The top 5 Free Email Notification Programs
Hope you had a good weekend. Here’s another episode in our free software reviews saga, and this time on free email notifiers.
Not so long ago, I used to have a single email account besides the one I have at work. Unfortunately, those days are over and today I had a hard time trying to remember how many email accounts I own.
The main problem with running multiple email accounts (which I admit is a BAD practice), is the fact that it’s quite difficult to monitor them. Someone might send you an email and chances are that you won’t even notice it.
That’s exactly the reason why I would like to devote this post to some cool email notification programs. Once configured, these little utilities ping ALL our mail boxes on a periodic basis and prompt us (either using sounds or visual notifications) on incoming mail, so no email message is left behind.
My top 5 free email notifiers
Finding a good (but free) email notifier can turn to be a difficult task, as the web is crowded with free but mediocre and spammy email notification utilities. After a bit of research (and lots of frustration with email notifiers :)), i came up with my top five free email notification applications:
MultiMail Notifier 3: An easy to use email notifier that supports notifications from the main free email providers: GMail, Yahoo and MSN, as well as from POP3 based email providers. It also provide a simple interface from which you can actually access your emails, instead of logging into each account.
ePrompter v2: Perhaps the most known free email notifier, ePrompter supports all the popular free email services, but what i call tier-2 free email providers such as: Rediffmail, Mail.com, Netscape etc’. ePrompter interface needs to be enhanced, and setup is not always straightforward, however ePrompter is overall very recommended , specially if you want to monitor email accounts in a tier-2 free email service.
QuickPeek: This utility doesn’t do much except monitoring POP3 based email accounts. QuickPeek is lightweight and extremely simple, but limited as far as functionality is concerned.
Chrysanth Email Notifier: Simple and easy-to-use notification tool for GMail and POP3. Includes some SPAM protection functionality, however it’s definitely not recommended to be used as your main Anti SPAM utility.
Pidgin (GAIM): Open Source Pidgin is a leading messaging unifier. That said, I highly recommend it as an email notifier as well. If you are looking into a tool that provides an all-in-one messaging monitoring, I suggest you give Pidgin a try.
Wrapping up
Those were my recommendations, as always, your comments are welcome. What is your favorite email notifier?
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Comment by Michael on 16 April 2008:
NT Email Notifier
is a small free e-mail checker that allows you to check unlimited mail boxes for new messages. The program use system tray notification and play a WAV file. You can set time interval to check and add program to startup list. NT Email Notifier supports any POP3 email account and work under all Windows versions.
Comment by Will on 3 March 2008:
John, thank you so much. It works beautifully!
Comment by john on 3 March 2008:
how about http://gmailnotifier.net
Comment by Will on 2 March 2008:
I didn’t find any of these clients to be very good. Multi-Mail costs $20. ePrompter and QuickPeek wouldn’t work with gmail for me. Chrysanth was large and had advertisements. Pidgin is way more than I want (I just want an email notifier).
I just want something that will work the same as Gmail notifier without issuing a really annoying beep every time I get a message. I’ve tried about 20 different notifiers and none of them has come close to be less annoying than the beep.
Comment by Kline on 26 September 2007:
Brilliant.
However, which would you say is the best? lol.. im not a fan of installing 5 different pieces of software.. I’ll take your word on it.
Pidgen is an ok IM client, but I’ve yet to use their email notification system…
and “The main problem with running multiple email accounts (which I admit is a BAD practice),” I disagree with that. It’s pretty much a necessity with smart internet usage. There are times when you need to sign up for some crappy account somewhere (comments posting, access to files, other places likely to spam you but for whatever reason you need to give away an email address to check 5 minutes after you give it away then never again). Great, thats one complete shit email address.
Then I use one for work, which I cannot have anything non work related to. Thats 2.
#3 I use for accounts online (paypal, ebay, etc) which I do need to check, but they will send you all sorts of crap you dont need to see day to day)
#4 personal email for family, real correspondence.. You can probably combine this with #3, but not with #2 or 1
#5 I run a lot of websites, and I get both spam and real correspondence there.. Feedback on products I make several times a day as well as whatever other shit floweth in. I check it all the time, and the filters take care of most of the crap, but I dont want it coming into ruin my other mail, nor give out my same address i use for paypal etc on it.
The more email addresses the better. Spam filters are good, and email ‘rules’ are good, but your life is much easier with like 3 email addresses minimum. Combining any further and.. either you are going to get in trouble at work, or you are just going to be fed up after a year at the residual garbage that comes in.
Comment by abhishek on 25 September 2007:
I am using Gmail right now but i think i will be trying 2-3 of these to check if they are better than the things i m presently using.If i do get one nice email notfier then nothing like it.
PS: Gili I wanted to digg many of ur blogs here as i have been liking many of the articles i have read in the last few weeks i have started visiting on a regular basis.
Need to know how to digg the blogs here.
Cheers
Abhishek