The Bottom Line
Popcorn is a small, lightweight and literally portable email client perfect for checking mail on the road, or for cleaning a mailbox of spam and huge attachments. Unfortunately, Popcorn is no longer actively developed.
Pros
- Popcorn is small and lightweight, it even fits on a floppy
- Simple and easy to use
- Popcorn is stable and elegant
Cons
- Popcorn doesn't support HTML emails inline
- You can checks and view only one account at a time in Popcorn
- Popcorn works with POP accounts only
Description
- Access multiple POP accounts (with support for APOP and SSL encryption) with Popcorn.
- Popcorn lets you preview and delete messages directly at the server.
- Compose simple new mails and replies with Popcorn, use an online spell checker easily.
- All settings are kept in a single INI file (in the same directory as Popcorn itself).
- Popcorn fits on a floppy together with this INI file.
- Using its tray icon, Popcorn can work as a mail checker for multiple accounts.
- Popcorn includes a simple address book which keeps the names and email addresses of contacts.
- Popcorn supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/3/XP.
Guide Review - Popcorn 1.86 - Free Email Program
I wish more software was written like Ultrafunk's Popcorn: it is stable, it is elegant, it is fast, and it is easy to use. Sure, Popcorn does not boast a long list of features, but it excels at what it was built for: accessing email in POP accounts.
Unfortunately, Popcorn can only access one account at a time. This is the only major gripe with this program, however. Popcorn is literally portable. It fits on a floppy easily together with its INI file, the single place where all its settings are kept. So you can check, preview and delete mail in your email accounts from anywhere.
Popcorn lets you compose simple emails and replies, too, with support for the .eml file format so you can easily import or export messages to and from other email programs. And you can set the From: line to whatever you want easily. Woohoo!
