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Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client

#51

Just 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": This does:

Sounds like a bug, I'd suggest you report it.

Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client

#52
post #51

Just 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": This does:

Sounds like a bug, I'd suggest you report it.

Yeah, I'm just about to do that.

[edit] Their bug report form has a bug. https://bugs.opera.com/wizarddesktop/ keeps failing for me. If somebody else can submit this, it would be much appreciated.

Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client

#53

Just 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": This does:

Ouch! Looking at it. Have created a bug about it already, so no need to report.

Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client

#54
post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like a bug, I'd suggest you report it.

Yeah, I'm just about to do that. [edit] Their bug report form has a bug. https://bugs.opera.com/wizarddesktop/ keeps failing for me. If somebody else can submit this, it would be much appreciated.

It looks like the bugwizard hasn't been updated to make it obvious how to report mail bugs yet, but I have filed your issue.

Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

From what I've read the desktop version lost basically everything that was special to Opera. I know it's early builds but I think many features won't make it back.

Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client

#56
post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I'm just about to do that. [edit] Their bug report form has a bug. https://bugs.opera.com/wizarddesktop/ keeps failing for me. If somebody else can submit this, it would be much appreciated.

It looks like the bugwizard hasn't been updated to make it obvious how to report mail bugs yet, but I have filed your issue.

(and the problem preventing the bugwizard working at all should now be fixed)

Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client

#57
post #53

Just 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": This does:

Ouch! Looking at it. Have created a bug about it already, so no need to report.

I like it a lot when someone involved with the project answers to "bug reports" or complaints like this. Gives me the feeling that they care. I see this a lot on hacker news and it always puts a smile on my face.

Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client

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I 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 cr…

Mailing lists are not the same as labels. Labels and Mailing lists are two different features (albeit very similar).

Mailing list only looks at the List-Id: email header. Facebook is sending that in its emails, and that's why it gets its own "Mailing list" automatic entry.

Not that beautiful, I agree.

Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client

#59

Does 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.

Yeah, what happened there? I had Eudora in the mid-90s running PGP integrated really nicely. I was talking with a friend how had never used PGP before and I realised somehow I just stopped using it and don't remember when. Maybe it was just the romantic ideal back then that we were important enough to have our mail read, or maybe it was that we actually personally knew the ISP admins and really knew they could read our mail.
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