Installation/Usage Instructions

Installation Instructions
Usage Instructions

Installation Instructions

The first thing to do, is to extract the download.zip archive to a directory in your Program Files directory,
in my case this is C:\Program Files (x86)\.

Next you're going to need to locate installutil.exe.
It should be in one of the folders under C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\
in my case this was C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\ (for some reason there wasn't one in the v3.5 directory).

Open a command prompt (hit Windows Key+R, type "cmd.exe", and hit Enter), and drag installutil.exe from Windows Explorer onto it.

Add a space, and then the path to pop3forwarder.exe,
in my case this wound up looking like this:

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\installutil.exe C:/"Program Files (x86)"/pop3forwarder/pop3forwarder.exe

Hit Enter and the service will install itself.

Before you continue, you're going to want to setup your POP3 accounts (see Usage Instructions).

Open the Services MMC (hit Windows Key+R, type "services.msc", and hit Enter). Find "POP3 Forwarder", right-click it, and hit "Start".

Usage Instructions

POP3 Forwarder operates by reading in POP3 accounts from an INI file when it is started.

To add, remove, or alter accounts, you must change this INI file and then restart the service so the values will be re-read.

To restart a service, open the Services MMC (hit Windows Key+R, type "services.msc", and hit Enter)
find "POP3 Forwarder", right-click it, and hit "Restart".

This INI file is located in the directory where you installed POP3 Forwarder, and is called config.ini.
Open it with notepad.

In this file, each POP3 account is represented by one line, comprised of 7 values in order, with exactly one space between each value, and no leading or trailing spaces.
Lines beginning with "#" are recognized as being comments and are ignored by the program entirely.

The seven values must be placed in order, and must contain no spaces:

1. Hostname or IP address of the POP3 server
2. Username to log into the POP3 server
3. Password to log into the POP3 server
4. Delay (in milliseconds—i.e. one minute would be "60000") between checking for new mail
5. Hostname or IP address of the SMTP server
6. Address to send forwarded mail to
7. Address to forward mail from

Once you have entered all the information for all your accounts, save the file, close it, and either start or restart (as applicable) POP3 Forwarder.

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