Free pop3 mail software for linux

WMPop3 is a Window Maker dockable I wrote which will inform a user on how many messages are currently in thier pop3 mail box.

WMPop3 when first executed will check if there is a .wmpop3rc file in the users home directory, it will create this if it can not be located. This file must be edited and the following fields must
be changed :

1) popserver - this is the name of the pop3 server.
2) port - this is the port the pop3 server is on.( default 110)
3) username - users pop3 login name.
4) password - users pop3 login password.
5) autochecking - This allows to disable or enable auto mail checking. 1 enables, 0 disables
6) mailcheckdelay - Number of minutes, before checking mail. (default = 10 minutes)
7) mailclient - this is the mail client you use to send/retrieve messgaes(default pine)
8) viewallmessages - This allows for alternating mail views, 0 shows unread and read messages, 1 shows only unread messages.

pop3spam is a POP3 client which connects to a POP3 server and deletes unsolicited mail. If a message has been identified as unsolicited, it can be deleted directly from the POP3 server without the need to download it first.

Eventually your normal mail-retrieval utility (e.g. fetchmail) can gather all (cleaned) mail as usual. The program is intended for people with low bandwidth. Its very annoying if you first have to download lots of large messages just for the sole purpose of deleting them afterwards because your local spam filter debunked them as spam. Its also annoying to download very large messages (attachments) at all.

pop3spam doesnt use any hard wired regular expressions so it should basically work with any recent version. For information about the configuration and use of pop3spam, take a look at the man pages pop3spam(1) and pop3spamrc(5). A sample configuration file exists in the directory doc/ in the source tree.

XCmail is a MIME and multi POP3 server capable mailtool for X11 using the Xclasses layout library. XCmail was designed completely object orientated and by this may be improved easily.
The main purpose of XCmail is to read and write mails which may have any kind of data added (attached). For this XCmail can handle MIME types and has so called "helpers" to show different types. And XCmail offers "encoders" which encode and decode binary data into ASCII to allow the transport as mail over the Internet.
The GUI (graphical user interface) was designed to be mostly self explaining but of course there may be some things which are not explaining them self like settings or standard names that are unknown to first users.
The GUI was designed to be as simple as it can be and self explaining. Though, there are a few buttons which are not so easy to understand fo first users because are not standard.
XCmail also offers "encoders" which encode and decode binary data into ASCII to allow the transport via mail over the Internet.
The program works with a local mailbox (eg. /var/spool/mail) and multiple POP3 servers. With POP3 XCmail uses the faster UIDL function of POP3 servers (may be disabled if servers dont support this) and has a so called "UIDL history": If you get mails from your POP3 server but dont want to remove them there and later remove them only locally other mailers will read this mails again. Not XCmail! The UIDL history keeps a history of the mails read from the server so it wont read them again.
XCmail supports multiple mailboxes, has an address book for your favority email addresses and XCmail may start external programs to encode mails or handle MIME types.
XCmail also supportes PGP within PGP MIME (RFC 2015)!
Main features:
- allows the user to add multiple parts on one mail, eg. send files together with a text (called attachment)
- get mails from multiple remote mail servers
- send mails to a remote mail server using simple message transfer protokol (SMTP)
- authenticate on SMTP servers - is sometimes required on SMTP servers to stop spammers from relaying
- authenticate at POP3 server before sending mails via SMTP - this is required by some mail servers if they dont offer SMTP AUTH
- encrypt mails so unwanted persons can not read them
- encrypt complete MIME mails - including the attachments. This is a standard specified in RFC 2015
- send a nice and small picture of yourself with any mail - this is shown if the mail is read
- speedup for POP3
- this avoids XCmail from reading the same mails multiple times from the mail server
- to send files (eg. binaries) with a mail they must be encoded - XCmail offers various encoders, from standard uuencode and base64 to Mac HQX
- because not all attached files are programs XCmail offers an open interface to handle those data - eg. open an external viewer for pictures
- with plugins XCmail may be tuned - eg. some encoders and helpers are plugins so they may not be installed if a users doesnt need them - this required less space on disk and memory
- ever send a mail and later seen that it had some words misspelled? With ISpell this is no longer a problem. ISpell offers checks in many langauges!
- Put extra headers in every mail you send, eg some more information on you or some extra settings for mail agents
- put your favorite recipients in XCmails addressbook
- keeps an second internal addressbook for faster choosing an email recipient
- searches your addressbooks for a matching name or address during you type the recipient
- group different folder to one visible vfolder - for better overview
- Dont understand the language of a mail? XCmail may translate it for you by using altavistas babelfish service!
- You want to archiv many or every mail? This takes a lot of disk space?! Use XCmails folder archiv which compresses archived folders using GZIP standard
- sort or remove your mails before you "must" read them
- put are your favorite addresses in the addressbook
- dont know how to translate a word? use the dictionarys in the Web within the XCmail GUI
- using Spam Bouncer as spam filter plugin
- delete selected mails from your POP3 server
- big mails can be transfered explicitely from your POP3 server
- vCards can be read and a personal or official (from your job) vCard can be sent with every mail (you may choose which of them)
- mails of the incoming folder may be moved to a received folder automatically by many options (after reading, replying, forwarding a mail or if it is some days old)
- helps first time users to setup XCmail

Kshowmail project is a KDE tool to watch mails on a POP3 server. Headers and complete mails can be viewed without loading them to the local mail client. Unpleasant mail can be deleted from the server.
The list of displayed mails can be refreshed via configurable timers. Filters can be assigned to mark known spam for deletion. Multiple accounts are supported.
A sound can be played if new mail arrives. A command menu allows user configurable commands like fetchmail or sendmail. A special command can be defined to send complain mail against spam.
The modifications I provided are mainly Qt/KDE stuff to generate a nice GUI interface. I am using the great development tool kDevelop V2.1.
Enhancements:
- Fixed bug where if you configure 2 accounts, retrieve mail, and then deactivate one of the accounts, its number of messages still reflects in the tray icon.
- Fixed sort of message number and size columns in message list to be numerical rather than alpha.
- Corrected version displayed in the About dialog.

ConceptRM (RssMail) project is an email client using RSS as a means to deliver the list of email to the user.
Main features:
- Support pop3 mailbox
- Support for multiple mailboxes (display a preferred format e.g. html as opposed to plain email format)
- multipart email
- email deletion
- RSS 1.0 and 2.0 support

tidyup-mail software is especially useful for russian/ukrainian/belarusian users but however can help those who reads mail from people that uses such brain-damaged web-mailers as yahoo mail.

Fatigue with xterm when reading mail from mutt? Tired to press "Do Full reset" every time when terminal becames full of garbage? This program is for you! It removes unsafe characters for email & makes xterm happy!

Note that all documentation comes in russian language. Check for your local russian hacker.

Popcheck is a software that can check your POP3 mail account. Log onto a popserver to see a list of all messages that you have on there, with sender, subject and size for each message.

With an ncurses interface that easily lets you scroll through them, and optionally deleting messages without ever downloading them

This can be useful when youve received big mails that you dont really want to download.

Usage: popcheck [-s pop3 server] [-u pop3 user] [-p pop3 password] [-o filename] [-i filename]

-s and -u are the only ones that are requred. Popcheck will ask you for
a password if it isnt supplied on the command line.

-o and -i are for batch mode. Use with caution, because you can easily delete all your mail using this function.

Keys when using the curses interface:

UP, p - Up one line
DOWN, n - Down one line
PGUP, - - Up one page
PGDN, space - Down one page
d - Mark/Unmark message
s - Exit and save changes
q - Exit without saving anything

pop3.proxy is a POP3 e-mail proxy. Recently I added spam and virus scanning. It also supports (on Linux platforms) transparent redirection.
Enhancements:
- Added clamav version to e-mail header.