Hey there,
Thanks for the suggestions jmatt, but I particularly wanted a link to a
freeware version of Email Sentinel, one of it's advantages is it will
allow you to set up a white list so you can choose who to receive HTML
messages from.
If it's not too late to follow up on this post, try Poppy. It lets you
create a Friends list of addresses you want to receive mail from. It
sits between your POP3 host and your email program, notifying you when
you have mail, and making it possible for you to quickly and easily
check the headers and get rid of unwanted messages before downloading
them into your email program.
Poppy for Windows
Homepage:
http://www.yoursurfice.com/Content/Poppy/Poppy.htm
Download:
http://www.yoursurfice.com/Content/Poppy/Poppy.EXE
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A design goal of Poppy was to keep it as simple as possible. Only the
most essential features were added to Poppy to make it easy to use
without all kinds of bells and whistles. This approach also
contributes to the fact that Poppy is small and will not interfere
with your day to day work.
Initially, the only purpose of Poppy was e-mail notification. Since
the introduction of version 4.x of Poppy. I decided to add more
advanced features. Poppy is still very small however and the new
features do not interfere with it's main purpose, which is still be
e-mail notification.
Here is a list of the features of Poppy:
* Checks multiple POP3 accounts for new mail.
* Uses the taskbar icon to indicate that mail is waiting.
* A configurable interval between checks of the POP3 account.
* A a convenient popup menu to reach all functions and
configuration.
* Play a sound when new mail has arrived on any account.
* Play a different sound for each account.
* Execute an external program when new mail has arrived.
* Show a non-interfering popup window when new mail has arrived.
* Automatically hide the popup window, without user intervention.
* Always notify or only when new mail has arrived.
* Always notify or only when mail from a friend has arrived.
* Dialog to display 'From' address and subject of each message.
* View the headers of an e-mail message.
* Preview the source of an e-mail message.
* Delete e-mail messages from POP3 servers.
* Select and/or unselect messages based on selection rules.
* Only notify based on the selection rules.
* Check e-mail headers against an anti-SPAM DNS blacklist.
* It is small and easy to use.
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