I'll keep it short and sweet, because so is the program: use FreePOPs. In its simplest of terms, it's a very, very tiny program that keeps running in the background and downloads email from the popular (but troublesome) free email account providers that insist on you checking the mail online, on their website. And GMail and Hotmail are notorious ones, often mentioned in threads around here.

I've had to manually dive in the folders on the website of Hotmail and GMail to do that - no more.

Pay attention to configuring Thunderbird (you essentially have to set up one account per spam folder you're checking) and FreePOPs will enormously ease the work for you.

That plugin-type architecture of FreePOPs is really great, because they can immediately jump on it and release a fix whenever one of those free webmailers changes somethign or another.

Give it a spin, it definitely has made forwarding spam to KnujOn an awful lot easier for me.

I used it when I first started reporting spam to Knujon with Gmail, but then when the submanifold.be gknujon script was created, I moved towards that.

Freepops was great, though it did have some quirks, likely because of the way the application had/has to "parse" the contents of these e-mails that are retrieved.

Quirks? Hm... I'm having an Ed Asner moment: "You've got quirks... I don't like quirks."

Haven't suffered any of those, for now, though; I've been running it for the last two weeks or so, as I don't like to recommend using something I haven't tried myself thoroughly. But if there's something awkward I'll report it here.

I love the opener line of the gKnujOn page:

Quote:

Hours of searching lead to frustration, frustration leads to overdue creation, creation leads to the dark side of the spam. die spam, die (it's german )

When I last used Freepops, I used it on/with/for an archaic Juno E-mail Service (ya know, the original "free web" guys [with a floating ad banner] afaik anyways) and well, it seemed "whenever" Juno would mess with (edit) something on the server-side, it would screw around with Freepops message gathering Like, I'd get bits and pieces of javascript code and other "page elements" in my "downloaded" messages


Basically, if the E-mail service doesn't mess with their layouts too often (to include code, scripts, images, etc.) - then it works out great

I like freepops, but find it unnecessary for gmail since you can download the spam folder over imap.

exactly May as well use IMAP with Gmail.

But for the "web1.0" (err, would that be "mail1.0"? lol). It works great

'Cept for those of us who are regularly on the road and don't want to waste hotspot time/sparse bandwidth out there, and certainly no money either on those ridiculously expensive GPRS or whatever wireless they're pushing over cell phones, for which good old POP3 decidedly does the trick - effectively and efficiently.

Plus, I'll repeat: Hotmail/Live. Working like a charm for Web 0.2 inclined me.