My OperaTaking on Opera Mail client
Thursday, April 20, 2006 12:37:18 AM
i'm sorry if the following message is unbelievably hard to read. It does need heavy editing, which I am unfortunately not feeling like doing at the moment. Please keep in mind that I am using yahoo.co.uk service, with pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk and smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk as server names and I'm using Opera 8.53.
These are things that I realised, and worry about straight after Opera mail downloaded my messages, and got them through the AVG antivirus:
was testing if blue message will turn up in Received, because I had mark everything as Read. Tried to send an email to self. Internal Error message appeared. Error 530 Authentification Required. How do I get round this one?
Meanwhile, i just realised that I can mark letters as read... try this one first. done, see the correction on Unread v Received.
back to Error 530. to quote Yahoo help page 'In an attempt to control unsolicited email (spam), some Internet service providers will block port 25. If you experience technical problems sending email, then you will need to use port 587 when sending via Yahoo!'s SMTP server'. Didn't work. Tried another port 578, stil not working. Found possible solution, Tools>Mail and chat accounts...> edit the email account and flip to tab 'Servers'. Use port 587 and request authentification. AUTH LOGIN and plaintext works whilst CRAM-MD5 doesn't.
I have figured out that Opera Mail only get mails from Inbox and Bulk. It does not get mails from filtered folders, like Birthdays and Job Alerts.
after all that, i am not sure whether i am going to use opera mail after all, or just keep on using yahoo web service. opera mail is great, but the web service frees up hard drive, got lots of archive, and had my filters set up. i will also be able to track my sent messages. i can have my mails anywhere, and its familiar to use.
These are things that I realised, and worry about straight after Opera mail downloaded my messages, and got them through the AVG antivirus:
- Opera Mail only downloaded 200-ish mails, whereas I have archived 6000+ emails in my Yahoo account
- it doesn't sort my mails into folders, as i have sorted it in yahoo
- lots of spam! [panic attack....]
- drag and drop 10 spam into spam folder. spam folder now has 10 mails. the 10 spams are still in the message list! why? further inspection: drag-and-dropping spam light up a little 'spam' label. (the 'spam' label is not immediately noticeable since i'm unfamiliar with it). to NOT view spam in 'Unread' and 'Received' folders, go to View>Show> and uncheck 'Show spam'
- why does Opera Mail have an 'Outbox' folder, but not 'Inbox'? because 'Inbox' is too general, and unappropriate to use instead of 'Unread' and 'Received'.
was testing if blue message will turn up in Received, because I had mark everything as Read. Tried to send an email to self. Internal Error message appeared. Error 530 Authentification Required. How do I get round this one?
Meanwhile, i just realised that I can mark letters as read... try this one first. done, see the correction on Unread v Received.
back to Error 530. to quote Yahoo help page 'In an attempt to control unsolicited email (spam), some Internet service providers will block port 25. If you experience technical problems sending email, then you will need to use port 587 when sending via Yahoo!'s SMTP server'. Didn't work. Tried another port 578, stil not working. Found possible solution, Tools>Mail and chat accounts...> edit the email account and flip to tab 'Servers'. Use port 587 and request authentification. AUTH LOGIN and plaintext works whilst CRAM-MD5 doesn't.
I have figured out that Opera Mail only get mails from Inbox and Bulk. It does not get mails from filtered folders, like Birthdays and Job Alerts.
after all that, i am not sure whether i am going to use opera mail after all, or just keep on using yahoo web service. opera mail is great, but the web service frees up hard drive, got lots of archive, and had my filters set up. i will also be able to track my sent messages. i can have my mails anywhere, and its familiar to use.
