I see this problem with many browsers. I'll open a bunch of tabs in the background and wait ample time for them to load. When I go to them I get a blank screen for a few seconds then it loads quickly. A few years ago this never happened. It loaded and waited there for you. Nowadays it looks like it needs to refresh itself just before you view it. This is hugely time wasting and is only useful for a site that is constantly changing by the second which almost none do. We're not all hyper stock traders. Is there a solution for this idiocy? Whoever implemented this must be living on another planet. There must be a solution out there.

@donq Actually its called the "gear wheel" I think. I could not believe how comprehensive the options were on the next page! Wow. They still should do it like everyone else. Many people would miss that. When you're in a forum there should be a search box for that particular forum. Then if there are no results they can show results from outside that forum.

Anyways, thank you for your patience and knowledge. And hopefully it will help others on there.

@jeezara But EM Client is so restrictive. I think it only allows 1 account! If you only have 1 account you might as well use webmail. What about older Outlook? What are the downsides to that? Like from 2003. I've got a copy. But I wonder about security when using older email programs. Of course Opera Mail has been dead for years.

So I download the latest Chromium Opera to try the built in VPN. It works fine for a while but now it won't go anywhere. It won't even open this website! I can navigate in other browsers fine. What to check? Its like suddenly it put up a firewall and blocked everything. ???

@burnout426 Nope. Hence my reason for posting here. I always look for file associations first. Now I just open the torrent program and load it manually. Seems to work. Utorrent was so effortless but it just takes up so much resources with their add-on ieutorrent.exe program (think that's what it was). Used up 50% of my CPU!

@burnout426 Thank you. That is very good advice. When in doubt, check the registry!

Good to hear, thanks.

"Press F11 to exit full screen mode" Thanks. As if we didn't know this.
This moronic notification pops up interfering with our ability to read the page for a few seconds. Is there any way of getting rid of this thing? As if we don't know we're in Fullscreen when there is no Menu or Address bar there. Brilliant. Who thinks of this stuff and why are they paid to work?
Surely there is a way of ridding ourselves of this abomination.

Is there really no edit option on this page? Really? What forum doesn't allow you to edit previous posts????

@burnout426
Well yeah of course. Not sure what that has to do with audio notifications though. I thought you meant that there was a version of Opera Mail built into the newer Opera browser.

@burnout426 said in Is there any way of extracting a password from an email account in Opera Mail?:

If you can still send messages in Opera Mail, you can log the outgoing connection while sending a test message.

Then, in the log file, the password will be exposed. If it's not in plain text, it'll be in base64 that you can decode.

decode.html:

<script>
    alert(atob("bXlwYXNzd29yZA=="));
</script>

You'd replace the base64 data there with what you get from the log file, save and open decode.html in your browser.

Interesting! Can I send a message to myself though? Remember I have no problem receiving and sending email on this account with Opera Mail.

@burnout426
They never asked for a recovery email address. I know that is common today. But it means you have to open email addresses in pairs which is a hassle.
The search is on for a new email address!

@burnout426
Some people claim it does but the trial version doesn't seem to work at all. Some trial. Guess they know some people will just download it, sandbox it and use it in perpetuity.

@burnout426
Well this one asks for something I ain't got anymore so I'm out of luck. I don't have either the password or the answer to the security question. Next time I write everything down right away. No exceptions. I've had this account for years and didn't realize I was skating on thin ice.
If anyone has recommendations for an email provider that doesn't require 2FA let me know. (I'll delete this post right after finding one so it doesn't help criminals.)

@leocg
I'm not sure what you're referring to when you say "tool". Do you mean the Opera Password Recovery program? Or the process of resetting a password?

The email company requires an answer to a security question which I failed to make note of when I set it months or years ago. Without that I can't seem to do anything.

I know there is a program that could possibly harvest the password (Opera Password Recovery) but it's $27 and I'm on a meager budget.

@leocg
Yes of course. But they, as with everyone else, require the previous password which Opera Mail hides from its user, to reset the password. I don't have another email set up with that account since they didn't require it and don't even allow for it. So you see my predicament.

And for the final nail in my coffin, they are not allowing any new email accounts.

Does anyone know of a way of getting an email without a phone number that accepts 2 factor authentication codes? Don't have a cell phone account now. Everyone seems to be tightening their security so much. What's strange with this is anyone can buy a used phone for cash then get a prepaid card at a convenience store for cash so it can be totally anonymous.

@leocg
No because they ask for the previous password to reset it to a new one. Otherwise anyone could do that.

@rh99 Hey, if I could export the mail settings/passwords to another email program that would be fine as well. So I found the passwords in Wand.dat in OperaMail/Profile. You can open it with Notepad/text based programs easily but it's just gibberish. Looks like text that has been put in a blender. Somehow Opera uses that file. I guess that's their way of encryption. Pretty effective!

I'm really in a jam and don't want to lose my email account. I thought I had saved my last password change but didn't. I can use it now fine but if Opera Mail goes down I'm dead. Surely it's somewhere in there, right? But where? I've been using the account for years without any issue too! Where is it buried???