Retrieve your email automatically. Or delete spam. Or kill modem-choking big messages without downloading them. Run it standalone, from a DOS batch file, from Windows Scripting or from VBA. The really cool thing is that you can read messages in your normal mail software or read the same message in several different mail programs at the same time.

I needed to automate the download of certain files by email. Lucky for me, the Exchange server I needed to hit supported the POP3 mail protocol that almost everybody uses. So I was able to write a very generic tool. You can run it standalone (see the picture below), or you can automate it via Windows Scripting, DOS batch files, or any VBA client!

In addition to all the advantages automation offers, POP3 Internet Mail Retriever solves three other common problems even if you don't use automation:
1. First, it can identify "spam". Nothing is foolproof, but I figure if a message isnt addressed to you and the clown who sent it used someone elses mail server, its spam. You can delete all of it in one shot if you want.
2. Second, it can delete (or just skip) those modem-choking huge messages you sometimes get. How many times have you set your work email to auto-forward to your home account just to check in and find you have three 15 megabyte databases you dont need. With this program, you can delete those nasty pigs without touching your other mail. I manage this trick because no messages are actually downloaded until you try to read them.
3. Third, it lets you pick the email software you want to use to view your email. Sort of... If your email programs use file associations, things will work fine. How many times have you downloaded your email just to wish youd downloaded this one message with your "other" email program? Maybe one of your email programs handles attachments or graphics or embedded items better. Ive got things set up so I can view my email with Netscape, Internet Explorer, Notepad, Outlook Express, and WinZip. Yes, thats "and", not "or". I can be viewing the same email in all five programs at the same time.

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this email tool software.