The Bottom Line
- CheckP3 checks POP, IMAP and MSN Hotmail email accounts
- Lets you interact directly with the server reading, saving and deleting mail
- CheckP3 can announce new mail using Microsoft Agent
- CheckP3 has a somewhat crude interface, could advertise its features better
- Filters for curbing spam or custom message announcements are weak or missing
- CheckP3 lacks really convincing, unobtrusive but useful mail alerts
Description
- CheckP3 checks POP, IMAP and MSN Hotmail email accounts.
- Announces new mail using tray icon, pop-up window, sound and MS Agent characters.
- You get a concise rundown of new messages with their header info in CheckP3.
- A special mode lets you interact with POP and IMAP accounts directly.
- In this mode, CheckP3 lets you view, download and delete messages.
- You can also send short messages directly from CheckP3.
- Simple filters (with support for regular expressions) let you delete certain messages automatically.
- In addition to mail checking, CheckP3 can also do ping and FTP checks and watch newsgroups.
- CheckP3 supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/3/XP.
Guide Review - CheckP3 4.4 - Mail Checker
For IMAP and POP, CheckP3 lets you interact with the server in a pure and quite powerful way, allowing you to view, download, and (most importantly) delete messages directly and quickly.
Unfortunately, the mail announcements are part of the so-so CheckP3, in spite of pop-up window, sound, tray icon and support for MS Agent characters. The really useful way of announcing new messages is not among them.
The CheckP3 interface as a whole is neither particularly intuitive nor good-looking nor easy to use, though it can be efficient once you've gotten used to it. It would be nice if the filters in CheckP3 could be expanded to allow for custom announcements of certain messages, and if it could allow you to preview and delete Hotmail emails, too.
