By Cat Ellis
Do you struggle to keep on top of your emails? Hundreds of unread and unorganized messages giving you a headache? Opera Mail could be the solution.
Opera Mail is a free email client originally bundled with the Opera web browser, but now in development as a standalone project. It’s a great tool for keeping multiple email accounts organized, avoiding the need to open multiple browser tabs. It also stores an offline backup of your messages so you don’t need to worry about accidentally deleting the email about that critical job interview, or the order confirmation from that misguided 2am eBay purchase.
If you already use an email client, there’s a wizard that makes it easy to import your messages and contacts. This tool sounds good in principle, and it supports Mozilla Thunderbird, but unfortunately most of the other clients listed are quite outdated, including Netscape and the geriatric Eudora.
This is reflective of Opera Mail as a whole – it’s a very well made, smart email client, but needs a thorough refresh to bring it up to date.
User experience
Upon launching Opera Mail for the first time, you’ll be given three choices: email, newsgroups (yes, really) and import email.
Setting up an email account isn’t …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac