In my eM Client that I have set up in laptop, I have several folders, like a folder for a topic.
In Microsoft Outlook, when the user press “Ctrl + V”, a window pops up and one can use the mouse or the cursor, to navigate to the desired folder and work on it.
Similarly, in Microsoft Outlook, the user, if desires to file the mail in a specific folder, the user press “Ctrl + Alt + V”, a pop up window opens, select the folder and click ok, the mail item, moves to that folder, thus filing becomes easy.
eM Client, does not seem to have this / similar short cut.
Every time I need to go to the desired folder, I use the mouse to scroll, which is a bit painful.
A suitable short cut (in eM Client) to select the folder and a suitable short cut to file the mail item in the desired folder, would have much helped.
Am liking the adaptive configuration of eM Client, but, shortcuts help.
When you use either of the above shortcut keys you can type the name of a folder at the top of the pop-up window that appears to quickly jump to a favourite mail folder.
You can see and adjust / change shortcut keys via Menu > Settings > General > Shortcuts
I am also looking for this feature. @cyberzork the shortcuts you provided are for moving or copying emails to another folder, but what I’d like to see is the ability to goto or jump to a folder. Scrolling the folder list on the left side is just plain slow when you have many folders. Sometimes you just ant to go to a particular folder, and having the ability to search/filter for it would be great. Click on the folder after filtering, and it takes you to that folder.
I would also like to see this feature added. I have a large number of folders (accumulated over the years) and I’d like to see a dialog similar to the move/copy folder dialog where you can filter the names by typing.
It must be a really easy piece of functionality to code… surely! I suspect that 95% of the code is already there, just instead of copying/moving a specific email into the selected folder, you simply open it.
You could even use Ctrl-Shift-J as a shortcut for "J"ump to folder.
There have been quite a few people asking for this over the years, and it’s pretty disappointing that eM Client haven’t provided this yet.
Surely you must have an Agile team prepared to take this on?
I’m not aware of any upcoming jump to option at this stage yet, other than the current Copy to folder or a Move to folder as already mentioned above.
It must be a really easy piece of functionality to code… surely! I suspect that 95% of the code is already there, just instead of copying/moving a specific email into the selected folder, you simply open it.
Yes it probably isn’t that complicated to program to jump to a specific or recent folder.
However It would all come down to “how many other users also want that same jump to folder feature” added, and then what priority it would be if it was to be implemented.
I was just wondering if there was any momentum gathering behind this feature request yet?
This might help you “with the jump to folder” in the next version of eM Client
There will be a new “Quick Actions” menu in the upcoming eM Client 10 “which can be used to assign a keyboard shortcut” to a specific folder as per the following post from @Gary below in the following thread.
“Move email to specific folder with keyboard shortcut”.
Still hoping that the “open a folder via a search box” type functionality we’ve been asking for may still creep into version 10?
Just to recap, the code to perform a search for a folder MUST all be present as it’s used when copying/moving mail to a folder, but it would be sooooooo useful to be able to open folders in the same way, without having to repeatedly scroll/expand/scroll the folder tree in the navigation panel.
There is a quick filter directly in the folder list for quick find and jump into folder in version 10. I believe this resolves that use case pretty nicely. It is a magnifying glass icon in the header of the folder list.
Certainly, the magnifying glass is usable, but it forces the switch from keyboard to mouse, which is a significant downside compared to Postbox which allowed a quick key to move to a folder.
Thank you for the feedback, we’ll improve that in the next update to make eM Client more friendly for users that don’t want to switch between mouse and keyboard.
Coming from Postbox and my most common shortcut keys move messages from current to a folder, and I also have one to search and enter a folder. I hate grabbing the mouse. Hope this can happen soon. Look like it’s been on the radar for quite some time.
Me too, I’m coming from Postbox and the “V” and “G” keyboard shortcuts were most useful, as they allowed to quickly move messages to specific folders and jump to specific folders without having to grab the mouse. For guys like me with literally hundreds of folders and subfolders in their email accounts (and multiple email accounts to manage), this quick navigate function is vital.
Please make sure to add it asap.
Postbox was slow as watching paint dry, but had a few must-have features that you guys should get up and running asap, since you’re likely going to get a lot of former Postbox users from now on
Thanks
My v and g keys no longer have written letters on them from use. I did re-map the move to v in the shortcuts under settings - but was surprised that there was no g (go to folder) option.
I’m also finding that rules don’t have as many logic options (or conditional logic stacking) - and over the years I’ve created over 700 rules to automate things.
Right now I’ve gotta have both running if I want to use eM Client due to those automations.
I’m really bummed about Postbox - and am hoping that there’s enough adoption here for eM Client to replace it.
The function is indeed there, however a keyboard shortcut would make the life so much easier. Kindly add it. On a Mac one can add any shortcut to any menu item… the problem is this folders filter is not in menu…
