Vivaldi

  • Browser
  • Mail
  • News
  • Community
  • About

Navigation

    • Browser
    • Mail
    • News
    • Community
    • About
    • Register
    • Login
    • Search
    CommunityForumHelpThemesWebmail
    • Home
    • Categories
    • Recent
    • Tags
    • Popular
    • Users
    • Groups
    • Search
    1. Home
    2. General Discussion
    3. Technology & IT
    4. I think I might be in (using Vivaldi) over my head

    I think I might be in (using Vivaldi) over my head

    Technology & IT
    6
    12
    121
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • Claptonfan
      Claptonfan last edited by

      I am an ‘older’ programmer from the days COBOL and mostly Interactive Basic---Words such as ‘Mail’ M2 or M3 have lost me. I am not dumb but I think pointing me in some direction for assistance would relieve me of the pressure I create for myself in terms of my using/staying with Vivaldi Webmail. I don’t think I need fancy, I just want all my emails to go and get all replies back in a timely fashion.

      Pesala LonM Dancer18 3 Replies Last reply Reply Quote 1
      • Pesala
        Pesala - Ambassador - @Claptonfan last edited by

        @Claptonfan Vivaldi has a built-in email client, which can be used to fetch your emails from one or many email accounts. It keeps a local copy of your emails and allows you to read them offline. Also, you no longer need to log in to your web mail server to read and reply to emails.

        • M2 was the email client built in to Opera 12.18, which is one of very few browsers to have a built-in email client.
        • M3 is the unofficial name of the built-in email client for Vivaldi. It has been under development since the early days of Vivaldi, but only recently released in the Snapshot builds as an experimental feature.

        Snapshot vs Stable

        Install the Snapshot as a Standalone Version so that it does not interfere with your settings for the Stable release.

        • To enable the experimental email client, go to vivaldi://experiments to enable it, and restart the browser.
        • In Settings, Mail, you can then add each of your email addresses. If all goes well, Vivaldi will automatically set them up for you and import your emails.

        I am happily using the email client, but be aware that it is still unpolished.

        Blog • Vivaldi Review • Server Status • AMD Ryzen 5 3400G, 8 Gb • Win 10 64-bit build 19044.1889 • Snapshot 5.4.2763.3 (64-bit)

        Claptonfan 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • LonM
          LonM Moderator @Claptonfan last edited by LonM

          @Claptonfan said in I think I might be in (using Vivaldi) over my head:

          Words such as ‘Mail’ M2 or M3 have lost me. [...] my using/staying with Vivaldi Webmail

          Vivaldi has perhaps not done a very good job of this, but the "webmail" is totally separate from M2/M3.

          • M2/M3 are (as pesala mentioned above) clients. M2 was the old opera one, and M3 is the new vivaldi replacement
          • M2/M3 run as programs on the PC, and can interact with any mail server
          • Vivaldi.net mail is an email service, where you can send/receive email from a username@vivaldi.net account
          • Vivaldi webmail is a webmail interface for the vivaldi mail server - it lets you access your vivaldi.net mail online without needing a program
          • the vivaldi.net email service, Vivaldi webmail and M3 are distinct

          It is a bit confusing, as I type this I'm still not 100% sure if I've got my terminology right.

          💻 ⊞10 R5-2600 GTX1660Ti 16GB 64-bit Test Builds • en fr • 🗳 vote for features • 🕵️‍♀️ Code of Conduct • 🐞 Report bugs • 💬 Discord

          Claptonfan 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 2
          • Claptonfan
            Claptonfan @Pesala last edited by

            @Pesala Thank you. One more thing, how do I install as a Standalone Version??

            LonM Dancer18 Pesala greybeard 4 Replies Last reply Reply Quote 0
            • Dancer18
              Dancer18 @Claptonfan last edited by

              @Claptonfan Have you studied this page and the official help page already?
              There you find the basic information and assistance you need.

              If there are an unanswered question left don't hesitate to ask it here in the forum.

              Concerning M2 and M3:

              M2 is the name of Opera-mail-client while M3 is the successor within Vivaldi. They are inbuilt email-clients for any email-accounts you have. To achieve it you have to activate it as it is described here.

              Vivaldi Webmail is only for use of your xxx@vivaldi.net mail-account.

              Vivaldi stable 5.3, with mail-client and calendar
              OS: Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon; Win10, Android 11

              Claptonfan 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
              • Claptonfan
                Claptonfan @Dancer18 last edited by

                @Dancer18 Will read immediately. Tack

                1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                • LonM
                  LonM Moderator @Claptonfan last edited by

                  @Claptonfan There currently isn't a standalone (only the mail client) version of vivaldi. You could install a standalone copy of the browser and do all of your mail in that, if you wished.

                  💻 ⊞10 R5-2600 GTX1660Ti 16GB 64-bit Test Builds • en fr • 🗳 vote for features • 🕵️‍♀️ Code of Conduct • 🐞 Report bugs • 💬 Discord

                  1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                  • Dancer18
                    Dancer18 @Claptonfan last edited by

                    @Claptonfan said in I think I might be in (using Vivaldi) over my head:

                    @Pesala Thank you. One more thing, how do I install as a Standalone Version??

                    @Pesala meant the Standalone snapshot version of Vivaldi browser, if you want to look for recent changes that are not available yet in the newest stable version.

                    As @LonM already claryfied just use the mail-client inside of your Vivaldi-browser (after activating its feature).

                    Vivaldi stable 5.3, with mail-client and calendar
                    OS: Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon; Win10, Android 11

                    1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                    • Pesala
                      Pesala - Ambassador - @Claptonfan last edited by

                      @Claptonfan The Standalone version of the Snapshot version of the browser 3.7x won't interfere with your default installation of the Stable version 3.6x.

                      This allows you to try out experimental features while having a Stable browser to fall back on if anything goes belly-up, or if you cannot get on with the latest features.

                      Blog • Vivaldi Review • Server Status • AMD Ryzen 5 3400G, 8 Gb • Win 10 64-bit build 19044.1889 • Snapshot 5.4.2763.3 (64-bit)

                      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                      • Claptonfan
                        Claptonfan @LonM last edited by

                        @LonM Thanks. very helpful.

                        Ayespy 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                        • Ayespy
                          Ayespy Moderator @Claptonfan last edited by

                          @Claptonfan Please don't hesitate to ask questions.

                          I scanned the thread and didn't see it, so I will fill in a bit of a vacuum here. "What's with this term 'M2' or 'M3?'"

                          Well, the original developer (with a friend, Geri Iversoy, since deceased) of the browser Opera, 'way back in the early '90's, was a guy named Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner. He and his team built the most innovative and flexible browser anywhere, and it gained some real popularity. Not too long after he started it, he and the team built an email client into it. Later, that client was revised, and gained the name M2 (for "mail version 2") and M2 was the built-in email client for Opera right up until Jon parted ways with corporate types who bought into Opera, took it over, and changed its direction. Jon left, the new corporate owners of Opera abandoned the unique browser engine Jon and his team had developed, and began building a new kind of Opera on the Chromium web engine. They split off Opera Mail to a stand-alone app and quit having a browser with a built-in mail client.

                          Jon soon after decided to build a very configurable browser with a built-in mail client again, and many of the original team who had built the classic version of Opera had left or been fired from the new Opera, and Jon hired several of these guys on. So now there is again a browser with a built-in email client, and Jon and the team nicknamed that client "M3" for "mail, version 3" and so there's now the old M2 split off from Opera and the new M3 built in to Vivaldi.

                          End of story.

                          Volunteer Mod and tester on Windows 11 Pro X64, i5 9400 @ 4.1 GHz turbo; Intel UHD 630 graphics; 1TB WDC NVME SSD; 16 GB DDR4-2666 RAM. Community Code of Conduct

                          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                          • greybeard
                            greybeard - Ambassador - @Claptonfan last edited by

                            @Claptonfan @Pesala To add to the confusion... There was a standalone version of M2 created by Opera way back. It did not seem to get off the ground as the browser version was more popular and efficient.
                            The browser version of M2 also got great reviews in the Tech press at the time.
                            It

                            Regarding Mail and Webmail for Vivaldi, I'm totally confused.

                            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                            Loading More Posts
                            • Oldest to Newest
                            • Newest to Oldest
                            • Most Votes
                            • Reply as topic
                            Log in to reply
                            • 1 / 1
                            • First post
                              Last post

                            Looks like your connection to Vivaldi Forum was lost, please wait while we try to reconnect.

                            Copyright © Vivaldi Technologies™ — All rights reserved. Privacy Policy | Code of conduct | Terms of use | Vivaldi Status