Enable Pop3 Access for most Webmailers
Accessing email accounts on a web site has its advantages. You can access the mails from any computer or device with Internet connection and browser for example.
The downside is that all your mails are stored by a third-party, and that you do not have full control over your emails because of that.
The company in question may access emails, may hand them over to third-parties, ban your account, or close it down, to name just a few possibilities of what can go wrong on this end. Local access may not be as convenient at times, but it guarantees access regardless of what a third-party does.
Most web mail providers offer options to connect to the email service using Pop3 or IMAP connections, so that you can use a local mail program instead if you so desire.
FreePops
Others however do not offer this at all officially. FreePops was created for that reason. It enables Pop3 access to hundreds of mail services, including those that do not support pop3 officially at all.
What I like about FreePops is that mail accounts are added in the mail program that you use, you do not need to configure the software at all.
You basically add a new Pop3 mail account in your email client and use localhost and port 2000 as the Pop3 server. FreePops automatically understands which mail service you want to reach as all mail traffic is routed through the software on your system. This means that you do not have to configure the application itself to make use of it.
The only requirement is that it needs to run on your system, and that you need to set your mail program to route the traffic through it.
I suggest you take a look at the supported webmailers listed on the FreePops website to see if the ones you are using are supported. This is actually easier than setting up the accounts using the information you find at the web mailer websites.
FreePops uses roughly 4 Megabytes of memory when it is running in the background. The official site has a documentation section which you may find useful as well, as it walks you through the set up process step by step.
Update: The software is still available on the project's SourceForge page, but it has not been updated since 2013. The original website is no longer available, and it is possible that some features or services won't work properly anymore when using FreePops.
You said that Outlook isn’t your main email client, so which is your main one?
I think its thunderbird
It is Mozilla Thunderbird.
Awesome! This actually solved my problem… what a stupid bug.
If this is the same bug that I’ve encountered, there may be another fix: (1) hover over open Outlook item in Taskbar, cursor up to hover over Outlook window item, and right-click; (2) this should give you Restore / Move / Size / Minimize / Maximize — choose Move or Size; (3) use your cursor keys, going arbitrarily N/S/E/W, to try to move or size the Outlook window back into view. Basically, the app behaves as though it were open in a 0x0 window, or at a location that’s offscreen, and this will frequently work to resize and/or move the window. Don’t forget to close while resized/moved, so that Outlook remembers the size/position for next time.
THANK YOU Claude!!! I could get the main window to launch but could not get any other message window to show on the desktop. You are my hero!!!!
Solved my issue! 6 years later and this is still problem…
Fantastic. Thank you. Size did the trick.
This solved my Outlook problem, too. Thank you. :)
Thank you so much, this started happening to me today and was causing big problems. You are a life saver, I hope I can help you in some way some day.
You are a god – thank you!
thanks a lot…. work like charm.. :-)
Yah…thanks Claude. I’ve been having the same problem and tried all the suggestions…your solution was the answer. It had resized itself to a 0/0 box. Cheers
Excellent post. This had me baffled even trying to accurately describe the problem. This fixed it for me.
Thank you
Thanks a lot for the article. Don’t know why it happenend, don’t know how it got fixed, but it was really annoying and now it works :-)
Thanks a lot. I was facing this issue from past 3 week. I tried everything but no resolution. The issue was happening intermittently and mainly when I was changing the display of screen ( as i use 2 monitors). The only option i had was to do system restore. But thanks to you.
I’ve been tried to sole this problem for 12hours. Your comment about changing the display of screen helped me a lot!! Thanks!!
Thank you…don’t know why this happened but your instructions helped me fix it. Running Windows 10 and office pro 2007
Great tip! Thanks!
Worked for me, too – thank you!!!
It’s Worked for me, too
thank you very much!
I had a similar issue with Outlook 2013 on Windows 10 and this helped me to fix it. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much. Solved!
Considering you published this in 2012, incredible not been debugged by Microsoft.
Thank you again. M
This problem was faced by only one user logging to TS 2008 r2 using outlook 2010.The issue was resolved.
Thanks.
Great tip. Thank you!!!! If it helps, I had to use the Control Key and the arrow keys at the same time to bring my window back into view. Worked like a charm.
Thank you, this worked !!!!
Man, you are a fucking god. Thanks a lot, what an annoying bug!!
Awesome, this post solved the issue. Many thanks!