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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