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Portable YPops! and similar

trevva - December 17, 2005 - 5:40am

The perfect companion to Portable Thunderbird - Portable YPops!

For those not familar, YPops is an open source gateway to yahoo mail - it basically acts as a localhost POP server, allowing you to download your yahoo mail email into thunderbird, or whatever other pop3 client you are using. Very handy.

http://www.ypopsemail.com/

This forum from Mozillazine has more info on related systems for Hotmail etc etc, many of which could also be candidates for portablisation.
http://tinyurl.com/e3e2s


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Html2Pop3

An other one is Html2Pop3: it is a virtual POP3, SMTP and NNTP server and allows you to get mail from an Yahoo account, or Hotmail as well.

Home page: http://www.baccan.it/index.php?sezione=html2pop3&email=si

Readme: http://www.baccan.it/opensource/html2pop3readmeeng.txt

Webmail Extension

Or you can use the Webmail extension. It just won't work with Thunderbird 1.0.7 due to a bug. It works with 1.0.6 and 1.5 RC1, though.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

I think FreePOPs is the

I think FreePOPs is the best. Can be a portable app.
http://www.freepops.org

FreePOPs + Thunderbird

I'm a fan of the FreePOPs and Portable Thunderbird culmination.

Rob Loach [Website] [Projects]

Webmail Extension?

I couldn't find the extension. Is it still available?

Yup

It's right here:
http://webmail.mozdev.org/

The 1.5 versions are in testing and not yet posted on the main page, but you can snag the latest versions of each from here:
http://mozdev.org/pipermail/webmail/2005-December/000384.html

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!