Mail, sorted & organised.
I switched to the Opera Mail client, and I think I'm in love. At least, when you alternately want to throttle and kiss the object of your affection, that's love, right?
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Okay, but! I sorted 30000 (yes, I counted the zeroes, we're talking thirty *thousand*) imported messages in one evening. All but about nine hundred are sorted and organised. I know exactly where everything is and I can find things easily.
The main concept is a lot like GMail (except Opera did it first), in that it's all about virtual views. The Gmail interface is more intuitive, the Opera interface is *far* more powerful. It did take manual reading and playing around with a test set-up of backed-up mail to really get the hang of it, but now that I have it working, it takes me *far* less time to sort my mail.
A couple of highlights:
- Virtual views. Everything is in one database, and a folder is really a permanent search result. This means no more worrying about whether stuff should be filtered to *this* folder or to *that* folder. If it really should be in both, you make it show up in both. Changes made in one view (mark as read, replied to, etc.) are immediately shown in all views.
- Easy labelling with (customizable) labels like 'mail back' and stuff. Wherever you view the email, it has the label visibly 'attached', and each label has it's own view where *all* mail currently labelled with 'mail back' (or whatever) shows up.
- It recognizes most mailing lists automatically as such and sorts them in a virtual view of their own.
- Setting up filters for non-list mail is really, really easy.
- Every contact in the address book has an automatic virtual view, with the option of showing messages 'from' only or 'to and from'.
- Spam filter is pretty good, and it does indeed learn very well from messages manually marked as spam. Messages mistakenly marked as spam are marked not-spam with one click, and they immediately go to the appropriate view.
- And it zooms with the + and - keys on the numpad of the keyboard. The previous Opera mail client didn't do that, M2 does. Very convenient.
There's more, much more, and probably more stuff I haven't even discovered yet. If you're willing to take the time to read a manual or two, import some backed-up mailboxes to play around with to really get to know it, I highly recommend it.
...
Okay, but! I sorted 30000 (yes, I counted the zeroes, we're talking thirty *thousand*) imported messages in one evening. All but about nine hundred are sorted and organised. I know exactly where everything is and I can find things easily.
The main concept is a lot like GMail (except Opera did it first), in that it's all about virtual views. The Gmail interface is more intuitive, the Opera interface is *far* more powerful. It did take manual reading and playing around with a test set-up of backed-up mail to really get the hang of it, but now that I have it working, it takes me *far* less time to sort my mail.
A couple of highlights:
- Virtual views. Everything is in one database, and a folder is really a permanent search result. This means no more worrying about whether stuff should be filtered to *this* folder or to *that* folder. If it really should be in both, you make it show up in both. Changes made in one view (mark as read, replied to, etc.) are immediately shown in all views.
- Easy labelling with (customizable) labels like 'mail back' and stuff. Wherever you view the email, it has the label visibly 'attached', and each label has it's own view where *all* mail currently labelled with 'mail back' (or whatever) shows up.
- It recognizes most mailing lists automatically as such and sorts them in a virtual view of their own.
- Setting up filters for non-list mail is really, really easy.
- Every contact in the address book has an automatic virtual view, with the option of showing messages 'from' only or 'to and from'.
- Spam filter is pretty good, and it does indeed learn very well from messages manually marked as spam. Messages mistakenly marked as spam are marked not-spam with one click, and they immediately go to the appropriate view.
- And it zooms with the + and - keys on the numpad of the keyboard. The previous Opera mail client didn't do that, M2 does. Very convenient.
There's more, much more, and probably more stuff I haven't even discovered yet. If you're willing to take the time to read a manual or two, import some backed-up mailboxes to play around with to really get to know it, I highly recommend it.