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Learn how to setup GMail in Opera

By Espen André ØverdahlEspenAO. Wednesday, January 5, 2011 8:38:45 AM

GMail is a popular mail service. Many of you have an account, so our tutorial will learn you how to setup GMail and get all your emails in Opera Mail - our powerful built into email client.

All information in this tutorial is gathered from the fan driven website Opera Browser Wiki. It's a great resource to discover new things about Opera, so we highly recommend you bookmark this page (or at least give it a proper read through sometime).

Let's get started:

Log in to your GMail account. Once you're logged in, enable IMAP in Settings » Forwarding and POP/IMAP.
Click on Tools (or O-Menu) in Opera and select Mail and Chat accounts.
Click on Add » Email » Next » Enter your name and your Gmail address » Next » Enter your username (your GMail address) and Password. Click on Finish.
Go back to Mail and Chat accounts and select the GMail you just configured. On the outgoing tab, set the default encoding to UTF-8. Click "Edit signature" and edit your signature.
Congratulations, you are now done!

This is the basic configuration and GMail should now work in Opera. We recommend you check out the Opera Browser Wiki for tips and tricks how to further optimize and configure mail in Opera.

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Comments

Tamil # Wednesday, January 5, 2011 8:47:29 AM

IKoke # Wednesday, January 5, 2011 8:52:08 AM

ytrondera # Wednesday, January 5, 2011 8:54:00 AM

Sushubh # Wednesday, January 5, 2011 8:54:56 AM

i had start using gmail through opera mail but it really does not provide the best possible interface for it.

conversation view is sort of available through a threaded mode. but overall, i believe postbox does a much better job handling it.

vipin kumarmvk6 # Wednesday, January 5, 2011 9:07:17 AM

I use POP instead of IMAP for gmail!! and even the priority inbox of gmail can be emulated in opera's built in mail client!!

Bogdan Moonfiremoonfiremusic # Wednesday, January 5, 2011 9:17:33 AM

How do I open Mail in a tab and not in the sidebar? I find it annoying...

Christiancb-at # Wednesday, January 5, 2011 9:33:21 AM

my way to use gmail (don't need any local email-application):
a) close opera
b) edit C:\Program Files\Opera\defaults\webmailproviders.ini:

[Gmail]
ID=8
URL=https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s
ICON=https://mail.google.com/favicon.ico

c) start opera and click on an email-adress and choose gmail in the box.

set & forget...
so you have all your emails on every internet-device

Sami Serolaserola # Wednesday, January 5, 2011 9:33:50 AM

operawiki.info is a great resource.

Abhinavdecodedthought # Wednesday, January 5, 2011 9:54:21 AM

DonaldXP # Wednesday, January 5, 2011 9:57:44 AM

@ Bogdan Moonfire

Originally posted by moonfiremusic:

How do I open Mail in a tab and not in the sidebar? I find it annoying...

rightclick on the adressbar>Customize>Appearance
click the Buttons-tab,in Category choose "Mail" and drag'n drop the Mail-icon to your desired location.voila,Mail will open as a tab...

cheers

Artur „Jurgi” JurgawkaJurgi # Wednesday, January 5, 2011 10:30:56 AM

Is such a simple thing really need tutorial?

Tamil # Wednesday, January 5, 2011 10:37:18 AM

Originally posted by Jurgi:

Is such a simple thing really need tutorial?

First step is important.

Ms4real malanMs4real # Wednesday, January 5, 2011 10:40:55 AM

wats up guyz

John BarnettJohn164 # Wednesday, January 5, 2011 11:16:11 AM

How do you stop double posts being displayed in M2 ? thats the main reson I don't use M2 as my mail program.

dogs1985Dogs1985 # Wednesday, January 5, 2011 12:03:46 PM

非常好的教学。

Richard Ofosuhene Melawzy22 # Wednesday, January 5, 2011 12:23:12 PM

I pray that year becomes my year of succes

PengePenge4 # Wednesday, January 5, 2011 12:47:46 PM

Additional advices:

You have to uncheck the "All Mails" for prevent the mail duplication.
And you have to use the "Advanced IMAP Controls" Gmail Labs app to archive/trash/automatically expunge the delete mails which has "Deleted" flag set.

eonblue # Wednesday, January 5, 2011 12:59:06 PM

Another tutorial of gmail, yahoo, and hotmail, but in spanish: http://www.taringa.net/posts/ebooks-tutoriales/8387946/como-configurar-el-correo-Opera_-Gmail_-Yahoo_-y-Hotmail.html

habib mhdkrjhj # Wednesday, January 5, 2011 2:33:44 PM

evre tay new one .love opera:heart:

Charles SchlossChas4 # Wednesday, January 5, 2011 2:47:24 PM

d4rkn1ght # Wednesday, January 5, 2011 4:34:40 PM

Cutting Spoonhellspork # Wednesday, January 5, 2011 5:32:37 PM

Originally posted by Theriault:

It worked with Opera 10.6...

Were you using the same skin in 10.6x? I have not had this problem, but I hear some older skins could break parts of Opera.

For those wanting one-click Mail access, follow these steps:

1) Keyboard [Shift-F12]

2) Tab {Buttons}

3) Pane (Mail)

4) Locate "Mail" button, and drag it to wherever you want it. I suggest tab-bar or status bar, but address bar should be okay.

5) Now when you click "Mail" button, it will open Mail tab and show Mail panel. When you click button again (or close Mail tab), the Mail panel will also close.

There are buttons for everything, including one-click Mail. I wish the button was shown in Mail/Chat setup, with mention that you could drag into UI for one-click access!

Aleksander AasAleksander # Wednesday, January 5, 2011 5:44:03 PM

I think the same trick works for Hotmail also

KarenNerak # Wednesday, January 5, 2011 8:42:50 PM

hundredorzero # Wednesday, January 5, 2011 8:43:31 PM

Originally posted by John164:

How do you stop double posts being displayed in M2 ? thats the main reson I don't use M2 as my mail program.

There are a couple of workarounds to solve this problem. Visit the following link
http://operawiki.info/GmailIMAP

Currently i am using workaround option 2.

hundredorzero # Wednesday, January 5, 2011 8:47:19 PM

Originally posted by Theriault:

My emails won't open from the "unread" menu. I get stuck on a blank page every time. : http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/2757/sanstitrefuc.jpg
It worked with Opera 10.6...

I use Opera 11; it's just a skin of Opera 9.

Wrong tab is focused in the pic.

Cutting Spoonhellspork # Wednesday, January 5, 2011 9:03:57 PM

Using POP3 mail instead tightens the integration in some areas, but IMAP has good speed and can handle messages a little more interactively...I think IMAP also uses less bandwidth than POP3.

I don't really have an issue with duplicates because I do not use the All Messages pane in the Mail Panel.

Michael A. Puls IIburnout426 # Thursday, January 6, 2011 2:12:24 AM

Originally posted by Theriault:

My emails won't open from the "unread" menu. I get stuck on a blank page every time.

So, you're using "View -> Display -> list only" and double-left-clicking the entry in the Unread message list to open the message in a new tab? If so, there's a bug with that currently where bodies are blank. But, you should still see the To and Subject headers etc. in the new tab (unless you have them hidden). Judging by your pic, you may have a different problem though.

Kelisha G FerdinandsKelisha # Thursday, January 6, 2011 3:46:40 PM

How do yu set it up on mobile phone?

HadiSyamsulHadi # Friday, January 7, 2011 3:12:34 AM

Originally posted by Kelisha:

How do yu set it up on mobile phone?

good question...

Daniel BandaChiyembekezo25 # Friday, January 7, 2011 2:42:35 PM

techlawsam # Friday, January 7, 2011 9:11:24 PM

awesome!

Zdenko Timulakzdenotim # Saturday, January 8, 2011 8:25:49 AM

wil joannchocolatebubblegum # Saturday, January 8, 2011 3:47:22 PM

thanks for the info . will try

samuel offomatasamzone333 # Monday, January 10, 2011 1:59:11 AM

I wished to present you a lot of flowers, but none of them is as beautiful, as you are.. I wanted to catch a star for you, but I didn't find such magnificent and charming as my lady cuz, then I decided to present you with my heart..Happy B.day.Cuz

Michael A. Puls IIburnout426 # Tuesday, January 11, 2011 12:12:47 PM

I updated the wording on http://operawiki.info/GmailImap to better match Opera 11 and simplified some text etc.

techlawsam # Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:41:05 PM

hmm M2 seems to complaining saying connection interrupted...

Michael A. Puls IIburnout426 # Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:53:16 PM

Originally posted by samMD:

hmm M2 seems to complaining saying connection interrupted...

That usually happens after a while if you use an update interval that's less than 10 minutes as Google considers that abuse.

Also, sometimes it can happen if you drop to move thousands of messages at once.