Which is better , safer or easier Vivaldi mail or Vivaldi Webmail?

takaishi97

I prefer Vivaldi Webmail as it is much easier than Vivaldi mail.
Also, in my opinion, Vivaldi Webmail is user-friendly or trouble-free mail.
Do both Vivaldi Webmail and Vivaldi mail have end-to-end encryption? What are differences in between Vivaldi mail and Vivaldi Webmail?
Which is truly user-friendly mail?
In other words, Is vivaldi webmail or Vivaldi mail user-friendly or trouble-free mail?

aartz

Hey @takaishi97

Well both options are good ways to handle your mail accounts. Personally, I prefer the Vivaldi Mail built-in option of the browser bc it has improved a lot of my workflow and focus work.
End to End encryption is an issue of your mail provider you have. Saying using Google Account and link it here doesn't have more "security" because Google can still read and check your mails etc.

If you really care about security, you may switch to a more secured based mail provider

v/r

Andi

Pathduck

@takaishi97 Hello and Welcome to the Vivaldi Community

Both Vivaldi Webmail and Vivaldi Mail are mail clients.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_client

Vivaldi Webmail is based on the Roundcube webmail client, and connects to your vivaldi.net email account.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundcube

Vivaldi Mail is a client that's part of Vivaldi. It can connect to any email provider like Google Mail, Microsoft, Yahoo etc.
https://vivaldi.com/features/mail/

Both uses end-to-end encryption between the client and the server. As far as I know, the emails on the vivaldi.net servers are not encrypted. The server uses Dovecot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dovecot_(software)

What is easiest to use is up to you. Generally, a webmail client is "easier" for most users, while a local mail client is more powerful and can connect to any server, so by its very nature is more complicated.

aartz

Thx @Pathduck

For adding more info

fjc1029

@takaishi97 I too prefer Vivaldi Webmail.
Why?
This article is a bit dated but still relevant. Hope you find it helpful.
https://lifehacker.com/should-i-be-using-a-desktop-email-client-5925096

mib2berlin

@aartz
Hi, I prefer the mail client because manage 6 different mail accounts with web clients is unusable for me.
With a web client I can only see 10 mails and the search capabilities are slow.
If you use only one mail provider it´s maybe suitable to use a web client.

Cheers, mib

Pesala

Even the promise of a built-in email client was the reason I started using Vivaldi. For years, I kept using Opera 12.18 to check my mail, and the mail client was also why I start using Opera 5.0 late in 2001.

I cannot imagine having to check three webmail addresses individually — what a hassle!

I still have Opera 12.18 installed, and run it from time to time, but I don't need it any longer. It is just there for the sake of nostalgia, or to check how features used to work.

Ayespy

@takaishi97 Webmail and a local mail client are not similar or the same class of thing. They are not interchangeable.

Webmail only connects to a single provider (in this case Vivaldi.net) and is limited to what that provider provides - in this case, a hard ceiling of 5GB storage. The pre-determined provider is a given with webmail, is offered to everyone and will always be there. Further, with Vivaldi, it's a free service. There are a few webmail clients (NOT including Vivaldi webmail) that also allow one to connect to other providers and gather up mail from them as well. GMail is one such. Rarely, this collection of mail from other providers is reliable and trouble-free.
A local client does not have any built-in provider. It's a road, not a car. There is nothing on it or in it unless/until you hook it up to some provider. In my case, I connect my local client to six different provider accounts (my Vivaldi account, a business account, the business account on my personally-owned domain, and 3 GMail accounts). Vivaldi Webmail would not be capable of this.
Safety and privacy are generally properties of a combination of provider accounts and/or clients, and are seldom addressed in a single solution. A relevant article on this would be https://www.openpgp.org/software/ . For many situations, neither provider nor client with offer a complete solution and an extension do do the job of encryption is required. To my knowledge, neither the local client nor Vivaldi webmail are currently compatible with such extensions, and neither offer encryption on their own. That said, neither the local client nor Vivaldi Webmail spy on your mail contents or headers in any way whatever. The only way for someone to violate your privacy on either one would be to physically intercept your mail or hack your machine. On the other hand, there are a number of providers who are spying on your mail already because it is stored on their servers. Vivaldi Webmail is not one such. With the local Vivaldi client, it depends on who your provider is. (AOL? Yahoo? Google? MS? Yandex? None of these have good privacy records.)
Webmail services are already set up for you, and all you have to do is sign in to the site to handle your email. Local clients have to be set up to access any given provider account. While this process is mostly automated for most local clients (including Vivaldi's local client), there can be some providers that require special handling or manual set up when you first set up the account, and that can be fraught. On the whole, however, I have not run into problems with Vivaldi's client.

I find the use of a flexible local client FAR superior to using a web interface. Everything is transparent and manageable, and there are no data limits. My stored email is a great deal more than any web provider will store for free. I would have to be paying a monthly or annual fee to multiple providers to keep, search, and reference the multi-multi-gigs of mail I have stored over more than the last two decades, and I do that at no cost. But if your email traffic is low volume, and you won't exceed 5GB of stored mails over the next decade or so, a webmail service may be right for you. If you're a technophobe, or completely useless at figuring things out and filling things in, webmail, for sure. If you're tech-friendly and self-reliant, then for me it would be a local client every time.

In the end, it totally depends on the user.

takaishi97

When I thought about Vivaldi mail and Vivaldi Webmail, I decided to utilize Vivaldi Webmail as I do not use email so often. While I use, unlike other major Webmail services, there are no tracking and no ads. Also, because Vivaldi respects privacy, I decide to use Vivaldi Webmail. Thank you for great advices.