====================================================================== Postman Office Edition, Version 1.0 Postman Personal Edition Version 2.0 Multiple User, Multiple Account Internet E-mail Software Now with desktop security, HTML, and spell checking! ====================================================================== Copyright 1998 by Internet Software Design -------------------------------------- Postman Personal Edition is the second generation of Postman multiple account email software. Postman uses a simple interface to make the task of checking mail from multiple accounts easy and painless. New to version 2.0 are HTML, spell checking, and a host of interface and small internal improvements. Like version 1.3 Postman 2.0 gives the user the option of password protecting the Postman desktop, so no one can read your mail, even after it has been downloaded. Postman Office Edition is an Internet E-mail application for the office with more employees than PCs, or the environment where more than one person needs to access email on a single PC. Postman Office Edition allows an unlimited number of users to have their own email program with complete security. In addition Postman Office Edition, like the personal version of Postman, gives each user the ability to send and receive E-mail from multiple E-mail accounts, and save each account's messages in it's own folder. Postman is simple and efficient, saving your time for your email, not your email program. -------------------------------------- Requirements: A 486 or better PC running Windows 95, 98, or Windows NT. An Internet connection using Dial-up-Networking or equivalent. An Email account using POP 3 and SMTP protocols. Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 must be installed, but does not need to be the primary browser. (Windows 98 users already have IE 4.0) -------------------------------------- Installation: Unzip the all the files in the archive to a temporary directory. Run the Setup.exe file. Follow the instructions to install Postman. -------------------------------------- Shareware Demo: This is the full version of Postman. You are licensed to use it for 30 days free of charge. The program will expire 30 days after the date of installation unless registered. For registration information go to http://www.netsoftdesigns.com/postman. You are free to distribute the zip installation file of Postman as long as it is unmodified in any way. -------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY THIS SOFTWARE IS DISTRIBUTED AND SOLD "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES AS TO THE PERFORMANCE OF MERCHANTABILITY OR ANY OTHER WARRANTIES WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. BECAUSE OF THE VARIOUS HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS INTO WHICH THIS PROGRAM MAY BE PUT, NO WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE IS OFFERED. THE USER MUST ASSUME THE ENTIRE RISK OF USING THE PROGRAM. ANY LIABILITY OF THE AUTHOR/DISTRIBUTOR/SELLER WILL BE LIMITED EXCLUSIVELY TO PRODUCT REPLACEMENT OR REFUND OF PURCHASE/REGISTRATION PRICE. -------------------------------------- A Brief Operational Description For Postman Personal Edition skip the next paragraph. Other than the multiuser login screen both programs are identical. To Use Postman Office Edition you must first create a new user. From the log in screen click New User. After filling in the requested Information you will be ready to log in to Postman. Your Postman configuration settings, Email account information, and your email messages are secured by your password, so no other users of the program can look at your mail. Even though Postman Office Edition is multi- user, your information is completely private. After you have logged in to Postman you are ready to begin. Postman functions much like other E-mail programs, except that it will store the information for many different E-mail accounts and allow you to retrieve the mail from any or all of those accounts with the click of a single button. Messages are downloaded and stored in a folder with the name of that account. They may then be moved about to other folders as needed. To setup your accounts, go to the "Options - Accounts" menu. Enter the appropriate data into the boxes and hit the "Save" button. You may enter as many accounts as you like. By default Postman will delete the messages from the Internet mail server after retrieving them. If you want to leave them on the server click on the check box "Delete message from server after downloading." to remove the check. If you wish to add a signature file you may select any pre-existing text file using "Browse" or create a new one with the "Create" button. To select the accounts you want to check for mail, click on the magnet icon on the toolbar, then click on the account name. The "Get Mail" button will begin the retrieval process. You can also click on the mail slot icon on the toolbar to retrieve the most recently selected accounts. Any messages you delete are moved to the Postman trash folder. You can recover messages deleted by mistake by opening the trash folder using the "Folders:" combo box and moving the message out of the trash with either a right click or selecting "Move" from the Message menu. Emptying the Trash from the file menu permanently deletes all the messages in the Trash folder. Right clicking on a message brings up a menu. The "Priority Flags" item will change the message's icon so that you may mark a message for your future attention. Clicking on any web link (http://...) in a message will open your default web browser and send it to that link. When you are done you can exit Postman, or log out by selectin File, Log Out which will return you to the mail log in screen, leaving Postman ready for the next user. For further information on how to use Postman, select Help Topics from the Help menu. -------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- Support: For support please select "Help - About" from the Postman menu. Click on the postman@creativenet.net button. The New Mail window will open. Type a full description of the problem including any error messages that may appear. The Send To box will be filled in for you as will information on the version of Postman you are running. For updates or other news on Postman point your browser to http://www.netsoftdesigns.com/postman, or click on the button under Help, About. Support e-mail address: postman@creativenet.net