Is there a program that allows you to view whatever messages are
stored on your pop3 server and make it possible for you to delete
them on the server *before* downloading them to your PC, if you
choose so, that also does SSL and possibly smtp?

Popcorn does all that splendidly under MS Windows. So far, the
only client for Linux that I have come across that comes close is
KShowmail, however, it does not support SSL or other types of
secured connections, and does not do smtp, is much larger in
size than popcorn and with many less features...

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> Is there a program that allows you to view whatever messages are
> stored on your pop3 server and make it possible for you to delete
> them on the server *before* downloading them to your PC, if you
> choose so, that also does SSL and possibly smtp?
>
> Popcorn does all that splendidly under MS Windows. So far, the
> only client for Linux that I have come across that comes close is
> KShowmail, however, it does not support SSL or other types of
> secured connections, and does not do smtp, is much larger in
> size than popcorn and with many less features...

Not an exact match for what you're describing, but /KMail/ can delete
mail on the POP3 server without downloading it, via a set of POP
filters that you can set up. It also does support SSL.

Hope this was useful... ;-)

--
With kind regards,

*Aragorn*
(Registered GNU/Linux user #223157)

gian3000it@yahoo.it wrote:
> Is there a program that allows you to view whatever messages are stored on your pop3 server.

These may suit.

POP's Rider
http://nicetoad.homelinux.org/poprider_eng.html

YPOPs!
http://www.ypopsemail.com/

Mpop
http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Soft...tilities/1750/
http://mpop.sourceforge.net/

PopMail
http://www.sromero.org/prog/popmail.php

I use Windows & used to do it your way, until I got an email client
that has an option to delete the unwanted mail off the server.
Unfortunatly no Linux version.

KMail should be able to do that.
http://kmail.kde.org/
On-demand downloading or deleting without downloading of big mails on a
POP3 server
http://kmail.kde.org/features.html

Here is a listing on Linux email clients that may be able to do that.
List of freely available Mail clients
http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/clients.html
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/tools.htm
http://www.linux.org/apps/all/Networking/Email.html

On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:12:38 -0700, gian3000it wrote:

> Is there a program that allows you to view whatever messages are
> stored on your pop3 server and make it possible for you to delete
> them on the server *before* downloading them to your PC, if you
> choose so, that also does SSL and possibly smtp?
>
> Popcorn does all that splendidly under MS Windows. So far, the
> only client for Linux that I have come across that comes close is
> KShowmail, however, it does not support SSL or other types of
> secured connections, and does not do smtp, is much larger in
> size than popcorn and with many less features...

Popcorn should work quite well with Wine (haven't tested it though)
POPTray will also work with Wine.

"Mark Marsh" <unknown@unknown.com> wrote in message
news:44ab02ab$0$1233$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk...
> On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:12:38 -0700, gian3000it wrote:
>
> Popcorn should work quite well with Wine (haven't tested it though)
> POPTray will also work with Wine.
When I run Popcorn under WINE, it has a bug where if you delete one email,
it deletes them all! My WINE install is pretty old though. YMMV.
Louis

jmatt@webace.com.au wrote:
> These may suit.
>
> POP's Rider
> http://nicetoad.homelinux.org/poprider_eng.html

Unfortunately they offer only a Microsoft Windows version.

> YPOPs!
> http://www.ypopsemail.com/

This one is specific to Yahoo! email accounts (I don't have one...)

> Mpop
> http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Soft...tilities/1750/
> http://mpop.sourceforge.net/

This one is a console email retrieval program, similar to fetchmail
(but simpler).
I've used it for some time now, but it has nothing to do with what we
are talking about here.

> PopMail
> http://www.sromero.org/prog/popmail.php

Similar to the previous one, it allows you to set filters for
downloading.
But again, it has nothing to do with with type of GUI programs like
popcorn that we are discussing here.

> I use Windows & used to do it your way, until I got an email client
> that has an option to delete the unwanted mail off the server.
> Unfortunatly no Linux version.

That doesn't really help either...

> KMail should be able to do that.
> http://kmail.kde.org/
> On-demand downloading or deleting without downloading of big mails on a
> POP3 server
> http://kmail.kde.org/features.html

As I said before, I've used kmail for a long time, but it just allows
you
to set filters, but not to view a list of what's on the server and
delete
beforehand what you don't care to download.

> Here is a listing on Linux email clients that may be able to do that.
> List of freely available Mail clients
> http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/clients.html
> http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/tools.htm
> http://www.linux.org/apps/all/Networking/Email.html

Unfortunately, they don't. Sorry. But thanks for the effort.

Mark Marsh wrote:
> Popcorn should work quite well with Wine (haven't tested it though)
> POPTray will also work with Wine.

Others have pointed out that popcorn works fine with Wine. But
does it make sense to install Wine (I have no idea how much
space that would take, but my guest is that it would be a lot...)
just to support a 200KB program? (that's popcorn - so small and
yet so featureful and useful...)

I really wish there could be something like that for Linux... Is it
possible no one has come up with something similar?

3c273 wrote:
> When I run Popcorn under WINE, it has a bug where if you delete one email,
> it deletes them all! My WINE install is pretty old though. YMMV.
> Louis

How much hd space does it take for Wine, and is it does it waste a lot
of resources (CPU/RAM)?

I'm not sure about the space, the download is less than 10 MB. As for
resources, it doesn't waste any resources because if I want to run Windows
programs under Linux, then that's what I need to do it ;-) It runs fine on
a P3 500/384.
Louis

<gian3000it@yahoo.it> wrote in message
news:1152161742.145077.247370@75g2000cwc.googlegro ups.com...
> 3c273 wrote:
> > When I run Popcorn under WINE, it has a bug where if you delete one
email,
> > it deletes them all! My WINE install is pretty old though. YMMV.
> > Louis
>
> How much hd space does it take for Wine, and is it does it waste a lot
> of resources (CPU/RAM)?
>

3c273 wrote:
> I'm not sure about the space, the download is less than 10 MB. As for
> resources, it doesn't waste any resources because if I want to run Windows
> programs under Linux, then that's what I need to do it ;-) It runs fine on
> a P3 500/384.
> Louis

I have a spare machine (P3 800/256) that I use to play around with
stuff... So I downloaded the latest wine (ver. 0.9.16) and, yes, it
was about 10MB. When installed, it amounts to 49MB of used-up
disk space! By the way, I tried it out with the latest released
popcorn (ver. 1.74 - the last before, unfortunately, development
on it was discontinued in 2005) and popcorn works just great
with wine!!!

However, what needs to be said is that popcorn is a an amazingly
small program considered all that it does - about 125KB in size -
and it absolutely makes no sense to me to install wine at almost
50MB just to support an 125KB executable... That, in fact, would
be the only use I'd have for it, since I do not need any other
programs that are windoze based. So, wine goes out and I'll keep
using windows (dual-booting win98 on my PC) to use popcorn to
take care of the bulk of my less frequently used email accounts.

I find it amazing, though, that no one has come up with such an
application for linux, as this little program (popcorn) is absolutely
useful, and wonderful, for those with pop mail accounts. If I were
a programmer, that would be my next project.

Should anyone know of such a program for linux, please post it
here or, should too long a time have elapsed making it impossible
to reply to this thread, please start a new one under the same
topic and post it. I'll be on the lookout for it...

Thanks,
Gianni