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POP Peeper 3.8

Developer: Mortal Universe Software
Last updated: August 30, 2011
License: Freeware
OS Support: Windows (all)
File Size: 1.2 MB
Downloads: 2,186
∟ Last week: 2
User Rating: 5 / 5    (5 votes)

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Email notifier that runs in the Windows task bar and alerts you when you have new email on any of account.

POP Peeper is an email notifier that runs in your Windows task bar and alerts you when you have new email on your POP3, IMAP (with IDLE support), HotmailMSNLiveMail, Yahoo, GMail, Mail.com, MyWay, Excite, Lycos.com, RediffMail, Juno and NetZero accounts. IMAP supports allows you to access AOL, AIM, Netscape and other services. Send mail directly from POP Peeper and use the address book to email your frequently used contacts. 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 availble 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.

Features:

* Easy Setup - accounts are imported from your existing email client(s)
* Supports POP3, IMAP (including GMail, AOL, AIM, Netscape, FastMail, etc), SMTP, GMail, HotmailMSNLiveMail, Yahoo, Mail.com, MyWay, Excite, Lycos.com, RediffMail, Juno, NetZero
* IDLE is supported for IMAP accounts which allows instant notification when new mail arrives in your inbox
* Read, delete, print and reply to Email without opening your email client
* Send email directly from POP Peeper
* HTML email support
* Password protection
* Address book
* Options to protect you from messages that contain viruses and web bugs
* Send, save and open file attachments
* Run POP Peeper off your portable storage device
* No account limit -- notifies you of an unlimited number of accounts
* Many ways to receive new mail notification: skinnable desktop alerts, audio, flashing scroll lock LED and more
* Specify how often all accounts are checked for new mail or set individual intervals for each account
* Extensive help with useful tips and information

Email Notification Options

* Sound notifications: single sound for any new mail, or a customized sound for each account
* Tray icon notification that display the color and number of new messages for each account
* Flashing scroll lock LED
* Windows popup alert indicating which account(s) received new email
* Automatically open POP Peeper or launch your email client when new email is received
* Skinnable popup (optional download)
* ScreenSaver (optional download)
* Chime can repeat a sound until acknowledged andor launch another program when new mail arrives (optional download)

What's New:

- New capability to access remote folders for certain protocols (Imap, some webmail-based protocols); requires Premium Add-on Pack
- New option to forward message as attachment
- New option for Voice Notifier allows messages (and/or headers) to be read using speech synthesis
- New option for tray icon to represent unread messages instead of new messages (only affects tray icon: Options / Tray Icon)
- New option to reset confirmation prompts (in Options / General)
- New toolbar button available for Sent Mail Viewer (menu: View / Customize Toolbar)
- New option to archive selected messages to a predetermined local folder; Sent Mail Viewer v3 supports viewing Archived messages
- New option to duplicate an existing account (right-click on account; requires 'Advanced Options' in General Options)
- Significant improvements in utf-8 support
- Added 'View source' option to context menu in message list
- Added 'Copy shortcut' to context menu in view message (Rich/Plain text)
- Removed 'View full source' from View-Message menu; can be accessed by holding down F8 with 'View source'
- The Num/Scroll Lock LED will return to its original state when new message notification is dismissed (instead of simply turning off)
- Added a 'copy' button to the Error Log to allow convenient copy/paste
- Spacebar can no longer be used to open messages; spacebar is used for other default Windows behavior
- Added "Are you sure..." for mark all read/unread, with "don't ask me again" option
- The account's error will be appended when "Error Retrieving Message" is displayed in message status
- Menus and options adhere to new Win7 capitalization standard (sentence-style vs old title-style)
- Context-menu key (and Shift+F10) now works for Account and Message lists
- Periodic message save is now multi-threaded
- New logic for accounts that retrieve number of messages when using PPTweaker option to dismiss unread messages: number of unread equals number of new messages, so that it doesn't appear that you always have unread email
- For SMTP, the default port has changed to 587 (from 25) and "Server requires authentication" is enabled by default
- Text changes: (Account General) "Server" -> "Incoming Server"; (menu) "Options" -> "Tools"; "Set Options" -> "Options"; (menu Accounts) "Show account checkbox" -> "Show auto-check checkbox"
- Beta (RC) versions of POP Peeper are now considered in "check for updates" if already using a beta version
- POP Peeper Premium Add-on Pack now requires a license key and online activation
- Installer: Updated to NSIS v2.46 to fix issues with Vista/7 (shortcut items being placed in All Users instead of user folder)
- Installer: new logic if POP Peeper is running to provide choices to user
- Installer: better management of data files during uninstall
- Installer: Uninstaller for Premium Add-on Pack
- Fix: Data folder can now start with '' meaning from the root folder; this was previously ignored and would create a subfolder and could cause problems if data folder currently starts with a slash
- Fix: Assigning 'none' to a global hotkey may cause hotkey to activate in certain cases
- Fix: "Error Retrieving Message" was not displayed for message status when there was an error
- Fix: Better prevention of corrupt .emd files
- Fix: Fail-safe for resuming from standby (deprecates "Do not process power broadcasts" in PPTweaker; it is recommended that user disables this option)
- Fix: Browsing for new data folder wouldn't open the current folder by default
- Fix: Case when clicking on link wouldn't open in new window
- Fix: When viewing plain/rich text messages with character encoding, font face and size will use specified settings
- Fix: SMTP port could not be modified in certain conditions
- Fix: In some cases, default email client wasn't detected correctly
- Fix: Imap: Certain servers (e.g. fastmail.fm) would "Login Error" after initial login
- Fix: Imap: Certain servers (e.g. imap.mail.com) don't put IDLE in capabilities until after login
- Fix: Imap: DavMail proxy does not support 'Fetch RFC822', so changed to 'Fetch Body[]' (equivalent)
- Fix: Smtp: Subjects encoded in koi8-r were not converted correctly when replying
- Fix: Smtp: Ctrl+A for select all now works in compose window headers
- Fix: RSS: deleted messages will no longer count towards the 'total' number of messages in the account

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