Mailbox (Windows)

Availability

Mailbox binaries and source code are freely available at Source Forge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mailbox) under the GNU General Public License.

System Requirement

Microsoft Windows 95 or newer.
TCP/IP network.

Description

Mailbox, version 1.0, displays the number of email messages in multiple email accounts. It is compatible with any email system that supports the POP3 protocol. The application is written in C++ and runs on Microsoft Windows 95.

Mailbox can be configured to monitor multiple mailboxes on multiple email hosts. It will query the mailboxes periodically and report the results. The frequency of the inquiry can be configured.

The instruction for installing Mailbox is in the Installation section.

To create a configuration file:

In any directory, create a subdirectory for storing the configuration file; switch to that directory.
Run Mailbox by executing

Mailbox myconfig.dat

myconfig.dat

To configure Mailbox:
The first variable that needs to be configured is the pause time between consecutive attempts to query the mailboxes.

Select the Edit menu, Profiles item.
Enter the number of seconds in the Pause field.

Then the user must enter the mailbox information.

Select Edit menu, Profile item. Press Add button.
Enter the mailbox name, host name, and password. The password is not stored on the disk because of security concerns. It must be entered every time Mailbox is executed.

To begin and to stop querying mailboxes:

Select the Action menu, Start-Query option to begin querying the mailboxes.
Select the Action menu, Stop option to stop querying the mailboxes.

Options

[profile]

Profile specifies the filename of the configuration file that stores all the mailbox information. If it is not specified, the default filename is default.dat.

Installation

Unzip mailbox.zip to extract Mailbox.exe.
Move Mailbox.exe into any directory.
Delete Mailbox.zip.

Technical Support, Comment

Contact Evan Chu for technical support, comments, recommendations, wishful features. His personal email address is evanc@his.com. His personal web site is at http://www.his.com/evanc.