The download page is so sleek it doesn't even have a link to documentation so I can see what I'm downloading before wasting my time.
Opera Mail – standalone mail client
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Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client
#22Look at all the comments under the announcement. Really sum's up how I feel as well. A selling point of Opera was the built in email client.
I liked how Opera used to be a silo for a whole bunch of features. When you closed it the rest closed as well. Was a great way to turn off work.
Now we have ANOTHER fairly generic stand alone email client. ANOTHER fairly generic webkit browser. If it wasn't branded with an Opera logo would anyone really give a shit?
Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client
#23Well, 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…
What does the way you access your data has anything to do with where it is stored? Just because you read your emails from a local copy, don't fool yourself into thinking that the drawbacks of the cloud no longer applies to you.
Now, if you were to host your own mail gateway, that is a different matter entirely.
Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client
#24Look at all the comments under the announcement. Really sum's up how I feel as well. A selling point of Opera was the built in email client. I liked how Opera used to be a silo for a whole bunch of features. When you closed it the rest closed as well. Was a great way to turn off work. Now we have ANOTHER fairly generic stand alone email client. ANOTHER fairly generic webkit browser. If it wasn't branded with an Opera…
I, for one, give a shit because I need a standalone email client that fits my workflow better than what we have now (I use Thunderbird nowadays).
The Opera logo is merely just encouraging me to check it out.
Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client
#25Wow, that sure is an annoying product page. Where are the details about what mail providers they support? Does it do calendering? What are the system requirements (WinXP, OS X 10.5, CentOS 5, etc...)?
Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client
#26I never understood tabs in an email client
Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client
#27Does it offer PGP integration?
Well-designed email clients with proper privacy seem to be very hard to come by, and new players in that niche would be welcome. Particularly in the current climate, I would argue.
Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client
#28Looks interesting. I've been a Thunderbird user for a long time but the fact it appears to have been practically abandoned[0] by Mozilla is a shame.
The 'Import from Thunderbird' wizard appears to be a bit broken, though. It tried to import all my Thunderbird accounts but seems to have just munged them all into one account in Opera Mail. It would be nice if I could selectively import single Thunderbird accounts.
Also, as others have mentioned, it seems to be lacking compared to Thunderbird in auto configuration (in TB, I can enter a Google Apps email address and it'll figure out it's Google for me).
[0] https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2012/07/06/thunderbird-stabi...
Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client
#29Wow, that sure is an annoying product page. Where are the details about what mail providers they support? Does it do calendering? What are the system requirements (WinXP, OS X 10.5, CentOS 5, etc...)?
Supports IMAP and POP. Mail providers like gmail, yahoo and hotmail should work pretty well. Doesn't do calendaring. Runs on WinXP. Don't know about that old OS X version, but I think it probably does. Runs on old Linux (when we release the Linux version that is). You don't even need gtk or qt, though it'll use them if it can find them.
Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client
#30I'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.
Yes, we have a shipped XML configuration file which finds and sets up many common domains automatically.