PopMan 1.3 Beta 17

4.6 out of 5 stars 4.6 (26 votes)

BETA (October 17, 2007)

Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP / Open Source / 3,418 downloads

PopMan is a POP3 manager and notifier. It can be used to list all e-mails received on your incoming mail server (POP3 server), without having to load these mails completely. Unwanted e-mails can be deleted directly from the server. You can use it to check your e-mail accounts in the background. The number of waiting messages is displayed on the tray icon for each account.To show you whether e-mails contain useful information, or whether they are just spam, it provides a preview function. You can use this preview pane to read the text-based content of your e-mails - whether they are plain text or HTML. In contrast to most e-mail programs, reading mail with PopMan is absolutely secure. There is no threat of executing dangerous code or being infected with viruses. You can direct it to use local storage (settings are saved to an *.ini file), and save it to a floppy disk or USB memory stick. This means you can check your mail on any computer with internet access.

  • Publisher

    Christian Huebner

  • Homepage

    PopMan

  • Latest Changes

    - (NEW) - The links of HTML emails are displayed in the message view (the link targets can be inspected with the help of tooltips)

    - (NEW) - Added WhiteList (white listed mails are not affected by BlackList and by the rules actions: Delete, MarkForDelete, NotNew and Read)

    - (NEW) - Added "Mute Mode" item to tray context menu

    - (NEW) - New tab context menu items to mark all messages read/unread

    - (NEW) - New rules action "PlaySingleSound" that plays a sound file only if no other sound has been played before

    - (NEW) - New setting "RulesFileName" can be used to change the name of the rules file, e.g. to give it a certain extension (useful for syntax highlighting)

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  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    Cadillakin

    Reviewing 1.3 Beta 17 (Oct 18, 2008)

    Very polished. I've looked at and used them all. Of the current leaders in the market, Magic Mail Monitor currently (Oct, 2008)has SSL login issues with my server (AT&T) and Poptray is slightly buggy and sports a somewhat archaic interface. So, I continued to look for something better.

    Popman ably implements SSL, handles pop and web mail, and has many advanced configuration options for handling multiple accounts. It's only weakness is it's rather backwards implementation of spam rules. It took a couple of hours to study and write the rules necessary to block the porn and advertising prominent on the web.. For those not ready to write their own spam rules to the configuration file, white and black lists exist, to allow and block, as necessary.

    It implements skins for those who like choices in the interface.. Advanced users can dig in and write more complex spam blocking rules. I did, and now Popman is completely the application I sought out, configured to my needs. All in all, a terrific addition to my desktop.

    A thank you to the developer, Christian!

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    devilrider

    Reviewing 1.3 Beta 12 (Apr 23, 2006)

    There are several good POP checker. This is one of them.

    Personally I prefer POP Peeper. even it has 3 things that disturb me and one missing feature, but same thing with all other tools :)

    Anyway 5/5 coz it's good.

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    Steve49

    Reviewing 1.3 Beta 11 (Apr 16, 2006)

    Hi Everyone
    I am new to Beta news but I thought I should say something about pop man its great I have tried many other notifiers and they have never worked but pop man works great 10 out of 10 .

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    jasinwa

    Reviewing 1.3 Beta 11 (Oct 23, 2005)

    Fantastic email checker that is very configurable. It has an intuitive interface where you can customize colors for different accounts to display in the tray and was one of the first to show actual numbers of emails (unread, total, etc depending on how you set it up). I don't understand some of the reviews offering a "1" - must be friends of the other sw authors!! : )

    Indispensable - get it.

  5. 1 out of 5 stars
    yleclerc

    Reviewing 1.3 Beta 10 (May 8, 2005)

    Why bother with PopMan! Poptray was the original!!! Why else would several Poptray plug-ins be "ported" to this PopMan.

    BTW: Poptry is also free and available in numerious languages!

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