POPEdit - Open Source POP3 mailbox maintenance utility

POPEdit is designed to collect just the headers and top few lines (if specified) of e-mails from any standard POP3 mailbox. You can then decide whether to delete any e-mail, view it in full, or download and save it.

I created it to delete corrupt e-mails, or to retrieve any e-mail from POP3 mailboxes. Mail is collected according to its size (in octets) specified by the mail server, this is to combat problems collecting mail without a terminating sequence. It is not designed to replace an e-mail client, and I have no intention of making it an e-mail client.

Platform: Linux
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Programming Language: C++
Development environment: QT

Binary Download	Size	Version	Date
popedit-1.0.100.fc4.i686.tar.bz2	622,482b	1.0.100	Sept 06, 2004

Source Download	Size	Version	Date
popedit-1.0.100.tar.bz2	43,636b	1.0.100	Sept 06, 2004

About POPEdit

The GUI is very basic, and based on the style of a Webmail interface. Select the account you wish to collect from via the drop-down menu, then just click 'Receive'. You don't need to collect all of the mail from the account, you can safely abort the transaction at any time and delete the mail that you have collected.

Just check the box(es) for the e-mail(s) you wish to delete, or check the 'Select all' box, and then just press the 'Delete' button.

To view the mail headers - and top few lines if specified - click on a message and it will be displayed in the preview pane at the bottom of the window.

To view the entire raw e-mail, double-click on the message and a window will appear containing the e-mail data. As the full message will need to be collected from the mail server, a progress bar at the bottom of the window will report the percentage that has been collected. You can save or print (if you really need to) the raw e-mail from this window.

You can add as many POP3 accounts to the configuration as you like. Passwords can be stored and, if this is required, they will be encrypted using a very simple algorithm for obfuscation. If somebody has access to your config file anyway, all they need to do is download POPEdit, and log into their own mail server (with logging enabled) to see what your password is. Encryption at this stage is pointless. The safest method is to not save your passwords locally. If you wish to transport your config file, then you should use a more powerful form of encryption to manually encode the file.

You can set the transmit and receive timeouts, the number of lines of the message to retrieve, and the default account to appear in the drop-down menu when POPEdit is started.

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