So one of the less happy tasks of recent times has been file recovery duties.

From the age before the tech bubble burst, I've kept a couple of excite.com email accounts alive for online throwaway registrations. Take the email and resell it to spammers, because it only gets used when I need another throwaway registration.

Unfortunately about 6 months ago or so they switched their backend mail handling to myway. Ugly, overly bloated, inefficient and generally a pain in the ass to be avoided now. So I've been waiting for someone to develop a new FreePOPs lua ...