The top 5 Free Email Notification Programs

gili | Sep 24, 2007 | Comments


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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  • Multimail Notifier is my choice, and is there something thing with good spam filter included. Coz I get lots of spam more than useful emails. Only 20% of my emails are worth reading. :)
  • Chris
    Which one of these has the smallest memory footprint ? Yahoo Messenger does too much and is too 'heavy' for what I need (simple email notification)
  • yes Chris, yahoo Messengers is alway on the top when I check memory usage. I dont recomment yahoo messenger for just a email notifier. Instead you can use the first notifier MultiMailer which is much more efficient.
  • If you still want the YM functionality avaialable why don't you try Pidgin? It will not only allow you to access YM, but also provide you a good email notifier. If you just need email notifications, go for either ePrompter or Multi Notifier (which is leaner as far as resources is concerned, but provides an acceptable feature set).

    Gili
  • Honestly i never have used any email notifiers
    I manage all my different accounts by adding them to my common gmail account.
    In gmail you can recieve emails from upto 5 other email addresses .
  • Chris
    tried Multi-Mail but it said Connection Error:Service Unavailable when I tried to retrieve my Yahoo email - bit disappointed as it looked just what I needed
  • have never try the email notifiers before,though i do have many email accounts, but only 2 are using regular.
  • All my email accounts go through GMail accounts, so I use a combination of Google Talk which notifies me about my main mail account and then the GMail Manager Firefox extension to check on my others.
  • Oh great... something new to reverse the cool productivity tips I picked up from Timothy Ferriss' 4Hour Workweek.

    Just when I began to check my mail thrice a week.....
  • 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
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