Combining POP3 servers?

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I've tried Hamster - seems overly complicated for what I want
to do. I have a number of POP3 servers and would ideally like
a small app that will run at start up, check all my servers
every five minutes for mail and then hold it and deliver it to
my email client when I run it.

Hamster would do it but I am trying to make my life simpler and
it looks awfully complicated to set up. Any alternatives?
 
Servers or addys? Won't ePrompter work for you?
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From what I can make out, epromter just checks and lets you
know about emails. I have/manage about twenty email accounts
on different POP3 servers. At the moment I have my email client
checking each server and have a list of accounts to manage in
the client.

I would rather have my email cient check one server (ie on the
localhost) and have something else check the POP3 servers on a
regular basis and forward the mail to the client....make sense?

POP3 \
POP3 \
POP3 ----> checker <----> Email Client
POP3 /
POP3 /
 
Bryan Anderson said:
From what I can make out, epromter just checks and lets you
know about emails.
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Must be talking about 2 different programs. ePrompter has had email
read/reply/send capabilities for ages.
I have/manage about twenty email accounts
on different POP3 servers.
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Don't remember off the top of my head, but I think ePrompter only allows up
to something like 16 addys.
I would rather have my email cient check one server (ie on the
localhost) and have something else check the POP3 servers on a
regular basis and forward the mail to the client....make sense?
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ePrompter would've worked, except for the number of addys.
 
I've tried Hamster - seems overly complicated for what I want
to do. I have a number of POP3 servers and would ideally like
a small app that will run at start up, check all my servers
every five minutes for mail and then hold it and deliver it to
my email client when I run it.

Hamster would do it but I am trying to make my life simpler and
it looks awfully complicated to set up. Any alternatives?
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Sure. Mailtraq.
www.mailtraq.com, free for non-commercial use.
 
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"Adds a line of branding to the bottom of each email: 'Delivered
using the Free Personal Edition of Mailtraq'"
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Yes, you are right. Sorry.
 
Bryan said:
I've tried Hamster - seems overly complicated for what I want
to do. I have a number of POP3 servers and would ideally like
a small app that will run at start up, check all my servers
every five minutes for mail and then hold it and deliver it to
my email client when I run it.

Hamster would do it but I am trying to make my life simpler and
it looks awfully complicated to set up. Any alternatives?
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If this is all you are wanting to do then Hamster is easy to
configure. I did just this a few yrs ago and if I can, anyone can.
There are a few Hamster ng's in English and German, and when I used it
there was also a mailing list.
Don't be scared of Hamster... :-)
 
"Adds a line of branding to the bottom of each email:
'Delivered using the Free Personal Edition of Mailtraq'"
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I thought that wouldn't be a problem if I only used it for
incoming email and kept my smtp server the same in the email
client. But it even puts the message on incoming email so I
need to strip it off each time.

Bit of a pain, as otherwise it seems to do everything I want
and much easier to set up than Hamster.
 
Must be talking about 2 different programs. ePrompter has
had email read/reply/send capabilities for ages.
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I just re-looked at ePrompter and watched the demo. What this
does is checks all your accounts and lets you read emails and
reply to them from WITHIN ePrompter. I want a server that will
combine a number of POP3 accounts so I can just check one with
my current email client.
 
If this is all you are wanting to do then Hamster is easy
to configure. I did just this a few yrs ago and if I can,
anyone can. There are a few Hamster ng's in English and
German, and when I used it there was also a mailing list.
Don't be scared of Hamster... :-)
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Well - with a challenge of not being scared of a small furry
animal, I had to give it another go. The main problem I have
is that I can't find a script with easy to follow instructions
for automatically checking POP3 servers every ten minutes or
so.

Any ideas?
 
Bryan Anderson said:
I just re-looked at ePrompter and watched the demo. What this
does is checks all your accounts and lets you read emails and
reply to them from WITHIN ePrompter. I want a server that will
combine a number of POP3 accounts so I can just check one with
my current email client.
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I use eprompter to whack out all the spam and crap. Then I pull my email
into OE. It works for me. I have my servers set to pull from localhost.
 
Bryan said:
Well - with a challenge of not being scared of a small furry
animal, I had to give it another go. The main problem I have
is that I can't find a script with easy to follow instructions
for automatically checking POP3 servers every ten minutes or
so.

Any ideas?
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1 Try putting a post into hamster.en.config

2 Wait here for a bit in case John Fitzimons puts in an appearance in
this thread. If not, try putting a post here with Hamster in the subj
line

3 Put a post into alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent with Hamster
in the subj line
 
Bryan Anderson said:
I've tried Hamster - seems overly complicated for what I want
to do. I have a number of POP3 servers and would ideally like
a small app that will run at start up, check all my servers
every five minutes for mail and then hold it and deliver it to
my email client when I run it.

Hamster would do it but I am trying to make my life simpler and
it looks awfully complicated to set up. Any alternatives?
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Here are some more to look at .

POP Peeper
http://www.poppeeper.com/

nPOP
http://encoderx.co.uk/email/

Magic Mail Monitor
http://mmm3.sourceforge.net/

EzPop
http://www.glabouni.com/EzPop/

Mailmoa
http://www.moazon.com/english/index.htm
http://www.moazon.com/english/mailmoa_main.htm

HotPOP3
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hotpop3/

SPASM
http://www.netfor2.com/Spasm.html

MailTicker Lite
http://www.pcworlddownload.com/internet/email-utilities/MailTicker-Lite.htm

Sync Email Notifier
http://www.mofunzone.com/downloadsoftware/3500000036002.shtml
 
1 Try putting a post into hamster.en.config
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Got it sorted now. I posted there and then very soon I found
the FAQ sample file. There's a template to automatically check
for mail and for news, so I editid out the news parts and now
have it working and checking on schedule.

Only minor point - worth noting if anyone finds this on google
later and wants to try it - you can't copy and paste the sample
script to the script editor from the help file. Won't work. You
need to copy and paste it into Wordpad and then re-copy and paste
it into the script editor.
 
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