Email on flash drive

[David_UK]

Hi

I'd like to have a portable email application. i.Scribe looks good, and I can install this on a flash drive.

Can anyone recommend a webmail email provider (a free one!) that will allow me to check mail online, or download to i.Scribe via the usual POP3 method?

Thanks

 

[rogueeskimo]

you could get yahoo email and then use ypops. it makes your computer think its a server, so your FREE email account can be used as POP3.

first get a yahoo account http://www.yahoo.com

ypops is downloadable free at http://www.ypopsemail.com
(instructions are on the site for all different email apps)

then you could use some kind of email app such as thunderbird or outlook

 

[4W4K3]

gmail has pop3 features. its free and easy.

 

[dave597]

if you use outlook you can export all your mail to a .pst file which you can then use as a backup on a flash drive.

 

[David_UK]

Thanks for the suggestions. i.Scribe uses ESMTP, instead of SMTP authentication. I don't fully understand the issues this raises but I gather it can't be used with Yahoo.
Has anyone else had experience of running POP3 from a USB stick? If so, what email app did you use?

 

[David_UK]

Update:
1. Thunderbird mobile was promising, but swells to a whopping 25MB on the USB stick.
2. I don't think our corporate firewall will allow POP exchanges anyway.