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ANT 4 MailChecking is a system-tray utility that lets you know when you have new email messages. It s very easy to set up and use and even includes support for spam filtering. It allows you to set up as many separate accounts as you like and checks for new messages at a regular interval of your choosing. A tiny window (optionally always-on-top) remains on your desktop, displaying the number of messages waiting for you on your server. You can hide the window, if you prefer, in favor of audio notification. ANT 4 MailChecking also allows you to set up a variety of spam filtering rules, based on sender, subject, and message size. New messages that match any rule you ve set up can be removed from your server. In addition, the program offers a "Shutdown PC by e-mail" feature, that allows you to shutdown your PC remotely by using a secret command, sent by email.

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Active Email Monitor is an email utility that can check multiple accounts for email, but it can do so much more. The program is more than just an "email checker" and can protect you from garbage mail and harmful elements that are often sent via email. Active Email Monitor serves to protect from junk email because it serves as a SPAM filter. You can use the program to create any number of filters and thereby cut down on the amount of "junk" email you receive. In addition, Active Email Monitor can also protect you from harmful items that can be sent via email. The program is anti "bomb" and also anti virus! It can screen against harmful emails like the well-known "ILOVEYOU" or "Melissa" and other email worms.

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MailAlert displays an icon in the notification area of your Windows 95/98 or Windows NT 4.0 task bar. When you receive new mail, the icon will change to show that you have new mail, and will slowly flash until you click on the icon to acknowledge the new mail. You can configure MailAlert to beep, play a sound or video, show a picture, or run any program or document when you receive new mail. You can also have a message box displayed with the Envelope information (author, subject, and date) of any new messages displayed. MailAlert can be customized to notify you differently based on the message author or subject

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TickerMyMail checks your email on a user-defined schedule and displays the subject and header of new messages in a ticker tape, scrolling across the top of your screen. You can configure the color of the ticker, as well as the speed. The program supports multiple POP accounts and launches your email client when you click on a ticker item. You can also chose to delete selected emails and adjust the position of the ticker tape. Handy and easy to use but only basic email notification functionality.

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Internet Drummer is an email checker with additional URL checking and favorites manager. It can notify you of new mail in your POP account, using several different notification methods and display the messages with subject in a preview window. You can preview e-mail while still on server and decide which to keep and which should be removed. A spam filtering option allows you to add selected messages to a filter list, thereby reducing future junk mail. In addition to the email notification features, you can also maintain a list of your favorite web sites and the program will check them on a regular basis, and notify you if any changes are found.

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Lydia is a small and fast email checker that monitors up to 10 email accounts and automatically sorts the spam into a separate SpamTrap. The email in the SpamTrap can be reviewed at your leisure and you can restore messages or delete them permanently. The decision to send email to the SpamTrap is based on built-in filters that can be customized, as well as real-time checking via SpamCop. You can easily add a new filter for a message, by simply right-clicking it and selecting the filter criteria. In additional can also reply to email, send new email and delete unwanted email from the server without downloading it. Lydia supports multiple SMTP settings, spell checking and more.

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Speak & Mail 2000 will notify you when new mail arrives by reading the message header and contents according to your preferences (Supports multiple email accounts). Speak & Mail 2000 enables your computer to "talk to you". You can listen to your e-mails, web pages, documents, help files or anything else you copy to the clipboard. Just keep the animated character on top of your desktop and click on it whenever you want it to read, plus a new feature that allows automatic reading from the clipboard when any new text is copied to the clipboard. Speak & Mail 2000 will bring your desktop to life by telling you jokes, sing, remind you of your appointments or just feel tired and sleep. In addition, Speak & Mail features voice recognition technology which can be used to launch applications, web sites, play some music, shut down, restart your computer or just reply. You can change voices and/or languages with the download of extra speech engines.

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Express MailMate is an advanced e-mail notification tool for Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Exchange Client and other MAPI compliant e-mail programs, that does much more than just tell you when you have received new mail. It delivers new messages to the Inbox of your e-mail client and allows you to read incoming messages, create new, delete needless ones, extract attached files and lot more. In most cases you do not need to launch your e-mail program at all. Microsoft Exchange and Outlook users can use Express MailMate even if they don t have a POP account. Also works with Exchange Server or MSN accounts can now use it too. Unlike most other email checkers, this program is limited to your Outlook Express/Outlook accounts and Inbox, you cannot use it on other POP accounts.

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Tray Helper is an email checker with additional tools, including a simple popup window killer, a pinger module to monitor hosts, an e-mail auto-responder and an event reminder that keeps track and reminds you of important dates. The email checker includes a spam filter option that allows you to filter based on the subject line and/or sender. The ping module can monitor up to 10 servers and perform an actions if they go online or offline. Actions include sound notification, application launching, alert popup and more. The Reminder module allows you to setup one-time or recurring reminders that will alert you while you are on your computer and can also be forwarded to a mobile device. The program also supports plug-ins for additional functionality.

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PayPal Notifier is a small and simple tool, that can check a POP account and notify you when a new payment notification from PayPal is received in the account. In addition, it can display the item name, quantity and total amount of the order. We expected a range of notification options or other useful options considering that this tool is specialized for a particular notification purpose, unfortunately these are not offered and the notifications are easily missed.

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G-Lock Email Processor is a powerful tool designed to automatically process incoming email such as bounced/undeliverable, subscribe/unsubscribe requests, support requests and much more. The program offers an easy to understand interface and allows you to build a custom line of action for many different events. You can automatically extract data from incoming mail and perform other actions based on the message content. The program can update any ODBC database and run custom SQL queries, write the extracted data to a local file, send reply emails and more. G-Lock Email Processor can work with multiple POP3 accounts and supports SMTP authentication.

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AD MailBox Manager allows you to browse your mailbox and view sender, subject and size of all incoming messages prior to downloading them from the server. You can view and delete selected messages without downloading them first. Also AD MailBox Manager supports multiple mailboxes as well as scheduled mailbox check. The program can notify you of new messages via sound or pop-up window.

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MailTalkX is a email checker with integrated spam filtering features, that checks your mailboxes automatically at specified intervals and notifies you when new mail arrives. It offers simple hands-on spam filters that allow you to manually configure which subjects, keywords, senders etc. you want to block or otherwise process. You can create multiple rules and process matching messages by deleting, replying, forwarding, bouncing and other options. When new mail arrives, you can be notified with a voice announcement (`Darling you have mail`) or a popup notification window.

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Mailbox Digger is an email notifier that allows you to view and manage email in multiple email accounts. It notifies you of new messages by sound and/or system tray notification. You can read messages, reply to them, delete them and also compose new messages. The program supports POP3 accounts and sending via SMTP or your default email client. Other features include support for POP3 and SMTP connection encryption (TLS/SSL), secure password authentication, message saving, HTML mail support and more. Mailbox Digger is portable and can be optionally installed to a USB drive.

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PopScan is a simple and easy to use e-mail checker with built in spam filtering options, dial-up support and more. It notifies you of new mail via system tray icon or optional sound. Furthermore, the program allows you to preview the subject lines of new mail (but no the content) and to delete selected messages or to block the sender from further mailings. The built-in spam filter allows you to delete messages based on subject, sender and message size and uses a rule-based filtering system.

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MailBell is a utility that lives in your system tray and periodically checks email on POP3, IMAP4, MAPI and several popular webmail accounts. It can check multiple accounts and works on LANs and permanent internet connections as well as with dial-up networking (where it automatically detects when you go online). When new mail arrives the program can automatically start your mail reader, play a sound and/or display an unobstrusive notification window from which yon can start your mail reader if you like. MailBell can be configured to handle different types of email in different ways, eg. to suppress the sound for spam mail. It also displays the number of available messages in the system tray icon and comes with nice sound files.

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PEN is an email notification tool, that runs in your system tray and periodically checks for new email. When new messages have arrived, it will notify you with a small popup window near the tray and an optional sound. You can configure multiple POP accounts and have individual sounds for each. PEN allows you to preview all subject lines, as well as the content of the messages and you can choose to delete selected ones without having to download them. The program also supports POP3 via SSL, IMAP, Gmail, AOL, Excite and Netscape as well as other web mail services (Hotmail, MSN, Lycos, Yahoo and Mail.com).

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MultiG is a small tool that can monitor up to 6 Gmail accounts and notify you when new email arrives. The tray icon infotip also displays the current number of messages in each account, and you can quickly access each inbox from the tray icon menu. MultiG is convenient for those that need to monitor multiple Gmail accounts. The program also supports Google Apps for Domains.

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CheckMail is a POP3 email checking program, that notifies you when you when new mail arrives in your POP account. You can then preview or delete selected messages before downloading them with your regular email program. CheckMail comes with a filtering feature, that allows you to create custom rules and sort your email into individual folders, based on subject, keywords and other aspects. Additional features include custom notifications, support for multiple email accounts and more.

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    Magic Mail Monitor sits in your tray and checks for mail at the interval you set or whenever you click it. It can check an unlimited number of accounts/hosts, and has a message header preview. It also allows you to perform "quick" replies, sends, deletes, and views. and can notify you by playing wav, avi or midi file.