Free Programs

"enables you to backup and restore your email database, including address book, settings, mail and news accounts, message rules, blocked senders lists and signatures. The program supports Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Poco Mail, The Bat, IncrediMail and other email clients. Backups can be run manually or on a regular schedule, and are compressed into a single file that is named after the backup date. Other features include backup splitting (for CD storage), password protection and auto-cleanup of old backup files. "

--Snapfiles.com

5/5 stars

4/5 stars

ePrompter View Screenshot

"A free email retrieval and notification utility that automatically checks up to 16 email accounts. It works with any POP3 account, as well as AOL (5,6,7,8) and hundreds of web based email domains. It uses your choice of 5 different screensavers and a rotating tray icon that let you know at a glance the current status of your selected email accounts, whether your computer is online or offline. Additional features include auto-dial, password protection, audio alerts, print messages, a mini email client and more." --Snapfiles.com

5/5 stars

4/5 stars

FoxMail View Screenshot

"A compact, yet very powerful email program with many useful features and a pleasant interface.

Foxmail supports POP3 accounts as well as Hotmail accounts and offers support for HTML email, mailbox encryption, multiple accounts and more.

Foxmail also comes with a WYSIWIG tool to compose nice looking HTML emails from templates or scratch. The program also offers filter options, allowing you to act upon incoming mail that meets certain criteria - you can delete messages, forward them, auto-respond to them and more based on keywords appearing in the subject, address, text etc.

The Express Send feature enables you to send mail directly to the recipient, using the built in SMTP server, thereby bypassing your ISP.

Foxmail includes many other features, including a remote mail viewer to manage mail on the server, as well as a small scroll ticker that displays message subjects as they arrive in your inbox..

It is probably one of the most capable email programs you can find and an excellent alternative to Outlook Express (can import Outlook messages)." --Majorgeeks.com

4.5/5 stars

4.56/5 stars

FreePOPs

"An easily extensible program, which allows access to the most varied resources through the POP3 protocol.

Mainly, it can be used to download mail from the most famous webmails, but it could also be used as an aggregator for RSS feeds and much more.

This way it is possible to get all your messages in your favorite email client

FreePOPs is a POP3 daemon plus a LUA interpreter and some extra libraries for HTTP and HTML parsing. Its main purpose is translating local POP3 requests to remote HTTP actions on the supported web-mails, but it is really more flexible.

For example there is a plugin to read news from a website as if they were mails in a mailbox. You can easily extend FreePOPs on the fly, without even restarting it. You can add a plugin or modify an existing one simply changing the script file since the plugins are written in LUA and are interpreted on the fly."

--Snapfiles.com

5/5 stars

4.6/5 stars

4.3/5 stars

Get Mail View Screenshot

"Allows you to forward email from a Hotmail or MSN account to any other email account (e.g your main PP account). It runs in the system tray and monitors your Hotmail inbox, then forwards the messages to the email address specified by you. In addition, the program can mark the Hotmail messages as read, delete them after forwarding and also keep a local backup copy (.eml) of the forwarded messages. The program is easy to use, has a simple interface and works well." --Snapfiles.com

4.1/5 stars

GMail Drive View Screenshot

"GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google GMail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your GMail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag'n'drop files to.

When you create a new file using GMail Drive, it generates an e-mail and posts it to your account. The e-mail appears in your normal Inbox folder, and the file is attached as an e-mail attachment. GMail Drive periodically checks your mail account (using the GMail search function) to see if new files have arrived and to rebuild the directory structures. But basically GMail Drive acts as any other hard-drive installed on your computer. You can copy files to and from the GMail Drive folder simply by using drag'n'drop like you're used to with the normal Explorer folders." --Majorgeeks.com

4.68/5 stars

4.3/5 stars

GMail Notifier

"The Gmail Notifier is a downloadable Windows application that alerts you when you have new Gmail messages. It displays an icon in your system tray to let you know if you have unread Gmail messages, and shows you their subjects, senders and snippets, all without your having to open a web browser."

--Toolbar.Google.com

5/5 stars

4.5/5 stars

K Alert View Screenshot

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"An add-on for Microsoft Outlook 2003 that can extend the Outlook reminder functionalities by forwarding them to an email address or cell phone number (SMS) if the reminder is not dismissed by the user. If you are out of the office, and an Outlook reminder is activated, you would normally see it when you return - with this program, the reminder can be forwarded to an email or cell phone, so you can be notified immediately. K Alert works with all major cellular providers. An advanced version is available (at a cost), that can also dial and call a specific phone number. Requires Microsoft Outlook 2003"

--Snapfiles.com

4/5 stars

gPopper View Screenshot

"A free Gmail utility which acts as POP3/SMTP Gmail server allowing you to use programs such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, and Thunderbird to send and receive Gmail. Just about any email client that supports access to POP3 email accounts can be configured to work with gPopper."

--Download.com

5/5 stars

4.5/5 stars

IncrediMail Xe View Screenshot

"a graphical, feature-rich email program that offers you an unprecedented interactive experience. With IncrediMail you can personalize your emails according to your mood and personality. IncrediMail s Web Gallery offers a constantly updated collection of email Letter backgrounds, Animations, Sounds and E-cards, that are integrated into the email message itself - not as attachment. Experience 3D effects while sending, receiving or deleting your mail. IncrediMail even offers a collection of flash Notifiers that will announce the arrival of new mail and adds life to your desktop and there is also the ability to add your own personalized hand written signature. The free version displays advertising and adds a signature line ad." --Snapfiles.com

NOTE: This program is adware, and does nag the user to upgrade to a paid version, but otherwise is a very useful and fun program, which is the only reason it is listed here. If you choose to download this program, keep these things in mind.

4/5 stars

4.2/5 stars

4/5 stars

Junkanoo View Screenshot

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"Monitors your POP3 mail account and marks or deletes spam before it is downloaded to your Inbox. It uses a set of filters that can detect many common spam techniques such as hyperlinks in the mail, empty sender addresses, odd characters, images and more. It also includes a whitelist and blacklist to delete or exclude specified senders, as well as an option to exclude mails with certain keywords from being filtered. Junkanoo can also be used to send new email messages or to reply to incoming messages without the need to launch your email program." --Snapfiles.com

4/5 stars

Mozilla Thunderbird View Screenshot

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"A full featured email program with built-in junk mail controls, message filters, address book, news groups and more. It offers a clean and easy to use (customizable) interface. Thunderbird also offers security features such as S/MIME, digital signing, message encryption, support for certificates and security devices. Other features include IMAP/POP compatibility, support for HTML mail, labels, quick search, return receipts, LDAP address completion, import tools and just about anything else you would expect from a full blown email program."

4.5/5 stars

4/5 stars

5/5 stars

Outlook Express Mail Alert View Screenshot

"A notification add-in for Microsoft Outlook, that displays a message from the system tray whenever new mail arrives. It shows the subject, the sender and the first couple lines of the message text, and allows you to reply, mark or delete a message with a few clicks. You can configure the notification behavior and also limit alerts to a specified folder - the program can work hand-in-hand with existing Outlook rules and delay alert processing until rules have been processed by Outlook. Additional features include customizable notification dialogs, transparency and more. In order to work properly, Mail Alert requires that you have Outlook set up to download your email automatically. Supports Outlook 2000/2002/2003."

--Snapfiles.com

4/5 stars

Outlook Express Tweaker View Screenshot

Allows you to tweak and customize various Outlook Express settings. Among other things, you can define a custom Start Page, set a custom logo, disable the splash screen, block executable attachments, set a default path to save attachments and more. The program also provides an easy interface to manage the Blocked Sender list, and to re-enable hidden dialogs." --Snapfiles.com

4/5 stars

5/5 stars

Pegasus Mail View Screenshot

PicoBackup for Outlook Express View Screenshot

"Enables you to backup all your Outlook Express email folders and settings. The program can perform the backups as needed, or automatically on a regular schedule. It supports full and incremental backups, as well as optional 256-bit encryption and zip compression. The backups can be stored to local or removable drives, remote FTP account or burned to CD or DVD." --Snapfiles.com

5/5 stars

3.5/5 stars

Poppy View Screenshot

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"A small email notification utility that can check multiple POP3 accounts for new mail. It displays an icon in the taskbar notification area and notifies you whenever new mail is waiting. Poppy can also optionally display a small popup window or play a WAV file. The program lets you preview the headers, preview selected messages or delete them. Additional features include Scroll Lock notification, execution of custom program and an option to only notify you when you receive email from someone on your Friends list. Poppy was designed to be small and fast." --Snapfiles.com

4/5 stars

POP Peeper View Screenshot

"A small utility that runs in your Windows system tray. It visually and audibly lets you know if you have email on any number of POP3 servers as well as Hotmail, Yahoo, Mail.com, Myway, Excite, Lycos and Rediffmail. It allows you to preview the headers of your email, and view the messages. There is also support for file attachments, which allows you to view the name of the files. If you are checking multiple accounts, you can specify a custom color for each, making it easy to distinguish the messages. Message preview is quick and fully supports HTML messages. Using POP Peeper, you can quickly scan what messages are important enough to read, and which ones you want to delete without even opening your email client. The program does not provide any reply options or spam filtering like some others, however if mail notification is your main reason, than this is a great little tool that works fast and efficient. " --Snapfiles.com

4/5 stars

SpamBayes View Screenshot

"An intelligent spam filter and message classifier for Outlook, that automatically categorizes your incoming messages into `good`, `spam` and `unsure` and sorts them into the associated folder. The program uses an advanced, bayesian filtering method that requires no manual setup and gets smarter the more email it processes. It includes a training wizard that can be used to feed it some spam messages, otherwise it will learn from your incoming email as you go. It it misses (or incorrect classified), you can just click the toolbar button and make the message `spam` or `good`, and SpamBayes will automatically learn from it, avoiding to make similar mistakes in the future. The program is easy to use and setup and probably one of the most accurate filtering tools we have come across, with a detection rate of close to 100 percent." --Snapfiles.com

5/5 stars

YPOPs! (Yahoo POPs) View Screenshot

NOTE: To configure firewall ports for use with YPOPs!, click here