I find it strange that the uppermost category of folders in the standard homepage of emClient is called “Favorites.” That term, in most contexts, means something I SET AND USE FREQUENTLY which is not the case here. It is nice that right-clicking on the heading Favorites offers you selections of what is included under Favorites. Still seems like a misnomer. [What would be the best title??] One factoid is that “All Mail” under your primary email account Inbox really contains ALL MESSAGES under the purview of emC. All other folders (like Sent or Junk Mail or ones you created) are really searches within the only true folder ‘All Mail.’ That’s OK and I understand the space efficiencies, etc. described in the FAQ revealing that factoid.
Kind of a corollary to understanding how emC really ticks is that ‘folders’ showing under Favorites are not folders at all, not even in the sense of being searches, those (Unread being the big example…) are really more aptly called filters or Filter Results or some such. This leads to mind bending circumstances – when you think you are in a folder named ‘Unread’ which is not really a folder – and you try to move a message to some other folder you can’t… it will copy but not Move. And if you go to Mark as Read that message disappears not only in the Unread ‘folder’ but also gets marked as Read in the more nearly real folder which it calls home. Anyone else have opinions on these quirks?
Tks.
I find it strange that the uppermost category of folders in the standard homepage of emClient is called “Favorites”
Favourites is the “Global Unified Folders” from all accounts where apart from the default global All Inboxes, Unread Folder, Sent Folders etc, “its been designed to “add your own favourite account folders in any order you like” by right clicking on any account folder and then clicking add to Favourites and then dragging the folders up and down.
So it makes sense to me personally to call it Favourites and place it near the top left of eM Client GUI, as “its a collection of your Favourites account folders” as well as global unified folders that you would use a lot or everyday like All Inboxes.
And if you go to Mark as Read that message disappears not only in the Unread ‘folder’ but also gets marked as Read in the more nearly real folder which it calls home.
That’s because it’s the Global Unified Unread Folder “is actually showing you your account unread message” and “is not another separate message. So if you mark it as read you are actually changing that status on the real message.
If you mark a message as read in the Favourites Unread “global unified folder”, it will stay there as read “until you click to any other folder as designed”.You will then only find / see it in the actual account mail folder”.
If you don’t want the read message to disappear from the Favourites Unread global unified folder”, then “before you click to another folder” right click on the message and mark it as unread, or mark it as unread on the toolbar along the top if you have it customised. Then click either the next email below or above it. That way it will allways stay in the Favourites Unread global unified folder.
I disagree as you know from my original post. “Favorites” implies I liked them best which is not what they mean in emC at all. ‘Filter Results’ or ‘Search Results’ either one would be far more accurate terminology. Even ‘Global Messages’ would be better.
But that section also contains user defined favorite folders, you miss that point. These are not global folders, these are really shortcut to pphysical favorite folders.
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That so-called ‘Favorites’ section is , to me, a misnomer. English language. There is nothing ‘favorite’ about it. It does not contain user defined folders unless we put them there (which I do not, I define my own folders and put them a more logical place where I choose.) So the only ‘folder,’ which is really a result of filtering from All Mail, of any interest to me once in a while is “All Inboxes” and that is in fact more global in nature than it is any sort of favorite. You and I see terminology differently, not problem.
I understand your problem, it mixes two bit different folder types: global (unified) folders and user defined favorite folders (if used). We decided not to put these separately for design reasons. To have it completely right it would need to be named “Global folders and favorites”, but of course, you can’t use that in user interface, there is not enough space for that.
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Understand. You have a very good product and it serves me well. Thanks.
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