FreePOPs

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FreePOPs

Author:	Caprari, Cocchiaro, Tassi, and Vellei
Initial release:	30 April 2004
Latest release:	0.0.99 / 18 June 2006
Platform:	Cross-platform
Available language(s):	C
Use:	Email
License:	GNU GPL
Website:	FreePOPs.org

FreePOPs is an extensible mail proxy. Its primary use is to allow checking and downloading of webmails from any conventional POP3 program, avoiding the need to use a Web browser. It can also be used as an aggregator for RSS feeds and more.

1 FreePOPs
2 Operating systems
3 External links

[edit] FreePOPs

FreePOPs is a POP3 daemon with 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 more flexible. For example there is a plugin to read news from a website as if they were mails in a mailbox. FreePOPs can be extended on the fly: you can add a plugin or modify an existing one by simply changing the relevant script file.

The software is supported by a very active user forum - see below.

FreePOPs is a very useful way of dealing with a webmail as though it were a regular POP3 mailbox. Most webmail providers require you to use a web browser to read and collect your mail. This process can be slow and FreePOPs can do this in the background effectively.

FreePOPs is very useful when combined with a program such as PopTray or getmail, to allow scheduled checking of both POP3 mailboxes and webmails in the background.

FreePOPs is Free Software.

[edit] Operating systems

[edit] Linux

Debian GNU/Linux : FreePOPs is part of Debian (sarge and sid).
Ubuntu and Kubuntu (AMD64, i386)
SuSE, Fedora Core, Red Hat : If you have dependency problems, you may download the source rpm package and build the binary yourself. You must have libcurl, libopenssl and expat (and the relative development packages installed
Mandriva
Gentoo : FreePOPs is part of the official Gentoo packages
Slackware
FreeBSD & OpenBSD : There are no pre-built binaries for FreeBSD or OpenBSD, but you should be able to compile the sources.

[edit] Windows

For Windows operating systems a standard Auto-installer package is available for download. This should work with all versions of Windows, from Windows 95 to Windows XP.
The default auto-installer is bundled with openssl (a library for cryptography that is used mainly for secure http connections).

[edit] MAC OS X

For Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) or 10.4 (Tiger) an installer package is available; 10.2 (Jaguar) users must use the static installer package instead of the regular one.
Alternatively an unofficial front-end with a GUI is available, MacFreePOPs, that includes a pre-compiled executable for Mac OS X Jaguar, Panther and Tiger.