Mail Preview Program

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Something I've written in my spare time. It's free to download
and use and I would be interested to know if people find it useful.

It enables you to view emails waiting for you on your pop3 email
account(s) and delete them if you want without having to download them
to your email client.

You can also create Friends/Blacklist etc.

Runs in Win2k & Win XP, not tried it on other Windows platforms and
requires .NET 1.1 to be installed installed.

Any feedback is welcome, thx for reading.


www.scratchintime.co.uk
 
Perhaps your program has already been written a while ago: There is a
free dos command line program called, readmail, that will display and
process the messages in any file. That is, you define the header format,
including perhaps some unusual email formats, like the many posts in a
single digest. It then acts like an email client, but offline:

It displays a list of messages with From, Subject, Date columns
Click on one to read the message.
You can save each message to a file, construct replies or
messages of your own and save them in various formats, or
send them to some smtp mail transport software.

Readmail works in 2K and beyond, if you use dosbox instead of the poor
imitation. I use it all the time to preview email folders offline, and
even read digests, submessage by submessage.
 
Jeff said:
Has it been tested with gmail?
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Not yet, I've just looked at gmail and they say pop3 access is available
so it should work. I will get a gmail account myself and give it a go.
 
Jeff Needle wrote:
Not yet, I've just looked at gmail and they say pop3 access is available
so it should work. I will get a gmail account myself and give it a go.
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Warning -- gmail requires a special port assignment, or it won't work. I
use gmail, as you can tell from my email address. I really like it, but
there are some mail programs, and some utilities like yours, that won't
function unless you can set the pop3 port.

Good luck.
 
In Len typed:
Something I've written in my spare time. It's free to download
and use and I would be interested to know if people find it useful.

It enables you to view emails waiting for you on your pop3 email
account(s) and delete them if you want without having to download them
to your email client.

You can also create Friends/Blacklist etc.

Runs in Win2k & Win XP, not tried it on other Windows platforms and
requires .NET 1.1 to be installed installed.

Any feedback is welcome, thx for reading.


www.scratchintime.co.uk
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What do you have that MailWasher 4.1.9 Pro Freeware doesn't?
http://download.freenet.de/download.php?file_id=5052&download=MailWasher

DanlK, FYI Services Collectibles
www.FYIS.org
 
As you work on your mail preview program, for GMail compatability,
have a look at their freeware GMail Notifier. It's not much else but a
simple notifier that you have new email. Very basic -- Nothing like
other notifiers that give you FULL preview, who from, blacklists,
delete, etc. I think about all GMN does is give you an alert and show
you a small snippet from up to 30 emails.

General info:
http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/index?promo=gdl-en
FAQ
http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/faq.html

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A couple of other freeware programs that do GMail notify are:

ePrompter
"ePrompter works with AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, POP3, Earthlink,
Excite, iName, Juno, Lycos, Mail.com, Mindspring, MSN, MyWay, Netscape,
OneBox, Rediffmail, SBC Yahoo, Switchboard, USA.net and hundreds of
other email domains. "

GMail Notifier Mozilla plugin

Pennocks Email Notifier

Good luck with your program!
 
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Something I've written in my spare time. It's free to download
and use and I would be interested to know if people find it useful.

It enables you to view emails waiting for you on your pop3 email
account(s) and delete them if you want without having to download them
to your email client.

You can also create Friends/Blacklist etc.

Runs in Win2k & Win XP, not tried it on other Windows platforms and
requires .NET 1.1 to be installed installed.

Any feedback is welcome, thx for reading.


www.scratchintime.co.uk
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Just a general suggestion:

This category of software is already pretty crowded. You might want
to check out programs like ePrompter, PopPeeper, MailWasher, Popcorn,
etc., then incorporate a feature (or combination of features) that
they DON'T have into your program. In other words, offer something
that is unique in some way when compared to the others.
 
Mailwasher is a very good application.
You have to buy the commercial version though, if you want to configure more
than one account.
 
Thanks for the info.
I will need to add the ability to specify the port number when configuring
an account.
 
Something I've written in my spare time. It's free to download
and use and I would be interested to know if people find it useful.

It enables you to view emails waiting for you on your pop3 email
account(s) and delete them if you want without having to download them
to your email client.

You can also create Friends/Blacklist etc.

Runs in Win2k & Win XP, not tried it on other Windows platforms and
requires .NET 1.1 to be installed installed.

Any feedback is welcome, thx for reading.


www.scratchintime.co.uk
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Sorry but .NET excludes it for me.
 
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