FreePOPs is an easily extensible program, which allows access to the most varied resources through the POP3 protocol.
Mainly, 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.

 

Home Page: http://www.freepops.org
Packager: Marco Giorgi   
Distribution:    Ubuntu    Kubuntu    and    derivates
Architecture: amd64, i386

 

Updated FreePOPs's packages (included graphical updaters fltk and gnome), are now availables on Launchpad and can be downloaded through your package manager (i.e. apt, Synaptic, KPackageKit, etc.).

 

- To add FreePOPs's archives in your package manager, just edit (with root privileges) the file: "/etc/apt/sources.list"

(Ex. from terminal type: "sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list" or "sudo kate /etc/apt/sources.list" or "sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list")

and add the follow line:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/marco/freepops/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main

NOTE:
Replace YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE with your K/Ubuntu version currently in use. For example: lucid (for Ubuntu 10.04), karmic (for Ubuntu 9.10), jaunty (for Ubuntu 9.04), intrepid (for Ubuntu 8.10), hardy (for Ubuntu 8.04), dapper (for Ubuntu 6.06).

More informations about add packages archive in your system, are availables here

- Next from terminal, add my public key so that you can verify the package's authenticity.

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 3A33ACD8

- Again from terminal type:

sudo apt-get update

- Finally install FreePOPs through your package manager.

- FreePOPs will start automatically at every system startup.