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Subject: [WarpCast] PREANNOUNCEMENT : RexxMail.
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Source: Marcus de Geus (marcusatdegeus.com)
Moderator: Trevor Smith (trevorathaligonian.com)
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RexxMail, an OS/2 WPS mail client written in REXX, is currently
receiving the final touches to its information and installation
modules before its release to the OS/2 community, hopefully some time
soon.

I started RexxMail long ago because I did not like UltiMail, and at
the time there was simply nothing else on offer. I wanted an easily
adaptable mail message processor that would make full use of the
facilities offered by that invaluable invention, the OS/2 Workplace
Shell. What started as a motley collection of CMD files has gradually
been consolidated into a single module offering a range of mail
processing services. Time to publish, I thought.

RexxMail is based on the concept that each mail message file is an
object in its own right, as the WPS intends it to be. It uses only
the standard range of WPS facilities, including normal folders and
templates and the extended attributes and program associations
system, to control the behaviour of mail message objects. The result
is an easy to use, fully drag & drop enabled, object-oriented,
system-wide, highly flexible, mail message processing system.

The purpose of RexxMail is to manage outgoing and incoming mail
messages while they reside on the user's system. The actual
transmission and reception of messages through network connections
(using the SMTP/POP/IMAP protocols) is left to separate programs,
e.g. sendmail.

RexxMail features include:

- drag & drop all over the place
- fully configurable looks -- uses only standard WPS objects
- use your favourite text editor/reader
- use message file objects wherever you like
- message objects show header info and message status
- start outgoing messages from templates
- simply drop outgoing attachments into a folder
- incoming attachments are presented as separate file objects
- automatic ZIP compression of outgoing mail attachments
- automatic virus scan of incoming mail attachments
- address book folder import/export function
- automatic storage of processed messages in any folders you like
- extensive information provided in HTML format
- full command line interface
- it's REXX, so you get the full source code

RexxMail is non-intrusive: it adds no DLLs, and it does not alter
system files. It has a dummy tryout mode that will let you "send" and
"receive" messages to and from yourself without using the network,
and without upsetting an existing mail system. Also, it's compact:
thanks to the OS/2 WPS, it takes only 50 (yes, fifty) kilobytes of
REXX code to do all this (and more).

Oh, and it's free, of course.

More soon.

  http://www.degeus.com 
 
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