YAM 2.0 Product Description
Features | Screenshots | Requirements | Price | Awards
What's YAM?
YAM (short for 'Yet Another Mailer') is a MIME-compliant Internet mailer for the for the
Amiga with built-in POP3 and SMTP clients. The latest public release,
version 2.0, is a major upgrade of YAM 1.3.5 and contains dozens of additions and improvements.
Some features of YAM 2.0:
- Basic functions: read, write, delete, reply, forward or bounce mail
- Four folders for incoming, outgoing, sent and deleted mail plus an unlimited number of folders for archived mail
- Folders can be compressed and/or protected with a password
- Support for multiple users. Optionally, addressbooks and other config files can be shared
- Searchable address book supporting groups and distribution lists
- Built-in POP3/APOP client to check for mail on startup, on demand or at regular time intervals
- Check up to 16 POP3 accounts in a single step
- Message pre-selection: browse message headers before downloading large mails
- Write or reply your messages offline and send them to the mail server using the built-in SMTP client
- Extract sender information from message headers and create an address book entry with a simple mouseclick; a picture of the sender is automatically downloaded and displayed
- Built-in support for UUencode and MIME to send and receive binary files
- Co-operation with web browsers: send mail from your browser, pass an URL to a browser
- Handle return receipts and read confirmation
- Support for anonymous remailers and mailing lists
- PGP/MIME support: encrypt and/or sign outgoing messages, check signatures, decrypt messages. Works with PGP 2.6 and PGP 5.
- Fast internal editor that offers WYSIWYG textstyles and spell checking
- Search your folders for messages (including full text search in header fields or message body)
- Up to 100 filters to automatically process new or sent messages
- Comprehensive ARexx interface that allows other programs to control YAM
- The graphical user interface of YAM (including toolbars and status images) is fully user configurable
- YAM runs either on the Workbench screen or on any other custom screen
- Context related online help through help bubbles and AmigaGuide
- Includes catalog files for many different languages
- Easy installation with the Installer
- Much, much more...
Screenshots
Click on an thumbnail image to view a larger version.
What do I need to run YAM 2.0?
- Amiga Computer with an 68020 cpu or higher
- at least 4 MB of RAM
- AmigaOS/Workbench 3.0 or higher
- MUI 3.8 or higher
- bsdsocket.library compatible TCP/IP software like Miami, AmiTCP, Genesis or TermiteTCP
- PGP 2.6.x or 5.x (required only for composing or reading encrypted mail)
- XPK libraries (required only for compressed folders)
How much does YAM cost?
YAM is distributed as Freeware, so you don't have to pay anything for it.
Why should I use YAM?
Don't know, maybe because it's free or because 617 out of 1000 users rated
it as the best e-mail client for the Amiga ;-)
YAM 2.0 has won the following awards:
|