The simplicity of accessing your POP E-mail<\/p>\n
By Lim Tri Santosa<\/p>\n
BANDUNG (JP): A new technology has been introduced that has
\nfundamentally transformed human society by changing the way
\npeople communicate with each other. Every day the citizens of the
\nInternet send each other billions of e-mail messages. If you are
\nonline a lot, you yourself may send a dozen or two e-mails each
\nday without even thinking about it. Obviously e-mail has become
\nan extremely popular communication tool in a very short time!<\/p>\n
Have you ever wondered how e-mail gets from your desktop to a
\nfriend halfway around the world? What is a POP3 server, and how
\ndoes it hold your mail? The answers may surprise you, because it
\nturns out that e-mail is an incredibly simple system at its core!<\/p>\n
The first e-mail message was sent in 1971 by an engineer named
\nRay Tomlinson. Prior to this, you could only send messages to
\nusers on a single machine. Tomlinson's breakthrough was the
\nability to send messages to other machines on the Internet, using
\nthe @ sign to designate the receiving machine.<\/p>\n
An e-mail POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3) account allows a
\nclient or user to receive e-mail into a dedicated POP3 e-mail
\nbox. Each POP3 is assigned an e-mail logon userID (usually the
\npart before the "@" mark in your e-mail address), and password so
\nthat the user may log onto the e-mail server (usually but not
\nalways, the word 'pop' and the part after the "@" mark in your e-
\nmail address).<\/p>\n
Individual users may operate one or more e-mail POP3's, but it
\nis not recommended that more than one user share a single e-mail
\nPOP3 because when one user downloads their mail they would be
\ndownloading all the e-mails sent to that POP3, including the e-
\nmail intended for other users.<\/p>\n
An e-mail message has always been nothing more than a simple
\ntext message, a piece of text sent to a recipient. When you send
\nan e-mail message to a friend, you are sending a piece of text.
\nIn the beginning, and even today, e-mail messages tended to be
\nshort pieces of text, although the ability to add attachments now
\nmakes many e-mail messages quite long.<\/p>\n
You have probably already received several e-mail messages
\ntoday. To look at them you use some sort of e-mail client. Many
\npeople use well-known stand-alone clients like Microsoft Outlook,
\nOutlook Express, Eudora or Pegasus. People who subscribe to free
\ne-mail services like HotMail or Yahoo Mail use an e-mail client
\nthat appears in a web page.<\/p>\n
JBMail<\/p>\n
Nearly every e-mail client on the market works the same way:
\nit first downloads all the mail from a mail server, then lets the
\nuser manipulate the messages. However, the POP3 protocol used
\nworld-wide also supports a different method: e-mails can be
\ndirectly deleted from servers, or previewed, without first being
\ndownloaded. And that is what JBMail (www.pc-tools.net) lets you
\ndo.<\/p>\n
You can use JBMail to view, preview, delete, save, print, get
\nattachments, delete junk mail or purge your entire mailbox.
\nJBMail is both powerful and easy to use.<\/p>\n
The key to JBMail's power is the unusual way it interacts with
\nyour Internet mail box. Instead of first downloading all mail to
\nthe local computer and then letting you manipulate that mail,
\nJBMail logs into your mail server, stays connected and gives you
\ndirect access to your mailbox.<\/p>\n
This means that you do not have to wait for large messages and
\njunk mail to load; instead, you have the power to load the
\nmessages you want. You can also delete mail such as junk mail, or
\nvery large messages directly from your mailbox, completely
\nbypassing the time-consuming download process.<\/p>\n
JBMail is also ideal for use on shared computers or public
\nterminals. The program only needs three inputs: your pop e-mail
\nserver, your user ID name, and your e-mail password. It doesn't
\nsave any of this information, hence even though your JBMail
\nfloppy disk is stolen by someone, the thief cannot access your e-
\nmail box. That is the best feature! With a conventional e-mail
\nprogram you would have to create separate directories for your
\ndifferent mailboxes and spend hours tweaking different profiles,
\nand if someone was able to run it, he would get all of your e-
\nmails.<\/p>\n
As an added advantage, you do not have to worry about mailbox
\n"synchronization" because you are directly reading and deleting
\nmail from your server, and not working with a copy of your mail.<\/p>\n
The partial access mode lets you specify a maximum number of
\nmessages to load. If your mailbox contains more than that many
\nmessages, then only the first x messages are loaded. The rest are
\ncompletely ignored, making it possible to easily access mail in a
\nfull mailbox. The 'Poll' button will return the size of mailbox,
\nhow many messages it contains and how much space they occupy.<\/p>\n
Traveling? Trying to access your mail from another city or
\nabroad? Or from an Internet cafe? JBMail is a "light-weight" e-
\nmail client; it requires no installation and no detailed setup. A
\nsingle 84Kb exe with no dll's or other components, run from a
\nfloppy disk is sufficient to check your mail on someone else's
\nsystem without installing anything. No files are installed to
\nhard disk, so you can easily use JBMail to access different
\nmailboxes. After you view or preview the e-mail messages, then
\neither save them to your floppy disk (including any attachments)
\nor directly print to the printer, or delete them. I think this is
\nmust-have "leaving office without it" software<\/p>\n
Mail2web<\/p>\n
With the growing popularity of the Internet, and the World
\nWide Web (WWW) in particular, many of us find ourselves in places
\nthat have WWW access. Mail2web.com allows you to use a WWW
\nbrowser to read your e-mail, reply, forward, delete and send new
\nmessages, making your e-mail accessible from anywhere. There is
\nno need to get a different e-mail address or have your mail
\nforwarded. Mail2web.com is a gateway that actually contacts your
\nmail server and converts the content to HTML allowing easy access
\nto your regular e-mail.<\/p>\n
Yes, it is the same as JBMail, except Mail2web doesn't
\ndirectly go to your computer, the message traveled first from the
\nPOP server to Mail2web server, then your computer.<\/p>\n
Consequently, it may take a while to retrieve the mail
\ninformation from your POP server especially if there are a lot of
\ne-mails waiting for you, because of the high level of traffic on
\nthe Internet. From my previous experience, I think JBMail is
\nfaster when retrieving, because it uses direct POP access and has
\npartial access mode.<\/p>\n
Through Mail2web, you have the option of composing a new
\nmessage, forward or reply. When you reply, it will look as if it
\ncomes from your usual e-mail account bearing your original e-mail
\naddress. All you need is a web-browser, so any cybercafe,
\nterminal or Internet-connected PC will do. The downside is you
\ncannot easily save your incoming e-mails to floppy disk like
\nJBMail does, because it is HTML web format.<\/p>\n
By the way, there are a lot of web sites offering access to
\nyour original POP e-mail address, please be careful, some of them
\ncollect your information to do the spamming. My advice is don't
\nreadily trust the service content, but the Mail2web service is
\ntrustworthy. If you are accessing from your PDA you can use the
\nPDA-optimized www.mail2pda.com or use your WAP compatible GSM
\nmobile phone to access WAP optimized www.mail2wap.com.<\/p>\n
From this description, you can see that today's e-mail system
\nis one of the simplest things ever devised! There truly is
\nnothing to it. There are parts of the system like the routing
\nrules in sendmail that get complicated, but overall the system is
\nas simple as it can possibly be. The next time you're out of the
\noffice, you will now have the comfort of sending \/receiving e-
\nmails using your original e-mail address. (abbaml@yahoo.com)<\/p>",
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