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Popcorn v1.99 update 3

lwc on 28 Mar 2021
  • 325KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 21 Aug 2012
  • Suggested by myzdoxae

Popcorn was (its homepage is only available via Internet Archive) a text-only email client with SMTP/POP3 support. It handles attachments, but does not render HTML emails or display inline images, which means it is immune to most HTML viruses/scripts/trojans. It supports multiple email accounts, SSL and APOP. It is useful for cleaning up POP accounts, removing spam, unwanted mail, large attachments etc.

Note: Developer has ended work on the project - linking to Archive.org entry (thanks Baas).

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch popcorn.exe.
What's new? 1.99 update 3 - 21-August-2012

Bug-fixes:
  • Fixed an issue introduced in release 1.99 that caused mail sending to fail if the SMTP server supported the CRAM-MD5 authentication method.

1.99 update 2 - 06-July-2012

New features:
  • Added support for TLS encrypted SMTP communication via the STARTTLS command making Popcorn compatible with mail servers that require it like Hotmail. TLS can be turned on in the the "Tools" -> "Email Accounts" dialog "Identity & Servers" tab by checking "Use SLL / TLS". When enabled, TLS encryption will be used if the server supports it for all ports except 465 which uses SSL.

1.99 update 1 - 29-June-2012

New features:
  • Added support for attachment forwarding if the selected mail has any downloaded attachments. You will now be asked if you want to forward them, and if you choose yes, they will appear in the mail editor "File Attachment" dialog as usual.
  • Added an "Open File Location" item to the the mail editor "File Attachment" dialog context pop-up menu that will open an explorer window with the selected file attachment location + highlighting the file.
  • Added support for column sorting in the mail editor "File Attachments" dialog (by path or size).

Bug-fixes:
  • The toolbar combo box edit control for setting the "Number of latest mail to download" did not respond to Delete and Backspace keyboard events because they got eaten by the main window accelerators. They are now intercepted before the accelerators kick in, so the keys should now work as expected (i.e. text can be deleted). Also updated the same control to only accept numerical input.
  • Fixed a very obscure and probably 10+ year old bug that in very rare cases would reset changes done to account settings outside of the "Tools" -> "Email Accounts" dialog if it is opened and Cancel or Close (Esc) is selected.
Latest comments
killingtime on 2016-09-16 17:59

Couldn't get this to work with Hotmail (Sept 2016)

Hotmail needs SSL for upload and download. The program doesn't come will the SSL libraries but you can download and install them on the local computer from OpenSSL.

Got upload working with OpenSSL (32bit light ver) even though I'm on 64 Win7. POP3 wouldn't connect....using port 995 pop3.live.com. Popcorn listed SSL support as available from the about menu too. Could be that OpenSSL was complaining about missing C++ libraries at install (you can download that too) but that kind of misses the point for me. If you've got to install a load of software on the local computer to get the mail client to work then it's not really portable.

Anyone get this working with Hotmail?

computernerd on 2017-01-08 15:25

@killingtime:

Because Popcorn is a 32bit application, you need the 32bit DLLs.
OpenSSL doesn't provide binary files but has some respective links. There's a portable version as well that is simply to be unzipped.

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Koma-Mail v3.83

lwc on 28 Mar 2021
  • 7MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 2 Aug 2014
  • Suggested by Matthias Koch

Koma-Mail is a multi-user email client with support for IMAP/POP3/SMAP/WebDAV. It supports HTML emails and inline attachments and can also be used as a RSS newsfeed reader. Comes with built-in spam filter and a JavaScript/ActiveX blocker.

Warning

  • The author has stopped development and warns against possible unresolved security issues.
  • It has been reported that Koma-Mail displays a donation dialog once in a long while.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Nagware (nags you to buy it a few times a year)
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Koma_Mail.exe.
Latest comments
Technomancer on 2014-12-08 19:59

Hi Kea, I just took a look at Koma-Mail v3.83 and I can't find ANY obvious way to switch the ONLINE mode on or off. I downloaded the user manual, (web pages), and can find 2 references to it but no means of doing it. I also sent an email 'Koma-Code' but haven't had a reply as yet.

Still, it seems to be working anyway.

Technomancer on 2015-01-26 20:44

OK. I'm still using KomaMail and I still like it. I've set the 'Check Mail' time to 5 Minutes but it does't seem to automatically check at all.
If anyone CAN contact the author I think Komamail is well worth continuing to develop it and with the feedback from this forum it could be excellent.

Technomancer on 2015-01-26 20:55

OOPS!
I forgot. It's a shame that KomaMail isn't Open Source then someone could 'debug' and develop it. The athors web page doesn't seem to have been updated since 2004

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DreamMail v4.6.9.2

lwc on 28 Mar 2021
  • 19MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 20 Feb 2012
  • Suggested by renocz

DreamMail was (its homepage is only available via Internet Archive) a lightweight, skinnable email client supporting multiple accounts and multiple users. It supports email templates, anti-spam filter, Webmail support (Yahoo and Hotmail) and advanced mail search. Features junk Mail tools, message filtering, notes, RSS reader, and password-protection for DreamMail or specific folders.

Supports POP, SMTP, and eSMTP protocols.

Warning: Dreamail is no longer being developed and may be subject to security issues (thanks Midas). Linking to Softpedia for the portable version.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the RAR package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch DM2005.exe.
Similar/alternative apps:
What's new?
Latest comments
CornHolio the Gringo on 2015-05-16 19:18

Or am I wrong?

webfork on 2015-05-16 20:00

CornHolio: It should cover most issues but unfortunately security issues come in forms other than scripting exploits. It might make sense to run the program inside a sandboxing tool.

CornHolio the Gringo on 2015-05-20 20:25

Sure, thats a good advice.

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PopTray v3.2

lwc on 28 Mar 2021
  • 3MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 16 Sep 2006
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

PopTray is a full-featured, customizable e-mail tool and notifier. It shows the number of new messages available in the system tray and allows you to quickly preview a message. Messages can also be deleted from the server without downloading, saving time and bandwidth. Additional plugins add support for IMAP4, Hotmail, GMail etc.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: No
License: GPL
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Delete $PLUGINSDIR and [NSIS].nsi
  3. Launch PopTray.exe
What's new? http://www.poptray.org/history32.php
Latest comments
dot on 2006-09-20 04:54

How does it compare to PopPeeper? @Korkiss: PopPeeper got proxy settings.

Gmacri on 2009-03-14 02:58

The program is good, but needs an urgent update (no update from 2006-09-16),no POP-SSL support only beta plugins.

(Try POPman 1.3)
http://www.ch-software.de/popman/

I am Baas on 2012-03-23 04:40

http://sourceforge.net/projects/poptrayu/

"This email notifier builds upon the open source PopTray mail notifier adding improved handling for unicode & utf-8 emails, and Vista/Win 7 compatibility fixes."

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