Best Free Software for Windows

Web Mail Accessory

YPOPs! is an application that provides POP3 and SMTP access to Yahoo! Mail.

FreePOPs is an easily extensible program, which allows access to the most varied resources through the POP3 protocol. It can be used to download mail from the most famous webmails, but it could also be used as an aggregator for RSS feeds and much more. This way it is possible to get all your messages in your favorite email client. Check out FreePoPstutorial .

MrPostman is a java program that allows you to access Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and other webmail services directly from your favorite mail client. It converts the web pages of your favorite webmail provider to e-mails and provides the standard POP interface to your mail client (e.g. Outlook Express, Netscape or Mozilla Mail, Thunderbird, Pegasus).

POP Peeper  is an email notifier that runs in your Windows task bar and alerts you when you have new email on your POP3, IMAP (with IDLE support), Hotmail\MSN\LiveMail, Yahoo, Mail.com, MyWay, Excite, Lycos.com, RediffMail, Juno and NetZero accounts.

POPTray is a full-featured, customizable, e-mail notifier, but keeping its ease of use.