Opera Mail

Those who have several e-mail accounts on various services can manage all of them from a single interface as long as they succeed in getting to terms with one of the dedicated e-mail clients out there. There are quite a few programs of this kind available on the market and one of the freshest releases to date is Opera Mail.

Some of you might be actually familiar with it if you ever used this built-in function of the older editions of Opera's proprietary web browser. It is now available on its own and, fortunately, has all the good parts in place.

The interface is nice and simple, with customizable views so you can view the mail folders, mailing lists, the available labels, attachments and news feeds listed in the same panel. There is enough space to accommodate the list of items that is included in each category and also a preview of the content form a selected message.

Composing new e-mails can be done from the dedicated window, while with Opera Mail you can import and export various types of content. Thus, you can add your favorite feeds, get the contacts' list and even the saved messages, provided they are in a compatible format.

Insofar as the layout and sorting options are concerned, you have many options at your disposal, as Opera Mail offers 3 ways of displaying messages and detailed grouping and categorization alternatives.

Setting up an account inside this software is not at all difficult, as is the case with most dedicated e-mail clients. You only have to supply the necessary data concerning your account and the incoming IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers to complete the procedure in a couple of minutes.

Opera Mail can actually be a very good alternative to the established applications of this kind as it comes with very good features and is quite easy to use, even for those with less experience.