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    Opera Mail: How to stop Spam from ending up in my Unread box?

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    • rh99
      rh99 @burnout426 last edited by

      @burnout426 I'm using Win7. I don't have a "Show Spam" option it seems. If I right click "Unread" I can elect to show:
      All Accounts
      Mail Accounts
      News Accounts
      Feeds

      Then below that I can choose which of the mail accounts I want to see.

      I do see in the Properties for each mail account the option:
      "Disable local spam filter for this account (server side filtering)"
      That is checked. Maybe if I uncheck that I won't see any spam? The thing is I want to see everything, just not in my Unread. I want Spam to only be in the Spam folder which I'll go over once in a while. That's what I'm trying to determine if its possible in Opera Mail.

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      • rh99
        rh99 @burnout426 last edited by

        @burnout426 The IMAP area for folders is all blank. I've never changed that or experimented with that. I don't even know how to change it. It doesn't seem to give any opportunity to change it on here. You click the drop down arrow and get a blank field you can't even type in. There is an option below that called:
        "Path to IMAP root folder" whatever that is.

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        • burnout426
          burnout426 Volunteer @rh99 last edited by

          @rh99 There's a "Settings for this view" button on the message list toolbar above the message list. When you're viewing the "All Messages/Unread" list, click that button, expand "Show", and make sure spam isn't set to show for that view.

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          • burnout426
            burnout426 Volunteer @rh99 last edited by

            @rh99 Ignore the "path to IMAP root folder" on the Outgoing tab in the account's properties. You don't need to mess with that. I'm surprised the Spam, Spam, and Trash folder drop-downs there are empty, and I'm surprised you can type in them. They shouldn't be text fields.

            If you goto "Menu -> Mail -> IMAP folders", are you subscribed to all your IMAP folders?

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            • rh99
              rh99 @burnout426 last edited by

              @burnout426
              Correction: "Path to IMAP root folder" is in the IMAP tab not Outgoing tab.
              And I can't type on those drop down options. I can select one though. So for the Spam one I selected a blank one. Hopefully Spam will not appear in my Inbox. We shall see.

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              • edydzn
                edydzn last edited by

                Opera Mail existe?

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                • burnout426
                  burnout426 Volunteer @rh99 last edited by

                  @rh99 said in Opera Mail: How to stop Spam from ending up in my Unread box?:

                  Correction: "Path to IMAP root folder" is in the IMAP tab not Outgoing tab.

                  Right. My fault.

                  And I can't type on those drop down options. I can select one though. So for the Spam one I selected a blank one.

                  Okay. Is there a "Spam" or "Junk" IMAP folder on the server?

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                  • sgunhouse
                    sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @edydzn last edited by

                    @edydzn There is an old program named Opera Mail, which yes exists but hasn't been updated in years.. Let's see ... 7 years in fact. But it still works as a simple mail client. You can find it on the archive page.

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                    • burnout426
                      burnout426 Volunteer @edydzn last edited by

                      @edydzn It's part of the old, Presto-based Opera Browser suite. See https://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/win/1218/int/ for the installer. It was discontinued many years ago.

                      There's also a standalone Opera Mail at https://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/mail/1.0/. It was basically a one-time experiment to hide everything but mail in the Opera Browser suite. Many still use it even though it was discontinued many years ago.

                      Vivaldi has a built-in mail client that's meant to be the sucessor of Opera Mail. It's come a long way and is pretty usable.

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                      • sgunhouse
                        sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @burnout426 last edited by

                        @burnout426 Actually Michael, you remember Hugin and Munin? That could be considered the first case of a standalone Opera mail client. Opera Mail 1.0 was released when they decided to abandon Presto, as a way for people who had used mail in Opera up to 12.x to continue to do so while updating to the new Blink-based browser.. While there was a beta version of Opera Mail for Linux, there was no stable version released as the Blink-based Opera browser was delayed on Linux.)

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                        • burnout426
                          burnout426 Volunteer @sgunhouse last edited by

                          @sgunhouse said in Opera Mail: How to stop Spam from ending up in my Unread box?:

                          Actually Michael, you remember Hugin and Munin?

                          Yes, Rijk's Hugin custom menus, toolbars, and skin setup for mail-only use.

                          That could be considered the first case of a standalone Opera mail client.

                          Indeed.

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                          • rh99
                            rh99 last edited by

                            @burnout426
                            Under the IMAP tab I have
                            Sent Folder Sent
                            Trash Folder Trash
                            Spam Folder Spam
                            I just want the Spam to only land in the Spam folder, not in my Unread or even Received folder. It seems that Opera just dumps them everywhere. It completely defeats the purpose of Spam if it lands in your Inbox cluttering everything up. I've even unchecked the
                            Check for new messages every #minutes
                            and it still comes in.

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                            • burnout426
                              burnout426 Volunteer @rh99 last edited by burnout426

                              @rh99 Hmm, as long as you have "Show spam" unchecked for "All Messages/Unread" and "All Messages/Received", spam shouldn't show in them.

                              What mail provider are you using?

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                              • rh99
                                rh99 @rh99 last edited by

                                And another thing that I don't understand under Properties of the mail account/IMAP:
                                When you first bring up this page/window its blank in the Sent, Trash and Spam folder. Then you come back to it its often Sent by Sent, Trash by Trash and Spam by Spam. No matter what it displays I can view Sent and Trash.
                                I have no idea how this thing is supposed to work. It must have been assembled by brain damaged people. It would be difficult to make it less intuitive. Or less logical.

                                Besides Thunderbird what are ex Opera Mail people using now in Windows? (An email program not webmail.) Someone mentioned Vivaldi but that's webmail. Unless they also offer IMAP access? Do they?

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                                • rh99
                                  rh99 last edited by

                                  @burnout426
                                  Under the IMAP tab I have
                                  Sent Folder Sent
                                  Trash Folder Trash
                                  Spam Folder Spam
                                  I just want the Spam to only land in the Spam folder, not in my Unread or even Received folder. It seems that Opera just dumps them everywhere. It completely defeats the purpose of Spam if it lands in your Inbox cluttering everything up. I've even unchecked the
                                  Check for new messages every #minutes
                                  and it still comes in.

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                                  • burnout426
                                    burnout426 Volunteer @rh99 last edited by

                                    @rh99 said in Opera Mail: How to stop Spam from ending up in my Unread box?:

                                    Besides Thunderbird what are ex Opera Mail people using now in Windows?

                                    Besides Thunderbird (which is really good), I use the built-in mail client in Vivaldi. It supports IMAP, POP, and feeds. It's really nice and has come a long way. It's purposely a lot like Opera Mail as it's meant to the be the successor to it.

                                    For a plain-looking, old-school, IMAP client, I like Sylpheed.

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                                    • burnout426
                                      burnout426 Volunteer @rh99 last edited by

                                      @rh99 said in Opera Mail: How to stop Spam from ending up in my Unread box?:

                                      And another thing that I don't understand under Properties of the mail account/IMAP:
                                      When you first bring up this page/window its blank in the Sent, Trash and Spam folder.

                                      This might be due to Special Use where the server (if it supports it) tells Opera what folders are for spam, sent, and trash etc. Opera might poll the server in that case to see what they are and then populate the drop-down. While Opera is closed, you can disable it in IncomingN.txt in the mail folder (where N is the number for the account as seen in accounts.ini). Then, you can set the special folders yourself and see if the drop-downs behave more like you'd expect.

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                                      • rh99
                                        rh99 @burnout426 last edited by

                                        @burnout426
                                        So why do you use Sylpheed over Thunderbird?

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                                        • rh99
                                          rh99 @burnout426 last edited by

                                          @burnout426 said in Opera Mail: How to stop Spam from ending up in my Unread box?:

                                          @rh99 said in Opera Mail: How to stop Spam from ending up in my Unread box?:

                                          And another thing that I don't understand under Properties of the mail account/IMAP:
                                          When you first bring up this page/window its blank in the Sent, Trash and Spam folder.

                                          This might be due to Special Use where the server (if it supports it) tells Opera what folders are for spam, sent, and trash etc. Opera might poll the server in that case to see what they are and then populate the drop-down. While Opera is closed, you can disable it in IncomingN.txt in the mail folder (where N is the number for the account as seen in accounts.ini). Then, you can set the special folders yourself and see if the drop-downs behave more like you'd expect.

                                          Thank you very much. This is starting to make sense.

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                                          • rh99
                                            rh99 @burnout426 last edited by

                                            @burnout426
                                            I'm trying it and the first thing I noticed was that the font was a little small. I looked through Help and saw nothing addressing this. Is there a way to set the minimum font?

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