The standard Pogoplug has a feature that allows you to email a file to your Pogoplug as an attachment. This is a great way to automatically save a file quickly and easily.

There are a lot of cool ways you can use this feature; here are a couple of examples:

• You can copy 'CC' your Pogoplug on any attachment you send to anyone else. This creates an automatic backup on your Pogoplug hard drive of any attachment.
• You can forward an email you received that contains an attachment directly to your Pogoplug from any device that you use for email.

The Pogoplug BIZ also gives you the ability to have anyone send you a file via an email attachment and have it saved directly on your hard drive. Using the Biz you can set up the Pogoplug so only you can send an attachment to your Pogoplug hard drive or make it so anyone can.

Here are a few ways you might use the special BIZ  feature:

• If you receive a lot of documents for review but after review you don't want to save the emails or save the documents but you want a backup just in case.
• A lot of businesses these days limit the size of an attachment an employee can receive. Using the Pogoplug removes this limitation.
• You may want to set up a shared folder where all your friends or family can email pictures or any other file and you can share the folder with them easily.

You can probably think of a few more ways to use this service, and we would love to hear what you use it for - first, let's look at how to set this all up.

Setup Attachments sent from you

What you would do first is go to my.pogoplug.com and go to your 'Settings' screen, and then 'Upload Settings.'

Once there, you will see you email file upload settings.

In order to set up yourself to save any email attachments you would click on the 'Upload Attachments to' box

When you click on it you are then shown the 'Choose Folder' pop up.

You can choose to either use an already created folder, or you can create a new one by clicking on the button shown above.

If you select to create a new folder, a window pops up and you can create it with that.

For example, I created a specific folder named EmailAttachmentFolder.

Once complete, just click and highlight the folder you want emails to be sent to and then click 'OK'

You will then be shown confirmation that all attachments sent from you, using your Pogoplug registered email, will now be sent to the folder you selected.

Setup a folder for anyone to email an attachment to. (BIZ Only)

On that same settings page you can also set up a folder for anyone to send an email attachment to. You will see an option that says "Attachments sent from anyone". If you want to turn that ablilty on then click on the "Add Email Upload Destination" icon. 

When adding an email destination, you can create your own pogoplug.com email address. For example I chose 'placeshifting'.

You do not need to enter the @pogoplug.com information.

They will then check to see if that email address is available. If so you will see the green √ Available.

Then you would do the same as you did in the above instructions. Select to create a new or use an already created folder for these email attachments.

You are then brought back to the main screen as shown above with your set up shown.

If you have both a regular Pogoplug and a Pogoplug Biz you will find that you can only select the hardrive that is plugged into your Biz for 'Attachments sent from anyone'.

But you can choose either for an attatchment sent by you to'Upload@pogpoplug.com'

That's all there is to it. You can now either  directly send or 'CC' your upload@pogoplug.com account any email and the attachment will be saved on your Pogoplug's hard drive.

In addition, anyone else who sends an email attachment to youremail@pogoplug.com will have the attachment saved.

If you are using this feature we would love to hear how you set your up and how you or others are using it.

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