Coming to a conclusion

Other M2 Resources

There are more resources discussing M2 on the web, although this is the only comprehensive unoffical one. At the time of writing it is also the most up-to-date one. Most information on M2 can be found in the my.opera.com forums.

Official Opera sources

Unofficial sources

If you are a registered user of Opera you can of course obtain e-mail assistance from Customer Service. There is however also a wealth of information and knowledge to be found on the forums.

Help sources

Testimonials

Slashdot.org
As this article on Slashdot mentiones, The limitations of traditional folders..., folders are indeed limiting to a lot of people, and that the organizing of data is increasingly moving towards the flexibility that "virtual folders" provide. M2 is mentioned in the discussions.
Virtuelvis
Virtuelvis on M2: After constantly looking for an e-mail client for five years, I have settled. I am now reading and responding to my e-mails instead of managing them.

Frequently Received Questions

I will try to keep track of questions that I often get asked via e-mail.

Does M2 have Return Receipt capabilities?
No. But thanks to a tip by MarcFou you can set a filter to detect when a RR was requested and send mail with a RR with a free app.
M2 somehow lost the indexing after a crash! Help!
As mentioned by Johan Borg in the newsgroups: Close Opera, rename the file index.ini in the Opera mail directory (See Help->About Opera) and restart Opera. M2 will now create a clean index.ini and reindex, this may take several minutes. With a little luck it should now be possible to close Opera, replace your old index.ini and restart with your old views intact.

How do I use M2?

Below a typical working procedure with M2 will be described, which uses M2's powerful abilities effectively. It has changed a lot since I first started using M2 and I have become more and more acquainted with the program.

I have all my access points are closed except "All Messages", "Labels" and "Mailing lists". Furthemore the Unread accesspoint does not show Trash/Spam/Mailinglists/Newsgroups. In the Received accesspoint I have also turned off Newsgroups as I don't really consider them e-mail.

The new e-mails will show up in the "Unread mails" point, where they are marked read, given labels or deleted. By having the "All Messages" accesspoint open I can see whether there are spam messages and when the unread counts of Unread and Received differ I know there is mail in my Mailinglist access points. You can also see that by the bold mailing list access point. If there are too many new mails to read all of them immediately, you could go to the "Active Contacts" and first read the mails from people whose opinion you generally consider more interesting.

The "Labels" access point is left open because it reminds me of important e-mails and things to do. I hardly use Views nowadays but sometimes I use it to filter out important messages in mailinglists. I use the Attachments access point very regularly when I know someone sent me a file recently and with this access point I can easily retrieve it.

Contact

Did I miss out on something? Any blatant errors? Would you like to tell me why you like/dislike M2 and why?

Then contact me at Me_[at)_MarkSchenk.Com.

Conclusion

You've now come to the end of this M2 Tutorial, assuming you followed it page-by-page and didn't jump around like mad frog ;-) Thank you for flying M2 Airlines and on behalf of the captain I wish you a pleasant use of Opera and its mailclient.