Sadly, perhaps, I abandoned Opera (12.16 on Win/32 XP Pro SP3) as my
primary web browser. There are just too many sites it does not work well
with, and almost everything I read about later versions of the browser did
not give me a good opinion. So now I use Firefox. However, I had over 4500
emails and newsgroup posts stored in my Opera mail database, and I thought
it might be a ferocious task to try to convert them all to something like
Thunderbird. I downloaded and installed the Opera Mail (1.0) standalone
email client, and the installation process seamlessly and perfectly
converted my old mail store, with all the labels, mailing lists, etc.,
intact with no problems at all. Completely smooth. My only uncertainty is
whether I can safely delete the old Opera browser store to free up room on
my system. (I still use O 12.16 browser for a tiny few tasks.) Otherwise I
am completely satisfied, as the standalone email client works almost
exactly like the integrated browser/email/NG client with respect to email
and news.
(P.S. I am thinking about migrating to Linux, but the huge Opera email
store I have is my major hesitation.)
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Paul Bartlett