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Managing multiple email accounts can be a chore, especially if the accounts are from different providers. POP Peeper offers a solution to set up and manage your many accounts from one place. Automatic Mail check is also enabled by default.
POP Peeper's uncluttered interface places the essential email options to create or respond to messages on a fully customizable Tool Bar. You will have to do some manual work to get your accounts setup but there is plenty of user guidance to help you get started and it handles nearly all of the most popular email services, including Yahoo, Gmail, and Hotmail. By default, you'll see a notification icon on the taskbar when new mail comes in. You can add a sound or opt to see more information about who the email is from and what the subject line is. When you double click on the Tray Icon, you can quickly check your email, open the program or run your email client.
Installation was easy, but we found it left some Start Menu icons behind when it was uninstalled. If you don't mind these minor issues, POP Peeper's user friendly approach makes it easier to manage multiple accounts from one place.
Publisher's Description
From Mortal Universe:
POP Peeper is an e-mail notifier that supports POP3, IMAP (AOL, AIM, FastMail, mail.com, etc.), SMTP, Hotmail, MSN, Yahoo, GMail, MyWay, Excite, Lycos, RediffMail, Juno, NetZero, and iWon. Other features include portability, password protection, an address book, viewing in HTML (or rich/plain text for security), open/send attachments, separate polling intervals for each account. Many options are available to indicate new mail has arrived such as sound alerts (configurable for each account), flashing scroll lock, trayicon balloon, skinnable pop-up notifier, and a customized screensaver. An SSL plugin is available for download which allows you to retrieve e-mail from POP3 and IMAP servers that accept secure connections such as Gmail. With IMAP's Idle command, you will be notified of new e-mail as soon as it arrives in your inbox.
What's new in this version: Version 3.8.1 brings back support for Lycos.
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All versions:
4.4 starsout of 368 votes
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Current version:
4.2 starsout of 18 votes
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"My personal number one of all free software"
Version: POP Peeper 3.8.1
Pros
small, safe, easy and features to collect webbased e-mail without having to deal with overcrowded screens and advertisement.
A great tool I use for safe viewer e-mails which I dont trust and to notify me of new arrived e-mail in both pop and webbased accounts. Highly personal changeable ui. Great way to view possible infected e-mails without getting infected.Cons
no spamfilter but then again I dont expect one in a notifieying tool.
Summary
My personal champion of all offered free software tools since the year 2000. The best if you are looking for a clean light simple pop and webbased e-mail arrival notifier.
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"Of a few I tried, this one worked for me"
Version: POP Peeper 3.8.1
Pros
As a notifier, it works, with a change in the tray icon and a sound.
Cons
When it notifies of new mail it's no good just going to your webmail, you MUST open the messages on the app itself because until you have done so, the tray icon will continue showing you have new mail. Thus you might fail to notice something newer has come along.
I found no way to mark messages as read, I had to open them even if I didn't want to (like if they were uninteresting, or I'd already read them in my webmail), and they could only be done one at a time. The same applied to deleting them, I could only do them one at a time.
The icon of a mailbox has little meaning to those from countries outside of the USA. -
"Kick A$$ - Pardon My French"
Version: POP Peeper 3.8.1
Pros
A fully customizable email notifier/client.
Cons
A little technical to set up.
Summary
I'm definitely donating to the author!!!
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"Couldn't work out how to get it to do what I wanted"
Version: POP Peeper 3.8.1
Pros
free to download
Cons
All I wanted was an icon on my task bar, telling me how many new yahoo emails I had. Don't know if it was me not being able to work out how do do this or the software but gave up.
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"Excellent and very useful for filtering emails"
Version: POP Peeper 3.8.1
Pros
Easy to set up and access.
Cons
None observed.
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""BRILLIANT - set up right and you'll NEVER GIVE IT UP""
Version: POP Peeper 3.8.1
Pros
Beautifully crafted little program that does the job with multiple accounts in a no fuss and logical manner, which is what good design is all about (or should be). Won't bore you with the details - it's just the best desktop mail-notifier I've ever come across.The only one that came close was Mail Checker Plus which has sadly fallen into disrepute and became so unstable that Google booted it off their Extension Store. Howled for a week not believing I'd find one that good again, but POP Peeker is - it's twice as good and works seamlessly with Gmail in tandem with Outlook as server. Can't talk about other browsers than Google (and why would ya).
Cons
Not really a con - agree with a couple of others on this page that you need to spend an hour or two learning the ropes and setting it up right. If you put the work in and use your nut you'll reap the rewards - all the tools are there to tweak it to your individual needs - and well worth it's No.1 Cnet ranking.
One tip - type in your accounts one at a time in the single account option - rather than take the automatic 'import from browsers' option above it. Then resist the temptation to tick the SMS boxes below and click Next. It will then automatically find the appropriate server for you on the web, one account at a time.Summary
This is the best email notifier/sorter/collater your'e ever going find. If you want to "send" from here, use a bigger stick - highlight the email in question on the Message side (R)then click the Client Server button at bottom (L)under Account side ... and the world is your oyster. Nuff said, but I need the typing practice.
Why No Rating Stars from CNET.
P.S. Don't forget to download the essential plugins - Webmail; SSL; PP Tweaker. Enjoy!
Updated on May 1, 2012
CNET rate this little ripper as No.1 in email utilities - but
give it no stars (which attract you to open editor's review or
not when browsing).
I'm thinking a lot of people are missing out on this great little
5-star number because of that. Yes, it is time consuming to set it up right - but you will love it forever if you put in the work. -
"Does what it should do."
Version: POP Peeper 3.8.1
Pros
Easy to use
Cons
Not very colorful
Summary
Worth the price.
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"Fantastic! A must have for the technically savvy"
Version: POP Peeper 3.8.1
Pros
A great program for sifting through all of your emails from all of your email accounts and then deleting what you don't want before it gets to your in box.
This program isn't for people who don't follow directions before they set this up. Some people hate it because they didn't set the program up correctly. If you are computer savvy and want to spend some time setting it up, it will become one of your most useful utilities.Cons
The program isn't hard to set up but you have to make sure that you have things set up properly. It will take some time to learn the program well and have it set up exactly the way you want.
Summary
All in all this is a terrific program that I just can't live without. I have accumulated 8 email addresses over the years that are used for different purposes. For instance I have one for family, one for business, one for friends etc. I use this to pre-read all my emails and then I save the important email in their respective email programs or online email folders. If you have many email addresses and need a way to sort through all of your emails then this is the only way to go. If you only have 2 or 3 accounts that aren't really busy you might want to use another email service that will do this for you but for me this is just what the doctor ordered. And the great thing about it is the little mailbox icon in the toolbar that notifies you when you have new mail. The icon looks like a little rural mailbox and the flag moves up and down when you have new mail to notify you of this. Terrific!
P.S. I only gave it 4 stars instead of 5 because everything has room for improvement including this program but it doesn't mean that this isn't a great program. -
"Very Convenient"
Version: POP Peeper 3.8.1
Pros
- It works better than I thought it would.
- Much better!
- I set up 15 of my (non-POP) email accounts from both common and uncommon email providers, and now have ALL of them working perfectly.
- Some of my email accounts required some trial and error configuration of the "Server Type" on the drop-down menu to set up properly, but they ALL eventually worked just fine.Cons
- This is NOT a "con", but rarely it couldn't access a cetain email account. (example: new Gmail) However, after logging in manually on their webmail page, I found it was because there was a preliminary page notifying users of an upcoming change in the webmail layout. After clicking to acknowlege or dismiss that notification, it took me to my webmail page. After that, POP Peeper had no further difficulty in accessing that email account.
- I've been using POP Peeper for about a month now and have no other "cons" to report.Summary
Pop Peeper program is a "keeper", and saves me a lot of time.
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"Works Great"
Version: POP Peeper 3.8.1
Pros
Checks every email account of all types that I have. Even checks Mail.com with a little configuring.
Cons
None that I could find
Summary
great email checker. saves me tons of time.
