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Opera's news and e-mail client is designed for speed, elegance, and user friendliness.
Its approach to message management makes creating folders and sorting messages manually become superfluous. All messages you receive are automatically indexed and sorted based on sender, contents, and the type of message.
All messages are kept in a single database and can therefore appear several places. Your unread, incoming messages appear in the "Unread" view, but they are also available in other views. If, for example, a friend has posted a message to a mailing list that you subscribe to, the message will appear both in your mailing list view and in the view for your friend.
The "Received" view contains all your incoming messages, read and unread.
Follow this procedure to import messages, contact information, and settings from other e-mail clients:
Imported messages are treated as follows:
Follow this procedure to set up a new account without importing old messages:
Messages that are not already on your computer will then be downloaded from the mail server.
Tip: See Opera's on-line article for information about using the e-mail client with your Premium Opera Web Mail account.
Tip: The font in the compose window can be changed in the fonts preferences.
Tip: Text strings from the Notes panel can be inserted using drag and drop, or by right-clicking in the message body.
By default, new messages will be downloaded to your computer at regular intervals, but you may also choose to do this manually, for example if you are using a dial-up connection. Open your Mail panel and click "Unread" to go through new messages.
The message view is divided into four parts:
Click on the columns to sort listed messages according to the corresponding criteria.
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Star | New messages are marked as unread |
| Checkmark | You have marked the message as read |
| Arrow pointing up | The message has been sent (outgoing messages) |
| Arrow pointing left | You have replied to the message |
| Arrow pointing right | You have forwarded the message |
Messages that appear in blue in the message list have not been seen (selected by cursor) yet. Messages in bold have not been marked as read yet.
Opera can present textual emoticons in the form of graphical smileys in e-mail and news messages. This is toggled from the e-mail toolbar in . For an overview of available smileys, see the Chat page.
To quickly search all the messages in your current view for a specific term or phrase, use the "Quick find" field in the e-mail toolbar. The messages will be sorted as you type.
Right-click a message for multiple choices:
| Reply | Answer selected message |
|---|---|
| Reply all | Answer selected message and include all recipients |
| Forward | Pass selected message to a third party, with you as the sender in the "From" field |
| Redirect | Send selected message to a third party, keeping original sender in the "From" field |
| Mark » | Mark selected messages as read, unread, spam, and so forth |
| Label as » | Mark selected messages as Important, Funny, and so forth |
| Show in » | Make selected messages available in other views |
| Go to » | Navigate messages |
| Remove from view | Hide selected messages from active view (move to clipboard) |
| Copy | Mark selected messages (copy to clipboard), enabling pasting to other views |
| Paste | Show copied (clipboard) messages in active view |
| Delete | Send selected messages to Trash view |
| Cancel post | Request all news servers to delete posting (use in Sent view) |
| Edit | Continue editing selected outgoing message |
| Add contact | Recognize senders of selected messages as contacts |
Click the View button in the e-mail toolbar for multiple choices on how to display messages:
| From | Show only messages a certain contact has sent to you (only in Contacts views) |
|---|---|
| To | Show only messages you have sent to a certain contact (only in Contacts views) |
| To and from | Show all messages you have sent to and received from a contact (only in Contacts view) |
| Flat | Show related messages sorted separately (not in Contacts view) |
| Threaded | Show related messages sorted in threads |
| Show » | Show certain types of messages |
| Period » | Decide how far back in time to look at messages |
| Display » | Decide how to display the message body |
| Mark as read » | Mark message as read manually or automatically |
| Show quick reply | Enable the "quick reply" function |
If you use Quick reply to answer a message, Opera will remove text that has been quoted more than twice.
Tip: You can specify quote levels to strip in "accounts.ini". The replacement text can be edited in "english.lng".
Warning: HTML messages may contain markup that fetches data from the Internet. This poses a security risk and is therefore disabled by default.
The mail panel displays a tree of views that organize your messages. Note the following details about the message tree:
Right-click a view for multiple choices:
| Read mail | Display message list for selected view |
|---|---|
| Compose | Write a new message |
| Check mail | Download new messages to your computer |
| Mark all as read | Hide all messages (in selected view) from Unread view |
| Empty spam | Move all spam messages to Trash |
| Empty trash | Permanently remove deleted messages from Trash view |
| New filter | Create new filter |
| Delete | Delete selected view and all sub-views |
| Newsgroups | Open "Subscribe newsgroups" dialog |
| Newsfeeds | Open "Subscribe to RSS newsfeeds" dialog |
| IMAP folders | Open "Subscribe IMAP folders" dialog |
| Show messages from » | Hide or show messages from certain accounts |
| Export | Export selected messages in the standard UNIX mailbox format (MBS) |
| Properties.. | Edit view properties |
Note: Mailing lists are identified by looking for standard mailing list headers. See IETF RFC 2919 for specifications.
The spam view separates advertisements and unwanted messages from messages in other views. By default, Opera's internal spam filter is set to medium strength, and it will analyze messages that are added to and removed from it to continually improve its automated sorting.
The internal spam filter examines messages for suspicious content, missing sender address, etc. If too many questionable matters are found, the message is considered spam. You can change the spam filter settings by right-clicking on "Spam" in the panel and selecting "Properties" from its context menu.
If you wish to organize your messages beyond what is done automatically, you can create your own message filters to resemble traditional message folders. Top-level filters are created by right-clicking anywhere inside the mail panel and selecting "New filter".
You can make messages appear in your filters manually, by right-clicking a message in the message view, and selecting a filter under "Show in", or automatically, by setting up filters with specific rules for message sorting. Each message can appear in as many views as you like.
To edit the name of a filter or the rules associated with it, select it in the panel and press Alt + Enter.
The following filter actions are available:
As the number of messages on your computer grows, it becomes necessary to quickly retrieve particular messages. Opera has multiple search options for messages:
You can choose different settings for each of your accounts in .
Enter the e-mail or news account information you have received from your service provider. Contact your service provider if you are missing information.
Tip: To protect your e-mail and news passwords, enter a security password in Opera's security preferences.
IMAP organizes your e-mail messages on the mail server. Regardless of where you are when you look at your e-mail, you will see the same messages organized the same way, even if you use different computers.
Caution: Setting up an e-mail account to use both POP and IMAP simultaneously is likely to cause problems. Therefore, use either POP or IMAP for each account.
Before attempting to set up an IMAP account, make sure the e-mail service you are using supports it. Then follow the procedure for POP and select IMAP instead of POP when asked.
When your IMAP folder has been set up, and all messages are downloaded to your computer, your IMAP folder tree appears in the "Mail" panel under "Mail for...".
The INBOX folder is the default folder for incoming messages and cannot be deleted. Click it to read your messages. Reading and sending messages over IMAP is similar to working with POP.
Go to to customize your IMAP folder tree. Click the checkboxes to select which IMAP folders you want to access from your computer.
Note that when you delete an IMAP folder from the mail server, all messages in that folder will be lost.
To move a message from one IMAP folder to another, drag the message from the message view and drop it to the new folder.
Account options are the same as for POP, with these additions:
Note: To take full advantage of IMAP capabilities, you should be connected to the Internet.
If you want to export your e-mail messages from Opera for use with a clean Opera install or a different e-mail client, the easiest way is to make sure all incoming message types are displayed in the "Received" view. Then right-clicking it and selecting "Export". Opera will then export all the messages in the selected view to a single, compressed file that is convenient for import.
Note that any view in the mail panel can be exported individually. This includes sent messages and drafts.
While an e-mail message is usually sent to a single person or a few people, posting a news article can be compared to putting notices on a public bulletin board.
Tip: To participate in newsgroups about Opera, enter news.opera.com as news server.
Tip: Enter text in the "Quick find" field to find particular newsgroups without scrolling through the whole list.
To read a newsgroup, click the group you want to read under the "News at" heading in your mail panel.
Reading and writing news articles is very similar to working with e-mail messages. Note, however, the following:
Newsfeeds let you receive messages from newspapers and other information sources on the Web. Rather than visiting a newspaper Web site checking for updates all the time, you can subscribe to the site's newsfeed, and receive news summaries like you receive e-mail messages.
Correctly coded RSS newsfeeds will be automatically recognized by the browser when linked from a page you visit. Opera will then display a small "RSS" icon within the address field. Click the icon to subscribe to the newsfeed. The first time you do this, "Feeds" will be added to Opera's main menu, and a "Newsfeeds" heading will appear in your mail panel if you have set up one or more e-mail or news accounts.
You can also right-click the mail panel and select "Newsfeeds" to access a newsfeeds subscription dialog.
All newsfeeds that you subscribe to will be available under .
Newsfeed items are managed in the same way as e-mail messages and can be searched, forwarded, and so forth. Note that it may take a while for the server to send you the first newsfeed items.
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