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Opera Web Mail (operamail.com) is coming home

March 9, 2011 · by Haavard

Until now, Opera Web Mail has been hosted by various external companies. The most recent hosting provider was IBM, after they acquired Outblaze, which hosted Opera Web Mail at the time.

The problem with external providers is that they don't necessarily have your service as the #1 priority, and there are limitations to what you can do with the service if you don't have full access to it.

Well, there is finally some good news for OWM members!

Johan just announced in the OWM forum that we are in the final stages of moving the hosting to our experienced team at Opera Software Australia (FastMail.FM).

Opera Web Mail will finally be fully run by Opera, which means that we will no longer be limited by external companies with different priorities.

The service will be separate from the fastmail.fm service, and will use your old Opera Web Mail username and password to log in.

Keep an eye on the Opera Web Mail site for more details once the migration to our servers is done. You should see a mail in your inbox with more information about the new service at that time as well.

In addition to the current Opera Web Mail and FastMail.FM services, we will soon unveil a brand new webmail service where you will be using your existing My Opera username and password to log in.

Note that fastmail.fm and operamail.com are not going away. You will be able to keep your old e-mail addresses!

Readers' comments 19

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  • Andrew G.Wednesday, March 9, 2011 6:54:02 PM

    Great News! I use paid account at FastMail. It's very interesting to look at new mail in MyOpera. Thanks a lot!
  • СергейWednesday, March 9, 2011 6:56:54 PM

    In addition to the current Opera Web Mail and FastMail.FM services, we will soon unveil a brand new webmail service where you will be using your existing My Opera username and password to log in.


    :yes:
  • NintendofanaticWednesday, March 9, 2011 7:00:03 PM

    :up:

    ...we will soon unveil a brand new webmail service where you will be using your existing My Opera username and password to log in.


    :yes:
  • ouzowtfWednesday, March 9, 2011 7:09:07 PM

    :love:
  • WildEnteWednesday, March 9, 2011 7:10:33 PM

    It was about time. Let's see what

    "In addition to the current Opera Web Mail and FastMail.FM services, we will soon unveil a brand new webmail service where you will be using your existing My Opera username and password to log in."

    is going to be all about.
  • sleepyheadWednesday, March 9, 2011 7:31:51 PM

    Oooh, very sweet :bigsmile:
  • random414Wednesday, March 9, 2011 8:12:53 PM

    This remembers me of the "OperaMail Gmail Dream" I made for the "Choose Opera - Edit this page contest".

    Maybe it won't be just a dream after all. :rolleyes:
  • Cutting SpoonWednesday, March 9, 2011 10:12:18 PM

    This is welcome news! I had been wondering whether the switch was made quietly, soon after acquiring Fastmail. But instead, the staff have put lots of thought into the process first. It would be killer to handle emails directly in the next version of Opera Mini (!!), but only time will tell.
  • TamilWednesday, March 9, 2011 10:59:08 PM

  • Daniel HendrycksThursday, March 10, 2011 12:34:10 AM

    :up: Can't wait!
  • d4rkn1ghtThursday, March 10, 2011 3:22:43 AM

    This is great! I'm a free Opera Web Mail user and also a paid FastMail user! It's nice to see OWM get better support! :yes:
  • A.shunThursday, March 10, 2011 4:50:03 AM

    :up:
  • Mağruf ÇolakoğluThursday, March 10, 2011 9:51:36 AM

    Good news...
  • HaavardThursday, March 10, 2011 12:57:24 PM

  • HaavardThursday, March 10, 2011 1:28:33 PM

    I'm not sure how much the rules for My Opera will change, due to things like Unite and Link.
  • HaavardThursday, March 10, 2011 2:14:57 PM

    I don't have any specific information, so you'll have to wait until something is made public.
  • Johan BorgThursday, March 10, 2011 3:49:15 PM

    I have specific information :sherlock: For My Opera we intend to still support user names with '-' but not '~' or '_' which aren't directly allowed in domain names (Unite).
  • Johan BorgThursday, March 10, 2011 7:16:22 PM

    Each instance of Unite runs on its own domain, the Unite page on My Opera is just one way to discover Unite servers.
  • Johan BorgThursday, March 10, 2011 8:27:58 PM

    We figured laptop.borg.operaunite.com made more sense for the laptop of my.opera.com/borg than most other alternatives :angel:

About this article

Published inA Journal from Behind the Trenches
DateMarch 9, 2011
AuthorHaavard
Tagsopera web mail, operamail.com, fastmail.fm, fastmail, my.opera.com, my opera
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