FreePOPs

FreePOPs is a software solution that was developed specifically to aid you in translating local POP3 requests to remote HTTP actions on web-mails, as well as bringing RSS feeds to your mailbox.

The installation process does not last too long, as it does not ask you to download any third-party products, nor make changes to your default web browser.

This is a POP3 daemon plus a LUA interpreter, and comes bundled with a few libraries for HTTP and HTML parsing. It can be used when your mail provider does not support the POP3 protocol and thus, you cannot access your account without a web browser, while it is also possible to take advantage of it when you have to develop a POP3 server fast and it needs to be fairly fast and easy on the system resources.

In addition to that, you should that FreePOPs is RFC compliant and it has been written in C and LUA, while you can easily view a list of all of its command line parameters on the developer’s web page, along with some pretty extensive documentation.

Despite the last mentioned feature, you should know that this app is not so easy to get a handle on, especially for novice users, as it does not come packed with a graphical user interface.

Last but not least, the utility supports a long list of plugins which you can easily access in the Help manual, and you can open multiple instances with great ease, by following the instructions provided.

To sum up, FreePOPs is a pretty efficient is a pretty efficient piece of software which does not put a strain on the computer’s performance, as it uses a low amount of resources at all times. Although not dedicated to all types of users, it proves helpful in many ways.