3 Welcome to Microdot-II

3.1 Introduction

Microdot-II is an intergrated mail and news program for your Amiga containing many advanced features, such as:

• Supports versatile mail filtering. Several filtering "terms" can be used individually or together to sort messages into mailboxes. Handles mailing lists as easily as newsgroups

• Text formatting - Users can incorporate various fonts or font sizes, styles, colors, and layout options to give messages the look and style of word-processed documents.

• Configurable Toolbar - Allows access to all common functions. Users can customise the Toolbar and create new buttons. Users can also create their own commands/scripts/actions to drive their buttons.

• Fully threaded mail and news display. Kill threads, fold them.

• Supports offline (download at once) and online (download on demand) news reading.

• Real messagebase, no single-file-per-mail

• Supports ESMTP, NNTP-XOVER and POP3-rev2 additions

• Full MIME-Support including charset handling and Mac BinHex decoding

• Active hot links - Launches your web browser, ftp or telnet from within a message by clicking on the URL (http:, ftp: and telnet: supported with authentication).

• Multiple signature support. Also "assign" a follup/reply headers/footers to specific mail folders.

• Internally recognises uuencoded and binhexed "old style" mails and converts them into pseudo-Mime-messages

• Color-coded message labels - messages and groups are colour coded to inform a user if they are "new", "marked" or "own message".

• Authentication support - Can be used with the Kerberos Authentication System and APOP for increased security.

• On-line Help - Provides extensive AmigaGuide on-line Help.

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