I never understood tabs in an email client
I use it to put important mails such as tasklists on separate tabs so that I can come back to them easily and keep reading other emails.
Opera Mail – standalone mail client
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#33Wow, 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.
Is there an ETA for the linux version ? Or a beta ?
edit: ah I see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5860776 , around a month then.
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#34The main thing I care about with a mail client is the exit strategy - if I don't like it, can I export all my mail losslessly to mbox or eml files?
Does anyone know how it fares at this?
I use gmail now, though in the past I've used The Bat.
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#35Well, 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.
Using a standalone desktop app allows you to use encryption (PGP/GPG) while continuing to use hosted services like Gmail/Hotmail. In other words, you can again start treating networks as dumb pipes.
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#36An important feature for email: fast and flexible search over a large dataset. This is easier to implement in the cloud than on the client. So I don't see a strong future for desktop-based email clients.
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#37I am not particularly happy with its integration with Gmail. Each email from facebook group is assigned separate mailing list. So now when I expand mailing list it is just cluttered with rubbish sublists like [0-9]*.groups.facebook... In general part which is responsible for detecting what is actually a mailing list isn't very clever. It would be nice if instead of creating folders for each label on Gmail it would create new label - so that it will be 1-1 integration.
Design seems really neat and if it will provide better Gmail integration I would love to use it. Of course I realise it is not going to be number one front-end for Gmail ported from web to standalone application, but I think that most popular mailboxes deserve it.
Is anyone here using fastmail and can tell how well it integrates in it? Is it more ingelligent and joins labels from fastmail with those in OperaMail or it just works the same way as with Gmail - new folder for each label?
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#38An important feature for email: fast and flexible search over a large dataset. This is easier to implement in the cloud than on the client. So I don't see a strong future for desktop-based email clients.
It will never die on my PC.
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#39An important feature for email: fast and flexible search over a large dataset. This is easier to implement in the cloud than on the client. So I don't see a strong future for desktop-based email clients.
Funny you mention it. Search in opera mail is excellent and extremely fast. It searches through all of my 12k mails in the blink of an eye.
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#40Just tested this with https://emailprivacytester.com/ and it failed
Even though it claims to not load remote content by default, and pops up a "Load Images" dialogue, it actually loads content from the html5 video and audio tags immediately.
So whilst this doesn't work unless the user clicks "Load Images":