FreePOPs 0.0.95 review
DownloadFreePOPs is an easily extensible program, which allows access to the most varied resources through the POP3 protocol.
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FreePOPs is an easily extensible program, which allows access to the most varied resources through the POP3 protocol.
FreePOPs is a POP3 daemon plus a LUA interpreter and some extra libraries for HTTP and HTML parsing. Its main purpose is translating local POP3 requests to remote HTTP actions on the supported web-mails, but it is really more flexible. For example there is a plugin to read news from a website as if they were mails in a mailbox. You can easily extend FreePOPs on the fly, without even restarting it. You can add a plugin or modify an existing one simply changing the script file since the plugins are written in LUA and are interpreted on the fly.
Mainly, it can be used to download mail from the most famous webmails, but it could also be used as an aggregator for RSS feeds and much more. This way it is possible to get all your messages in your favorite email client.
FreePOPs is Free Software!
Here are some key features of "FreePOPs":
RFC compliant POP3 server (not full featured but still compliant).
Portable (written in C and LUA that is written in C, so everything is written in the world's most portable language).
Small (in terms of resources usage) and reasonably fast.
Extremely extensible on the fly using a simple and powerful language.
Pretty documented.
Released under the GNU/GPL license (this means FreePOPs is Free Software).
What's New:
Some fixes for libero, mailcom, aol, gmail ...
mail2world.lua is now an official plugin.
freepops.lua (the bootstrap script) has been properly documented.
The C bootstrap code has been rewritten and improved.
The davmail plugin is now able to handle jubii.dk (with some limitations).
Many improvements to the build system under Debian (now a vanilla sarge box is enough to build freepops for windows).
Some improvements to the Debian package (thanks Brian).
Some patches for BeOS.
Auto chdir feature under Windows (mostly untested).
Updated .spec file for Linux Mandriva.
FreePOPs is now able to execute custom scripts in a full bloated LUA environment. Since this is much untested only one script (updater.lua) is provided and can be started only from the command line with freepopsd -w -e updater.lua. The script will look on the website for official plugin updates and whould download and install them in the right place (windows only). This script is released only for developing purposes.
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