Mail Client Wish List.
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calender, why?
an option when importing old opera mail database to merge them into a monthly mbs would be great.
Ironic, then, that that's exactly what M2 used to do in its early days in Opera… :lol:
I believe they switched to individual files since some virus-scanners were interfering and corrupting large chunks of the mail database or something. In any case, from an efficiency and usability point of view (e.g. importing) I agree that larger monthly files make a lot more sense. Certainly better than the HUGE files my wife's mail is occupying in Thunderbird... Every backup I make means replacing several multi-gigabyte files with very similar, but not quite the same, multi-gigabyte files. :S
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Wishlist: all of the above, plus PGP encryption.
Importing all my neatly organized emails from Opera would mean a lot.I also wish for a calender, but not within the email-client. As I need my calender not only when writing emails, but also when browsing (looking up concert dates, booking trips, ….), it should be a separate option in the sidebar, in webdav/caldav format, and it should web-sync between my devices.
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I badly miss [optional] vim editing capabilities in Opera M2 compose window.
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M2 … but with more import-features: Import adresses from other Mailclients (like Thunderbird, Outlook etc. ... to replace them ;-))
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Yup, client like M2 is crucial. All its capabilities and ability to work in browser panel are one of a kind. Would be nice to give it some nicer name though. I'm for calling it Harmony (then browser + email client = Vivaldi Harmony Suite - sounds nice and it actually says how both of them cooperate )
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My primary wish for Vivaldi email client is that it appear.
I'm getting an ulcer waiting.
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Assuming you guys integrate newsfeeds as well (so I suppose this would count as a mail client wish) I always wanted Opera to synchronise my newsfeed reading across my various machines!
It can't be too difficult - since it just means sharing the last read article id/time (and the actual feed addresses are synchronised).
It would save me having to scan through hundreds of articles when I switch from desktop to laptop… and would be nice to find my (synchronised) feeds in a future mobile version too...
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In designing the mail client, an item which should receive primary consideration is the stability, "re-buildability" and searchability of the mail database(s)
The reason I migrated my wife to Opera's M2 initially was that EVERY other email client she tried to use suffered from eventual corruption of mail databases, and often there was no way to rebuild/re-index them. She handles a positively staggering amount of email daily, coming in from national and international organizations dealing with pet rescue and adoption. Her old email, in folders or folder "views" is her filing system. She has over a half million emails on file and receives between a few hundred and a couple thousand emails a day, most of which are deleted the same day, thankfully. But the stablest and most reliable client she has ever used was Opera's M2. There was SOMETHING about how those databases were build and indexed that made them more bullet-proof than the garden-variety email database.
Please keep this in mind when designing the Vivaldi email client.
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My wishes for the email client are these:
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IMAP support (most important!)
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SPTP with different options for authentication (Login-before-Send, ASMTP, …)
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email storage that has not to be tidied up manually by deleting cache files when using IMAP (that was cruical on Opera!)
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address book with import and export of contacts (vcf, Thunderbird, ...)
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maybe address book that can be synched with commonly used services (Gmail, Hotmail, LDAP, Outlook, ...?)
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import (maybe also export?) of mail folders like they're used in Thunderbird
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option to show the source code of HTML emails
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option to show the complete mail header (oh, that is not in every email client!)
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option to save all attachments at once
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option to view the text version of a multipart email
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maybe realtime checking of email domain (DNS / MX Record) when entered an email address
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offline mode (not for IMAP, of course)
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My wishes for the email client are these:
- IMAP support (most important!)
(…) - offline mode (not for IMAP, of course)
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I especially miss the option to save all attachments at once. - IMAP support (most important!)
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I'm for calling it Harmony (then browser + email client = Vivaldi Harmony Suite - sounds nice
Yes Harmony is nice for the whole thing.
I suggest "Primavera" for the "M3" client alone.
Spring, in English, would be nice too, given it means both the season of rebirth, the well known Vivaldi's concerto and the mechanical part, known to be "flexible"
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I almost forgot… something very important for me: please allow the user to set the mail filesystem directory!
One of the (many) great things about M2 in Opera is that I can have all my mail stored on the main home PC - then when I log in on the other PC or the laptop it still has all my mail ready to go because I've set the mail directory as a network location!
It would be horrible if I had to go back to a "dumb" system where it only allows unique mail data for each profile on each machine.
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i wonder what the people here are talking about. did you guys ever use the older opera??
imap,offline,import of tb,source html,mail header,setting of mail root dir, everything was already available!
and please dont talk about a seperate mail client, wtf?! the whole purpose is to get the client again back into the browser!!another suggestion: the option to have no access to the mail client/mails until entering the master password!
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I almost forgot… something very important for me: please allow the user to set the mail filesystem directory!
This is important, sure, but keep in mind that windows nowadays has the symbolic links just like Linux/Unix.
(for the record most of the Windows directory itself is mostly made by a bunch of symbolic links )
But Windows lacks a graphical way to manage them, this is easy to overcome with this utility.
http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html
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I just remembered something else that has become important for my usage:
Conversation view.
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Oh, yeah - and consolidated inbox (ability to show all accounts in one inbox) or consolidated folder view - in that there can be a single unread, received, outbox, sent, drafts, spam, and trash view for all accounts. M2 allowed you to do this per-account, or unified. A unified view is important
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@toscho:
Dead simple PGP integration.
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…and what about an online service, just as revolutionary as "turbo" had been, to provide a super easy PKI mail encryption?
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all of the above, plus PGP encryption
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…and what about an online service, just as revolutionary as "turbo" had been, to provide a super easy PKI mail encryption?
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What I like most with M2 is
[ol]- Filters! Searches! Labels! These are awesome. They have to be there but be even more customizable: filter by size of mail/attachments and number of attachments etc.
- Intelligent POP3 settings like keeping mails for x days on the server and keeping unread mails on the server.
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I'd also like to see (additional to nearly all that was mentioned by others above)
[ol]- Multiple address books
- Contacts sync with carddav
- Editable from: address (or at least multiple personalities), like in good ol' Eudora
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- Remove Attachments to save storage space in mail backup
- Backup email
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