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BULLETIN #1 -- WHAT IS ROBOMAIL?
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RoboMail is a complete system for managing your offline mail
activities. It allows you to read and reply to messages downloaded
from any BBS using the QWK/REP packet format for mail transfer. Rather
than reading one packet at a time, RoboMail maintains a common database
of messages from all the mail systems that you communicate with,
offering a fresh, new perspective on your messages that will greatly
enhance your offline mail productivity and enjoyment.
With RoboMail managing your mail, you build your own customized
knowledge base by controlling the way messages flow in and out of the
system. You can choose to Age, Keep or Discard messages individually,
or based upon system wide or conference specific defaults. RoboMail's
database orientation provides significant benefits over standard mail
reading systems. Among these are:
■ An amazing new "Control Panel" view which gives you an instant
overview and point-and-shoot access to all the data in your
system.
■ A seamlessly integrated system of user-definable folders for
grouping and holding messages of special interest. You can
define an unlimited number of folders and each can contain an
unlimited number of messages.
■ You can quickly refer back to your "archives" of messages from
previous packets and your own previously sent replies when
reading through your newly imported mail.
■ You can easily cross-post your replies and forward messages to
users on other mail systems.
■ You can keep or age copies of all the outgoing mail you create
in a separate section called the "Chron File," and re-send any
message with a single keystroke.
■ Once your mail for the day has been imported, which can be
accomplished automatically via command line switches, there's
no delay as you move between conferences on your various mail
systems. RoboMail's automatic bookmarks ensure that you can
quit and resume your reading sessions at will without fear of
loosing your place.
■ Conference listings which can show all conferences, or just
those containing messages.
■ Selective archiving and naming of all bulletins and file lists
received with your mail packets.
Other features of RoboMail include:
■ Unlimited capacity for storing messages. RoboMail can handle
an unlimited number of messages in up to 9,999 conferences on
each of an unlimited number of mail systems. The amount of
message data RoboMail can manage is limited only by your
available disk space.
■ Extremely fast and efficient database i/o routines. RoboMail's
database are highly self maintaining, tracking and recycling
aged out messages and orphaned space in data files during new
message importing.
■ Command line support for unattended data imports, exports and
maintenance with full logging of activity.
■ A powerful internal editor, designed with message writing in
mind. Unique quoting capabilities are built into the message
viewer and editor.
■ A sophisticated internal spelling checker with a customizable,
unlimited capacity personal dictionary. The speller can be
used with both the internal or an external editor.
■ Internal tagline management, with conference specific tagline
files, taglines up to sixty characters long, unlimited tagline
capacity, sorting and a variety of automatic selection methods.
■ Sophisticated message addressing capabilities, with support for
cross-posting, forwarding, re-usable distribution lists, a
variety of carbon copy notations, PostLink and InterNet
routing, receipt requests, high-ascii stripping.
■ Full support for external editors, tagline managers, file
listers and archive viewers.
■ Integrated address book with a notepad for each entry.
■ Integrated unlimited-length ASCII file viewing for bulletins
and informational screens.
■ Support for Wildcat style file attachments, with a unique
attachment directory which provides an overview and file
management functions for all file attachments in your system.
■ Extremely fast global or conference specific queries with
support for multiple keywords, wildcards and boolean logic.
■ A sophisticated, fully mouseable user interface with support
for VGA interface characters and VGA 50-line mode, or any video
mode supported by your hardware. Fully customizable color
schemes.
■ DESQview, OS/2 and Windows awareness, supporting RSIS i/o for
lightning fast screen displays, as well as time-slice yielding
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RoboMail 1.0 User's Guide Page 2
when running in the background under multi-tasking operating
systems.
■ Fully cross-referenced context-sensitive online help.
■ A tutorial system to assist new users in learning to use
RoboMail.
■ A filter list for excluding messages from unwanted people.
■ Built-in ANSI art and music capabilities. Options for
automatic and/or non-stop display, high-intensity background
colors and VGA 50 line mode are supported.
■ Conference specific settings for tagline files, alias names,
default archiving behavior, PostLink and InterNet routing,
auto-ansi display, messages to ALL in personal mail, and
Fido-Mode.
■ Mail system specific settings for message archiving defaults,
message-splitting length, mixed-case subjects, receipt requests
and attachments, Fido-Mode as well as a unique mail door
"driver" system that enables easy offline conference management
for a wide variety of QWK compatible mail doors.