Email Remover At a Glance

What is Email Remover?

Email Remover is simple program that you can use to delete mails from the server without having to download them. It saves you time when you received too many unwanted mails.  It eases your life when you don’t have a fast connection to the Internet.  It relieves your worries of getting viruses from your mails. And it’s a “life saver” for people whose mailboxes are clogged!

How Does it Work?

Email Remover initially downloads just the headers and not the entire mail contents. This enables Email Remover to quickly provide the information you need to determine whether a mail is desirable or not.  Unwanted mails can be immediately marked for deletion and with a simple button click, mails can be purged in an instant.

Technically, it operates very much like a complete email program (such as Outlook Express, Eudora, etc.), except that you cannot reply to the mail sent to you.  It uses the same protocols that an email program uses, such as Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3) to communicate with the mail servers.

Why Use Email Remover?

It is simple to setup.

It is easy to use!

It is safe.

It supports multiple accounts.

It can preview and save the mail without email program.

It supports HMTL mail previewing.

It can launch your external Mail Program (Outlook, Eudora, etc.).

It can be accessed easily with tray icon (For registered users only).

And most of all, it can be used for FREE.


Using Email Remover

Email Remover is made for people who are too busy to learn complicated email software and just want to get the task done, which is to delete unwanted mails. Using it is as easy as following the simple instructions on the screen.

Each screen is designed to be user-friendly to make it possible to be used by almost anyone who has little computer knowledge.  In addition, you can always click on the little question mark at upper right hand corner of the screen and then click on the area where you don’t understand to get an instant explanation.

Here are the key steps in using Email Remover.

1. Setup

2. Retrieve mail headers from the server

3. Marking Mails for Deletion

4. Delete the marked mails

5. Exit


Setup Email Remover
1. Setting up Email Remover

When you first use Email Remover, it will ask you to provide the information described below to help it connect to your mail server:

  Your mail server name (also called pop server)

  Your user id (also referred to as account)

  Your password

  Server Port number (default number is 110, sometimes there is no need to change this value)

Your ISP (Internet Service Provider) provides the above information upon subscription.  These are the same settings you place in your Email Program.  If you need further assistance on this matter, call your ISP’s technical support.

See also: Advance Setup features, Using Email Remover


Retrieve Mail Headers
2. Retrieve Mail Headers from the Server

After you have setup Email Remover, click the NEXT button to retrieve mail headers.   Email Remover will start to download all mail headers.

Check Size Only

This feature is useful when you receive lots of junk mails (more than a 100 mails) or when you just want to delete junk mails without knowing their contents.  With this option checked, Email Remover will not even download the headers, it will just check the statistics and tells you how many mails are there and their sizes.  Using this feature will save you time, but information such as from whom the mails came from, the subject of the mails, or the date/time they were sent will be unknown.

See also: Using Email Remover


Marking Mails for Deletion
3. Marking Mails for Deletion

After retrieving the mail headers, Email Remover will show you a list of mails.  Here, you can mark the mails you want to delete by ticking the check box at the left side of each mail header entry.  Clicking on the NEXT button will delete all marked mails.

Check All Button

Clicking the “Check All” button will mark all mails for deletion.

Uncheck All Button

Clicking the “Uncheck All” button will unmark all mails.

Invert Button

Clicking the “Invert” button will mark all unmarked mails and unmark all marked mails.

See Also: Previewing Mails, Using Email Remover


Deleting Mails
4. Deleting Mails

After you have marked the mails for deletion, you can proceed with deletion by simply clicking the NEXT button.  Email Remover will ask you to confirm the action. Click on the YES button if you are sure you would want to delete your marked mails.

See Also: Using Email Remover


Exiting Email Remover
5. Exiting Email Remover

After deleting unwanted mails, just click the FINISH button to exit.

Launch External Email Program

If you want to run your external email program when Email Remover exits, you can tick this check box.  If it is your first time to use this feature, Email Remover will ask you to configure the Email Program.

Run as Tray Icon

Email Remover will be launched as a tray Icon if you tick this check box.  Instead of exiting, Email Remover will simply hide itself at the system tray (where the clock and volume control are located).  You can then right click on the icon to check your mail instantly without passing through the Wizard. Clicking on the icon using the left mouse button will open the Wizard.

See Also: Configuring External Mail Program, Using Email Remover


Previewing Mails

To preview a mail, right click on any entry and choose preview entire message, first 10 lines or first 100 lines. The message or part of the message will then be shown in a preview window.

View Source

Clicking on the “Source” tab allows you to review the raw data (the actual contents received by Email Remover from the mail server).

Save As

You may save the message in the preview window as a text file (.txt) or an email file (.eml).  A text file can be open using Notepad, while a Email file can be opened using Microsoft Outlook Express.

Note that only the part of the mail that is being previewed will be included when you save.  To save the complete mail contents, you need to preview the entire message.


Configuring External Mail Program

An external mail program is a software that provides full mail functionality.   For example, Outlook Express, Eudora, Netscape Mail etc.  Email Remover allows you to launch an external mail program prior to exiting, but you need to first configure the email program.

The following information are needed to configure an External Mail Program:

  Name:  Specify the name of the program (you may name it freely)

               For example:  Outlook Express

  Target: The complete path where the program can be found

               For example:

                      "C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\MSIMN.EXE"

  Start In: Startup directory  (leave it blank when you are not sure)

  Run:      Specified default Windows style when Email Program Opens

                Normal, Maximize, or Minimize

You may configure as many External Mail Programs as you wish by clicking the Add button from the Advance Tab.

See Also: Advance Setup features


Advance Setup

There are three tabs in Advance Setup.

Accounts Tab

Accounts tab allow you to setup multiple email accounts.  Click on the Add button to add a new account. The Delete button removes an existing account.  Double click on an existing account to edit it.

Programs Tab

Programs tab allow you to setup multiple External Email Programs. Click on the Add button to add a new program. The Delete button removes an existing program.  Double click on an existing program to edit it.    For more details, see also configure external email program.

Others Tab

Others tab allow you to configure advance options for Email Remover.

Creating a Log File

To report a problem with Email Remover, you may activate the logging feature.  By activating this feature, Email Remover will create a log file indicating its communication activities with the server.  By sending back the log file to the author, the file allows us to systematically diagnose the problem that you have encountered.

Number of Line To Download

By default, Email Remover only downloads the first 10 lines of the mail body contents.  You may adjust this number if necessary.


What's New in Version 3.0
What’s new in version 3?

It’s been almost four years since the last release of Email Remover 2.4.  Version 3 is a completely new version with new a face.  It looks even better, more professional and simpler!

Though it retains the simplicity of its Wizard interface, it now provides a new tray Icon feature that allows more savvy users to easily access Email Remover and quickly check any email account.

Other import feature includes support for HTML previewing, better security with use of password encryption, “keep alive” function to maintain connection from dropping, more intuitive help feature for novice users and much more!


System Requirements

Email Remover’s system requirement is simple.  It should be run on an IBM PC compatible. Sorry, there is no Macintosh version, unless someone is willing to contribute a Mac to me.

   Windows 95/98 /NT/2000/XP

  16MB RAM

   Approximately 1MB Hard disk space

See Also: Installation, Technical Support


Installation
Installation and Uninstallation

Installation

Email Remover is packed in eremove.zip and comes with a setup program.   To install, unzip the file, click on the setup program and follow instructions.

Un-installation

To uninstall Email Remover, use the Add/Remove Program feature from the Control Panel.

Files

Though Email Remover comes with Setup program, it only needs to the following files to run properly.

  eremove.exe  - Email Remover executable program

  eremove.hlp  - on line help and readme in help format

  eremove.cnt  - help file table of contents


Technical Support
Contact and Registration

Check out Email Remover’s web site for latest information and updates.

     http://www.email-remover. com

Email your queries to support@email-remover.com

To register your software,  please visit http://www. email-remover.com


Copyright and Version history

Email Remover version 3.0

Copyright Victor Javier ©  May 17, 2002.

Updated on July 21, 98 for ver 2.4

Updated on July 4, 98 for ver 2.3

Updated on May 22, 98 for ver 2.2

Updated on April 20, 98 for ver 2.0

Updated on April 6, 98 for ver 1.11 Beta

Created on Mar 3, 98 for ver 1.0


Pop server is the name of your mail server.  It typically looks something like mail.yourcompanyname.com, mail.yourispname.com.  You can also find these setting from your regular mail program.  When in doubt, you can ask your ISP’s technical support or network administrator.


User id is also called account.  It is usually the part of your email address to the left of @ sign.


Password is the security code provided to you by your ISP or LAN administrator for your particular account.


Port is normally 110.  Change this only when you are an advance user.


Click this button to configure advance options of Email Remover.  These include multiple email accounts and external email programs.


Check this box if you want your password to be remembered.


Click this button to move to next activity.


Lists all the accounts you have configured. You can select one of them and click on the properties to change its settings.


Click this button to create a new account


Click this button to remove one or more accounts selected.


Click this button to change the settings of the last selected account.


Lists all the external email programs you have configured.


Click this button to setup a new external mail program.


Click this button to remove one or more selected programs.


Click this button to change the settings of the last selected program.


Click this button to confirm changes.


Click this button to cancel the action.


Click this button to get more help.


Click this button to modify mail settings at the next step


Click this button to retrieve mail information at the next step


Click this button to go to Finish screen


Lists all the accounts you have configured


Check this box to retrieve mail statistics only


Check this box to run your chosen email program upon closing of the wizard


Check this box to launch Email Remover inside the system tray upon closing of the wizard or on the next launch


Name of the program


Complete path where the program can be found


Startup directory


Specified default Windows style when Email Program is launched


Name of the email account


Click on a header column to sort the items according to the columns contents


Mail information. To preview mail contents, perform a right click and choose your desired preview option


Click this button to mark all mails for deletion


Click this button to unmark all marked mails


Click this button to mark all unmarked mails and vice versa


Check this box to retrieve your mails immediately upon launch of Email Remover


Check this box to create a file indicating communication activities between Email remover and the server


Number of mail lines to be downloaded from the server


Plain text mail contents


HTML mail contents


Actual mail contents received from the server


Click this button to save the source mail contents