (admittedly generous!) discount for PostBox users coming to eM Client.

Even so, i shall indeed consider making the suggestion.

Thanks again, @cyberzork

-Bill aka Poetnerd

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I messed with Thunderbird, and the Threads or Conversation view, whatever, is not a thing natively, You have to install a plugin. Even after i did that, it was not like Postbox does it.

I tried many many email client programs, eM Client is the closest to Postbox in this aspect.
It is a tad different, but works well enough for me.