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| ?POPFile Cross Platform | ?POPFile Cross Platform | ||
| - | !The Cross Platform version can be used on any platform (including Windows) where Perl is already installed. If Perl is not installed on your Windows system then you will need to download and install Perl before you can use POPFile. Note that some POPFile functions require components that are not included in a standard Perl distribution therefore you may need to install several extra Perl components in order to run POPFile. The POPFile wiki has further details on [/ | + | !The Cross Platform version can be used on any platform (including Windows) where Perl is already installed. If Perl is not installed on your Windows system then you will need to download and install Perl before you can use POPFile. Note that some POPFile functions require components that are not included in a standard Perl distribution therefore you may need to install several extra Perl components in order to run POPFile. The POPFile wiki has further details on [[/ |
| - | ===== Using the POPFile 1.1.1 (or later) on Windows 9x, Windows Millennium or Windows NT ===== | + | ===== Using the POPFile 1.1.1 (or later) |
| The POPFile 1.1.1 (or later) installer uses a version of Perl which is not supported on these older versions of Windows. It also installs six programs (popfile.exe, | The POPFile 1.1.1 (or later) installer uses a version of Perl which is not supported on these older versions of Windows. It also installs six programs (popfile.exe, | ||
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| ^__We do not recommend__ you use the POPFile 1.1.1 (or later) installer to install POPFile on Windows 9x, Windows Millennium or Windows NT systems. Although POPFile may appear to run OK after using the installer on these old systems, we have no way to tell how reliable such a system will be - if something goes wrong you could lose some incoming email.^ | ^__We do not recommend__ you use the POPFile 1.1.1 (or later) installer to install POPFile on Windows 9x, Windows Millennium or Windows NT systems. Although POPFile may appear to run OK after using the installer on these old systems, we have no way to tell how reliable such a system will be - if something goes wrong you could lose some incoming email.^ | ||
| - | We do not know if any users are still using the Windows version of POPFile with Windows 9x, Windows Millennium or Windows NT. It is now more than three months | + | We do not know if any users are still using the Windows version of POPFile with Windows 9x, Windows Millennium or Windows NT. It is now more than a month since the intention to drop support for Windows 9x, Windows Millennium and Windows NT was mentioned |
| - | As mentioned above, | + | As mentioned above, users of Windows 9x, Windows Millennium or Windows NT systems |
| - | If you want further information on getting POPFile 1.1.1 (or later) running on Windows 9x, Windows Millennium or Windows NT systems please post to the [/ | + | If you want further information on getting POPFile 1.1.1 (or later) running on Windows 9x, Windows Millennium or Windows NT systems please post to the [[/ |
| - | ===== Using the POPFile 1.1.0 (or earlier) on Windows 9x, Windows Millennium or Windows NT ===== | + | ===== Using the POPFile 1.1.0 (or earlier) |
| The POPFile 1.1.0 (or earlier) installer can be used on these older versions of Windows. There are no known issues specific to these versions of Windows. (The restriction that concurrent POP3 connections cannot be enabled when POPFile' | The POPFile 1.1.0 (or earlier) installer can be used on these older versions of Windows. There are no known issues specific to these versions of Windows. (The restriction that concurrent POP3 connections cannot be enabled when POPFile' | ||
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