Ability to drag inline images to the desktop

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repstein

The way emClient handles saving images that appear in emails is often a mixed bag of success and failure. I have been complaining about this issue since I bought licenses two years ago.

Yes, image attachments appear at the top of the message and can easily be dragged to the desktop.

Then there are "inline images" that appear in the message that are not an attachment. What you are supposed to do is right click and save the image to your preferred location, but that doesn't always work. In fact, it mostly doesn't work. I never get a save dialogue box to appear.

All other email programs I have used over the years let you drag the image to your desktop or a specified folder. When I try to do that in eMClient, it gets saved as a blank "Untitled Clipping."

I am hoping eMClient can make it easier for images to be dragged from inside a message to the desktop and perfectly preserved.

3 months ago

olivia_rust

Hi Ronald, we're sorry to hear you experienced issues when using right-click>Save as option.

I am leaving your idea up but if the image is truly inline (and not a linked image from the web), a simple workaround would be to view the message as Plaintext (right-click>Format>Plain text) which automatically views inline messages as attachments, so you can drag it as any other image in attachments.

3 months ago

repstein

Olivia,

Thank you for your response

While the workaround does indeed work, my question is, why is the workaround needed?

I just opened Apple Mail and attempted to drag the image to my desktop that couldn't be dragged in eMClient. As expected, the drag and drop worked perfectly.

I also opened up GMAIL on the web and dragged inline images to the desktop without any effort. Yet, these same images in eMClient need your workaround to do the same thing.

So, the question is, why can't this be done in eMClient? Why do I need to resort to a workaround?

Wouldn't it be in your best interest to modify eMClient to be able to perform this simple function?

Thanks very much!

3 months ago (edited)

olivia_rust

@repstein This functionality just simply was never implemented and no one else requested it before - so I have approved your idea so it can be considered for future versions.

You don't HAVE to use the workaround, I just wanted to share a helpful tip that I thought you could use in the meantime if saving inline images is something you need to do often.

3 months ago

xavierf

it would be essential to have the drag and drop of inline images, to gain in productivity, on mac the drag and drop of inline images creates an unusable textclipping file, I hope that this functionality will one day be in emclient which is a great email client

3 months ago (edited)

rok

@xavierf Agreed! I left postbox to move forward, not backwards :-)

3 months ago

rok

This is kinda essential to me. If it cant be implemented, can I assign one email address (a clients email) to be plain text only, and leave everyone else as html?

3 months ago (edited)

rok

Even allowing us to create a shortcut key to 'show as HTML / show as plain text' should be easy enough to implement?

3 months ago (edited)

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