Any webmail desktop clients out there?

Question

What I am looking for is desktop software that basically views your web based email from different accounts. Nothing that downloads your email. Just basically a multi web based email account viewer.

They seem to be non-existent. I have searched high and wide.

Gmail allows you to link accounts and switch accounts, but it is bulky, faulty, and just a pain in the butt. And I don't want them linked.

Gmail also allows you to add accounts, so you can send mail on behalf of your other accounts, but that is sloppy and prone to errors.

You can turn a Chrome window or a FF window into an application, but that still does not solve multi accounts from one one provider.

You can run separate FF profiles at once, so they have their own sessions, but if you have 30 email accounts, that still doesn't solve anything.

There are FF addons for multi gmail accounts, but they all do not work correctly on some level, and some lately have even stopped working altogether.

There is software called GeeMail, but it is only for 1 Gmail account, not multiple. This is exactly what I want, but for multiple accounts.

MailPlane looks to be exactly what I want, but it is for Mac. And I don't do Mac.

I use Thunderbird IMAP for my regular personal and select work email accounts. But still, IMAP does download your email onto your computer....just differently than POP does, so it is not what I am looking for. And I don't want these email accounts to be in the same program as my personal and work. I need them separate.

And I do not want any parts of these email accounts to be downloaded onto my computer, so just using a separate pop/IMAP software will not work.

So if anyone has any ideas that I have not covered, please I would like to hear them.

Answer 1

Yes there is one. Actually there are several. They're called Web Browsers. ;)

Most webmail services offer a system called IMAP for connection to an email client. IMAP gives you much the same function as an Exchange/Outlook connection, where the email stays on the server and you use the client to "do" things with the email which changes are then replicated on the server.

If the reason you don't want to download the messages is because you still want to access them via the web interface (something hard to do using POP), configure your email client to use IMAP and you won't have this problem.

Answer 2

You want to have Mail Notifier. From my user-side experience

• YAMN 2in1 (Yet Another Mail Notifier)plugin for Miranda
• YandexOnline (rebranded and expanded PSI) (for which at least one Yandex-account is needed) - Twitter, FB, e-mail notifications for any amount of pop3 accs

will serve your needs, but mileage can vary

Answer 3

I use Windows Live Mail to do this, available as part of Windows Live Essentials. Admitedly, most of my accounts are with Hotmail, but it advertises that it works with GMail and Yahoo accounts as well.