Visual Mail V3 - Overview
List of features
- MIME/Sun/Generic message formatting on both input and output
- Uuencode/base64 encoding on input and output
- Integrated ICARUS encryption/decryption with internal passphrase retention
- Full (enforced) classification support
- Internet style message quoting or Sun style inclusion on replies/forwarding
- Online Directory Services (NUAD)
- Private names menu for commonly used addresses
- Subjects menu for commonly used subjects
- Automatic signature insertion
- Forms support
- Spell checker support
- Built in full support for NNTP based NEWS (open news groups like folders)
- Full attachment support
- Multiple incoming mailboxes
- POP3 support for incoming mailboxes
- MH like folders are directly supported by procmail (directory of msg.* files)
- Built in import facility for unix style mail folders
- Advanced message filtering
- Full text and header field search capabilities
- URL highlighting in messages for remote control of Netscape or Mosaic
- Hypertext based help
- Postscript and ascii text printing with classification on all pages
- Selection list of all available printers
- Print of folder/newsgroup listings
History
Visual Mail was originally based on an old (Fall 1993) version of the TkMail program written by Paul Raines. It has been extensively (almost completely) rewritten with a mind to removing the dependancy on external mail reading programs. During the changes, I decided to move to the MH style folder format where each message is a separate file and the directory names reflect the folder names.
The current version supports many features not commonly available in commercial email packages which have been driven by internal security rules for email such as requiring a classification header line for every message.
Author
John van Gulik