Comments on: Opera Mail client interview: Submit your questions

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:46:35 +0000

dryu, I still didn’t get back the answers from Arjan. I just spoke with him last week; he said that he’s working on it.

By: dryu

dryu — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 10:26:52 +0000

We were promised with answers to submitted questions within a week. Am I missed something, or the answers are still pending?

By: ResearchWizard

ResearchWizard — Wed, 16 May 2007 00:21:39 +0000

So here my real question for the interview:
Opera is always talked about as a browser and every non browser feature is just reported as a nice-to-have add-on. But at least M2 is much more than just another email client with it’s outstanding and superior features (and some severe limitations for average users like HTML composing). Even on Opera’s feature page M2 is hardly mentioned in the lower half of the page.
Will there be enforced marketing for Opera as an email client or even as an Opera suite (thinking of calendar) in near future?

By: andrewdied

andrewdied — Mon, 14 May 2007 19:15:31 +0000

Opera and M2 are normally touted as secure, but M2 doesn’t have support for S/MIME or PGP/GPG. Is M2 going to get any of these per-message security features?

By: Barry

Barry — Sun, 13 May 2007 10:36:30 +0000

Will any new version have a ‘good’ tutorial? A lot of the questions/comments on here seem to have been already dealt with, viz the answers given…..

Bye, Barry

By: comnut

comnut — Sat, 12 May 2007 10:53:20 +0000

well, he did say “Post your Opera-mail related questions for Arjan in the comments section to this post” ..

- If it was perfect, we wouldnt be talking and wishing about it…

and BILL… without moderation, it would descend to the low level of juvenile insults and bickering of some other forums…

By: Jadd

Jadd — Fri, 11 May 2007 11:32:27 +0000

Important: This is an interview, not a wishlist for the mail client — so please post your questions.

Haha, as if that were possible!

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 10 May 2007 16:11:48 +0000

Will the age old problem of restricting how many newsgroup messages get downloaded, be fixes?

The mail lockups everyone has been suffering with? Will these be sorted?

By: Alan Dorkin

Alan Dorkin — Thu, 10 May 2007 13:45:45 +0000

Will there be support for ispell spellchecking in M2? That would make useable spellchecking possible in many smaller languages like Finnish (Voikko) or Hungarian (Hunspell) (+ Turkish, Estonian etc?)

Are you aware, that such a problem exists? Aspell is useless in many languages.

By: conpman

conpman — Thu, 10 May 2007 10:43:24 +0000

And what about **full** compatability with outloook, eudora, thunderbird???

I mean **without** waiting ages for it to **convert** the whole mail format so it can be seen!!!!!

- auto-view of graphic attachments..

- Folder view - note that while Eudora looks like it uses folders, they are in fact just text files… (the same way opera has ‘folder view’ for bookmarks and notes, but they are just text files….)

By: Ilya

Ilya — Thu, 10 May 2007 04:31:33 +0000

What about filterls applayed to RSS feeds, like as to emails(virtual folders)

By: Nudecybot

Nudecybot — Thu, 10 May 2007 02:23:28 +0000

Ability to choose MBOX instead of MAILDIR storage please!

MAILDIR is very heavy on the filesystem (so power users should use MBOX) and in any case power users also know how to avoid problems with antivirus systems deleting mailfiles.

Calendaring would be cool even if its only connecting to a calendar webservice.

By: WildEnte

WildEnte — Thu, 10 May 2007 00:18:56 +0000

Will there be tighter integration of the Opera Webmail service (which needs a huge overhaul!!) with opera’s mail client to give users a great package of mail client AND mail service?

By: kL

kL — Wed, 09 May 2007 21:45:36 +0000

What future does Opera envisage for M2? Will it continue to be small add-on to the browser, or will it evolve? If evolve, in what direction? (mail+calendar? powerful rss aggregator? feature-complete usenet client?)

Are there any plans to utilize upcoming OS X Leopard’s features for Mail? (e-mails flagged as to-dos, shared system-wide)

By: andresruiz

andresruiz — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:11:04 +0000

sorry, no “donfirmations” on my last comment, the word is confirmations. Sorry for using a new post to correct it but I wasn’t able to edit the last one after posted