Daniel F. Administrators Posted June 25, 2004 Administrators Share Posted June 25, 2004 The "beauty" of Microsoft's .net ? But as you imagine, someone had to do the same for GMail. Called "pgtgm" (Pop goes the GMail), this windows-only proxy-like program that allows you to use any pop3 email program with your GMail "web-only" account, that is, it works like MrPostman, acting as a pop3 server to your email program (which you have to point to localhost, 127.0.0.1 as the server), and then, the program fetches the messages one by one over a http connection). Heard of the "middleware" buzzword?? Well, this would be it. The program needs the .Net Framework installed first (a 20-MB download), and some have called the resulting program a memory hog: "downloading 20meg framework to run 73k program is really justifable (sic)" wondered one user in the NeoWin forums. "Doesn't work, and uses 45mb of ram" said another. In the defense of the program, another dot-net advocate replied: "as for 45 meg of ram, thats just the way .NET apps work. they allocate ram in advance". "This program does not steal passwords and send them to me. Source code will be available to prove this when development has progressed" said the author. So far, I checked his site and source code is still not available. Caveat Emptor. Find the thread about PGTGM here I just hope someone with enough time adds GMail compatibility to the cross-platform, Java2 based Mr.Postman. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16677 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophism Posted June 25, 2004 Share Posted June 25, 2004 you realize that idbuythatforadollar is the one who made the program? (atleast to my knowledge) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwBen Posted June 26, 2004 Share Posted June 26, 2004 you realize that idbuythatforadollar is the one who made the program? (atleast to my knowledge) That's why it is posted here ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idbuythatforadollar Posted July 4, 2004 Share Posted July 4, 2004 look out for 1.0... coming soon :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hadiz Posted July 4, 2004 Share Posted July 4, 2004 Pretty cool, congrats man (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baseballpro9 Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 Shop tiger direct :D you wont go wrong :rofl: :pinch: :whistle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xer34 Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 Damn. I never thought that little program would go so far. Good job man. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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