Since I have been using a plugin to Miranda to check my POP3 account, during the time period where I couldn’t use Miranda I had to look for a small footprint POP3 checker. My requirements were:

• low memory footprint, the smaller the better
• message preview – I want to see who it’s from and the subject before launching my mail client
• mimize to tray
• freeware

I found a TON of POP3 checkers and here were my results for the ones I tried:

• eprompter – 5.8MB – too much memory
• emailchk – 5 MB – too much memory
• magic mail monitor – 5.5 MB – too much memory
• mailchecker – 3MB – no preview
• natty – 1.6 MB – no preview
• mailpeek – 500kb – no system tray
• PopPeeper – 1.7 MB – WINNER

So, I ended up using PopPeeper. It met all my needs and only used ~1.7MB of memory when running. Of course, now that Miranda works again, I don’t need it any more. Oh well. Maybe this info will help someone else in the future.

PopPeeper website

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