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.
Opera Mail – standalone mail client
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Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client
#72Good. But what I want to see, is Opera web browser _without_ an email client (and all the other stuff I never use.) Opera browser badly needs some slimming down. Call me old fashioned, but I deliberately use a prehistoric email client _precisely_ because it does not know anything about active content. Barely even handles html. And I like it that way. Now if Opera's email client had a big master switch, to totally dis…
opera browser without e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/developer/next Not for linux yet, though.
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#73Re: Opera Mail – standalone mail client
#74Look 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…
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#75I 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.
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#76An 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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#78Just 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:
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#80The 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.