>So then do you use them? If yes, then why? If no, then why not? :-)
I use FoxMail (v 3.0) as email utility.
It has the option for automatic periodic check and download.
(the version 2.0 has separated monitoring program)
I do not use it because in Argentina the connection to the part of the
Internet that is outside the country is not very regular and the telephone
rates are very heigh.
The problem arte not the ISPs but the international conections to the backbone.
Some times the messages are downloded " drop by drop" so I stop the
conection an try again later.
I think that the automatic checker is not the best option of Fox Mail.
The best is that FoxMail 3.0 check all your pop3 acount in "paralell" .
YES, all acounts are checket at the same time, so you use your conection
at its full capacity. Same is valid for SMTP
When you press "F4" , FoxMail make first the dial up to the ISP,
and them when it is on line, it makes the login on all your acounts at
the same time, and them download the mails on all of it in paralel.
During dialup, It opens a little window for each acount and show you
the protocol handhshake and the progress of download of each mail.
Whit "F5" it makes also SMTP in paralell.
Some times it makes for me pop on 12 acounts and smtp on 12, all
at the same time. Yes, all in parallel.
This is good because for pop and smtp, usually is true that:
" In general the time to download all acounts in paralell is equal or
only a little biger than the time to download the bigest mailbox "
This paralel procedure is best that the monitoring (I think).
It check all acounts at the same time, in case there is something,
it download the mails, in case there is nothing it logout from these
acount and all the bandwith remains for the rest of the acounts.
Another detail is that as you see the monitoring windows of the
downloading of all your acounts, you can compare the response time
and download velocity "at the same time" and identify the "lazy "
hosts and/or bad conections. So when you know that the acount XX is
ever slow you can manage to take less trafic on it.
For example I have changed the pop3 list suscription to another acount
because the old one was my slowlest (but one of the best time up).
Fox Mail is also not heavy. It takes les than 1 Mb.
It is Freeware, it has very good filters and manage multiple folders for
each acount, templates and much more.
I do not know wich is the maximun numbers of acounts that it manage.
I use 12 at the date and works fine.
Any of you are using it?
Note:
Foxmail v 2.x manage several pop acounts but in the same fox acount !
It do not make parallel download.
Foxmail v3.0 manage several pop acounts in each fox acount and also
several fox acounts.
The pop acounts of the same fox acounts are checked in serial form.
But if you use one pop acount in each fox acount the checking is made
in parallel. Be carefully !
Also is posible "compound" operation in wich some acounts are serial
downloaded and some are in parallel. Fun it !
Regards,
garcibal
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