The Bottom Line
gPopper lets you fetch mail from your Gmail account using any email client fast and reliably. You can even send and work on messages. It's a pity there's little documentation, and a true IMAP interface as well as access to the "Spam" view would be nice. gPopper is no longer available.
Pros
- gPopper lets you access your Gmail account with any email client
- You can delete and mark mail read by sending special email commands
- gPopper lets you send mail through Gmail, too, keeping a copy
Cons
- gPopper does not allow you to fetch mail from certain Gmail views selectively
- You can't archive mail, and deleting purges messages instead of moving them to the "Trash"
- gPopper does not insert the control command links in HTML parts of messages
Description
- gPopper lets you access a Gmail account using any email client.
- Working as a POP and SMTP proxy, gPopper can both receive and send mail through Gmail.
- A copy of messages sent via gPopper is kept in Gmail.
- You can have gPopper automatically delete mail after downloading.
- gPopper can also act as a Gmail notifier, announcing new mail via a tray balloon.
- Special email commands let you delete messages manually or mark them read/unread on Gmail.
- gPopper supports Windows 98/ME/2000/3/XP.
Guide Review - gPopper 1.2
I really like Gmail's web interface, and there are good reasons — the quick automatic message threading, for example — to prefer it to any desktop email client. But there are reasons for downloading mail from Gmail into your "default" email program, be it Outlook Express or Mozilla Thunderbird or The Bat!.
With gPopper, this is remarkably easy. In spite of the missing documentation, you'll have both gPopper and your email client configured in a minute, and downloading the messages is surprisingly fast, too (at least if you don't make gPopper check all Gmail views for unread messages).
You can also send messages and replies through gPopper with a copy at Gmail, just the way it should be. And gPopper includes an even neater trick: you can delete individual messages or mark them read/unread by sending simple emails to special addresses.
Now if the IMAP interface worked, too, and if gPopper allowed you archive messages in addition to marking them unread, it could be almost universally great.
