When comparing Opera Mail vs Mail and Calendar, the Slant community recommends Mail and Calendar for most people. In the question“What are the best e-mail clients for Windows?” Mail and Calendar is ranked 2nd while Opera Mail is ranked 9th. The most important reason people chose Mail and Calendar is:
Mail and Calendar support multiple accounts from multiple services, including Gmail and Google Apps. Gmail and Google Apps support was not available on Windows 8. It is available on the Windows 10 version of Mail and Calendar app.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Free and based on Mozilla code
Opera Mail is completely free to download and use and it is based on Mozilla's code, which is what makes it a bit similar to Thunderbird in looks and function.
Pro Opera Mail CAN BE set as default email client in Windows 8 & 10
Pro Intuitive user interface
The design of the UI in Opera Mail is clean and intuitive, making for an easy to use client.
Pro Automagic smart filtering
After a bit of use Opera learns what e-mail belongs in what folder just by previous usage. This makes for a convenient way to have e-mails filtered without having to manually mange every e-mail.
Pro Supports multiple services including Gmail
Mail and Calendar support multiple accounts from multiple services, including Gmail and Google Apps. Gmail and Google Apps support was not available on Windows 8. It is available on the Windows 10 version of Mail and Calendar app.
Pro Background wallpaper
Similar to Yahoo! Mail and Gmail web app, Mail app can allow users to set any images as image background of the app.
Pro Easy to use
It's like outlook but free and not so ugly.
Pro Free
No need to put money on the table. It's free!
Pro Send email from Outlook.com aliases
An alias is a great feature for keeping your email private
Pro Drag and drop calendar events to reschedule them (PC only)
If you like using a calendar, this is an efficiency perk.
Pro Swipe functionality
If your device has a touchscreen, then user can swipe the message thread either from left or from right, varies by swipe preferences set by user, eg: set swipe from right to delete and swipe from left to archive.
Cons
Con Very limited feature set
Compared to Thunderbird.
Con Being discontinued
Opera Mail will be end of lifed per Opera website
Con Sync is slow
Opera tends to be slower on e-mail sync when compared to other popular clients.
Con Does not support 4K monitors
Con Missing some advanced features
The Mail app is missing some advanced features that can be found in other products such as automatic template replies, email filters and custom notification sounds.
Con No way to block senders without going to the online version. Super unwieldy.
Con Freezes
GUI sometimes freezes for 10-30 seconds.
Con Lots of bugs
- Always has issues with sign-in, and you have to regularly prove you're not a robot by re-typing the password
- Can mysteriously drop a specific Hotmail email account, which you have to re-add every time you load up
- Crashes often, particularly if you're working on more than one email (popped-out) at a time
- Sometimes the copy/paste function does not work
Con No aliases
The Mail app doesn't support email aliases.
Con No custom signature with HTML or images
You will miss the option to customize the signature with HTML content and images.
Con Only available on Windows 10
Con Doesn't open links in junk folder
E.g .you can not unsubscribe from newsletter you put in junk.