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FreePOPs Updated, Bugs Fixed.
Nov 23, 2004 17:23 UTC, by Chris Simmons, Senior Journalist.From the fishing-with-swimmingly department...
Found a neat application I didn't know about. Introducing FreePOPs, a pop3 mail daemon you currently run from Terminal.
I'll paraphrase a little from the BeBits entry:
Ok, so let me see if I have this right. FreePOPs basically runs as a daemon on your machine, from which you can access what it downloaded from various websites, and everything appears like normal email. Right. Got it. That is neat indeed. No more having to log into Yahoo Mail or GMail, or others just to check your mail. Let FreePOPs do that for you and enjoy normal BeOS style file-based email, as it should be. Yes, I do realize that MDR can already do this for Yahoo or GMail; these are examples as outlined by the author.
"How does it do its magic?", I can hear you asking... FreePOPs uses the LUA interpreter to parse scripts that extend its capabilities, without restarting the daemon. Very BeOS-like, I must say.
I'll paraphrase a little from the BeBits entry:
FreePOPs is a POP3 daemon plus 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 really more flexible. For example there is a plugin to read news from a website as if they were mails in a mailbox.
Ok, so let me see if I have this right. FreePOPs basically runs as a daemon on your machine, from which you can access what it downloaded from various websites, and everything appears like normal email. Right. Got it. That is neat indeed. No more having to log into Yahoo Mail or GMail, or others just to check your mail. Let FreePOPs do that for you and enjoy normal BeOS style file-based email, as it should be. Yes, I do realize that MDR can already do this for Yahoo or GMail; these are examples as outlined by the author.
"How does it do its magic?", I can hear you asking... FreePOPs uses the LUA interpreter to parse scripts that extend its capabilities, without restarting the daemon. Very BeOS-like, I must say.
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