Web Mail retrieval

[BOAC]

Anyone know of a programme which will zip around a few web mail-boxes and pick-up mail without having to visit each site 'manually'?

[PPRuNe Dispatcher]

A lot of web mailboxes can be accessed as POP3/SMTP servers. For example, you can access yahoo mail from Microsoft Outlook Express very easily. See <A HREF="http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/pop-03.html" TARGET="_blank">http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/pop-03.html</A>

--PPD

[BOAC]

Thanks PPD. I am set up for yahoo. It was the other ones I wondered about. I know some of the mobile networks have not introduced pop mail yet. Is it a 'web crawler' I need or am I way off track?

[PPRuNe Dispatcher]

Web crawlers are generally software robots which scan through the millions of web sites to construct some kind of intelligent index to aid searches. BTW, in my opinion, <A HREF="http://www.google.com" TARGET="_blank">www.google.com</A> is the best search engine.

I've been trying to reduce the number of email addresses I have, one of the criteria being "if it doesn't support POP, it goes".

--PPD

[BOAC]

Thanks PPD. I've actually been saying the same to my kids for a while!

[PaulDeGearup]

You could point your browser at <A HREF="http://www.tucows.com" TARGET="_blank">www.tucows.com</A> and dredge round the email section for a POPŁ client emailer which will check multiple accounts for you