Opera, on the heels of their FastMail acquisition, decides to enter the free email space. Why? Between Yahoo, Hotmail, and Gmail (and a billion second and third-tier players) there isn't much point. This will be moderately popular among the Opera fanbase and dead on arrival everywhere else.
Aside from offering free IMAP, it is more barren than Gmail was when I first started using it in May 2004 (which for those counting is less than two months after it's April 1, 2004 release). In dramatic contrast to Gmail, it offers nothing new than other free email services don't offer. Gmail was able to become a third player in a two-player field (Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail) by revolutionizes the entire online email world with mega storage and adding innovations in their conversation view and labelling system at launch. Opera Mail has nothing that others don't do and currently does it worse than the competition. As I said, dead on arrival (aside from people who already use Opera).
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