This topic just keeps getting hit, and that’s the clue that there are users out there that would appreciate this feature. And it is such a simple ask from long time users. Many I suspect with paid licenses. The current method of showing squiggly lines is fine and it may or may not be more “modern”. I don’t think anyone on this thread is asking for that feature to be taken away. We would just like to be able to ALSO automatically check spelling automatically before sending. Like the way the latest version of Outlook does. And it’s pretty modern! The reason I personally like to check it before sending is because it shows me ONLY the spelling errors and I can correct them one after the other. Instead of having to read the whole document again, looking for the squiggly lines.
Making the program efficient to use for the most users possible should be of benefit to both users and emclient too. This isn’t an ask where we are fundamentally changing the interface or UI design elements that might go against the companies vision for the product and how it works. It’s simple, it would be appreciated, and anyone that doesn’t feel it is needed wouldn’t have to use it.
I like the product, I recommend it to clients often, and I hear this over and over again. Come on EmClient!
I did get a response from eM Client on this. Apparently this feature request is not high on the list of improvements they are currently considering. Instead items like security and new technologies will take priority.
There is still hope though, as this idea has not been rejected. It has just not yet been approved for implementation.
I guess they decided on a different, more modern approach to spell checking; automatic as-you-type. Otherwise, with the interest shown it probably would have been implemented as the functionality is already there. You can manually start the dialogue by pressing F7.
What a BS answer - which is what they gave before. How is doing something manually ‘more modern’??
If you can manually start it by pressing F7, then there is a specific code to run it, therefor, this could be called automatically of you select the ‘option’ to run an auto spellcheck (like just about every other email client on the face of the planet does).
simple but effective features that impact the UX really let this program down
They do not need to be mutually exclusive features. They could EASILY offer both options, but clearly choose not to do so, even though there are customers that would prefer to trigger the F7 spell check automatically when sending.
Not offering something that is available in many other products doesn’t make it more modern. It makes it less capable.
Some people are OK using only the spell check as you type option, but I am one that doesn’t. It takes me longer to read a long email again to find and click on each word with the blue underline, and then choose the replacement, than it does to rapidly go through each one in sequence when I finish. So I’m one of the customers that hits F7 before sending (when I remember).
It would just be nice for that to happen automatically right before sending. Those that don’t care about that functionality wouldn’t have to use it. So it wouldn’t affect them at all. And it would give those of us that would appreciate it, a long requested feature.
The default is a red underline, maybe that will be more obvious.
But I think you have it Sam: they choose not to do that, and they don’t offer what is available in many other products. In my view this is what makes eM Client so desirable. They seem to have a concept that they are going to stick with without making this application a clone of every other one out there.
My advise for what it is worth, is that there are so many choices for messaging. Best is to find one that works for you. If you honestly think eM Client is a less capable application, don’t use it.
Gary
Auto spell checking while you type and spell check before you send have been around for years and years, so not having both is not modern, it is a missing (basic) feature.
I remember writing on a pad and pen, so I suppose computers are ‘modern’ using your logic
First there was no spell check, then there was pop-up on send, then there was automatic checking as you type (though I recently noticed that Trojita does not have a spell check at all). They are not concurrently developed technologies, but are an evolution. With more and more things being done in a web interface and on a phone, this whole idea of pop-up on send has been eclipsed. So it appears that this practice has been adopted by eM Client as well in it’s streamlined interface. It is just the direction that things are moving. But using your logic, I guess you need a punch card interface as well? That was an absolute essential basic feature, wasn’t it? I know, it takes some adjustment to change to a keyboard but there will always be some resistance.
If you want to do it the other way, feel free to do so. I can suggest a number of applications that offer that “missing” feature, though I am struggling to find it in any web interface so that rules out many options for you.
