Small Email Client

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Hi all....... looking for a small email client for an older laptop
running Win98SE. I want this to connect to a gmail account. I tried
popcorn but it has a problem with gmail. Is there any other program
available that will work with gmail?

Newfdog
 
Hi all....... looking for a small email client for an older laptop
running Win98SE. I want this to connect to a gmail account. I tried
popcorn but it has a problem with gmail. Is there any other program
available that will work with gmail?
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The help pages say that Gmail now supports standard pop access for
free, so you should be able to use any standard pop e-mail client, but
you have to TURN ON that feature in your Gmail account first.
Instructions here:

GMail Help Center: What is POP, and How Do I Use It?
<http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10350&topic=194>
 
The help pages say that Gmail now supports standard pop access for
free, so you should be able to use any standard pop e-mail client, but
you have to TURN ON that feature in your Gmail account first.
Instructions here:

GMail Help Center: What is POP, and How Do I Use It?
<http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10350&topic=194>
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CORRECTION: I do apologize. In addition to enabling the POP feature
at Gmail in your account, you also must use an e-mail client which
supports TLS/SSL when sending mail and SSL when receiving it. That's
explained here:
<http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13287>
Many of the smaller e-mail clients do not support those security
standards, which are designed to protect your passwords and the
contents of your messages from prying eyes as they're routed throught
the internet. It might be possible to hack together a workaround
using stunnel with a standard e-mail client (http://www.stunnel.org/),
but it'd be much easier to find a client with those features built-in,
such as the clients the Gmail folks suggest at the first link I gave
you. So you're right... Popcorn's not a good choice for Gmail.
 
TabMail
http://dlg.krakow.pl/tabmail/
TabMail for Windows (95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP) is mail user agent (MUA)
for sending, receiving and managing your email messages. It's small
and fast, conforms Internet Standards and supports Unicode
characters.

Some other properties:

* Automatic attachments compression with zlib library
* Warn when open (or save) dangerous attachments
* Message filtering (input and output) using regexp TRE library
* Spam filtering using SpamBayes message header additions
* Simple view of compound messages
* Message-thread can span many mailboxes
* HTML messages view as plain text (see htmlp for more details).
* Easy PGP message encryption/decryption
* SMTP and POP3 authentication
* Support for SSL/TLS connections
* Scanning attachments for viruses
* Multi-user and multi-account
* Tracing for diagnosing TCP, POP3, SMTP or filter errors

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jmatt said:
TabMail
http://dlg.krakow.pl/tabmail/
TabMail for Windows (95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP) is mail user agent (MUA)
for sending, receiving and managing your email messages. It's small
and fast, conforms Internet Standards and supports Unicode
characters.
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Doesn't work in Win98SE for me.
"Error executing program" is all I get from it.

Looks good though, if the bug is removed.
 
CORRECTION: I do apologize. In addition to enabling the
POP feature at Gmail in your account, you also must use an
e-mail client which supports TLS/SSL when sending mail and
SSL when receiving it. That's explained here:
<http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13287>
Many of the smaller e-mail clients do not support those
security standards, which are designed to protect your
passwords and the contents of your messages from prying
eyes as they're routed throught the internet. It might be
possible to hack together a workaround using stunnel with a
standard e-mail client (http://www.stunnel.org/), but it'd
be much easier to find a client with those features
built-in, such as the clients the Gmail folks suggest at
the first link I gave you. So you're right... Popcorn's
not a good choice for Gmail.
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Actually it still is a good choice as the latest ver of Popcorn
does ssl. You have to D/L the dlls separtely though here:
http://www.ultrafunk.com/products/downloads/
 
MyName said:
Actually it still is a good choice as the latest ver of Popcorn
does ssl. You have to D/L the dlls separtely though here:
http://www.ultrafunk.com/products/downloads/
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I wonder if anyone really got Popcorn to connect to pop.gmail.com!!
But to connect to smtp.gmail.com and send plain text messages was
possible even with popcorn 1.48 (freew.) without other dlls.
Many people forget that pop.gmail.com uses port 995
and smtp.gmail.com uses port 587 ...
 
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