Move mail to folder - Any chance to make this faster?

Feature request
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Hi. I’ve downloaded eM Client yesterday.
I’ve been using Postbox on my computers for years, and Spark on my iPhone.

I manually move every mail I receive to some folder after reading it, and evern when I like everything about eM Client so far, I’m feeling that this process is very time consuming here:
1-Hit de shortcut to move the mail
2- Type the name and way for about 1 sencond until I see any result (is not inmediate)
3- Using keyboarb I have to click tab to go to the results pane.
4- Start opening folders/subfolders until i reach the actual folder

In postbox this process is much faster:
1-Hit de shortcut to move the mail
2- As i starty typing inmediately (no 1 sec delay) I see the folders matching the letters appearing, so after typing I already have me folder listed, hit enter and thats all.
3- In the rare case that there is more than one folder named the same i just picked one of them using arrows keys and enter (no TAB, no openening subfolders)

Spark even has something better, when you hit MOVE TO FOLDER, it automatically lists the suggested folders where you are planning to move the mail, and most of the times is a good suggestion.

I was looking for a replacement for Postbox, but I cant spend that much time doing something as simple as moving a maiil to another folder. Is there any way to do this better that I’m not seeing because I’m new with eM Client?

Thanks

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Set up rules to move the emails to the desired folder and read them in the actual folder… no need to manually move them.

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Thanks for the work around, but in my case thats not an option.
I already have rules & filters for some emails, but that doesn’t always work. For example, when you work with the same team in different projects you can’t create a rule to move them. You have to move them manually.
I also like to leave everything that is not yet resolved on my inbox, and only move the mails one they are resolved.
Thanks again for your input.
Still wondering if there is any way to move mails faster.

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What I do is setup as many rules as I can in Gmail so that emails are already labeled when I see them in eM. Then I just have to remove the Inbox tag in eM and the email is just there in the Gmail label/folder.

But I’ve noticed a problem that is becoming more and more frequent… eM is not properly syncing changes made on other devices or in the Gmail web…

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Thanks for letting me know about the syncing issues, and your workaround to the slow way of moving mails in eM.
As much as i wanted to transition to eM, this definitely keeps me away from that.
I’ll check back in some months to see if there is some improvement…

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100% AGREE!!! There is no reason this process cannot be shortened. EM PLEASE DO THIS! (just pop open PostBox before its too late to experience how good it can be!). Presumably PB will not work under the new Mac OS?

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eM Client already does that. Just press shortcut M for Move to folder or C for Copy to folder and type a couple of letters and almost instantly you will see the folder/s matching what you typed, where you can then either arrow down to the one you want and press enter or click your mouse on the folder you want. Works fine for me on PC and Mac using the latest V10.4.5326

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Note: If your folders don’t appear almost instantly after typing a couple of letters in the quick copy or quick move windows, then your email is not all 100% locally cached yet which can happen if you have only just recently added the account. If you email is all 100% cached locally, then your might possibly have a database problem or some other issue causing the slowness.

Apart from that you also have the “move to recent folders or copy to recent folders” via the dropdown arrows on the toolbar along the top if you have customised it via right clicking on the toolbar which keeps a list “of the latest 10 folders” you last copied or moved files to.

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