Opera Email Tips, Tricks and Secrets

Creating a really complete and really useful address book is easy in Opera.

Get a helpful electronic eye watching your spelling in emails in Opera.

Remember icons, not names. Here's how to add expressive icons to your contacts in Opera.

Add recipients to your messages in a fast and easy manner in Opera by dragging and dropping them.

Know what you did; in Opera; to whom; and when.

Turn files into attachments in no time. Here's how to attach files via drag-and-drop in Opera.

Delete emails freely without Opera watching and without having to click on confirmation dialogs.

Emails containing images, animations, videos and what not are nice, but the security and privacy risks they come with are not. Here's how to avoid these issues with Opera.

You can put your Opera mail on a server or a different disk, or just in a different directory.

Play your favorite tune when new mail is waiting in Opera.

Stop clicking the "Check" button feverishly. Sit back in a relaxed manner instead, knowing that Opera will check for new messages periodically for you, and never miss a single mail.

Forget about checking for new mail altogether and have Opera do it for you instead.

Discover the fastest way to write an email in Opera (via a keyboard shortcut).

Clean up and erase the waste in Opera's mailboxes.

There's more than the "Sent" folder. Here's how to set up filters for outgoing mail in Opera.

Sub-folder as deep as you like. It's easy to create a hierarchy of folders in Opera.

Share the good links with Opera by including them in an email easily.

See all your to-do messages (or mail of any other label) in all your folders of all your accounts with a few clicks in Opera (and you can be sure you're not forgetting any).

Forwarding an email to share it with others is easy in Opera.

Would you like to access your email not only from the computer at home or work but also remotely from any place and computer with an internet connection?

Want to make sure you can recover your Opera email accounts, settings, folders and messages? Here's how to create a backup copy of Opera mail for recovery or moving to another computer.

Prefer not to see future messages from a particular sender? Here's how to have Opera treat a certain sender's (or entire domain's) messages as spam — or just mark them unread automatically so they don't catch your new mail eye.

Opera appends a signature to every outgoing email automatically. Make sure it looks the way you want it to.

Want to add images to the text of your emails instead of as attachments? Here's how to insert pictures inline with Opera.

Make important emails stand out with a single click in Opera by pinning them. (With IMAP accounts, pinned messages will appear flagged or starred in other email programs or web access, too.)

Want to make sure other people with access to your computer cannot open your mail? Here's how to protect your email program data with your Windows log-on password and maybe even encryption.

Wait for a connection before delivering mail in Opera.

A full screen means less clutter, and more email in Opera.

Lost your Opera email and account settings? If a backup copy is around, restoring data is easy.

Want formatting in your email, but not quite so much, or a different kind? Here's how to remove text formatting swiftly while composing an email in Opera.

Email all that need to know all they need to know — and not more, say all the other recipients' email addresses. Here's how to send a message to "undisclosed recipients" in Opera.

Let Opera sort and organize your email for you — in a smart manner, automatically, exactly the way you like it and without ever writing a rule or filter.

Opera downloading all your spam? An important folder is missing? Here's how to configure the IMAP folders Opera synchronizes by subscribing and unsubscribing to and from specific mailboxes.

Want to change the font and text color to match the message's mood or use bold and italics? Here's how to add text formatting in Opera.

Want to add some formatting to your email's text or call forth a special font for effect perhaps? Here's how to use rich HTML formatting for an email in Opera and make it the default, too.

Keep your connections secure in Opera by enabling TLS, which transfers your emails in encrypted form.

In Opera, you can mark messages important, for follow-up or to-do, or assign another label quickly using a handy keyboard shortcut.

I've read it all. Really! Opera shows it.

Race through your Opera mailbox in 15 seconds or less.

Don't put friend and foe in the same folder. Here's how to organize your address book contacts in Opera.

Make Opera display only messages from today in a mailbox quickly with just a few mouse clicks.

Never type your email account password again in Opera.

Go mail, go! Here's how to set forth the stream of queued mail in Opera and have it delivered.

Send Opera emails directly from your keyboard.

Opera is faster setting up a reply than you can say "reply".

Make Opera display exactly what you need: message and message list, a big display of just the message, or the message list full screen...

Show Opera what kind of mail you want to appear in a folder so its smart filtering system can learn from the examples.

Open a new message in Outlook Express when you click on an email link in Opera.

Zoom in and out of email messages in Opera and read them with the utmost comfort.