email client?
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Any word about an email client?
Or is it " @vivaldi.net "?I ask because of this, very old, article...http://techdows.com/2016/08/vivaldi-email-client-is-coming.html
The article shows an email icon in the side panel. It's an image of an internal test version. -
The email icon in panel was even present in the first tech preview. So everyone used to have it. They removed it later on. The email client is supposedly going live in version 2.0. Soon
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Thanks! There has been users mentioning it but haven't heard anything about it for quite a while.
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@Gwen-Dragon said in email client?:
Perhaps you may get a Snapshot with Mail for testing this year.
You are kidding ...
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@michaa7: Nope. Seems likely to me as well that we might see it this year.
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@Gwen-Dragon
I was refering to the timespan (this year) which somehow sounds like it could be not before December. I was hoping we're much, much, much closer to Vivaldi v2.0 (which is supposed to provide m3 as far as I understand former notices).
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It's soon. That means they don't know. In November it will be soon still, and next February it will be soon too. Last year it was hinted at (but very casually) several times that it could come out at the end of 2016, or early 17. Now hints are for late 17 or early 18. The point is nobody has a clue and you shouldn't actively wait for it, because it makes no sense. They will make a surprise release when they are finished and that's that.
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Could I become a tester? I exclusively use use imap localy.
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@michaa7 You need to develop a reputation in the Vivaldi community, and be invited by the Team, in order to be considered as a tester. Then you have to have some sort of personal qualities, experience or skills that enhance our tester pool, to be accepted even after invited. Obviously, it's not for everyone. Out of over 90,000 registered users, there are only some seventy testers or so.
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@jtackaberry I'm totally with you, I've never understood why a web browser should also act as a mail client and I'm not concerned a bit of that part being developed at all, I only care of the browser being developed and getting loved by more users as much I already do.
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@jtackaberry said in email client?:
Am I the only one who feels that an integrated email client in Vivaldi is a tragically bad idea?
Not the only one, but the one who matters, Jon von Tetzchner (article from 2 years ago), thinks it's a good idea. I agree with him, which is why I am using Vivaldi, and patiently waiting for the email client so that I can uninstall Opera 12.17.
βI donβt think webmail is for everyone,β he told me. βItβs definitely not for the advanced user. We find that lots of users have multiple mail accounts and they donβt tie together and when you have the mail client built into the browser, it feels more natural.β Vivaldi will soon offer its users a Vilvaldi.net email address, but the mail client will work with any email account.β
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@iAN-CooG: You're not the only one to consider it "tragically bad," and not the only one to be wrong about that. Vivaldi does not "act as a mail client." It INCLUDES a mail client, built into the interface - IF THE USER WANTS IT. and I want it, and it's nearly the only reason I jumped from Opera to Vivaldi. I was missing the built-in mail client - and had been since the abandonment of Opera12. Some of our work flows simply require this, and I have needed it, and had it, for nearly two decades.
For those who don't want a mail client in their browser, its optional presence inflicts no penalty, no downside, and it can merely never be "turned on," hence never impacting the browser in any way whatever, aside from initial download size (and less than a 25% impact in that department as well). Further, as the development teams are separate, it doesn't impact the development speed, either.
For those who do want it, it provides a reason to adopt this internet suite, and helps to provide Vivaldi with a user base, which may guarantee its survival. I'm sitting here looking at my email panel on the left, my web in the middle, and my tabs on the right, and could scarcely be happier - plus - my browser performance is the same in this version as in the snapshot. I fail to see the "tragedy" here. It's a win-win from my view.
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@Quinca71 said in email client?:
Don't we let Linux and others out of the matter, that seems to me belongs to all
No need, we Linux users know it's coming and are expecting it "when it's ready".
I'm sitting here looking at my email panel on the left, my web in the middle, and my tabs on the right
So cruel
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@Ayespy said in email client?:
I'm sitting here looking at my email panel on the left
Is this currently only IMAPI or are POP3 clients supported?
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@Pesala Only IMAP so far. POP3 will come later.
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@Ayespy Thanks. I suspect that I just need to set up my virgin media email for IMAPI, otherwise I could be waiting for another year to get rid of Opera.
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@Quinca71 said in email client?:
I have had bad experience with Imap on M2
Me too. One has to understand that it works differently. I sent all of my bug reports to my vivalid.net account, and fetched them to Opera. Thinking that I had them safely stored on my web mail vivaldi.net account, I deleted them all from Opera. All of them then disappeared from vivaldi.net.
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@Quinca71 Thanks for the thought, but I don't have the range of equipment (or a wide ranging enough internet usage) to be a useful contributor to the soprano scheme.
I'm sure they have quite a few Linux / Multi-OS users already.