Thread: Mail on Opera

I was even unhappier with Opera's built-in mail and news group client, which works correctly with most of my mail accounts but is totally useless with one of my POP accounts and one of my lMAP accounts, both of which require a secure SSL log-in, No mat¬ter how many adjustments I made in the settings and no matter how often I imported settings from my Outlook Expre s settings, I could never down¬load messages from either account-though both accounts work perfectly with every other mail cli¬ent I've tried.



Annoyingly, Opera's mail client didn't let me test my account settings before saving them, and never even bothered to show an error message with the accounts it couldn't connect to. Instead, it kept displaying "Connecting" in the status bar until I deleted the accounts altogether.

Opera 9.50 Beta 1 is a promising release that all of Opera's many loyalists will appreciate. There's a lot to like-especially its full-text history search, and custom search abbreviations-but, at least in the beta version, it's still got too many quirks and too many problems for me to use on a regular ba¬sis-yet. The best thing it did for me was make me search out the Firefox extensions that bring some of Opera's best features-like using Ctr!-I, Ctr!¬2, and so on to jump to my favorite sites-to the browser I use most of the time,