I'm concerned about the following:

1. Can we disable this feature? Because if it can't, the answer to #2 becomes extremely important.
2. How is the Pogoplug backend going to prevent attachments to spam emails with fraudulant "from:" headers from being downloaded to our Pogoplugs?

@Rob - No problem, deleted duplicate post.

Peter Redmer
Administrator
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The feature doesn't require a firmware upgrade and went live late last night. It is disabled by default, so to enable it first go to my.pogoplug.com, click on Settings and then check the box where it says "Upload my email attachments to". A dialog will open where you can pick a destination folder on your Pogoplug for the attachments. Then just forward emails to upload@mypogoplug.com.

There seems to be a bug in the e-mail uploading.

I have two pogoplugs at the house. One pogoplug is called local the other remote. Remote was activated a few weeks after local.

I didn't configure the settings to direct uploads to a particular file; I just sent the e-mail to see where it went.

The attachment was uploaded to the root of the remote drive. Shortly after I emailed the document and verified that I had received the file intact, I got an email from upload@pogoplug that says:

"You have sent this email to an incorrect email address. If you are trying to upload attachments using Pogoplug, please enable the feature in the Settings screen at http://my.pogoplug.com and then forward emails to upload@mypogoplug.com."

Yet the file is there. Weird.

I then went into the setting menu and selected a folder on the pogoplug called local. I emailed the same document to upload@pogoplug.com and the document wasn't uploaded, but again, I got the same e-mail.

Now I am unable to receive files at all. They all bounce back.

Weird.

@highness - that is weird! I'm actually a little surprised that it uploaded the file at all - the email address that you should use is upload@mypogoplug.com - give that a try and let us know

@amirniza - your sister would need her own Pogoplug to be able to email files to upload - at the moment we don't allow emailing to a shared directory

@Highness - There must have been a typo when the blog was ported to the community - it's fixed now. Thanks for pointing that out.

Peter Redmer
Administrator
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Document display in the browser for files that browsers do not natively support (i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ...) does require a conversion, which takes place on the Pogoplug servers. When you request to view one of these files types in my.pogoplug.com, the file is first uploaded to a secure Pogoplug server, converted to PDF, and then displayed as an image in the web app. Once this is done the file is permanently deleted from Pogoplug servers. The upload box is meant to not only show the status, but also to give you a chance to cancel the process in case you do not feel comfortable with a file being uploaded to Pogoplug, even on a temporary basis.