At first glance, you might be forgiven for thinking that there's not really
much use for a program of this nature. But think again. For a start, the
program doesn't touch any of the actual messages in your mailbox. They still
remain on the server, in the state (unread or read) that they were. The
attachments remain too. There's now simply an extra copy on your PC. And
there's a built-in scheduler, so it'll automatically fetch new attachments as
soon as they arrive. Why is this useful? Because it allows you to turn your
PC into a very handy way of receiving images from friends, clients,
colleagues, family, or whoever. Just set up an email account on a free
service that the program supports, tell everyone to send their files to that
address, and they'll instantly end up on your own computer as soon as they
arrive. There are other uses too. If you're about to prune your Gmail or
Hotmail account, and remove years' worth of old messages and unwanted stuff,
run this program beforehand in order to pull down any attached files that
might be useful. You can then go through them at your leisure. Yup, this
thing could be very useful indeed.
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