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e-Mail Notify 0.99.6 Overview

This Help file covers e-Mail Notify version 0.99.6. Please read carefully the License agreement before using this software.

Check out the e-mail notify page on the World Wide Web for updates http://www-stud.enst.fr/~dubost/english/email.html

Credits:

Thanks to Johns Stephens (johns@ccnet.com) for the icons he made for e-Mail Notify. You can also visit his WWW page at http://www.ccnet.com/~johns

Introduction

        About e-mail notify

        About the Author

        License Agreement

        Which version do I have

How To ...

        Use e-mail notify

        Use the Command-Line arguments

        Force e-mail transfer

        Contact the author

Commands

        File menu

        Mail menu

        View menu

        Help menu


About e-mail notify

I wrote e-mail notify because I connect my home computer to the school computers through a PPP link and a 14,4k modem. I wanted to keep my mail folders on the school computer because it is the only way I can access them from both school and home. For this reason, I needed a windows program that tells when there is new mail without retrieving it and without taking to much of the sockets bandwidth.

e-mail notify has the ability to check for mail on your pop-server and will get the headers of any mail you have waiting for you. e-mail notify can check for you regularly on the pop server. e-mail notify will never retrieve, nor delete the mail from the pop server. You will need another program to read the incoming mail. e-mail notify will use windows 95's new shell features to be more intergrated in the user interface. You will see the red icon of e-mail notify in the Tray in the right part of the Taskbar of Windows 95. You are able to configure control e-mail notify with right and left mouse clicks on this icon.

Some of you, who have a windows 95 or NT or Win32s computer connected directly to the Internet, might be able to use e-mail notify in conjunction with another e-mail windows application.

This is the second alpha release of e-mail notify. Three different version of this app are distribbuted. One for Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.51 and later versions. One for Windows NT 3.5 and previous versions (maybe), and finally one for Win32s.

Only the version for Windows 95 has been really tested, and it was with build 347 of the Windows 95 beta. The other version have been quickly tested by myself and some people who were interested in these versions.

The Win32s version is not has easy to use as the Multi-Threaded versions for Windows 95 and Windows NT. I do not have much time to make the app better for these system. I just did a quick port, because someone promised me some beautifull Australian Postcards :).

The program is currently an e-mail or postcard-ware, which means the only thing you will have to do, to get the right of using this program is to send me an e-mail or a beautifull postcard of your country. See the copyright information for more information.

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About the author

Copyright information

Which version do I have


About the author

I'm Ludovic Dubost, the author or e-mail notify. By the way, I hope this program will be usefull for you. I'm born in December 1969 and I'm currently in the third and last year of studies at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications in Paris and I'm graduated of the Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau. By the way, I'll be graduated of the ENST in July, so if you have a job for me, just write me an e-mail :).

If you want more information about me and the schools I studied in ckeck out:

http://www.polytechnique.fr/

http://www.enst.fr/

http://www-stud.enst.fr/~dubost/

If you need to contact me, just send me an e-mail to dubost@email.enst.fr. This e-mail address will remain valid until July 1995. I have no idea where I'll be after this date so I can't tell you. If you have a job for me you can still write me or call me at:

Ludovic Dubost

9 Av du Colonel Bonnet

75016 PARIS, France

Tel: + 33 1 42309069


License Agreement

Read carefully all terms of this License agreement before using this Software. If you do not agree with any term of this agreement, stop using this software immediatly.

1. Ludovic Dubost grants to you a non-exclusive, non-sublicense, license to use this Beta version of E-Mail Notify. You will agree to stop using this software whithin 30 days of the final release of this Software. Ludovic Dubost may terminate this license at any time by delivering a notice to you and you may terminate this License at any time by destroying or erasing your copy of the Software.

2. You agree that this software and its source code is property of his author, Ludovic Dubost, 9 Av du Colonel Bonnet, 75016 Paris, France.

3. The Author makes no representations about the suitability of this software. The Software is provided 'As Is' without express or implied warranties, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose or noninfringement. This Software is provided gratuitously and accordingly, the author shall not be liable unde any theory or any damages suffered by you or any user of the Software.

4. The author grants you the right to redistribute this software, as long as you are not charging ANY money for it and the distribution files are kept together and unmodified.

The distribution files are:

        email.exe

        email.hlp

        email.txt

        newmail.wav

        welcome.wav


Which version do I have

If you are not sure of the version you are using here is how to discover it:

If the application doesn't start in Win32s, this mean that you are trying to use the wrong version. You have to get the Win32s Non-Multi-Threaded version. Please check out on my World Wide Web site http://www-stud.enst.fr/dubost/french/email.html

If you are running Windows NT 3.5 (of 3.1), and the app doesn't start, you have to get the Windows NT 3.5 specific version on my WWW site.

Finally, with Windows 95, Windows NT 3.51 or later, all versions will run. To be sure to run the version using the specific features of Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.51, check out the about box to see if it says: "e-Mail Notify for Windows 95"

Related Topics :

About e-Mail Notify

Copyright information

Which version do I have


How to use this Software

The best way to use this program is to configure the pop server and other options in the Options Dialog Box. I'm tired of adding other explanations here, since, I'm pretty sure you will be able to find out by yourself. If not, you will have to wait for the next help file.


How to force e-mail header transfer

To force e-mail transfer, you have to clear the e-mail notify window with the Clear command in the File menu, and the ask notify to check for mail with the Check mail command of the Mail menu.


How to contact the author

I would be very happy to get some feedback about this software. I you are using this software, there is a good chance you have e-mail. You can e-mail me at dubost@email.enst.fr. If you are unable to contact me at this address you can write me or call me. If you are living in a nice area you can also write me a postcard.

Ludovic Dubost

9 Av du Colonel Bonnet

75016 Paris

Tel: +33 1 42309069


How use the Command-Line arguments

e-Mail Notify has now command-line arguments. The two command-line arguments are:

/H  To start e-Mail Notify Hidden in  Windows 95.

/Sn To choose alternate settings for e-mail notify.

Notes:

Do not use the /H switch in Windows NT or Win32s. You would not be able to find the app again. The /Sn switch is usefull if you want to run concurrent notifiers for different mailboxes. It will store all information in different places in the registry.


File Menu

To be completed


Mail Menu

To be completed


View Menu

To be completed


Help Menu

To be completed