Tuesday, May 7, 2013
To use the program, first grab a copy of the download, unzip it, and install both components (IPFetcher.msi and IMFetcherBackend.msi). There's no adware or other hassles. Reboot to ensure the IPFetcher service is available and ready for use.
Click Start > All
Programs > Softraven > IPFetcher, and click either "Set FTP" or
"Set Mail", depending on which method you'd like to use. Fill in the
form with the various details (SMTP server, port number and so on).
Setup problems begin to
emerge at around this point, particularly on the email side. The program could
try to help by providing a default SMTP port (25), for instance, but there's
nothing. And once you've entered your details, clicking "Test Mail"
should send you a test message - but that didn't work for us, either. Even when
our details were correct, all we saw was a horribly technical .NET error
message.
IPFetcher hasn't
finished, either. Once you've entered the details you'll probably click
"Save", but this will just display a less than clear error message.
You'll have to click "Set interval and log" and set both the
"Reset log count" and "Repeat hours" (how often the
location will be sent) values; "200" and "24 hours" will be
fine for now. We would manually start the service, too, just in case (click
Service Settings > "Click to manually start Service").
Finally, enter a
password in the box, click Save and reboot your PC. And while the setup process
was less than obvious, once it was out of the way we found IPFetcher worked
very well, correctly retrieving our IP address and emailing or uploading it as
we'd specified, and requiring no further maintenance at all.
Platforms: Windows 7 (32 bit), Windows 7 (64 bit),
Windows Vista (32 bit), Windows Vista (64 bit), Windows XP
Version: 1.1.0
Licence: Freeware
Version: 1.1.0
Licence: Freeware
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