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26 Jan 2021, 09:05 PM | #1 |
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Assigning labels to emails annoyance
In Fastmail webmail to assign a label to an email it is necessary to first select the label from the drop-down list and then click the save button.
Anyone else find this extra step of having to click save annoying ? Why can't the label be applied as soon as it is selected ? Or am I missing an option to change this behaviour somewhere ? thanks, Robin |
27 Jan 2021, 09:56 AM | #2 |
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Location: Melbourne, Oz
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Best reason I can think of is so that multiple labels can easily and quickly be applied to individual emails.
If you only ever want to apply a maximum of one label to emails you'd probably be better off using folders instead. |
28 Jan 2021, 09:02 AM | #3 |
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Location: Irving, Texas
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Labels Save requirement and useful keyboard shortcuts
I have been using labels mode since this feature was in early beta. If I remember correctly, the early beta version of this feature worked as you are wishing. By the time it was released to production, they fortunately added the requirement to Save before exiting the label modification dialog. Here are the reasons I believe they made this change. With the old system you are requesting:
Remember that keyboard shortcuts must be enabled in Settings > Preferences > Advanced > Keyboard shortcuts. The lowercase Z keyboard shortcut will undo the last action, so it can remove an accidental archive (lowercase Y) or delete (lowercase D) action. Bill |
28 Jan 2021, 06:20 PM | #4 |
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Thanks Bill.
You made some interesting and useful points there which I appreciate. Certainly you have explained why the system is as it is, which of course would be much harder to use without the 'save' button. Robin |