Who is still using Opera Mail M2 in 2023?
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@WildEnte I still have Opera 12.18 installed. I run it occasionally to make a backup of important emails.
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I also have 12.18 installed but mostly for nostalgia reasons and occasionally to test some Vivaldi search/filter/import things
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me too. 12.16.for nostalgia
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I changed over completely a few months ago. It was a lot of effort to import, make sure that all the emails were actually imported, and then redo my labels. But overall the experience was fine. If I remember correclty, there were some minor issues with some duplicate emails being created, and a few issues with emails that I sent to myself.
I kind of figured I was one of the longer holdouts. It would have been nice if it imported the labels, but I'm not even sure if that was possible, or in the pipeline. I would guess that the return on investment for importing would be low.
I still have my install of 12.16 for backup purposes, but I don't see why I would even need it.
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I still use M2 as I haven't figured out how to make V talk to a branded Yahoo. Since my email address includes my ISP's name rather than Yahoo I don't get the right setup options.
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Opera mail in use here due to the nested labels. I check 30 mailboxes and rely on that filtering system.
I tried to move this month, but had to abort the migration when I found labels still don't nest. So back up and running on Opera 64...
I don't need to migrate the old emails, I know that will never happen. But I can't operate without nested filters.
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I had forgotten that Opera Mail was offered as a standalone client until a few days ago.
To me, it's the best alternative to Thunderbird/Betterbird for someone that wants both email and newsgroups. -
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As Opera Mail had so much trouble with modern TLS and certificates i had uninstalled it some years ago.
But i guess, some users have Opera M2 for some nostalgia. No offense.
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The confusion it has with certs just means having to keep swatting away a paranoia box. Someone probably knows how to install the certs it needs to keep it less paranoid, but help files are long gone. I am happy to keep swatting away as nothing else can handle multiple mailboxes and nested labels in the way I need. My mad head has built email handling around how Opera Mail works. Tried to move, but nothing comes close to its abilities. So I keep swatting/adding exceptions.
It is not "nostalgia", it is just different way of handling mail.
I actually find one bonus to those security check boxes is it acts as another layer of blocking tracking dots in emails.
It is not sending\receiving email that is the problem. It is the signature files and some forwarded messages that cause the hiccups -
I was able to find these using the Wayback Machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20130226002115/http://www.opera.com/mail/
https://web.archive.org/web/20130709005515/http://help.opera.com/Windows/12.10/en/mail.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20130223015023/http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/mail/
