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Opera Mail Tutorial

Handling Received Messages

When new messages are received, Opera Mail does most of the work for you. E-mail messages are automatically displayed in the "Unread" view. Mailing list messages are displayed under the "Mailing lists" access point. Newsgroup messages are shown in newsgroup views under a main news server heading. IMAP messages are shown in "Unread" and in your IMAP server's Inbox.

Learning filters

You can use this setting to let the e-mail client train itself into recognizing which messages belong in the filter, and which messages do not. A learning filter can act as a substitute for adding rules, or in addition to the rules.

Spam

Opera Mail features a spam filter designed to help keep spam out of your way. You can set the spam filter to "Off", "Medium" or "Strong" in the "Spam" view properties (right-click "Spam", choose "Properties", and switch to the "Filter" tab). The default value is "Medium". You can also set additional rule for spam in the "Spam" properties dialog.

If a message in the "Spam" view is not spam, click on the "Not spam" button.

Marking messages

New messages are initially considered unseen and will revert to unread once selected. To mark a single message as read, click on the "Read" button in the message window toolbar, or press K. Mark all messages as read by right-clicking and choosing "Mark all as read". To make a read message unread again, right-click on the message and choose "Mark as unread" or press Shift+K.

You can set Opera Mail to automatically mark e-mail as read from the "View" menu inside the Mail panel.

Deleting messages

Deleting a message moves it to the "Trash" view. You can delete messages by highlighting them and pressing Del, using the "Delete" button on the message window toolbar, or right-clicking highlighted messages and selecting "Delete".

The first time you delete a message, Opera Mail will give you the option to delete the message entirely or remove it from the currently visible view (and optionally, save your selection for future messages). Some default views don't allow you to remove message, only delete them (e.g. you can't remove unread messages from the "Unread" view or news messages from newsgroup views).

Note: If a message is deleted and emptied from the "Trash" view the message, it will be permanently deleted from all other views.

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