[OU] POPeramail?

[zl]

Thursday, 2009 March 12

Greetings

This is probably only partially (so apologies) the right forum but I 
have to ask:

Does anyone think Operamail is worth it? Really, $30/year for what? 
Not very much by current standards, but you do get POP access.

I asked about this from my webmail operamail account in April 
2007.(Wow how time flies).
This was the reply

>Thank you for your feedback.
>
>We have discussed this internally, and we are working on improving Opera Web
>Mail. Unfortunately I can not disclose any details regarding this work at the
>moment.
>
>Kind regards,
>xxxxxxxx
>Technical Service Consultant
>Opera Software

I don't need let alone want the other things in Premium ( eg 25 MB of 
storage) , whatever their attractions, so I see no reason for paying. 
But I would like POP/SMTP.  Happily I am unencumbered :)  by any 
knowledge of the limitations of the Operamail business model, so I 
don't know what effect granting just POP/SMTP access would have, but 
can it really be significant? and what has taken so long? Operamail 
is way behind the curve here.

Gmail of course provides POP and IMAP and a lot more (their business 
model is clearly very different but), and there are other POP mail 
sites which are free or low cost
e.g.
gmx.com		5 GB E-Mail Storage And Attachments up to 50 MB free
bluebottle.com 	250MB storage 20 MB Attachments  US$9.95/year Basic
		1GB storage 30 MB Attachments US$24.95/year Premium


And,  surely irony of local ironies, the Opera browser mail client, 
M2, cannot "natively" access Operamail. You have to cough up the $30 
(or whatever currency is the one you see) for a POP

So, as Seinfeld would say:	What's up with that?

Cheers

zl

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