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PopMan 1.3 Development Test 2

Simeon's picture
Submitted by Simeon on May 23, 2008 - 1:33pm

Application: PopMan
Category: Office
Description:PopMan is a POP3 manager. It can be used to list all e-mails received on your incoming mail server (POP3 server), without having to load these mails completely. Unwanted e-mails can be deleted directly from the server.

You can use PopMan to check your e-mail accounts in the background. When new e-mails arrive, you will be notified.

To show you whether e-mails contain useful information, or whether they are just spam, PopMan provides a preview functionality. You can use this preview pane to read the text-based content of your e-mails – whether they are plain text or HTML. Thats why reading your emails with PopMan is absolutely secure!

Download PopMan Portable 1.3 Development Test 2 [1.78 MB download / 4MB installed]
(MD5: b6574ad196beeb3ad98974dd98f5187d)

Release Notes:

Development Test 2 (2008-08-01)

  • Launcher and ini-handling updated to Johns latest
  • Built in updater removed so it wont work cause it breaks portability (I have been too lazy to try and get it to work Smiling)
  • All languages are included: (Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish)
  • It uses Thunderbird Portable as its "big brither" if installed
  • If you set PopMan Portable to start with Windows, it will ignore it set it back to no.

Development Test 1 (2008-06-30):

  • Updated to version 1.3
  • now all Languages of the original are included
  • The built in Updater isnt supported yet so I removed it as it wouldbreak portability
  • Thie package is significantly bigger because of the new themeing
  • IMAP4 and POP3 SSL support


Development Test 1 (2008-05-23):

  • Initial release (1.2.2)

TODO/Planned:

  • update the language handling used by the upcoming Platform
  • Find a solution for the acoustic notification
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Cooll!

Stevoisiak - May 24, 2008 - 6:27am

Nice work on this.

The guy who acts like he knows what he's talking about.

wont connect to gmail.

Mickeyj4j - June 22, 2008 - 9:34pm

I have been on to popmans site to try and get this working.

I have used the following to set up

pop3 ssl
pop.gmail.com setting
port:995

the regular setting without luck.

i tried

pop3 ssl
smtp.gmail.com
port: 995

it worked once

then i used

pop3 ssl
66.249.93.109 (raw ip address)
port: 995

and it works fine every time

only problem is it will not remember the setting every time i use pman the default setting pop.gmail.com is set. not the ip adress

is there a bug with the portable apps program.

i do know it is still in the development stage.

P.S can you also tell me when the next release and the full version will likely to come out. (with the fixes for this and all the other problems)

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MickeyJ4J

thanks for the feedback

Simeon's picture
Simeon - June 23, 2008 - 10:18am

I have a gmail account too so I can try it too. Maybe I get a solution.
And I am currently working on the next version (1.3) but I only have little time to invest into it so it may take a bit.

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

Hello.

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David Dixon II (Homepage) - July 13, 2008 - 5:49pm

I'm sorry that i am going off topic but we are not allowed to have links in our signatures. Sad
Can you please fix that? Thank you, And Welcome To PortableApps Smiling

Computer: xUbuntu 9.10 Owner of thé ScrapIRC Chat Network. Eye-wink

Updated

Simeon's picture
Simeon - June 29, 2008 - 5:53pm

to version 1.3.

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

Tested

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r.andom - July 13, 2008 - 3:50pm

Here are my comments on v.1.3 dev test 1:

  1. I'd really appreciate detailed information about the available languages in the original post (not only with this application).
  2. If possible, the installer should check the system language and offer this as installation language. Otherwise non-English speakers are stuck with a user interface language they possibly can't handle.
  3. Options that don't make sense with the portable version should be greyed out ("Launch PopMan on Windows startup")
  4. "Check for Updates" should be greyed out. It's better to let the PortableAppsUpdater handle this issue.
  5. "Acoustic notification" should default to a wav file on the flash drive, not on the local drive.
  6. Update PA installer to v.0.9.9.5.
  7. Fix VERSION "1.2.0.0" in PA installer.
  8. When having selected 'German', the help file is in English anyhow.

Nice pick. Keep up the good work!

lets see...

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Simeon - July 16, 2008 - 3:19pm
  1. Will do that with the next update.
  2. Thats a good idea I can put on my to do list.
  3. I dont change the actual program so that cant be done. It would be cool though if it could be changed.
  4. See 3.
  5. Ill look into that too. But it could be hard as there isnt a standard sound file included in PopMan. WHat Windows file is it using? if its installed on all windows machines it should be fine. Or I have to do a record of my alarm-clock... Eye-wink
  6. Will do.
  7. Will do.
  8. I'll take a look.Maybe I forgot the german lang file or maybe thats a bug with the Original.

Oh and thanks for the feedback Smiling

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

Will look into.

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David Dixon II (Homepage) - July 13, 2008 - 5:50pm

I will install this and tell you what i think. Smiling Im currently on dialup so i cannot tell you right now. Eye-wink

Computer: xUbuntu 9.10 Owner of thé ScrapIRC Chat Network. Eye-wink

Several dialogue windows

r.andom's picture
r.andom - July 26, 2008 - 7:33am

I found an issue, but maybe it's an issue of the base app, I don't know:
If you don't store your password, you are asked for it the first time you connect to your provider after having started Popman. After entering the password Popman tries to connect. If the connection times out without success, Popman tries again when the selected time has passed. For the new try it opens a new dialogue window to enter your password. And again, and again ...
IMHO Popman should open only one dialogue window, not several.

BTW: Users should be warned, that Popman stores the personal data including the password in cleartext. Anybody who gets in possession of the flash drive can read it.

Yes/No

Simeon's picture
Simeon - July 30, 2008 - 3:44am

I think this is an issue with the base App and will ask in their Forums.

As for the second one, you might want to recheck. My passwords are stored encrypted.

EDIT: I asked and got this response:

The idea is to only save the password, when it has been used successfully
for login. If PopMan saved the password although the connection failed
(timed out), the password might be wrong and the wrong password would
be used for all subsequent logins. The user would have to change the
password manually to correct it.

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

Updated

Simeon's picture
Simeon - August 1, 2008 - 7:57am

to Dev Test 2:

  • Launcher and ini-handling updated to Johns latest
  • Built in updater removed so it wont work cause it breaks portability (I have been too lazy to try and get it to work Smiling)
  • All languages are included: (Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish)
  • It uses Thunderbird Portable as its "big brither" if installed
  • If you set PopMan Portable to start with Windows, it will ignore it set it back to no.

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

Tested

r.andom's picture
r.andom - August 1, 2008 - 2:10pm

Great new version. I'm happy to see that you considered my comments. Thanks Simeon!

  • I like the check if TBP is installed. The "When replying" radio button could be marked accordingly.
  • I assume the "PackageVersion" in appinfo.ini should be lower than the one of the upcoming final release. Otherwise the Updater won't update the development version to the final one. I don't know if this issue has been discussed before. It concerns all PAFfed apps, not only PopMan Portable.

Nothing else found.
I'm looking forward to the record of your alarm-clock as notify.wav Eye-wink

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