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         README for Windows Messaging Mail@Mate version 2.1
                        November 11, 2000            
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                    (c) Leonid Dmitriev, 2000. 


1. Description
2. System Requirements
3. What's New
4. Feature List
5. Licensing
6. Installation
7. Uninstallation
8. Reporting Bugs
9. Feature Requests


Description
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  WM Mail@Mate is an e-mail notification tool that does much more than just tell you when you've received new mail. It delivers new messages to Inbox of your e-mail client and allows you to read incoming messages, create new, delete needless ones, extract attached files and lot more.
  WM Mail@Mate has great features and lots of options to tailor it to your needs. More advanced than an average notification tool, WM Mail@Mate is handy, easy-to-understand and easy-to- use. Using nothing more than your e-mail accounts (profiles) configured in your default e-mail client, it checks mail tirelessly, so you don't have to look at your e-mail application every five minutes. 
  Microsoft Exchange and Outlook users can use WM Mail@Mate even if they don't have a POP account. Users with Exchange Server, Novell Group Wise or MSN accounts can now use it.

  Now WM Mail@Mate interacts with:
   - Microsoft Outlook 97/98/2000
   - Microsoft Outlook Express 5.x
   - Microsoft Exchange Client.


System Requirements
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  - A computer running Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000.
  - Microsoft Outlook 97/98/2000, Microsoft Exchange Client or Microsoft Outlook
    Express 5.x installed on your computer.
  - Approximately 500KB of free hard disk space.

Note.
   You need to have HTML Help installed to view WM Mail@Mate Help file.
   You can download HTML Help from:
     http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/htmlhelp/


What's new in this release
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  - Perfected user interface.
  - Enhanced message list processing.
  - Context menus for message text manipulation.
  - Additional bit and binary decoding features for international languages.
  - Several minor bug fixes.


Feature List
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  WM Mail@Mate:
  - Uses the Windows System Tray to display an icon that gives you
    easy access to its features. 
  - Can check mail on your Intranet or the Internet, and it can 
    connect to the Internet using settings you've made in your 
    default e-mail client.
  - Uses different icons to indicate message type, whether messages
    have files attached, and whether messages are marked as read or
    unread.
  - Offers a lot of configuration and notification options.


  With WM Mail@Mate you can:
  - check for new messages and deliver them at the specified 
    interval of minutes;
  - view a list of messages in 'Inbox' folder;
  - read messages either in a separate window or in the preview pane;
  - create new messages;
  - reply to the senders or forward messages to someone;
  - extract attached files;
  - combine multipart messages to save the message text or attached files;
  - delete needless messages;
  - work with address book; 
  - launch your preferred e-mail program;
  - and lot more...

  WM Mail@Mate is highly customizable, allowing you to specify what and how
  you want to see. You can:
  - sort messages by sender, subject, received date or size;
  - set up font, style and size of text for message list, preview pane 
    and message view window separately;
  - display or not preview pane, message header, status bars;
  - play or not New Mail Notification sound;
  - and lot more...


Licensing
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WM Mail@Mate is not freeware. You are free to use it for a 30-day evaluation period as described in LICENSE.TXT. If you wish to continue to use WM Mail@Mate after the 30 day evaluation period has expired, you must pay a registration fee to autor. Please see ORDER.TXT for ordering details.


Installation
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  1. Download the WM Mail@Mate installation package.
  2. Extract all files from the package into a temporary directory
     using your archiver, such as WinZip.
  3. EXIT ALL RUNNING PROGRAMS.
  4. Run Setup.exe and follow the instructions.
  5. Now it is safe to delete the installation files. You may want
     to preserve the zipped package in case you need to re-install
     WM Mail@Mate later.

Note.
If you are upgrading from a previous version, Setup uses your previous settings (such as location folder, program group, etc). All configuration options will be preserved too.


Uninstallation
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  1. Doubleclick the Add/Remove Programs icon in the
     Windows Control Panel.
  2. Select WM Mail@Mate in the list of installed programs
     and click the 'Add/Remove' button. Follow the instructions.


Reporting Bugs
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  If you experience an uncaught exception, General Protection
  Fault (GPF), or something you believe is a bug, please send
  e-mail to:

	mmate-bugs@express-soft.com .

  Please do not assume someone else will report it.  We will
  try to resolve reported bugs as quickly as possible.  However,
  we can't resolve bugs that are not reported.

  Please describe the problem in as much detail as possible.  In
  your e-mail message, please include the following information:

    - The steps needed to reproduce the bug.
    - A description of the problem in as much detail as possible.
    - The version of WM Mail@Mate (as shown in the 'About' dialog box).
    - The operating system and version (including service pack level).


Feature Requests
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  Please let us know what features you would like to see in the
  next release of WM Mail@Mate. You may e-mail feature requests to:

	mmate-features@express-soft.com .


All other inquiries should be directed to:

	mmate-questions@express-soft.com .


For more information and late-breaking news on WM Mail@Mate, please 
visit our Web site at 

 http://www.express-soft.com/mailmate.

The site contains a FAQ, new features, known bugs/issues, and more.  

Thank you for using WM Mail@Mate!
