Poppy for Windows
Version 3.3.0
Copyright © 1999, 2001 Jan G.P. Sijm
poppy@yoursurfice.com
http://www.yoursurfice.com
About Poppy
Poppy is a small e-mail notification utility that can check multiple POP3 accounts for new mail. It will display an icon in the taskbar notification area and this icon will change whenever new mail is waiting. Poppy can also optionally play a sound or display a small popup window.
Poppy was developed in C++ using the Virtual Windows Class Library (VXCL) to ensure a minimal footprint (about 140Kb apart from shared DLL's). Please take a moment to visit Todd Osborne's www.vxcl.org site if you are a C++ programmer to checkout this class library.
Please feel free to distribute this utility to anyone you like. I hereby donate it to the public domain as freeware and hope that you will enjoy using it as much as i enjoyed developing it.Installation
After downloading Poppy, simply run the Poppy.EXE program and follow the instructions.
Revision Summary
| 3.3.0 | 02 May 2001 | Added an option to reset the count after starting the mail program. |
| 3.2.0 | 09 Apr 2001 |
Added the 'Number of seconds before the first check' option. When an error occurs, Poppy will tell a bit more about the reason of the error. |
| 3.1.0 | 02 Apr 2001 |
Added the 'Enabled' menu item to quickly enable/disable Poppy. Changed the homepage to www.yoursurfice.com (finally my own domain). |
| 3.0.2 | 15 Jan 2001 |
Now uses the January 5th release of VWCL. Better support for 'intermediate responses' displayed by some POP3 servers. |
| 3.0.1 | 04 Jan 2001 |
Changed the homepage address to http://home.hccnet.nl/jan.sijm Some internal performance improvements. |
| 3.0.0 | 24 Dec 2000 |
It's now possible to specify a separate sound for each account. Some internal maintenance updates. |
| 2.9.0 | 16 Dec 2000 | Fix a minor bug that may result in ports not being closed. |
| 2.8.0 | 03 Dec 2000 |
Fix a bug in the Account sub menu. A singe click on the taskbar icon now displays the last status. |
| 2.7.0 | 12 Nov 2000 |
Added the Accounts menu item to quickly enable/disable accounts. Added the Visit Web Site menu item. Improved loading of configuration when run for the first time. |
| 2.6.0 | 11 Nov 2000 | Internal maintenance release. Now uses the October 16th release of VWCL. |
| 2.5.0 | 29 Oct 2000 |
The POP3 server timeout can now be configured using the Options dialog Added an option to enable/disable automatically hiding the notification window. Some minor other changes. |
| 2.4.0 | 11 Oct 2000 |
Finally Poppy can be configured to only play the sound and/or display the notification when NEW mail has arrived since the last time Poppy checked the POP3 server. Added a Help option to the menu and created the corresponding Help file. |
| 2.3.0 | 23 Sep 2000 |
Increased the maximum length of the account name and POP3 server fields. The mail program field in the Options dialog is now editable to make sure that command line options can be appended. The input focus now remains with the active program when the status window is displayed. |
| 2.2.0 | 13 Sep 2000 |
The POP3 port number is now configurable. Changed the user interface (Thanks to Leo Gagne again). |
| 2.1.0 | 11 Sep 2000 |
Do not play a sound when only errors have occured and there are no new messages. Changed the Options dialog (Thanks to Leo Gagne). |
| 2.0.0 | 24 Aug 2000 |
Fixed a failed assertion in a very unusual situation. Errors are now reported per account in the notification window. Changed major version number, because i wanted to skip 1.13.0 :-) |
| 1.12.0 | 31 Jul 2000 |
Fixed a problem that could cause Poppy to wait forever for a response. Added debug and error logging (through /l command line and debug build). |
| 1.11.0 | 08 Jul 2000 | Added an option to enable / disable accounts. |
| 1.10.1 | 03 Jul 2000 | Maintenance release : Modified for the latest release of VWCL. |
| 1.10.0 | 17 May 2000 | Some POP3 servers produce intermediate responses before the actual reponse. Added a fix to handle these situations. |
| 1.9.1 | 02 Apr 2000 | Fixed a problem that would prevent the icons to be displayed on some systems. |
| 1.9.0 | 15 Mar 2000 |
Popup menu will now be displayed relative to the current mouse position to accomodate users that have their taskbar on the top of the screen. The status window will be dispplayed near the taskbar aswell. |
| 1.8.0 | 05 Mar 2000 | Added the 'Mail Program' option in the popup menu and the ability to start this mail program when the icon is double clicked. |
| 1.7.0 | 03 Jan 2000 |
Increased the size of the User ID field. Modified for the latest release of VWCL. |
| 1.6.0 | 04 Nov 1999 | Classes developed for Poppy have been added to the VWCL library. Poppy now uses the official release versions of these classes instead of my own pre-release development versions. |
| 1.5.0 | 02 Nov 1999 | An account can now be assigned a name that will be displayed in the options dialog and in the popup window. |
| 1.4.0 | 31 Oct 1999 | Added popup window used to display the message count per account when mail is available. Use of this popup window is configurable through the option dialog and can be displayed manually using the 'Last Status' menu item. |
| 1.3.0 | 27 Oct 1999 | Added check to make sure that only one instance can be started. |
| 1.2.0 | 25 Oct 1999 |
Added option to call 'Check Now' function when icon is double clicked. Fixed bug that would prevent saving the account information. |
| 1.1.0 | 23 Oct 1999 | Added option to play sound when mail available. |
| 1.0.0 | 21 Oct 1999 | Public release of Poppy for Windows. |