Undoing the PopPeeper Pro 5 vs PopPeeper 5 Gordian Knot
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2020 8:58 am
I hate to have to say this but esumsoft seems to have dived into the swirling maelstrom of progress by confusion by continually referring to one of its products when the content is about another.
I see many references here referring to PopPeeper 5.x, particularly its download, but all that happens is that PopPeeper Pro 5.x steps into centre stage and takes over the act. I get unnecessary icon alerts, pop-up messages, notices that won't go away even when i've acted on them. Speed bumps.
Marketing by redirection is unbecoming at the best of times, but I didn't ever think I'd see it here.
PopPeeper Pro [my preferred nomenclature, as per the executable] seems to be the only product we can access. Yes, it does appear that PopPeeper Pro devolves into PopPeeper after some days, but there is no confirmation nor helping hand anywhere that I can see that describes what the product is doing and what the implications are. Obscurantism prevails.
And, yes, I understand that software needs to be paid for, but avoiding description is as bad as a politician answering a question that hasn't been asked, and we see a lot of that these days.
Frankly, I'd like to pay for a product variation that isn't offered. While I love PopPeeper, I have absolutely no need for another email client to compliment my venerable desktop Outlook. I use PP only as a header previewer/deleter, and $50 (in my currency) is too much for 4/5ths of a product that I don't use.
As it is, since the proliferation of IMAP accounts, PopPeeper/Pro's database just keeps building up and up, whereas in the old POP days, I'd preview headers, take them into desktop Outlook, and PopPeeper would be empty. Now PopPeeper/Pro is holding a record of 15,562 messages that I really don't need to know about. Indeed, at times, when I start PP, it appears to do nothing for minutes, and I might start it again. Two instances. I've found that it's building up links to those 15,000 headers again.
I'm sorry, Jeff, but I'm facing a puzzling Gordian Knot.
I see many references here referring to PopPeeper 5.x, particularly its download, but all that happens is that PopPeeper Pro 5.x steps into centre stage and takes over the act. I get unnecessary icon alerts, pop-up messages, notices that won't go away even when i've acted on them. Speed bumps.
Marketing by redirection is unbecoming at the best of times, but I didn't ever think I'd see it here.
PopPeeper Pro [my preferred nomenclature, as per the executable] seems to be the only product we can access. Yes, it does appear that PopPeeper Pro devolves into PopPeeper after some days, but there is no confirmation nor helping hand anywhere that I can see that describes what the product is doing and what the implications are. Obscurantism prevails.
And, yes, I understand that software needs to be paid for, but avoiding description is as bad as a politician answering a question that hasn't been asked, and we see a lot of that these days.
Frankly, I'd like to pay for a product variation that isn't offered. While I love PopPeeper, I have absolutely no need for another email client to compliment my venerable desktop Outlook. I use PP only as a header previewer/deleter, and $50 (in my currency) is too much for 4/5ths of a product that I don't use.
As it is, since the proliferation of IMAP accounts, PopPeeper/Pro's database just keeps building up and up, whereas in the old POP days, I'd preview headers, take them into desktop Outlook, and PopPeeper would be empty. Now PopPeeper/Pro is holding a record of 15,562 messages that I really don't need to know about. Indeed, at times, when I start PP, it appears to do nothing for minutes, and I might start it again. Two instances. I've found that it's building up links to those 15,000 headers again.
I'm sorry, Jeff, but I'm facing a puzzling Gordian Knot.