Several wishes are general, but for me they are only relevant for POP3 accounts. Imap is because of personal archiving necessities meaningless for me.
I switched from „TheBat!“ – this may explain most of the list entries. Nevertheless I bought a license and currently I am quite confident with emClient in general. I switched, because I see mor potential in emClient in compare to TheBat.
I set the following list as „problem“ because it slows down my daily work substantially, and I am currently not shure how long I can tolerate that.
Search performance and search options are restricted
very slow (dealing with < 50k mails in some account)
no regular expressions!
no option to save a search as basis for a filter
no option for search folders like „all accounts, in/out, last three days“
order of „simple folders“ can not be altered
very restricted filter
options can only combined as x AND y
no option for selective rules on single accounts
no combining rules e.g. if (…) OR ((…) AND (…))
no regular expressions!
spam filter not configurable
very restricted keyboard control
many operations can only accessed by mouse
e.g. „new contact“ can not be „tabbed“, after „private date“ inner form looses focus
very smal set of shortcuts
several „global“ shortcuts, e.g. „new contact“ directly from mail or calendar (and vice versa)
several functions only accessable by mouse, e.g. create contact from current e-mail adress
many form shortcuts do not work, e.g. „new contact“, in German „&Zeigen als“ („Display as“?), does not drop on ALT Z
only „dumb“ quicktexts
only gloabally, no account depending setup possible (it does not make sense to offer all quicktexts, if only some of them fit to the active account)
no vars i.e. %name%, thar are replaced with available contact information (or default)
no shortcuts for extended editor functions (open quicktext dropdown, create link,…)
How do you propose to create a contact from an email address by keyboard shortcut? First you need to indicate which address you want to use, and the mouse is obviously the best way to do that.
new contact: a not well though example. Excuse me. But how about „Set all junk mail to read“ or „switch calendar view to month“, or „go to next _unread_ mail“ or simple close a dialog with ESC (sometimes work, sometimes not), … ?
In most cases a mail has one sender. This is – in my case – the adress, I want to have in my contacts (because these contacts should be automatically whitelisted, I am not shure, if emClient spam filter behaves in this way).
More than one e-mails can be offered in a popup list, to select with arrow keys from.
I can not understand, why mass mailing suport variables, but quick text don ́t.
Possibly a Quick Text can hold variables an I send a mail in this case as „mass mail“ – I will test this as a workaround (not nice, but if it works, acceptable).
Where is the list / function „variables“ as described in help? I have no enty „variable…“ in my list (German interface), switching to English interface does not change anything.
Update: I found it in context menu, that is not mentioned in help, I was searching in „more…“
TAB key. After Privater Termin it goes to Zeigen als, then Kategorie etc. There is a problem there as it is not obvious where the cursor is because it is not highlighted as the previous fields were.
OK I understand about your shortcut requirements. There are a few ideas already proposed for single key shortcuts, QuickText shortcuts etc. Maybe your requests will add to the obvious requirement for shortcuts to be expanded. I personally find that moving into an age of touchscreens, keyboard shortcuts are not used as much in my own environment. After I have been using the Surface Pro for a while, sitting at my desktop I automatically want to touch the screen to do certain things. For me, the mouse just seems to be a better option. That’s just me.
When you send an email contacts are automatically added to a recipient history. Menu > Tools > Settings > Mail > Compose > Recipient’s History. But that only is useful as a suggestion next time you type in the To field. It cannot be added to a whitelist, or copied to Contacts. Again, no keyboard shortcut if you want to add the sender of your received email to Contacts. Your only option is to right-click and add to contacts. If custom shortcuts were introduced, maybe that would be possible.
The spam filter works on tags in the message header like X-Spam: Yes. Or if you have blacklisted an address or domain.
You can select next and previous messages in the preview pane, message list or a single email window with Ctrl+. or Ctrl+,
I was a big supporter of QuickText addon in Thunderbird. It had the functionality you want. I would LOVE to see the same in eM Client.
Yes, variables are not documented except to say that they can be used. The normal method is Menu > Insert > Variable, or right-click > Insert > Variable.
I dissagree to your opinion, that the necessity of shortcuts will decrease. Touchsreens are far away from usablity for productive work. If I have to answer a few mails per day, this might be o.k., but it is much to slow for efficiant working with 30 mails or more a day, with more than “o.k.” or “no” as text.
This is the reason for optionally keyboards you can buy for touchpads, if you will operate them in a business. If you have a keyboard for working, it is more time consuming to touch the screen instead of accessing STRG … . Additionally, a big UHD screen (as I use) would require excessive arm movements that are considerably more strenuous than a short cut.
Typically, a qualified e-mail adresse (e.g. “Mike Miller” <[email protected]>) contains the correct name of the sender. It is a „heavy time saver“, if you can answer an e-mail with a personal opening, that is created automatically from the available information.
I want to move fast beween unread mails inside a current folder. This is different to next/previous.
This is one of the reasons, I like emclient: the fast community.