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                     Becky! Internet Mail  ver1.24.13
                                  Copyright (C) 1996,1997, RimArts, Inc.

                                      The Sentry Spelling-Checker Engine
                             Copyright (C) 1996 Wintertree Software Inc.
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Becky! is a multi-featured 32bit Internet E-mail client.
You will find many useful functions which should be expected for an E-mail
software and some of them would be beyond your expectation!

Features:

- Windows Explorer like look & feel
- Multiple accounts management: You can manage multiple mail accounts up
  to 20, and switch to each of them quickly.
- You can do every operation, except sending and receiving, off line.
- Powerful text editor: Highly-functional text editor engine is incorporated
  for reading and writing messages. You do not need compromise in editing
  capabilities for E-mail software.
- Mail box management: You can create your own mail folders to put received
  messages in order. Also, you can define "Filter" definition to move
  messages to specified folders automatically.
- MIME compatible binary file attachment.
- Outbox: You can save composed messages you want to send  later  into
  the 'Outbox' . 'Deliver' command sends all messages in the Outbox of
  all accounts.
- Draft: You can save incomplete messages into the "Draft Box" for polishing
  them later.
- Reminder: You can send messages to "yourself"in order to remind some
  important (and forgettable) things.
  Those messages are delivered at specified date.
- Clickable URL and E-mail address: If URL or E-mail addresses are found in
  a E-mail message, it is displayed in different color. Double clicking URL
  lets the URL activate in WWW browser. And double clicking E-mail address
  opens a compose window for the address.
- Spell Checker for American and British English.
- Url-encoded messages which are posted from WWW form are automatically
  decoded when receiving.
- Voice E-mail capability. You can record and send your voice in GSM6.10
  wav format. Recipients need to use Window95 or NT4.0 to playback this
  format.
- View HTML mail. (MS Internet Explorer3.0 or higher is needed.)

Before using Becky!, read LICENSE.TXT for the information about the license
agreement. And if you would like to continue to use Becky! after the 30 days
trial period, please buy the license(s). For more details, see
"Important">"About the user registration" in the Help.


* Important!

If you are running Becky! on NT3.51, DO NOT UPGRADE TO THIS VERSION.
Becky! doesn't run on NT3.51 anymore.

This latest release might not work on some old Windows95 system whose
OLEAUT32.dll is old. This file is updated when you install MSIE3.0 or
later, MS Office 97, or some other new MS products. So, if you have
trouble starting the Rebecca.exe try one of the following procedure.

- Install MSIE3.0 or later. You can uninstall it immediately because we
  only need the new version of OLEAUT32.dll and the system file would
  not be uninstalled even if you uninstall the application, I guess.
- Get Axdist.exe which Microsoft provides for updating those system
  files. This is available on our site.
  http://www.rimarts.co.jp/axdist/Axdist.exe

Please do the above ONLY WHEN YOU CAN'T START REBECCA.EXE. It won't
fix any other problems you find after you start the program.

* What's new in ver1.24

This version v1.24.13 is small revision of v1.24.
Some minor bugs are fixed.

- "Find Messages" function. You can search particular messages in
  multiple folders
- "Search Related Topics" function. You can search messages which are
  related with the current message in the current folder and in "Sent"
  folder.
- Now you can check all accounts periodically. You can specify the
  accounts which you want to collect messages by "Accounts to Collect
  from" function.
- International charset support.
- You can leave messages on server by filtering conditions.
- Flat toolbar. Menu with tool buttons.
- "Manual Filtering Only Works for Read Messages" option. (Misc.
  property)
- "Confirm Posting to Mailing Lists" option. (Send property)
- Mailing Lists Manager is now a modeless dialog so that you can paste
  information directly from the messages.

- "Send Now" command is little modified. A message will be stored in
  Outbox first and then it will be sent from Outbox. Older version had a
  potential risk which may cause damages on Sent box, so I changed the
  algorithm to minimize the risk. Be careful that all the messsages in
  Outbox will be sent when you do "Send Now".
- "Check All Accounts" command has changed its name to "Collect from
  Multiple Accounts". You can choose whether the accounts monitor dialog
  shows up or not in "Receive" property.
- etc.

- The cool splash screen is the courtesy of Jason E.J. Manaigre,a great
  graphic designer.(http://www.escape.ca/~ratak/) Thanks.


