After more than seven years of development, Vivaldi’s email client arrives in its first stable release. Integrated directly into the web browser, it comes with a calendar and an RSS feed reader.
Vivaldi, the web browser created in 2015 by Jon von Tetzchner, the co-founder of Opera, continues to evolve. It now officially integrates Vivaldi Mail, Vivaldi Agenda and Vivaldi Feed Reader, three new features tested in beta for just over a year. The Web browser that has built its reputation on the great freedom of customization now allows you to manage your e-mails, your appointments and to subscribe to RSS feeds from a single interface, without leaving your Web browser.
A full-featured web browser
The mail client, which is only accessible after activating the most complete presentation of the browser, is grafted into the side toolbar of the browser. Vivaldi Mail uses the same ingredients that made the success of the browser, in particular by offering a similar fully customizable interface. This “mailer” as its publisher likes to call it, detects conversations and other mailing lists and takes care of automatically organizing your mail in dedicated folders. It embeds everything you would expect from a mail client worthy of the name. It thus supports the IMAP and POP3 protocols, allows the configuration of several e-mail accounts, integrates a powerful search engine and can be used with configurable keyboard shortcuts.
Your appointments and RSS feeds in the browser
With the arrival of Vivaldi Mail in the browser, Vivaldi also turns into a feed reader. The email client has a dedicated section, compatible with several RSS formats as well as the ATOM standard. The feed reader is also individually accessible from the web browser’s sidebar.
To complete its artillery and save you from having to juggle between several applications, Vivaldi also includes a Calendar in which you can manage your meetings, appointments and other events. Aware that its users already have such a tool, Vivaldi explains that it wants to differentiate itself from the competition using its many options. For example, the publisher intends to give you the choice of using the calendar locally or online. You can also use several views offering different levels of detail, or display the events recorded there by day, week, multi-week, month and year.
Vivaldi, which is generally attentive to detail, even allows you to quickly create an event during your navigation by selecting a date and then choosing the appropriate option from the right-click context menu.
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