Welcome to Atismail for windows (v2.4) 

Atismail is a shareware Mail User Agent for sending and receiving E-mail.
Atismail is a windows program and needs a windows socket library 
(winsock.dll) to run under Windows 3.1+. 
Atismail also works with Windows 95, a winsock is provided by Windows 95.

Atismail can be used to :

- Receive and Send (rfc822) mail in a Novell Netware Network.
- Send and Receive MIME-mail (rfc1521)
- Receive mail with POP3
- Receive mail with Imap2/2b
- Receive mail with Imap4
- Receive External (message) body parts. (mailserv/ftp/anon-ftp/local-file)
- Send External (message) body parts. (mailserv/ftp/anon-ftp/local-file)
- Send mail with SMTP
- Look up e-mail addresses with a simple X.500 DUA
- Content-Types can be installed for sending/receiving MIME
  (Multimedia mail).
- Atismail can manage as many mailboxes as you want using POP3, Imap2/2b or
  Imap4.
- Atismail can manage as many mailfolders for storing mail as you want,
  also Imap4 folders.

There are no viewers or applications built in the package, you can install
you're favorite viewer or application to view MIME-mail or to send and/or 
receive encrypted/signed mail.

what's new in version 1.02 : 

- added queueing of outgoing (SMTP) mail. This mail can be sent over 
  a none-permanent connection in batchmode (menu option)
- added the capability of receiving "Message/External-body" MIME mail
  (mailserv/ftp/anon-ftp/local-file)
- added the capability of sending "Message/External-body" MIME mail
  (mailserv/ftp/anon-ftp/local-file)
- More then one method for encryption/decryption/signing mail can be used.
  (selection can be made before sending mail)
- added option "Compose Multipart/Digest" MIME mail
- added option "Compose Multipart/Alternative" MIME mail
- added "preview-option" before sending files by mail.

what's new in version 1.03 : 

- Added mailfilters for mailboxes and folders
- Added distribution lists.
- Added some fields in the addressbook

and of course, removed some bugs.

what's new in version 1.04 : 

- A little program called typeedit.exe is added.
  This program is used to add records to the filetype.dat file.
  This file contains records with information about recognizing files
  (multimedia files).
  You can use the program to see what's in the filetype.dat file.

  example : a gif file can be recognized because of the string "GIF89a"
            that's in a gif file on offset 0;

  If there isn't a "real" string that can be used as a "fingerprint"
  a hex-notion of several bytes can also be used. Every byte uses 2 chars
  ( like 08) and bytes are separated by spaces. (like "01 02 03".
  The records added will be used to determine the MIME-type "automatically"
  when a user wants to send a file.


- Another program is added to make configurations needed in the atismail.cfg
  a bit easier. This program can be used for the variables in the atismail.cfg
  file and for installing MIME viewers. It can't be used to setup the
  encryption and signing methods


and of course, removed some bugs.




what's new in version 2.1
- Added help buttons in most of the dialogs.
- Added a "Options" button in those windows that have options.
- changed the procedure to connect to a host, in some networks some hosts
  couldn't be reached.
- changed some mailboxes stuff because of some trouble with certain Imap4 servers.
- changed some mailboxes stuff in order to able to use the mirror option.
- Added a "Master password" to scramble and de-scramble the passwords used in
  the Imap and POP mailboxes.
- Added a menu-option to setup the default mailbox.
- When mail is read from the Novell mail-directory, it is no longer needed
  to put the data files in the same directory. (it is still possible to put the
  data in the maildirectory)
- added a check for older versions of the bwcc.dll in two setup programs.
- And of course, removed bugs.

what are the plans after version 2.1 ? (probably)

- a 32 bit version of Atismail
- a more enhanced/userfriendly user interface.
- new protocols/standards (if any)
- and of course, anything usefull and generally asked for by the users.



what's new in version 2.1
- Added help buttons in most of the dialogs.
- Added a "Options" button in those windows that have options.
- changed the procedure to connect to a host, in some networks some hosts
  couldn't be reached.
- changed some mailboxes stuff because of some trouble with certain Imap4 servers.
- changed some mailboxes stuff in order to able to use the mirror option.
- Added a "Master password" to scramble and de-scramble the passwords used in
  the Imap and POP mailboxes.
- Added a menu-option to setup the default mailbox.
- When mail is read from the Novell mail-directory, it is no longer needed
  to put the data files in the same directory. (it is still possible to put the
  data in the maildirectory)
- added a check for older versions of the bwcc.dll in two setup programs.
- And of course, removed bugs.

what are the plans after version 2.1 ? (probably)

- a 32 bit version of Atismail
- a more enhanced/userfriendly user interface.
- new protocols/standards (if any)
- and of course, anything usefull and generally asked for by the users.

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