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Opera Mail – standalone mail client

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Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client

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Post by zimbatm »

nileshtrivedi wrote: post #35
pestaa wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They still get access to the "metadata" though

Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client

#43

Post by StavrosK »

djpowell wrote: post #34

The 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.

If your server has IMAP, you shouldn't need that.

Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client

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Post by fakeer »

zimbatm wrote: post #41
nileshtrivedi wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They still get access to the "metadata" though

Fake it, then. Fake yor location, fake your mac address, fake your time and timezone. &c.

Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client

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Post by Corrado »

odinho wrote: post #29
Corrado wrote: post #25

Wow, 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.

Excellent! Now put that information on the web page somewhere so that others don't have to wonder. It doesn't even have to be on the home page, just somewhere. :)

As a downside, I see that it doesn't support Exchange and that pretty much dooms it for me, at least on OS X. I hate Exchange, but I have to deal with it. Luckily, Apple's Mail.app seems to work fairly well with Exchange so at least I'm not forced to use Outlook.

Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client

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Post by mynegation »

simfoo wrote: post #19
manuletroll wrote: post #4

I'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.

I would totally expect that, given that Opera owns Fastmail.

Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client

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Post by mike-cardwell »

fakeer wrote: post #44
zimbatm wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They still get access to the "metadata" though

Fake it, then. Fake yor location, fake your mac address, fake your time and timezone. &c.

You can't fake the IP address you connect from. You can't fake the email address you're sending to. You can't fake the account you're using to send. You can't fake the time that you connect.

Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client

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Post by fakeer »

mike-cardwell wrote: post #48
fakeer wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fake it, then. Fake yor location, fake your mac address, fake your time and timezone. &c.

You can't fake the IP address you connect from. You can't fake the email address you're sending to. You can't fake the account you're using to send. You can't fake the time that you connect.

Then use Tor.

Have a disposable email address.

You don't have to fake the account just make one just for this purpose. Well, time you cannot fake but with just known value of time and many other unknown variables the equation and possible solution would be useless, practically.

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