Introducing Vivaldi Mail in Technical Preview

Nekomajin

This is huge and awesome. Thanks for the hard work.

However, yes, I've read the article, a separate feed reader interface is a must for me. I understand that the logic behind the mail and reader clients are similar, but the current interface is too crowded for me. I hope the separated interface will be ready by the time this stuff hits final.

jon

@hilumcool said in Introducing Vivaldi Mail in Technical Preview:

Congrats to @jon and everyone who made this possible!

@hilumcool , thank you so much! The team has worked so hard to make this happen.

jon

@Nekomajin said in Introducing Vivaldi Mail in Technical Preview:

This is huge and awesome. Thanks for the hard work.

However, yes, I've read the article, a separate feed reader interface is a must for me. I understand that the logic behind the mail and reader clients are similar, but the current interface is too crowded for me. I hope the separated interface will be ready by the time this stuff hits final.

@Nekomajin , the plan is to provide a feed reader panel and likely a manager moving forward. We knew there would be requests for that. Using the mail db has a lot of benefits, though, also for any other feed reader UI we will make.

jon

@vladrials said in Introducing Vivaldi Mail in Technical Preview:

Thank you so much for this much requested feature. All of us, especially longtime Opera (Presto) users have been waiting for this feature to land in Vivaldi.

It is remarkable how distinct Vivaldi has become as a browser. Unlike the competition which treats users like an afterthought Vivaldi treats its users with real respect.

Vivaldi is fast becoming my browser of choice on any platform. It is the only application for which I am willing to discard my philosophy of using only FOSS software. Such is the usefulness of this browser.

I recently introduced some of my colleagues to Vivaldi (Stable) and they are absolutely charmed. They just love how productive it has made them. Tab tiling and the sidebar are cited as their favourite features. Who knew that regular users appreciate a browser which doesn't treat its users as dumb people (/sarcasm).

Again, please allow me to convey my deepest regards to the Vivaldi Team for such an excellent product.

P.S.: A special shout out to the awesome of Vivaldi community. You have been absolutely great.

@vladrials , thank you for your kind words.

jumpsq

@Nekomajin Have a look at this: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/53321/add-folder-and-label-settings
If they implemented it, this should do the trick.

Xypher

Yes! Thank you! Just gave it a spin now and they're sooo good! Very fast and responsive!

jon

@HealingCross said in Introducing Vivaldi Mail in Technical Preview:

@xyzzy Well said, thank you. But as I more and more realize, Vivaldi isn't actually made for me any more. Too much features I don't need. I don't have this nostalgia feeling about good old Opera. So I haven't been waiting for this, unfortunately. Using webmail exclusively since signing in with Gmail.

And it's not only mail, calendar and feed, it's also about pause-button and Vivaldia e.g. A lot of features that don't make any sense to me. Using Vivaldi has become more about what features not to use lately then what features to use. So I might consider to use another browser but still without any definite preference. Maybe going back to Chrome or to the new Edge.

Sorry to say that. I do understand however that lots of folks will see it differently. And they're right. But I've been talking about my own needs and using a browser whose features more than half of them I don't use makes no real sense to me.

@HealingCross , remember that Vivaldi is about choice. Any feature you do not want to use can be hidden. That is the beauty of Vivaldi. You can have it as simple or as complicated as you like.

If you do choose to leave us, I am sad to see you go and hope we will win you back later.

jon

@HealingCross said in Introducing Vivaldi Mail in Technical Preview:

@jon I'm not actually decided about that. As I've already mentioned, there's also a lot to like in Vivaldi. And I like the ethos of the team and the fact that it's a European company, standing against the technical giants. Maybe I'll end up with a stripped down Vivaldi then.

Good to hear. Vivaldi is for you just as much as it is for those that want a rich feature set. Vivaldi is really about choice and flexibility and recognizing that we have different needs and adapting to them.

xyzzy

@HealingCross Vivaldi is filled with features and options that some use and that others do not. You can customise it to your liking, and you get features that you can only get in other browsers by adding (potentially untrustworthy) extensions. Adding more features does not impact performance.

You may not realize it but Chrome also has a built in game, accessible from chrome://dino , or when you lose Internet access. Vivaldi wanted to do something better, and added the game icon on the Start Page to make it more discoverable. If you don't like it, you can turn it off.

I also have Firefox installed and use Edge from time to time, but for me, Vivaldi feels like a comfortable pair of shoes. The other browsers feel awkward and cumbersome by comparison.

cmspooner

@edger: I'm at the same point. Even IMAP access seems to be blocked!

solidsnake

This is just an unbelievable amount of work and wisdom put in these features.

Just the E shortcut in the mail client is worth using it.

Congratulations. We don't deserve you.

rorymobley83

Can't sign into google mail or calendar. I'm getting "Sign in with Google temporarily disabled for this app. This app has not been verified yet by Google in order to use Google Sign In." Any ideas? Thanks

jon

@cmspooner said in Introducing Vivaldi Mail in Technical Preview:

@edger: I'm at the same point. Even IMAP access seems to be blocked!

Hopefully Google will enable access soon. It is kind of absurd that they do this, but we have contacted them again about this issue. GMail is working fine for those of us that have been using M3 with it during the development period, but they put this limit in place and they need to lift it.

Pesala

@rorymobley83 See the known issues:

Google has (after 9 months) still not approved our account access Consent Screen, thus currently the number of accounts that can be logged in to GMail IMAP and Google CalDAV with Vivaldi’s client at any one time, is limited to 100

jon

@solidsnake said in Introducing Vivaldi Mail in Technical Preview:

This is just an unbelievable amount of work and wisdom put in these features.

Just the E shortcut in the mail client is worth using it.

Congratulations. We don't deserve you.

Thank you for your kind words and support!

huginnmunin

What a wonderful surprise!! It was a long wait since M2!!
Been checking for this on the forum for the last five years and had almost given up in the last three months. Checked on a lark today and lo and behold!!

Thank you for persevering and thank you for this wonderful browser.

luetage

@jon Why is the gmail sign in triggering an extra window though? In all other mail clients you can just input the password without going through google. Of course the application has to be approved in google settings once, but then it should work just with the password from the actual client.

jon

@huginnmunin said in Introducing Vivaldi Mail in Technical Preview:

What a wonderful surprise!! It was a long wait since M2!!
Been checking for this on the forum for the last five years and had almost given up in the last three months. Checked on a lark today and lo and behold!!

Thank you for persevering and thank you for this wonderful browser.

@huginnmunin , thank you for your kind words. This has taken longer than we hoped for, but we just doubled down and got it done. This is now the first step and we still have some loose ends and bugs to work on before final, but we will get there. We just felt it was time for you all to get to play with it!

jon

@luetage said in Introducing Vivaldi Mail in Technical Preview:

@jon Why is the gmail sign in triggering an extra window though? In all other mail clients you can just input the password without going through google. Of course the application has to be approved in google settings once, but then it should work just with the password from the actual client.

@luetage , Google is requiring us to use this login method. They do support old clients with traditional IMAP login, but users have to go through a lot of hoops to enable that. Once Google enables Vivaldi access for all our users, this will work better. That being said, I wish we could just use the IMAP login, but we felt that was not really an option.

srart

Missing the gpg functionality that the web client has. Also the side panel overlaps the interface so has to be closed to see messages.