After spending a year in beta, Vivaldi Mail and Calendar are now officially out on the stable channel.
Vivaldi Mail 1.0 is built into the Vivaldi browser and incorporates Vivaldi Calendar and Feed Reader. The main highlight of Vivaldi Mail is that it shows all your emails from multiple accounts in a single inbox, so you don’t have to switch between accounts. It works with any email provider that supports IMAP and POP3, including Gmail. You can use your existing mail service or set up an account on vivaldi.net.
I was a big fan of Vivaldi, mainly because of their adoption of vertical tabs (like Edge browser did), but that went a bit sour for me when I discovered their improvements are closed source software riding on the back of others’ open source… But be that as it may, I am glad to also see they brought in an RSS reader (yes like Edge too), as Google will realise in time that dropping Google Reader was not a smart move. I survive daily with my tech news, by having a good RSS reader.
The e-mail integration is interesting as it does support other mail services I see. This is pretty important as I’ve lost access to some sites, mainly because I no longer had that e-mail address (even one that I hosted with my own domain name), and some services like Amazon will just lead you in continuous circles without ever resolving your access, even when you have finally re-established the use of the old e-mail address. So the choice of e-mail provider is something that require some careful thought before making changes, especially if you have 800+ account services with your e-mail as the login ID.
See https://www.xda-developers.com/vivaldi-mail-with-calendar-and-rss-reader-launch/
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