POP Peeper notifies you whenever you receive an email message. It supports POP3, IMAP and webmail accounts, including such popular systems as Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, Excite and Lycos. But more than just that, the tool lets you send messages directly from the client. The application has an easy-to-use interface and the fact that it can automatically import account configurations from other mail clients helps you a lot.
This email notifier is highly configurable. For example, it can issue different types of alerts, such as playing sounds, showing desktop alerts, opening the program’s main window or starting your default email client. Likewise, you can set how often the tool checks for new correspondence. It’s also possible to configure what parts of the messages to download: headers, contents or the whole message. Although originally thought as a notifier, the application now includes other features that allow reading and sending messages as well as downloading attachments. Moreover, it can store your contact’s addresses.
All in all, POP Peeper has the main advantage of supporting multiple types of email accounts. Also, it’s a very small application that you can also run from any external storage device. As it supports plugins, you can install other features as well. Unfortunately, the tool is still far from being as functional as other more sophisticated email clients, which, by the way, support issuing alerts when a new message arrives.
v4.2 [Jun 22, 2016]
v4.2 - June 20, 2016:
* OAuth2 support for GMail, Yahoo and Outlook (IMAP/SMTP).
* Fix blurry text in Windows 10/8.1 when using >100% DPI (most noticeable at 125% dpi; system dpi aware).
+ IE emulation (for viewing HTML messages) can be adjusted -- main menu: Tools / PPtweaker / Troubleshooting.
+ An experimental method to change the email "date/time" field is available; the default will continue to use the most recent "Received" timestamp, but another method is provided which may be more suitable if you've transferred messages from another mailbox; see: http://www.esumsoft.com/products/pop-peeper/faq/?q=DateTimeHeader
- IE emulation will cap at IE10 for default setting.
- 256x256 icon now included in resources (related to DPI/high-res settings); this was previously excluded because it adds >256KB to the exe size; note: uncompressed file included as reports indicate it may crash on XP (tested with no crash, but insufficient evidence to warrant using compressed).
- Fixes and tweaks to the Import Account wizard; of particular note: accounts were defaulting to use Webmail instead of IMAP/POP3 contrary to changes made for the "single account" wizard in v4.0; "Login name" and "server" removed from display and "email address" will be displayed instead (unless the account name is the same).
- Fix: IMAP read-sync fixed for certain servers (GMail).
- Fix: PPtweaker: if prompted to save, pressing "cancel" was the equivalent of pressing "no" and close PPtweaker.
- Fix: SMTP EHLO will send ip address as required by strict servers.
- Fix: SMTP termination octet padding in attachments.
- Fix: When viewing a message and mark it as "Legitimate", images in the subsequent HTML view would not always display as expected until the message was re-loaded.
- Fix: POP Peeper would crash if ProfilePicture.dll wasn't loaded and changed 'facebook username' in addressbook entry.
- Fix: Modifying the "email" value for addressbook entry will spawn image lookup process (ie. for potential gmail.com and gravatar addresses).
- Fix: When POP Peeper is launched from the Installer, often, the Setup Wizard would appear behind other windows and be difficult to notice (especially since Setup Wizard doesn't appear in the TaskBar).
- Fix: When registering POP Peeper as email client, POP Peeper can now set itself as the default .eml handler without having to go through Windows Default Programs.
- Fix: AntiJunk / Reporting Spam services: In certain cases, drag&dropping a new item wouldn't preserve updated information.
- Plus Pack: Certain features (notably: Sent Mail Viewer and Backup/Restore) have been updated to receive the blurry-text fix.
- Plus Pack: Sent Mail Viewer: Opening a message from SMV should no longer open the message behind SMV (in case it wasn't previously fixed).
