I believe many of us have Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail and other email accounts. I have all 3 (Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail) and I never use all of them. I just have it because I want all my login name to be the same. My uncle also has 3 webmails and 1 POP3 streamyx email. He finds it very troublesome to check all of his webmail because he had to manually key in the web address, his username and password every time he wants to check them. After done checking his webmail, he will need to check his pop3 streamyx email using Microsoft Outlook.
So he asked me is there any solution to automatically check all his emails from one location? 2 years ago, I wrote about ePrompter, which is able to check multiple webmails including hotmail, yahoo, gmail and pop3 but ePrompter doesn’t have email sending capability. So it’s not a good solution for my uncle.
After a little searching and testing, I’ve found a free email client that is able to send and receive emails from Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail and POP3. This is extremely useful for those who has multiple email accounts.
Well, what I found is not really a fully featured email client. It’s more like an email notifier called POP Peeper.
POP Peeper runs in your Windows task bar and alerts you when you have new email on your POP3, IMAP (with IDLE support), Hotmail\MSN\LiveMail, Yahoo, Mail.com, MyWay, Excite, Lycos.com, RediffMail, Juno and NetZero accounts. IMAP supports allows you to access AOL, AIM, Netscape and other services. So don’t compare POP Peeper with email clients like Microsoft Outlook.
What I like about POP Peeper is it can send mail directly from POP Peeper and use the address book to email your frequently used contacts. Many multiple email checker can’t do that…. POP Peeper allows you to view messages using HTML or you can choose to safely view all messages in rich or plain text. Several options are available that will decrease or eliminate the risks of reading your email (viruses, javascript, webbugs, etc). POP Peeper can be run from a portable device and can be password protected. Many notification options are available to indicate when new mail has arrived, such as sound alerts (configurable for each account), flashing scroll lock, skinnable popup notifier, customized screensaver and more.
There are new features such as Junk Filters, Auto Complete and a lot more in development. Give POP Peeper some time and I am sure it can turn into a more powerful email notifier.
The con about using email clients to support web based email is you have to depend a lot on the software’s update. If slight changes being made on webmail server, it’s going to give you problems. So when you encounter problems, make sure you visit POP Peeper known issues page first.
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Keep in mind that with this you will not be able to see any emails in your spam folder/trash. So this can become a huge mess if you miss an important business email that happened to land in the spam folder. ePrompt was the same was. Its why I quit using them both.
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this is what i need..sic i setup multiple email. easy for me to organize them thanX raymond
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sorry to bother, but i read this story on labnol.blogspot.com and visitformoney.blogspot.com. Well its indeed good article. thanks for sharing any way
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One doubt Raymond, Is using POP Peeper really a Secure way of accessing my mails? It asks for my default broadband user name and password. Why i am so concerned bcoz i have to entrust it with passwords of all my email accounts. Is it really using a secure https connection like Gmail?
Thanks for sharing all these great info with us. Great work.
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Very good, used it and works great.
Thanks Raymond
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