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- AEMAIL151 - Release 1.51 of AEMAIL
- March 21, 1998
-
- AEMail is copyright (c) 1996-98 by John F. Zacharias, all rights reserved.
- Permission is given to Beta Testers to test and evaluate the program in
- return for feedback on the use of the program and reporting of any bugs
- encountered.
-
- This archive (or diskette) has the following files, including this Readme
- file (and it's icon), and 2 directories:
-
- AEMAIL.Readme
- AEMAIL.Readme.info
- Installer
- Install.txt
- Install.txt.info
- Install_AEMail
- Install_AEMail.info
- files.lha when expanded after the install contains:
- AEMail, the AEMail executable
- AEMail.inf, a file used to create the AEMail.info icon file
- AEMail.doc
- AEMail.doc.info
- AEMail.guide
- AEMail.guide.info
- email.txt
- email.txt.info
- ARexx.lha archive when expanded contains ARexx documentation and
- sample ARexx scripts. Read the ARexx.readme in this directory
- after the install to see what's in it.
- mailcap
- startnet.miami
- stopnet.miami
- registration.form
-
- The directories are C, which contains the display program "more" and "lhex"
- for expanding the files.lha, and S, which contains a script, AEMced.scr,
- for calling the CygnusED editor. The "AEMced.scr" script is no longer
- needed but is left in to show how a script can be used to call an editor.
-
- In addition, if you received a registered diskette version, a program
- called AEMR is included. This program is used by the installation script
- to upgrade the un-registered version to a registered version. If you
- already have a registered version, your new version will be automatically
- upgraded to a registered version without the AEMR program.
-
- This is Version 1.51 of AEMail (Amiga EMail), an InterNet Mail User Agent
- (Client), which can be used on an Amiga to retrieve mail from, and send
- mail to, a POP3 server. It requires a TCP/IP stack compatible with AmiTCP
- and AmigaDos 2.1 or later. AEMail has been tested with AmiTCP, TermiteTCP,
- and Miami.
-
- AEMail can also be used as a "MailTo" agent in WWW browsers, such as
- IBrowse, Voyager and AWeb, which allow the user to specify such an agent
- for composing and sending email. You can also call AEMail with an already
- composed message from another program and queue or send the message.
-
- AEMail Version 1.51 is a minor upgrade that corrects some last minute bugs
- found after Version 1.50 was released.
-
- The major enhancement in Version 1.50 was the addition of ARexx support.
- AEMail now has a very powerful set of ARexx commands that can be used to
- control AEMail from external ARexx scripts. You can also execute ARexx
- scripts and AmigaDOS scripts from within AEMail.
-
- Version 1.50 also corrects a number of bugs found with Version 1.43.
- Version 1.50 was only released at the Gateway Amiga'98 show.
-
- A complete list of new features, changes and the bugs corrected with
- version 1.51 and Version 1.50 are given at the end of the AEMail.readme
- file and also in the AEMail.guide file.
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------
- WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- When you send your first message with any new version AEMail, a special
- "Notification" message will be sent to me. Besides the normal header
- information, the body of this message will contain the following information
- (obtained from your configuration file):
-
- Your email address
- Your Real Name
- Your POP3 Server name
- Your SMTP Server name
- Your SMTP Domain Name
- Your editor call
- The version of the Exec (OS) that you are using
- Your Display ID (from the screen mode setting)
- Your Overscan Type (from the screen mode setting)
- Base configuration file name
- Currently active configuration file name
- Mail directory
-
- This information is provided to help me determine and debug problems with
- AEMail. Future versions may contain more or less information as the need
- arises. The configuration file name is only that - the file name, and
- does not include any configuration information. It is sent primarily to
- see what users are using the alternate configuration file feature of AEMail.
-
-
- PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT NONE OF THE INFORMATION THAT I INCLUDE IN THIS
- ----
- NOTIFICATION MESSAGE WILL ALLOW ME OR ANY OTHERS TO ACCESS YOUR EMAIL
- ACCOUNT!
-
- Most of the Internet information is public information and can be obtained
- from your service provider.
-
- I WILL KEEP THIS INFORMATION IN STRICT CONFIDENCE. IF YOU DO NOT WANT
- THIS INFORMATION DIVULGED TO ME, DO NOT USE AEMAIL!
- -----------------
-
- I am including this warning because of concerns expressed to me by some
- people.
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------
- WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- This version of AEMail provides certain features only to registered users
- (those paying the shareware fee). These features (not available to
- unregisterd users) are:
-
- Ability to use multiple signature files.
- Ability to add user defined headers to a message.
- Ability to shrink or expand group entries in Address Book displays.
- Enhanced speed on message displays.
- Password protection for separate configurations.
- Filtering messages on "Other Message Hdrs".
- Filtering messages on the content of the message body.
- Certain ARexx commands (consult AEMail-ARexx.doc)
-
- For those of you that have used AEMail 1.15, you will notice that for
- UN-REGISTERED users, the display speed for messages will return to what it
- was prior to release 1.15.
-
- AEMail is now shareware with a registration fee of $30 (US dollars). Read
- the details of this in the AEMail.Readme file or the AEMail.guide file.
-
- There is a very convenient Install script (Install_AEMail) for installing
- (and configuring) AEMail. It uses Amiga Technologies Installer program
- which is included with the archive. Please read the "Install.txt" file
- before attempting to install AEMail.
-
- If you are updating from a version of AEMail prior to 1.10 you should use
- the "Expert" level of the Install script in order to locate where you
- previously located AEMail. Releases after 1.10 will be able to determine
- where AEMail has been placed if you use the Install_AEMail script to
- install both the prior version AND this version.
-
- Besides the AEMail.Readme file, three documentation files have been
- provided: AEMail.doc, AEMail-ARexx.doc, and AEMail.guide. The AEMail.doc
- and the AEMail-ARrxx.doc files are flat ASCII files that are designed to
- create a printout of the documentation. Except for form feeds, NO
- FORMATTING COMMANDS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS FILE so you need a file printing
- program to print it out.
-
- AEMail.guide, on the otherhand, is an AmigaGuide file. It's icon calls
- MultiView; however, after the install operation the icon's default tool
- will be changed to AmigaGuide if you are running under AmigaDos 2.1.
-
- AEMail-ARexx.doc is an extraction of the ARexx section from the .doc file
- and stored as a separate file. This file, like the AEMail.doc file, can
- be printed out and consulted separately. It is found in the ARexx
- directory under the main AEMail directory after the install.
-
- Also included is a special file called email.txt which is a generally
- discussion about email. Beginning users who are not knowledgable as to how
- email works or are unfamiliar with some of the terminology should read this
- file. It will be found in the documentation drawer after the install.
-
- Thanks,
-
- - John (jzachar@calweb.com)
- http://www.calweb.com/~jzachar
-
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