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Finder Mail - 0.5a

Finder integrated POP3 & SMTP mail client

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All Time:	(5.0)
This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	0.5a
Release Date:	2002-01-17
License:	Commercial
Downloads (this version):	129
Downloads (all versions):	129
Price:	$29.99

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Product Description:

The aim of Finder Mail is to provide a clean, perfect and efficient interface for POP3 mailboxes. Rather than packing all the functionality of a mail client into one large application, Finder Mail splits common components into small individual applications. These are quick to load and dont interfere with the each other. Furthermore, Finder Mail uses your Macintosh's standard Finder interface to file all your emails. When you receive an email using Finder Mail, it is saved as a text file in a specified directory. Double-clicking on an email opens the email in the Finder Mail Editor, where you can read and reply to it as usual. You can choose to file your emails in any way that you like - they're just regular text files. Create your own Finder folder hierarchy if you like, or archive emails into Stuffit .sit files, or back them up onto an ZIP drive; They're just text files!

What's new in this version:

Extra options in the control panel now features mail filtering rules; You can route any email to a different folder based upon varying criteria

The "Leave Mail on Server" option now only downloads new emails

Send and Receive now spools emails to disk to help when receiving large attachments

The Editor now has preferences! You can configure the font and size of your emails, whether to have automatic hyperlinks, and you can also set up a default window size for all email windows

Find-A-Mail! Hitting cmd-F in the Editor now brings up a search dialog

Automated backup: Emails being composed are automatically backed up every 15 seconds. Should your Mac crash, these emails will be restored upon re-launching the Editor

If you quit the Editor, emails that are in the middle of being written are invisibly saved and will pop open again when you relaunch the editor

Attachments are now not shown as their text source, instead the attachment filename shows up in the Part menu (which is now smaller and neater) and when selected, a hyperlink allows you to decode that particular attachment

The Editor now encodes special characters into Quoted-Printable ISO-8859-1, and can understand emails sent in either Quoted-Printable or 8bit ISO-8859-1

A new setting in the Editor Preferences allows plain-text emails to be coloured. Currently, quoted text and proper signatures are shown in shades of grey to make reading emails easier

Fixed a bug in the hyperlinking code when viewing HTML emails (links are now properly positioned)

The To: and From: fields in printed emails are not the wrong way round any more

Send and Receive has been made to look more like the Finder's file-copying dialog

Fixed a subtle bug in the control panel that would cause one account's settings to be mixed up with another's when adding or deleteing accounts. The same bug was causing the control panel to occasionally crash with a NilObjectException

Send and Receive now understands more email timestamp formats. This should help reduce the number of "Couldn't parse the email date" errors people have been getting

Better new mail alert sounds: The control panel now allows you to choose any sound from your system suitcase (each account has its own sound), and Send and Receive no longer truncates the end of new mail sounds

The address book now looks neater, and is easier to understand

Changing the account you send an email from is now done with a popup menu, rather than the < and > buttons

Fixed a bug in Send and Receive. If the first account was not to be checked, the app would not do anything

If you move or delete an email that you are currently reading, Finder Mail will close that email's window (just like the Finder's handling of files and folders)

Cosmetic changes made to buttons in Editor

Fixed bug that was causing wrapped header lines to be appended to the To: or CC: fields in the Editor

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS Classic

Additional Requirements:

PPC
Mac OS 8.1 or higher
Internet connection
POP3/SMTP accounts
16 MB RAM

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i miss this… - Version: 0.5a, 2/9/2003 10:37PM PST

GLOD

on os9. i wish it was osx

The concept is… - Version: 0.4a Revision 3, 8/19/2001 05:34AM PST

jpkang

not new. This is what AOL did (and still does?), what UNIX mail systems do, and what Claris Em@iler did before it turned into Outlook Express. The only problem with one file-one message is if you have lots of messages, it becomes very inefficient, and you end up wasting a large percentage of your storage space, searching is difficult, etc. This method works best if you have a very low volume of messages. Otherwise, using a flat file database like Outlook Express, etc., is the way to go.

It's still under… - Version: 0.4a Revision 3, 8/19/2001 03:41AM PST

hpr1

construction, of course, but most promising. The concept is great: ONE mail - ONE file. If you ever experienced a corruption of your Outlook Express or Eudora mail file and you stood there without ALL your e-mails, you will appreciate that Finder-like kind of storage. --- Their support is first class, too, so I'll buy it.�