[Opera-users] turning off email, etc.

[James Card]

How I wish it were possible to search the Opera-users archive (at 
http://web.opera.com/pipermail/opera-users/)! Here is one of several 
messages on this topic from my local e-mail files:

To: opera-users at opera.no
From: <iixii at newmail.net>
Subject: [Opera-users] Opera 5 Light
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 16:01:35 +0100

I also deem the discussion about Opera's "overbloatedness" extremely 
useless. It's understandable that many people don't need the 
ICQ,Mail,News features because they have other utilities for that, but I 
for example find the Opera mail client very useful and, once patched, 
quite good altogether. Will all the extra features, Opera is still VERY 
lean, and I don't think it will ever reach a fraction of the 
overbloatedness of IE or Nutscrape. Think of it: IE 5.0 doesn't even 
allow you to gauge it's size because it almost completely sits snugly in 
the WINDOWS/SYSTEM directory, consuming more than 50 MB altogether!!! 
Opera, with it's 2 MB, can almost be overlooked when put beside that 
monster. And talking of getting overbloated: What part of Opera's size, 
do you think, is sacrificed to Mail/ICQ/News? Everyone knows the Email 
features can be very easily removed by deleting Omail32.dll, 300 KB. And 
on closer analysis of Opera.exe, the ICQ/News part consumes a mere 270 
KB of the whole exe file!!! So that's 570 KB of extra stuff. You call 
that overbloated??? Outl$$k's Adress Book alone can grow that big in no 
time with all the wasted space in it!!

IIXII

6/11/01 6:54:42 PM, "Rick Reumann" <maillist at reumann.net> wrote:

>I was wondering if it's just possible to set up 
>opera so email, contacts, etc do not load? I could have sworn I just 
>recently saw a posting on how you can set the ini file or something 
>to do this but I lost the message. When doing this, however, does it 
>actually keep the email application from loading or simply from just 
>displaying in the hotlist? 

Renaming or removing the omail32.dll keeps those features from loading. 
Note that this is not a method that is officially recommended by anyone 
at Opera. The alternative method involves adding a couple of lines to 
your opera.ini file -- the details are available on Opera's website -- 
but I'm not certain whether that method will avoid that library from 
being loaded in memory when Opera runs. 

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