New to Opera e-mail

Hello,
I've been using Opera since 1999 but I don't know anything about Opera e-mail. Now my wife wants to use it on her Windows 7 machine ( Windows LIve Mail, she says, is rubbish ! ) and I need to look like I know what I'm talking about.

Firstly then, how can she import all her stuff ?

Secondly, how can she set up discrete folders ?

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Originally posted by moon:

Firstly then, how can she import all her stuff ?

Opera doesn't support importing from Windows Live Mail. You'd have to find a converter that convert its message storage format into the standard mbox format or find some way to import into Thunderbird and then import Thunderbird's mbox files into Opera.

But, if her mail provider supports IMAP, she can just setup the IMAP account in Opera without importing anything.

Note that moving from one mail client to another when you use POP (or an http interface to mail.live.com in a local app) is always a pain as clients don't usually support importing from other clients. If you use IMAP though, it's easy.

Originally posted by moon:

Secondly, how can she set up discrete folders ?

Opera doesn't use folders. It uses a database and then has views that return search results made on the database. You can create your own views (called "Labels") and set the views to hide messages from other views so that act like folders. See this page.

If she wants to use Opera's built-in mail client, she needs forget about the way she's used mail in the past and try a totally different way. If she's not very open to change, Opera's built-in mail client wouldn't be good for her.

But, you already have a mail account at mail.opera.com. You can connect to it in Opera via IMAP. Just use your username at myopera.com for the email address in the setup wizard. Or, setup a Gmail account at mail.google.com and connect to it via IMAP. There's also gmx.com.

See these links:
http://operawiki.info/
http://my.opera.com/operawiki/forums/
http://www.opera.com/mail/
http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/mail/
http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/mail/advanced/

OK. thanks for that, burnout, but I'm disappointed that its that complicated. We'll use something else.
Your run-through is much appreciated.

It would be a lot simpler if you just forward all mail to the new Opera account.

All sent mail will be jumbled up with received mail, but at least your wife will have a local record of the messages in Opera.

Any new messages to/from the new account would be sorted automatically as received and sent.

I messed with Windows LIve Mail and see that it exports in .eml format. That's pretty easily convertible to mbox format that Opera can import.

I made directions here.

She's going to have to look at this advice herself, thank you. Meanwhile, it's proving impossible to send a live URL via Opera mail. She's tried ' add link ' to no effect. How's it done, please ?

Originally posted by moon:

Meanwhile, it's proving impossible to send a live URL via Opera mail.

For a plain text message, you include it like this:

<http://www.example.com/>

For an HTML message, you need to goto insert -> Link. Or, goto insert -> HTML and insert:

<a href="http://www.example.com/">http://www.example.com/</a>

Not sure why either of those don't work unless the receiving client isn't very good.