Using Opera Portable 11.50 as an email client, messages sometimes remain indefinitely in the outbox and are not sent.
I am unable to reproduce the problem at will; perhaps 30% of the messages I attempt to send suffer this problem. Doing any of the following sometimes causes the message to be sent, but not reliably:
* Double clicking on the message in the outbox to open it for editing, and pressing the "send" button in the editing window
* Adding another message to the outgoing mail queue
* Copying the message's text into a new message, deleting the original message from the outgoing queue, and adding the new copy to the outgoing mail queue.
What never works is pressing the "Send Queued" button or its keybinding Ctrl-Shift-K.
Opera is configured to send messages immediately upon adding them to the outgoing mail queue.
I observe this behavior only on Opera Portable 11.50 on Windows. Opera 11.50 and 11.52 for Linux do not have this problem.
What might I try to identify and fix the cause of this problem?
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Opera 11.50 is no longer supported. You should upgrade to the current version. Note that if you are using outgoing port 25, you will be blocked from sending on most computers not on a network belonging to your own ISP.
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In my personal opinion it's a very strange mail reader, based on one of Opera's own technicians' very particulat likes and disklikes - there were a lot of arguments going on inside the Opera organization when it was introduced and the feeling in the Opera forums was that if you didn't like it - too bad, bacause that's the way it's gonna be!
Thunderbird amd it's portable counterpart is IMHO a far better mail reader.
I hear you. The first time I used Opera Mail I found it very weird and rejected it. More recently I've revisited it and it's become my favorite mail client, but I agree that it's not everyone's cup of tea.
In it's defense, I notice that Gmail is basically a webmail implementation of Opera Mail's concepts, so I don't understand why Gmail has become mainstream yet its inspiration remains marginalized. Whatever; to each his own.
Thank you; I'm upgrading to 11.60 and will report back once I've used it enough to see if the problem is resolved. It may be a while; I don't have a Windows box at home and use my Portable Apps only when on the road.
In the meantime, I should have mentioned that I'm using a nonstandard outgoing port and TLS precisely to avoid the problem you mention. They are the same settings I have in Opera on my box at home, and give me no trouble there.
BTW, many thanks for your hard work in making Opera Portable available!
I have upgraded to 11.60, both the Portable Apps version and on my Linux box. The problem remains on my Portable Apps version, and does not appear on my Linux version.
Given that the problem did not go away with upgrading, does not appear on my Linux box, and doesn't seem to be reported by anyone else, I suspect a bad configuration rather than anything Portable App-specific. I'll seek help on Usenet (opera.mail+news) but if anyone has any suggestions on what I might look at in my configuration to resolve this, I'd love to hear itl
Answering myself here, but for the sake of anyone else with the same problem, it turned out to have been a simple mail server configuration issue. Logging for outgoing mail per:
http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/mail/advanced/#outgoing
...indicated that my SMTP server did not support authentication. Setting it to None resolved the issue.