Lucid Tips

Ever feel frustrated that you cannot use your favorite email application to access your WebMail? FreePOPs might help you.

FreePOPs is a small utility that allows you to use email applications like Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, and Evolution to download email from most famous WebMail like Hotmail, GMail, Yahoo, Mail.com etc. It also is very handy if you are behind a firewall that closes port 110. FreePOPs allows you to tunnel through using proxy server to read your mail.

FreePOPs is freeware and runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS. There are other similar utilities like MrPostman (freeware), Web2POP (paid) that I have used in the past. In last one and half year of usage FreePOPs has been impressive. There are frequent plugin updates which can easily be installed using the FreePOPs Updater. If you are adventurous FreePOPs also supports writing your custom plugin.

Note: FreePOPs only allows downloading mail. The FAQs provide good information on alternatives to send email like using your ISPs SMTP server or installing a tiny SMTP server on your machine.