MailPeek, an unusual e-mail client

MailPeek is an very small e-mail client (only 124 KB in size) which allows you to logon to your e-mail server and check e-mails you want without having to download other emails first.

Download mailpeek.zip from http://www.mailpeek.de/, save it on your desktop, and unzip it to mailpeek folder. Open config.ini in Notepad and configure MailPeek. Following entries are found in config.ini.

[System]
Accounts=1
TimeOut=60
PeekTime=60
MailThreshold=5
StripUmlaut=1


[Font]
StyleEdit=Comic Sans MS
SizeEdit=21
StyleView=Comic Sans MS
SizeView=21


[Users]
Account1=My eMail Account


[Account1]
FullName=
Organization=
MailAddress=
ReplyAddress=
SMTPHost=
SMTPPort=
POP3Host=
POP3Port=
Authentication=
POP3Password=
POP3Account=

Entries under the System and Font headers are OK. You need to modify entries under Users and Account1 header. Account1 shows the first e-mail account. You can have multiple e-mail accounts to check with MailPeek, which may be configured by copying entire Account1 block and appending it immediately in the name of Account2, Account3, etc.

A fictitious Users and Account1 header looks likes as follows.

[Users]
Account1=Good Person


[Account1]
FullName=Good person
Organization=World Society
MailAddress=goodperson@worldsociety.com
ReplyAddress=goodperson@worldsociety.com
SMTPHost=mail.worldsociety.com
SMTPPort=25
POP3Host=pop.worldsociety.com
POP3Port=110
Authentication=AuthLoginMethod
POP3Password=password
POP3Account=goodperson

There are 4 possible values for Authentication under Account1 header. These are AuthLoginMethod or LoginPlainMethod or CramMD5Method or NoLoginMethod for no authentication. You should contact your Internet Service Provider (ISP) or System Administrator in your company to know exact data pertaining to your e-mail account.

When MailPeek starts first time, it asks you to set a password. MailPeek will remember this password and ask you to enter the same every time you run it. If you have not entered correct values for POP3Account and POP3Password in config.ini, MailPeek will ask you to enter these.

With Mail Peek, you can view the file size of messages before you download them, download mail and attachments, delete unwanted spam or useless messages, and save or print downloaded emails. Any attachments you download are automatically archived for later use, and the whole program is simple to set up and use.