@far4 said in How does Vivaldi webmail compare to other popular email providers?:

Just read up on the features of pgp, it can do this.

It's been two decades since I last used PGP, but I did a quick search how it does this.

When I receive this message on my gmail, I can decrypt it with any of the three private keys. Any and one key.

That's because when you send a message to several receivers, it encrypts the message itself with a symmetric key (the same for all) then encrypts this key in the header of the document with the pubkey of the recipient.
https://www.quora.com/How-does-PGP-manage-to-encrypt-a-message-for-two-different-people
https://superuser.com/questions/554513/pgp-encrypt-single-message-for-multiple-recipients
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/8245/gpg-file-size-with-multiple-recipients

If the message itself was encrypted with all pubkeys of all the recipients, it could not be opened by anyone. Only each header for each recipient is encrypted with the pubkey.

@vitalii1k said in Privacy of vivaldi.net:

"Only 0.06% of emails were encrypted."

I used facebook's encrypted pgp notifications a few years ago. They used to come to my inbox. I filled in the public key in the fb settings beforehand - everything as it should be. Everything was fine with me, but one day.... fb stopped supporting encrypted notifications, explaining that... very few people use it. o-0 🙂
They may not have lied.

@abdujabbar Please review the instructions here. If you still have issues sending e-mail, please send Vivaldi a message using the link at the bottom of that page.

@WildEnte Great explanation! I kind of felt the social aspect of it was a barrier at first too but I'm actually beginning to enjoy it. And I'd much rather be part of a community than pay a subscription.

@edwardp

My wording did not contain any dissatisfaction of Vivaldi nor the quality of its services. I have been simply stating the fact that Vivaldi is not specializing on encrypted email but on web browser, mail client and some other stuff that I am not knowleadable of. My comments meant just that!

@DesertOutlaw If you're looking for a privacy-centered e-mail app for Android, please look at FairEmail (Google Play link), FairEmail web site.

The developer provides support via e-mail. FairEmail is also open-source and contains no ads. I've been using it for several years.

@opiliper I would advise against using Vivaldi for commercial/business purposes. In addition to the points mentioned by others above, you'll likely hit some spam prevention limit sooner or later and get the account blocked.

@esap1944 Vivaldi instituted a new reputation system for webmail access during May 2023, outlined in a Blog post.

If you had not used Webmail prior to 4 May 2023, please see this section of the Blog post. Your profile currently shows a Reputation of 1.

You will need to actively participate in the Vivaldi community: the Forum, post a Blog, use Sync, post on Vivaldi Social, download and install Themes, to build up your Reputation.

Once your Reputation is high enough (and we do not know how high it must be), it will unlock Webmail access. To see if it has been unlocked for you, once logged in, check this page. If you see a link to Webmail on the right side, you have access.

EDIT: Community members will now receive an e-mail, once they earn Webmail access.

The recovery email is actually used for a lot more than just password reset.

Initially, the account activation code and some emails introducing Vivaldi's services are sent there.

On request, username and password reset emails are sent to your recovery email. Also, when you update the recovery email address, a notification will be sent to the old address and you need to confirm the change via the new email address.

Furthermore, some notifications from the Forum, Vivaldi Social, Themes and Blogs are sent to that email. Many of them are configurable.

Last but not least, we occasionally send out announcements (e.g. upcoming maintenance work where access to the service will not be available for some time) and important news.

@OBuyvol Ah, it was a issue of teh sending mail server, not from Vivaldi mail server.
Good to hear that.
Thanks for feedback.

I will close the bug tracker entry now.
An report that issue is fixed to Vivaldi's mail server admins.

@chakchak,

Sorry to read that earlier message have gone missing from your mailbox. This is unlikely to be due to any automated process on the server because:

If the destination mailbox is full then delivery of new messages are rejected and sender receives message stating this as non-delivery reason AFAIK only the Trash folder has setting for automated deletion; default setting is to never clear it on logout; see Settings > Preferences > Server Settings > Clear Trash on Logout option it is possible Junk folder auto-deletes message older than some period of days but I cannot see any mention of this in Vivaldi's help pages

FWIW confirm all folder are visible by selecting Settings > Folders

@AllanH As Webmail is completely different and having full direct access to mail server's storage, it can move a mail to webmail client's Sent folder.

@DoctorG and @Pathduck , thank you! I am a somewhat noob on these topics, so this helps alot!

@ToddAndMargo

Just got my vivaldi account . I an send and receive mail from the web mail client

@yprudhon
Hello
Welcome to the 'Vivaldiverse'!

Have fun here.

Maybe also in Vivaldi 'Mastodon' social.vivaldi.net

😂 😀

@astnpaul

Before the reputation system, we had another method in place to limit the number of spam accounts. Between October 2019 and May 2023, new users had to verify their account via their phone by providing us their phone number to which we sent a text message.

In May 2023, those who had verified their account and gained access to Vivaldi Webmail could carry on using Webmail. Those, who never went through SMS verification and have never used Webmail, now have to follow the new requirements.

I hope this helps. 🙂