Retrieving all mail headers from the emails that are currently stored on the mail server can be necessary for several reasons. The first is that it is possible to delete mails without having to retrieve them completely. This can come in handy if mails with huge attachments are blocking the retrieval of other emails which can be nerve wrecking especially on slower connections. Very helpful if you use your mobile phone to go online with your notebook and pay by the amount of Kilobytes that have been downloaded.
A second application would be to fight spam before it is retrieved and downloaded to a local PC. Pal Mail is a tiny secure application that can retrieve the mail headers of an unlimited number of accounts with the main option to delete mails right on the mail server. Retrieved are the mail headers and the messages but not the attachments of the mails.
Every mail can be marked for deletion which effectively deleted it from the mails server. The consequence is that your primary mail client will not retrieve the messages that have been deleted before.
Pal Mail is a standalone application that does not require any dlls or other files to run. This makes it an idea software for a portable device.
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The author writes, on PalMail’s homepage that he names it Beta “because it’s missing many functions I’d like to add to it before the final release version.”. Well, I think this is the good point with function specific programs sometimes, that is that they do one thing and avoid getting bloated. If I weren’t using MailWasher I’d certainly be interested by a software of this sort.
That’s what I use MailWasher for.
man, i don’t know what it is, martin, but i just can’t get many of the programs recommended and apparently used by others successfully to work. this is another example.
another big disappointment are the new slick looking air apps. out of 5 that i’ve tried only mooflair works.
I couldn’t help but notice that the last ‘update’ of this software was July 2002!
Not that it isn’t a useful program (I’ve added it to my ‘Tools’ Thumb Drive – Thhe ‘Portability’ is Handy!), it’s simply that the ‘Additional Features’ have been a VERY long time in coming!
Is it possible that ‘MailWasher’ is based on this? MailWasher is my preferred spam-blocker/cleaner – same features as PalMail, but also applies (user-selectable) spam-filters automatically, very configurable, allows ‘Screening’ your email & spam prior to downloading, and even starts your email client! Beats trusting your ISP’s Spam-Filter!
;-)
I use an app called ePrompter for the last 2 years in order to review and delete emails before downloading. I have a dozen accounts spread across Gmail, Yahoo, Comcast, and a corporate webmail service. ePrompter works on all of them. The app itself is not terribly attractive, but I keep it minimized in the tray where it works great as a email inbox notifier.
I use for that purpose similar program Magic mail monitor
wow, i forgot all about eprompter. i used it back before the turn of the century and it worked well for me. must have gotten left behind and forgotten during a computer upgrade. think i’ll re-check it.
Been using Palmail for years and works no probs on Vista as well.
Set it up in it’s own folder which will have a settings.ini created on setup then you can just copy and paste the whole folder to any install and create a shotcut of the exe to desktop.
Or copy and paste the folder to thumb drive and run it from there.Too easy!
Doesn’t need to be developed any further as it works just fine as is here.