Giving Notes to Opera Mail would be convenient. Today I can still do a variation of this, picking the content I want to re-use from the Notes panel of the Opera Browser, and pasting it in a Compose window of the Opera Mail client. For example, selecting one of these notes and invoking a Compose Message window pre-fills it with the content of the note in the body.

The alternative was to create the body of such templates as notes and use them as appropriate. When I switched from Netscape Mail to Opera M2, the latter lacked the notion of e-mail templates. There is one thing that is missing in the mail client: a Notes panel and here’s why. But when the browser is running, clicking a link in e-mail opens a tab in the other window of the Opera Browser. The one thing it doesn’t know to do is to open the Opera browser (which is my default browser) in order to resolve a URI that I find in a mail. Even the panel is placed where it was in the browser. My 159300+ messages are still there, and the custom labels as well. Only the panel just has “Mail” and “Contacts” now. It looks and feels exactly the same as the built-in client.

I have been using Opera and the built-in Mail client for more than ten years, so it had a lot to work with. The wizard was stuck with 42% imported and the application was “Not responding” for a moment. I downloaded the application and asked the New Account Wizard to import my data from the Opera Browser. I estimate that 1 out of 3 lamented the split in question, and much more lamented the lack of much-appreciated other features such as dragonfly, notes, RSS, bookmarks etc., just to quote those which I care about. On popular demand we have split the Opera Mail client from our desktop browser.īut I’ll probably use it, if their business decision remains to keep the Mail client separate from the browser, despite the numerous comments I read this morning.

I found out today that with their release of Opera 15, Opera made M2 a stand-alone application.

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