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Mail2000 v1.3 Read Me
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Introduction
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Mail2000 is a small utility to read textfiles containing e-mail. I wrote
it because I have lots of e-mail files lying around from over the last few
years which I occasionally want to read. Mail2000 can open up to four
files, and provides threading of the subject and of the sender, and easy
navigation through the mails. People who have fancy high-speed modem
connections with the rest of the world will probably find this not very
useful. It needs system 7 to run.
Quick Start
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To open it, double click it, or throw any textfile onto the icon. The file
wil be loaded, and the program will try to figure out the mails. A dialog
box will display a counter and some information while it is examining the
file. After that has been done, Mail2000 threads the subjects of the
mails. A dialog box will be displayed while it is doing the threading.
After the file has been examined and threaded, the first mail is displayed.
The bottom of the window displays number of the mail that is displayed, the
total number of mails in the file, the sender of the mail (in bold face),
and the subject.
Selecting Mails
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When a new file is read in, all the mails are selected and by date. Use
the Thread menu to select either a thread or all the mails. When a thread
is selected, selecting the next or previous mail will display the next or
previous one in the thread. Use the Mail menu to thread the mails on
subject or on sender. You can also select the previous or the next thread
from this menu. The threads in the menu are sorted alphabetically, and the
mails in a thread are sorted by date.
Navigating Through The Mails
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There are several ways to read through the mails. Use the scrollbars and
arrow keys to scroll up and down. Clicking in the text will display a
scroll-cursor. Moving the mouse down a little will scroll down, and moving
it up a little scrolls up. Keep the mouse button pressed while doing this.
Moving the mouse up or down a lot will jump to the next or previous mail.
If you click in the bottom part of the screen (where the information is
displayed), a pop-up menu will appear. If all the mails have been
selected, the Mail menu will pop up, and you can select an option from
that. If you are reading a thread, a menu containing either the sender
will pop up (when threaded by subject), or a menu containing the subjects
of the mails will pop up (when threaded by sender). Pressing the spacebar
or the page-down key will display the next page of the current mail, and
jump to the next mail when you reach the end (you can read everything by
just pressing the spacebar). The backspace and page-up keys do the same
thing, but in the other direction. Finally, you can select Goto Mail in
the Mail menu. Type the number of the mail you want to read. Note that if
you are reading a thread, you cannot select a mail outside of it.
Miscellaneous
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Use the Font and Size menu to set the font and size for a file. Different
files can be displayed in different fonts and sizes.
Use Header Strings in the edit menu to change the definition of the mail
headers. All Mail2000 does is simply look for a line in the text beginning
with one of the strings displayed in the dialog when reading a file. The
current settings allow you to read for example UN*X mbox files. When you
select 'File header strings…' from the Edit menu, you can change the header
definitions for the current opened file. These strings are saved in a
resource with the file, and are used the next time the file is opened. The
default header strings (also in the Edit menu) are used when the mail file
does not have a resource with definitions yet. Modifications to the
default strings will be saved. If you check 'Ignore header strings', the
definitions are ignored, and the default definitions are used.
The 'Save As' option under the File menu saves a file with stripped mail
headers. That is to say, only the header-lines that are defined under
Header Strings are kept, the rest of the header is not saved. This will often
reduce the filesize by something like 40% if you have files with lots of
small mails,
Copy (Edit menu) will copy the mail that is being read at that moment.
Limitations (And One Feature)
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Mail2000 uses TextEdit to display the mails. This means that mails that
are larger than 32K are truncated, and only the first part will be
displayed. A warning will be displayed when this happens.
Building a menu with lots of items can take a long time (by lots I mean
over 200). The program shows a watch cursor, but appears to hang. If you
wait a few seconds (well, it takes about a minute for a file with 500 mails
on my LC) everything will be okay.
The items that are put in the Thread menu are truncated to 32 characters.
Believe me, it's best that way. Keeping them full size makes the menu
look even more ugly than it does now.
A file that has UN*X style end of line characters is correctly read in, and
converted to Mac type. A dialog box shows the progress when this is done.
Finally
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I hope you like this, and find it useful. It is shareware; you can try it
out for two weeks, but if you decide to keep it, you should pay the
shareware fee. Or at least send me some e-mail saying whether you like or
hate the program if you can't be bothered to pay. Or tell me about bugs or
things you want to see changed. I take no reponsibility of any kind, so
use this at your own risk. It has been written and tested on a Mac LC.
Some testing was done on a Quadra 900, a Centris 650, a Mac SE and a IIcx.
My adres is:
Peter Berck
Sparrenstraat 1
5038 MJ Tilburg
The Netherlands
e-mail: P.J.Berck@kub.nl