> 5. And then the mailing client. I was really excited to try it out so I logged in via Gmail. As email accounts are these days, it contained thousands of emails. The surprising thing was Vivaldi started syncing all of them. Literally downloading thousands of emails. For no reason other than offline search? Is that really a good enough reason to make the user wait centuries while you index all their emails? Maybe they have added some option to specify which folders you want synced.
You can un/subscribe to IMAP folders in Vivaldi. The mail options tab also has a toggle for downloading messages for offline searching and uploading sent messages to the appropriate folder.
I'm personally not a huge fan of IMAP, though I've largely avoided the convergence of phone and computer; I still prefer to have my email offline on a single device, though I think these days that's a minority position. I've found that offline clients do a better job of searching email and contact management, and I have ready access to the raw text of the email in case I want or need to find something custom. It also enables me to make on-site backups.
> I went to Vivaldi for the UI. I had heard it was customizable. I left Vivaldi while it was still loading...
Yeah, with a sufficiently large inbox--or maybe expansive browsing habits?--I would guess Vivaldi probably is a bit slower than some of the alternatives. But my usage patterns accommodate this pretty easily by rarely opening and closing the browser (after all, it's my email client). My browsing experience is usually very fast because I disable Javascript and cookies by default, so I haven't really noticed any differences compared to more common browsers.
You can un/subscribe to IMAP folders in Vivaldi. The mail options tab also has a toggle for downloading messages for offline searching and uploading sent messages to the appropriate folder.
I'm personally not a huge fan of IMAP, though I've largely avoided the convergence of phone and computer; I still prefer to have my email offline on a single device, though I think these days that's a minority position. I've found that offline clients do a better job of searching email and contact management, and I have ready access to the raw text of the email in case I want or need to find something custom. It also enables me to make on-site backups.
> I went to Vivaldi for the UI. I had heard it was customizable. I left Vivaldi while it was still loading...
Yeah, with a sufficiently large inbox--or maybe expansive browsing habits?--I would guess Vivaldi probably is a bit slower than some of the alternatives. But my usage patterns accommodate this pretty easily by rarely opening and closing the browser (after all, it's my email client). My browsing experience is usually very fast because I disable Javascript and cookies by default, so I haven't really noticed any differences compared to more common browsers.