Okay, I admit, I'm still using an old installation of Opera for email/rss. Something new would be welcome.
Six years in the making, Vivaldi Mail arrives alongside version 4.0 of the company's browser
Vivaldi has released version 4.0 of its eponymous browser, adding translation capabilities and dragging the long-awaited mail and calendar functionality out of tech preview. The email and calendar has been a long time coming — first announced in 2015 before finally clawing its way into technical preview in 2020. We took the …
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Wednesday 9th June 2021 09:42 GMT Andy The Hat
... and most of the current browsers are still picking through the ashes of Opera 12 for ideas to plug into their offerings as "new and original" features. IMHO none implement tab handling and configurability as well as O12 did, though I should look at this Vivaldi release to see where it's got to ...
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Wednesday 9th June 2021 10:20 GMT Lon24
Yep - it would be nice to move on from Thunderbird and Roundcube. But, at first sight, this is still missing a lot which makes it unusable for me. Here's my list (please correct if you have found a solution)
1) Doesn't allow multiple identities on one account
2) Doesn't show folders
3) By default only shows unread messages
4) Won't allow me to connect to my ISP smtp mailsever Zen (insists on username/password)
But it's a start. Maybe Vivaldi 5 will be the enswer.
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Wednesday 9th June 2021 11:24 GMT ShadowSystems
Please forgive my ignorance...
But what does "með þýðingarmöguleika" say in English? My screen reader can't make heads nor tails of it & a quick DDG search just returned links back to this story.
It's probably something that makes sense visually, but therein lies my problem.
*Sets out a pint to thank the responders with the answer*
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Wednesday 9th June 2021 12:01 GMT ThatOne
Re: Please forgive my ignorance...
> It's probably something that makes sense visually, but therein lies my problem.
Don't worry, there is no visual gag (at least not an obvious one). It seems to just be a phrase in Icelandic, but since I don't understand this language I can't tell you more.
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Wednesday 9th June 2021 22:09 GMT Terry 6
I moved from using Outlook to using Thunderbird once the Lightning calendar became a fully integrated component. Using TB with the add-on TBSync Without TBSync I would still be using Outlook on my PCs. I have my calendar synchronised, via my Microsoft email account, between my (Android) phone using the Outlook.com app, my laptop, my desktop and even my cheap Lenovo convertible. At a pinch I can even get it online too.
For me this is the deal breaker. I need to be able to enter an appointment while I'm out and about, using my phone, pick it up later while I'm using my laptop, look at it if I'm messing about on the tablet then refer to it when I'm sat in front of the screen using the full sized PC. I used to use Outlook for this, until TB with Lightning came along, and the TBSync add in made it synchronise across my devices. It puzzles me that this isn't a fully integrated piece of functionality in TB but someone had to create an add-in, which is itself dependent an another add-in (Providor for Exchange Active-sync). All a bit Heath Robinson. But that is the issue with FOSS software, it relies on someone with the specific set of skills also being interested in writing the programme and adding the functionality
I know that ProtonMail are bringing out a calendar function. I'll jump to that if it means I can escape Microsoft's clutches- and dump the Outlook.com calendar and TB's clumsy collection of add-ons..
But this Vivaldi mail might do the job for me, too. If it means I can synchronise my calendar across all my devices.
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Wednesday 9th June 2021 15:00 GMT Charlie Clark
I haven't used Thunderbird for a while but was an avid user of Opera Mail which just got a lot of things right: it uses views instead of folders and automatically recognises mailing lists for example.
I got fed up of waiting for Vivaldi Mail and have switched to MailMate for MacOS which also gets a lot of things right, though less by default. But, my is it a joy to have a mail client that is actively being worked on! And Benny Nielsen deserves enormous credit for this. Every time I have to launch Apple Mail or – shudder – Outlook, I ask myself does no one really care about e-mail?
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