Introducing Vivaldi Mail in Technical Preview
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Hi!
A simple question:
The list of features looks a lot like Thunderbird. Could someone point out the major differences, or improvements?
Thanks.
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@DavidJ One major improvement is you aren’t running two separate engines. An additional mail client needs a browser engine too, so you are saving resources. It’s one complete package, especially considering it does feeds too.
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@Gwen-Dragon said in Introducing Vivaldi Mail in Technical Preview:
Pleaze, we should stay on topic
Thanks
How do I need these calling of attention, seen my bad habits! -
At last!
I am still using Opera Mail...
Hoping for full import capability, of course!
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The moment M3 gets officialy relased as part of Vivaldi, I'm FINALLY switching away from SeaMonkey for good. Very exciting news!
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I've waited so long..., so long...
I would like to thank Jon for his ideas and consequence in implementing them and all those wonderful people who can create such software
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Oh, Vivaldi, what are you doing? Making me uninstall other apps and become more dependent on just one?
When does the "evil" part of the plan begin?
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Umm.. am I doing something wrong?
I updated to 3.5.2115.4 but I don't see any of the new panels in the panel list?
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I would love to use this for my work email, but I cannot find any info on Microsoft Exchange. Are there any plans of supporting this? Btw this is great news! The anticipation of M3 after Opera Mail disappeared was actually the reason I started using Vivaldi in the first place. I tried it out on my home PC, and it looks great! Even better than the old M2.
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@eriklothe Probably not implemented yet. You can do a request.
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@ChPr
Hi, did you enabled it in vivaldi://experiments ?
You have to add mail icon in panel with right mouse click context menu.Cheers, mib
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@Hadden89 Thanks
I submitted one here now: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/54422/support-for-microsoft-exchange -
Ahh... of course the most important information was a the bottom of there article. This is what I get for being lazy. Yeah now I got mail. Thanks.
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Hi!
Does the new Vivaldi Mail (M3) store mail in the same format as some popular mail client, or is it a completely original proprietary format? This kind of information is useful for backing up or archiving emails with gadgets like MailStore Home or the old Mailbag Assistant.
Thanks.
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@Gwen-Dragon
Thanks!
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@eriklothe You could perhaps try using Davmail. It works for some PCs and Exchange accounts, but YMMV depending on corporate policies, firewalls etc.
It's a little program that sits in your tray, running in the background. It connects to your Exchange server, and acts as a little IMAP server on your local machine. So you point Davmail at your corporate Exchange server, and then point your preferred mail client (e.g. M3) at 127.0.0.1 or "localhost", and your mail client just sees a regular IMAP server.
It's written in Java, so should work on any platform.
If you're a Linux user, Evolution used to have a plugin where it could talk directly to Exchange, just like Outlook, but I haven't used Evolution in a good while... and of course it's not the eagerly-anticipated M3!
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@jamesbeardmore I'll check that out, thanks! Yes, Evolution works with Exchange, it's the client I'm currently using. It's a pretty good client, but M3 will be an upgrade for sure.
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Glad to see this feature promised when vivaldi launched is finally available. A couple things I really need before I can finally drop thunderbird:
- One-click move-to-folder button in the toolbar, with keyboard shortcut. This is for the GMail-style "archive everything and get to inbox zero" type workflow.
- Mark email read when previewed. The distinction between unseen and unread is interesting, but I already prefer "unread" to work the way "unseen" does in vivaldi by default, and don't want to be constantly pressing K while dealing with email. I do not use my email as a to-do list, I have a to-do list for that.
Something I have retrospected on over the past few years trying different mail clients, is that many people struggle with dealing with email, but just as many people have their own workflows figured out and specific behaviors/features they rely on, and people who use mail clients rather than webmail tend to be the latter category. I think an important capability of Vivaldi as a heavily customizable browser is to not just have an effective default workflow, but to enable people to use the workflows they prefer. While I could make the Vivaldi default workflow work for me (i.e. start using unseen and not archiving ever), I could also make Google Chrome work for me instead of having a more flexible browser. So, I hope flexibility is planned for the mail client, in addition to these default workflows.
As for the calendar, I'm unfortunately not able to use it yet, as my account is an exchange account. Exchange supports IMAP now, but my current solution for using the exchange calendar is to export it to an .ics file, which thunderbird is able to load. While I know integrating with exchange's "real calendar" is likely impossible, it doesn't seem like Vivaldi is able to just open a local .ics file as a calendar (I tried like a file:/// url in the existing calendar types), which seems like a pretty simple feature, so I'd like to see this added as well.
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@deinonychuscowboy
Hi, I am not tested this but you can import calendar files from the file menu > Import Calendar.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin Cool, this worked, thanks.
