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| Email Remover 2.4 | Utilities |
| Gatekeeping tools such as
e-mail utilities and firewalls preferably should be used at entry points into networks to
prevent electronic invasion. One such e-mail utility that provides a tool for screening
e-mail is Email Remover. That is, prior to invoking an e-mail client application, such as
Qualcomm Eudora Pro, Microsoft Outlook Express or Netscape Messenger, the Email Remover
“screen” functions as a precursor to actually downloading e-mail messages and
any attached files onto a local hard disk and network. What sense does it make to download junk mail onto your valuable electronic real estate? What sense does it make to download attached files that are apt to pollute the local electronic environment? Clearly none! Email Remover saves you this trouble of downloading unwanted e-mail and, indeed, potentially harmful viruses and other electronic pollution. This is accomplished by enabling you to retrieve e-mail header information — sender, subject, date, etc. — and then, allowing you to select e-mail to be deleted from your ISP’s mail server. Dastardly e-mails never see the light of day of your e-mail inbox situated on your hard disk. Once a connection with your ISP is established, you activate Email Remover. The main screen provides three choices: (1) change existing settings; (2) go to Finish Screen without checking mails; and (3) retrieve mail headers using the specified e-mail account. The settings option is required to set up one or more e-mail accounts — specifying the associated user ID, password and Pop Server for each account. You also can specify whether e-mail should be screened immediately upon startup of Email Remover, whether tracing to the Email Remover Log should be activated and the e-mail client that automatically should be started when Email Remover has completed its screening. The skip to Finish Screen option short-circuits further screening operations; it provides a quick exit. The retrieval option is, of course, the heart of the utility: e-mails are delivered in the Email Remover screen for your consideration. There is also a check box for only informing you of the size of each e-mail, but not providing header information. Other functions displayed on the modest Email Remover screen include a conventional Help button, a Next button and a Cancel button. The Help feature is somewhat abbreviated, but generally adequate. Once you are ready to screen e-mails (and have clicked the Next button), Email Remover first advises you of the number of e-mails populating your inbox on the mail server and the total bytes associated with these messages. On the same screen, a tabulation of each e-mail is displayed showing whether or not the message has been designated as being high priority, whether any files will be attached if the message is downloaded, the date and time of the message, the subject and name of the sender. At this point, you may be able to eliminate e-mails having peculiar or unfamiliar names, having no subject or unappealing subjects. To preview an e-mail you may simply double-click it. If you elect to delete a previewed e-mail, just highlight it by clicking. You also may perform preview operations by invoking the right click triggered menu. This menu permits you to preview a predetermined number of lines of the message, to retrieve the first 100 lines of the message, to retrieve the entire message, to select all of the messages for deletion, to clear all of the messages from being deleted and to invert the current deletion status of the current message. Once you have designated each e-mail for either being deleted or a pass-through, Email Remover confirms that the deletions should be effectuated. If you confirm, then the highlighted e-mails are deleted from the mail server, and then the remaining (passed through) e-mails are downloaded to your hard drive. Note, however, if you have not opted to have Email Remover automatically invoke your e-mail client before closing, then obviously this actually downloading of e-mails onto your local, on-site inbox will not occur until you manually open the e-mail client application and are simultaneously connected to the mail server. It should be noted that there is no provision for defining filters to automatically highlight predictable e-mails for deletion. The only “filtering” available is achieved by human intervention as described. For normal and frequent use during the day, having built-in filters could be a significant timesaver. Nevertheless, the manual filtering procedure takes minimal time and, potentially, avoids having to spend inordinate time recovering from successful electronic invasion. Thus, by using Email Remover as an e-mail screening tool, you will have taken reasonable precautions to assure the safety and integrity of your valuable law firm and client electronically stored data. Unsavory or potentially unsavory electronic pollution and other forms of contamination will have been barred from entry onto to your hard drive and network. |
Victor Javier eremover.bizhosting.com Windows 95/98/2000 Free Reviewed by Al Harrison, intellectual property lawyer, Harrison & Egbert, Houston, Texas PROS CONS VERDICT |
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