Someone reviewed v on Jul 5, 2022

Pros: 555

Cons: 555

Bottom Line: 555

dhry reviewed v2.0 SR107 on Oct 2, 2007

POP Peeper is a lot better. Admittedly I got a narky response on the POP Peeper forums when I asked about softhome.net support, but still. This program, on the other hand, has a woeful interface AND it doesn't support softhome.net either. Forget it.

[deXter] reviewed v2.0 SR97 on Nov 18, 2006

I used to be a big fan of ePrompter but my needs have exceeded ePrompter's features and I had to migrate to POP Peeper.

Still, that doesn't make ePrompter a bad product and I'm glad that there's at least *one* product out there that's competing with POP Peeper :D

Kipster reviewed v2.0 SR87 on Jun 14, 2006

If you have FREE Yahoo, Hotmail, Lycos, etc accounts, this is a must.
For POP accounts, there may be alternatives.
But for the free services that otherwise require you to login to their sites, THIS IS THE ONE PERIOD!!!
I've used this one for years now.
Granted, there may be times when it will quit working for a specific service. Yahoo, Hotmail, and others change the login procedure from time to time. This is the providers causing this, NOT ePrompter.
The ePrompter team usually has a fix in a matter of days.

Free email service, free account checking without going to multiple sites,,,,
What's not to like?

cricri_pingouin reviewed v2.0 SR1 Beta 12 (EPX 1.0.51.0) on Aug 25, 2004

I replaced this some time ago by POP Peeper which does the job better IMHO, has more options, does not add some junk to my replies, and does not "phone home" or whatever you want to call it. http://www.eprompter.com/faqs.htm#q49
It might be ok, or they say it's ok, it might even be safe, but I can't know what they do. POP Peeper NEVER connects to their server, unless you specifically ASK to check for updates.

[deXter] reviewed v2.0 SR1 Beta 12 (EPX 1.0.50.0) on Aug 14, 2004

This new version has trememdous improvements over the earlier versions. For starters, its no longer buggy, and seems to be pretty stable. I love the ability to choose my own .wav file for notification, plus the new layouts are simply slick. On the negative side though, theres still no support for GMail yet

Overall, this version is a must-upgrade for every ePrompter fan!

leojei reviewed v2.0 SR1 Beta 12 (EPX 1.0.46.0) on Jul 7, 2004

In terms of functionality, 5 is almost certain for everyone here, except for few fellows who have difficulties running the program.

In terms of graphical UI, it's 2. Although it provides alternative layouts, all those layouts are still not quite "modern"? (what's the proper word for that, hmm...) Get the graphics better and this rock-solid piece of work would be the best (rate of 5).

In terms of ease of use, most of you all are using it everyday and seldom using your Firefox/Safari/IE to login to Yahoo, Hotmail, AltaVista, etc... It shows this software is really an innovation. NICE JOB! So another 5 here.

Average out it's a 4

[deXter] reviewed v2.0 SR1 Beta 12 (EPX 1.0.44.0) on Jun 23, 2004

This version is extremly buggy. I recommend using ver 2.0 Build 2 EPX 1.0 (SR44). SR44 had been released a couple of days back, which was basically a fix for most of the updated mail sites (Yahoo!, Hotmail, mail.com, and more). SR44 is pretty stable and works well too. I actually use it to send and read all my mails. And the autoupdater feature is excellent! And its pretty safe too- trustable, that is.

cricri_pingouin reviewed v2.0 SR1 Beta 12 (EPX 1.0.44.0) on Jun 23, 2004

I'll try to remain neutral on this one.
It does the job (for Hotmail, Yahoo! doesn't work anymore since some time, I guess Yahoo! modified the way their email server works ?!?), but... there's something fishy below. I filter manually with my firewall what to get through or not. If you want, it's like being offered a free lunch, but you have to stick a broom up your arse. Free, yeah kind of, all good I don't think so. I still use it though, because despite this problem it still helps for my particular situation. If the Yahoo issue isn't fixed soon, I'll trash it with no remorse and without thinking twice.

freeafrog reviewed v2.0 SR1 Beta 12 (EPX 1.0.44.0) on Jun 23, 2004

Almost never finishes. When it stalls none of the fixes work and it eats the remaining amount of computer cycles and everything else slows to a halt. Must be killed thru task manager to get computer back.

librarianscott reviewed v2.0 SR1 Beta 12 (EPX 1.0.36.0) on May 11, 2004

Boo! Whenever you reply to a message, it puts a big advertisement at the bottom of your message (3 lines long) that your recipient gets.

patmc7 reviewed v2.0 SR1 Beta 12 (EPX 1.0.36.0) on May 1, 2004

The program does have some public relations issues that the producer will have to work out, but I have been using it for at least a month and haven't seen any increase in the amout of spam I recieve on those accounts. I wouldn't use it as a main e-mail reader but it is useful to check less used e-mail accounts.

Perezoso reviewed v2.0 SR1 Beta 12 (EPX 1.0.34.0) on Apr 21, 2004

I forgot... ePrompter doesn't let you disable the call home "feature". I had to make a rules in my firewall to contain ePormpter's behavior. For autoupdates? Yeah, right...

eXtraPerformance reviewed v2.0 SR1 Beta 12 (EPX 1.0.34.0) on Apr 9, 2004

I'm glad they updated it now. The older version was starting to wear off. As for if it harvest e-mails, you probably get spam from signing up with that ???? site last week :p And no it doesn't get your password because wouldn't they change it if they did? That way you couldn't log in? Duh.

DigitalSin reviewed v2.0 SR1 Beta 12 (EPX 1.0.34.0) on Apr 9, 2004

Does what it says, but the UI is horrid.

joske reviewed v2.0 SR1 Beta 12 (EPX 1.0.34.0) on Apr 9, 2004

great 4star software. does what it says.

dabson reviewed v2.0 SR1 Beta 12 (EPX 1.0.32.5) on Feb 28, 2004

Does what it claims to do and does it very very well. Give the UI an update so that it's more clean and modern and this will easily become a 5-star utility.

patmc7 reviewed v2.0 SR1 Beta 10 (EPX 1.0.32.4) on Feb 23, 2004

It does a nice job of reading (particularly HTML) accounts which I have had trouble with in OE, although I did have trouble reading a message from an old Juno account.
It's useful for those accounts which I almost never use but like to have about. And it works faster than OE because it checks them all at the same time.

TrueSatan reviewed v2.0 SR1 Beta 10 (EPX 1.0.32.4) on Feb 22, 2004

Save for an inability to access my Lycos account this software works flawlessly and is a real boon. Igt has saved me quite a bit of time when taken in total by not having to go to the web mail sites.

lovemayo reviewed v2.0 SR1 Beta 10 (EPX 1.0.32.4) on Feb 22, 2004

For the 99.9% of you who doesn't read the EULA:

7. Privacy Policy. ePrompterä will periodically connect to each user's computer so that we can track the number of active users, transfer automatic software updates, replace advertising, and send messages through the communications button. But that's all. We are totally committed to maintaining your privacy. We do not ask for or collect personal information. The identity information you provide when downloading and registering is encrypted and stored only on your own computer and will never be shared with anyone.

QBgreen reviewed v2.0 SR1 Beta 9 (EPX 1.0.32) on Feb 8, 2004

ePrompter is another example of just how good freeware can be. It's used here all day, every day.

rendermaster reviewed v2.0 SR1 Beta 9 (EPX 1.0.32) on Feb 8, 2004

I've used e-prompter since its initial offering and it is one of the pieces of software that I couldn't live without. I'm aware of no other program that can check e-mail from so many different sources within the same software and best of all, ITS STILL FREE! Many of e-prompters longtime users would glady pay for this software if necessary, but its authors have continued to offer it for free.

If you want a great piece of software that doesn't tax your resources and is easy to use, then look no further!

Floodland reviewed v2.0 SR1 Beta 9 on Feb 2, 2004

Ziria, do you have any idea of how smtp/pop3/http mail works? Actually, you MUST autenticate to retrieve messages, and for that, OF COURSE that your login/password have to be sent (to your mail server). The problem COULD be if eprompter tries to transfer that information to 3rd parties, and I never saw that in eprompter. Could you extend your test to see if user/pass were not transmited to YOUR proovider? That is absolutely normal and mandatory to retrieve your mail.
I found this program usefull, it only lacks to act as pop3 server to retrieve message and use any pop3 client to store them on your machine, as hotpop or yahoopop does. But is small, works and seems not to spy.

bbhermit reviewed v2.0 SR1 Beta 7 on Jan 20, 2004

I love this program! Been looking for something like it awhile now. However, I'm using Windows Me, and on system shutdown, I get an ePrompter fault error, hence the 4 stars. No biggie, as long as it works!

jshadow reviewed v2.0 SR1 Beta 7 on Jan 19, 2004

Ummmm...This prog is safe, I've used it's previous versions for a couple years now, my wife as well. If the previous poster had run a packet monitor before running any other email prog then he would have seen them do the same thing as eprompter. Somebody is a little too quick to yell "wolf". :P BTW GLAD to see this prog finally updated. :)

jadit2 reviewed v2.0 SR1 Beta 7 on Jan 19, 2004

Program works great........but can someone verify that this program is actually safe (doesnt harvest emails)?

gabito reviewed v2.0 SR1 Beta 7 on Jan 19, 2004

First of all, excellent program. Theen I would like to point out that this does not harvest anything, the usernames and passwords you see in your packet sniffer or whatever, are genuine packets going to each webmail site. After all, it's an email program and it can't log in to these sites without sending them.

ziria reviewed v2.0 SR1 Beta 7 on Jan 19, 2004

Wow! Nice way to harvest email addresses (and passwords as well)! All I can say is: Run your packet monitor first! No wonder it's freeware.

SlowNeasy reviewed v2.0 on Mar 12, 2002

Simply the best.