first of all, i have a bunch of different pop accounts (hotmail,gmail,yahoo) and this program has worked flawlessly with all of them ... its easy to set up and does what its supposed to do well.

however, i am baffled by the fact that the author would make this an application, as opposed to a background process with a startup item. its difficult to justify the price for a program thats supposed to make it easier to check your email when you have to remember to start it up every time and then have it in the way (and in the dock, and in the switcher, etc) ... a preference pane, a mail.app plugin (like the httpmail plugin), anything that would run transparently and stay out of the way would be well worth the $20.

i guess its a little better if your fortunate enough to have an extra computer to run it on, but even with that, i would go to check my email at work only to realize that nothing new was there because i had rebooted my home machine and forgotten to restart the application.

it would be like paying for a premium hotmail account so you can get the forwarding feature, but then having to call up the hotmail folks a few minutes before checking your email to say "ok, im ready ... forward it now" and then having to wait until everything was finished forwarding before you could hang up the phone ...

one other thing ... beware that the download is a "sit" file ... not sure what this is, but there doesnt appear to be any way to open/mount/untar it using os x (seems like i used to have some program that recognized these ...)

-emory