<H1><A NAME="top">Electronic Mail (Email)</A></H1>
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<A NAME="mail"><FONT SIZE="5">Configuring Opera Mail</FONT></A>
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Opera has support for sending electronic mail messages. We are also working on a complete email client, so that you can also receive and store mail, but for the time being it's only sendmail. Before you can send messages from Opera, you must specify your name, the mail server you will use to send mail, and finally your mail address. The address must be in the format
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<PRE>name@address.country</PRE>
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ie. SMTP format.
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Note: You can ask your system administrator or Internet supplier for the name of your mail server.
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If you already have a mail program you can use this with Opera. Specify this program instead of your name, mail server and mail address.
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<B>To set up mail preferences:</B>
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Choose 'Mail...' from the '<A HREF="prefmenu.htm#mail">Preferences</A>' menu.
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Fill in the fields for name, mail address and mail server or fill in the name of your own mail program.
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<B>Example:</B>
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<B>Name:</B> James A. Smith
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<B>Email Address:</B> ja.smith@home.com
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<B>Mail Server:</B> smtp-mail.home.com
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Click on the 'OK' button.
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You can also specify a file where Opera saves all outgoing mails, provided you use Opera for mailing rather than your own email client.
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<A NAME="link"><FONT SIZE="5">How to send mail</FONT></A>
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If you would like to use email from Opera, you can do it by simply clicking on email-link in a web page or in a newsgroup.
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At the moment, Opera can only send mail, but not receive it. We therefore suggest you use an alternative mail program, such as Pegasus, Agent, Eudora or Becky! to manage your emails until Opera will come with a complete mail system.
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<B><FONT COLOR="#b30000">TIP:</FONT></B> If you use Pegasus Mail, you can use the commandline option <B>-T</B> to tell Opera to open a new message window in Pegasus with the email address pasted into the To: field when you click on a mailto: link on a web page.
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If you use Agent, enter this string (obviously adapted to your settings):
However it only works if Agent isn't already open. If it is, only the focus will change, but no mail window will be opened. More info on a proper solution is on our online support page.
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If you use MS Outlooks as your mailer, this is your commandline option: