I was using popcorn for checking my email. It was very small and useful
for deleting unwanted email. Now they have discontinued. Does anyone
know of a similar program ? Thanks for your help.
From Pegasus mail help:
Pegasus Mail allows you to preview the contents of your POP3 mailbox
before downloading it, by downloading only the message headers and
showing them to you. Once the mail headers have been downloaded,
Pegasus Mail terminates the connection immediately and allows you to
browse the headers from the messages at your leisure. You can indicate
that you want to retrieve some of the messages from your mailbox and
possibly delete others, then when you are ready, you can tell Pegasus
Mail to reconnect and perform the actions you have specified.
To start a selective download from your POP3 mailbox, choose Selective
Mail Download from the File menu. Pegasus Mail will start a connection
to your POP3 host and will retrieve the headers of the messages it
contains. If you have told Pegasus Mail to download only unread mail
using the option in your Internet setup settings, then the selective
download will only retrieve the headers of messages you have not
already seen. While it is downloading the message headers, you may
continue to work on other things, or switch to other applications; the
only thing you may not do while this operation is in progress is
attempt to start a regular mail download or to send mail in your mail
queue - Pegasus Mail will report an error if you attempt to do this.
Once the header download is complete, Pegasus Mail will open a window
displaying the sender, subject, date and size of each message in the
mailbox.
For each entry in the list, you may Retrieve the message, Delete the
message, do both, or leave it untouched. Messages marked for retrieval
will show a green dot in the “R” column at the right of the list, and
messages marked for deletion will show a red dot in the “D” column.
To indicate that you want to retrieve a mail message from your mailbox
to your local system, highlight the message and click the Mark for
retrieval button. A green dot will appear next to the message, but
nothing more will happen at this stage.
To indicate that you want to delete a mail message from your mailbox,
highlight the message and click the Mark for deletion button. A red
dot will appear next to the message and it will display in red, but
nothing more will happen at this stage.
To indicate that you want to retrieve a message from your mailbox then
delete it, either click both buttons, or more conveniently, click the
Mark for both button.
You can mark more than one message by holding down Shift or Ctrl as
you click in the list. The Mark for Retrieval, Mark for Deletion and
Mark for both buttons will tag all selected messages.
Once you have marked the messages you wish to retrieve and delete,
click the button labelled Make it so (apologies to Star Trek). This
tells Pegasus Mail to open another connection to your POP3 host and
take all the actions you have specified. If any messages are
downloaded successfully as a result of the connection, they will
appear in your new mail folder, which will open or resynchronize
itself automatically to display them.
Important notes:
• Messages marked for both retrieval and deletion will only be
deleted if they are actually retrieved successfully.
• Messages not marked for deletion will not be deleted from the
remote mailbox, even if you have turned on Delete mail from host once
successfully retrieved in your Internet setup settings.
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