The Bottom Line
POP before SMTP Mail Proxy is a simple and highly useful utility if your outgoing mail server requires but your email program does not support POP Before SMTP authentication.
Pros
- POP before SMTP Mail Proxy makes any email client support POP before SMTP authentication
- Simple and reliable, you won't notice POP before SMTP Mail Proxy once it is set up
Cons
- POP before SMTP Mail Proxy requires the Microsoft Java VM
- Configuration of POP before SMTP Mail Proxy could be easier
- POP before SMTP Mail Proxy does not provide a way to limit the log file's size
Description
- POP Before SMTP Mail Proxy is for outgoing mail servers requiring "POP Before SMTP" authentication.
- Makes every email program work with such servers.
- POP Before SMTP Mail Proxy acts as a seamless proxy between email program and server.
- Optionally, POP Before SMTP Mail Proxy can be used as a POP proxy, too.
- POP Before SMTP Mail Proxy supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP.
Guide Review - POP before SMTP Mail Proxy 3.0 - Email Program Add-On
To prevent abuse by spammers most ISPs and email services only allow their users to send mail through their servers. This requires user authentication. One way to achieve this is "Authenticated SMTP", the other is "POP Before SMTP", where logging into your POP account at the same server will allow you to send mail for some minutes.
Unfortunately, not all email clients support POP Before SMTP and fail to send mail through such servers. Of course you could manually check your account every time before sending mail. Or you use the really useful POP Before SMTP Mail Proxy, which acts as a proxy between your email client and the mail server, adding the POP authentication automatically.
Setting up POP Before SMTP Mail Proxy could be a tad easier, and it is a pity POP Before SMTP Mail Proxy requires the old and more or less abandoned MS Java Virtual Machine to be installed, but once it runs, POP Before SMTP Mail Proxy runs silently and just works.
