Great news! Thunderbird was horrific on my aging Windows machine last year, so always had Opera open just for email.
Opera Mail – standalone mail client
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Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can't you also read RSS using the OSX Mail.app?
Or any other mail client really. What I don't get is why they stripped it out from the browser (I didn't take up any disk space really). edit: I really hope they don't take out RSS reader functionality out as well. I never got why other browser didn't support such basics when it came to browsing.
They are building a completely new browser based on chromium. So they didn't really strip it out, they just didn't add it to the new browser.
Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can't you also read RSS using the OSX Mail.app?
Or any other mail client really. What I don't get is why they stripped it out from the browser (I didn't take up any disk space really). edit: I really hope they don't take out RSS reader functionality out as well. I never got why other browser didn't support such basics when it came to browsing.
Opera Mail (previously M2) is probably still using the Presto engine (and the old interface) as they seem to have just extracted it from previous releases. Thus it is incompatible with their new version and Chromium.
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#14Been using this since the release candidate a week or so ago and absolutely loving it. Has a few quirks here and there which need to be configured or ignored, but I've found it the best organising tool for mail on OSX in a long.
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#16Windows only?!?
I expect Linux and Mac versions to follow. They have released windows version first on new products in the past.
I work on Linux version of Opera Mail. Windows and Mac is released today. A rc/test version of Linux will follow soon.
(What is soon, you ask. Well that depends, but I guess in this case over a month would /not/ be soon.)
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or any other mail client really. What I don't get is why they stripped it out from the browser (I didn't take up any disk space really). edit: I really hope they don't take out RSS reader functionality out as well. I never got why other browser didn't support such basics when it came to browsing.
They are building a completely new browser based on chromium. So they didn't really strip it out, they just didn't add it to the new browser.
Switching to Chromium was a big mistake IMO, seeing how inferior, unstable, and slow the new Android app is compared to the original. I get it, they had to cut costs, so they fired a bunch of people and gave up their proprietary edge. It just seems to have been the wrong decision because they took away one of the core features that used to make it great (at least with regards to the Android app): speed.
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#19I'm kind of disappointed by the first-launch experience: there's no configuration wizards for common email providers, not even for fastmail which is an Opera division AFAIK. Edit : Actually there is, but it's not very discoverable.
There is, I only entered my fastmail address (not even using the fastmail.fm domain) and it configured automatically.
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#20Well, just installed and I rather like it. Sleek design. Simple interface. RSS is a good addition. Sadly, though, no auto-feed discovery like many RSS clients do nowadays.
At first glance looks more appealing than Thunderbird. Certainly so in configuration, which is simpler and more intuitive. Thunderbird's single SMTP pane for all accounts annoys me each time I see it.
Lacking vertical positioning for the "List and Message below" layout. But I guess it's just a bug.
They launched it very timely, when the cloud is no more to be trusted. Behold! The return of the desktop app! :)