Users can add or remove labels, and select custom icons. Just use views (filters) to organise your mail, or simply use the quick find field to filter mails containing key words.Įmails can be tagged with labels. The email client works like a database, so there is no need to sort mail in folders. I don’t use the Mail Panel at all, but there are more options there for sorting and filtering mail. Grouping of messages by date can be disabled to return to the old style mail layout. The mail tabs can be arranged in the traditional way with list above and message below, or side-by-side, with one or two lines for the message list. Spell-check is built in to the browser and can also be used to check mail. Opera was originally just a plain text client, which IMO is the best for email, but it now has an HTML mail composer if you need it. The Ctrl E shortcut can be used to compose an email, or clicking an email link will open the Compose mail window. I keep my “Received mail” tab pinned open at all times for quick reference.

Set up one or more email accounts in Opera to have instant access without running another program. Extensions: For those who need even more.Web Panels: Drag any web page to the panels toolbar.Email client: Send and receive email and read RSS Newsfeeds.I never adopted the new version of Opera so I was delighted to discover that Vivaldi had been released by Jon von Tetzchner with a similar design philosophy to that of the original Opera, with a promise of a built-in email client and a high degree of customisability.Īfter reading the review below, you will realise that, though much has been achieved already, Vivaldi still has some way to go to reach the same level of control that we enjoyed in Opera for over a decade. This marked a change of direction, and long-term Opera users like me. In 2013 Opera dropped the Presto layout engine in favour of Blink, and it was bought up by a Chinese consortium for $600 million in 2016. Opera used its own Presto rendering engine, but it was hard to support web sites that did not follow web standards. I have restored and updated this review page for the benefit of those Vivaldi users who do not know the background of the original Opera browser co-founded by Jon von Tetzchner, the current CEO of Vivaldi. I no longer need to launch Opera 12.18 to send and receive emails, since Vivaldi now has a built-in email client. Being able to check and send email while browsing is as useful as it ever was. Opera 5.0 became my primary browser in 2001, when it was recommended to me for its built-in email client.

Opera mail review 2016