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- Welcome to SAVEMAIL v3.12 for Epoc Release 5
- ------------------
- To be used with the following devices:
- - Psion S5mx & S5mx-pro
- - Psion S7 & NetBook
- - Psion Revo & Revo Plus
- - Ericsson MC218
- Supported languages (see the language.txt file for new languages):
- - UK/US English
- - German
- - Netherlands
- - French
- - Italian
-
- WHAT'S NEW
- ------------------
- v 3.12 * added support to the Italian Revo(Plus), having different shortcuts
- from the Italian 5mx (!?!)
- * fixed a bug when the list of the Attachments was longer than 255 chars
- * solved the problem with From and CC/BCC fields exceeding the 255 chars
- limit: now they are correctly stored and never truncated
- * for the above reason, the MailBox Data file structure has been slightly
- changed: now the From field has become a "memo" field; see UPGRADING below
- * the procedure for copying the messages from Email has been modified and
- made a little faster
-
- PLEASE READ CAREFULLY
- ------------------
- SaveMail is a program that automates the process of copying your messages
- from Psion Epoc ER5 built-in Email app to any number of "preformatted"
- Psion Data files (e.g. one for Work and another for Home), or to a "plain"
- Psion Word document, where they can be easily edited, sorted, printed,
- searched or simply stored.
- Very useful to speedup the ER5 Email program, notoriously slowing down
- its performances when it has to work with many messages (especially if
- stored to a CF Card...): by moving them to any user defined Data file, the
- program performances remain high over time!
- Before proceeding, keep in mind the following:
- * the option "Retain original text when replying" must be selected in order
- to get the right time and date of a message; to enable it, launch your Email
- program, select any received message and open it, then select
- menu - tools - viewer preferences... and tick that option;
- * especially when you choose to store multiple messages, SaveMail
- may take some time to accomplish its task: please note that while the
- program is running, your device is NOT available for other operations
- and you also should NOT switch to other tasks or applications;
- * for the same reason, disable the "automatic switch off" feature or
- use a reasonable value of time to let the program finish its task
- before the machine is turned off (if this should happen, simply turn
- it on again and SaveMail should go on working...);
- * be also advised NOT to touch the keyboard while SaveMail is running,
- because this could interfere with the scheduled sequence of keystrokes,
- thus leading to some misbehavior of the program itself (including the
- deletion of all your messages in the worst case, only if the "auto-delete"
- option is selected);
- * use the "auto-delete" option with care, as there is no way of restoring
- any deleted message from Psion Email. I strongly recommend a good
- BACKUP before starting to play with SaveMail...
- * I decline responsibility for any loss of data that may result from the
- use of this program.
-
- HOW TO INSTALL AND USE
- ------------------
- 1) Unzip the savem_r5.zip file.
- 2) Launch the SaveMail.sis file and select language and
- destination disk.
- 3) Install Macr5Lib.sis if you are not running Macro5
- 4) SaveMail should appear in your "Extras bar", ready to be used.
- 5) If you want, you can use Macro5 to create a shortcut to SaveMail
- (select "Program" in the shortcut "Type" definition).
- 6) Call SaveMail through the "Extras bar" or the Macro5 shortcut:
- the first time you launch it, a Setup process will start...
- - letting you select your machine type and/or language (to set the correct
- shortcuts used by the program; if you can't find your model, or the
- program tells you that the selected model/language is still not supported, just
- have a look at the LANGUAGE.TXT file, where you can find all the information
- I need to set-up a new machine type); a second option lets you disable the
- "Date extraction" procedure (by doing so, you can get a faster process, but
- the date field in the target data file will refer to the date and time of
- the storing procedure and not the real one); a final option lets you select
- an appropriate value for the pauses between keystrokes in the program: this
- is to adapt the program speed to different processor clock and different media
- support (Data files and Email messages stored to RAM are much more faster to
- be opened than the ones stored to a CF Card or to an IBM Microdrive); as a
- general rule use lower values if you do not have large Data files or many
- messages in Email, and if you keep them in RAM; increase the values if you
- use CF Cards (increase more with IBM Microdrives) or if you find any error
- messages when running the program;
- - once passed the first window, a second one will ask you for the location of
- your default Data file (the one that will be used by default to store your
- messages); if you do not have any previous .box Data files to use, select
- the Action "create a new Mailbox Data file" and a dialog will let you create
- a new Data file and place it wherever you want;
- - a third window will let you choose the folder where the program can store any
- attachment it finds (you can select an existing folder or create an new one);
- an option is given to "Optimize names" for "Card view" (each attachment name on
- a new line of the attachment(s) field in the target Data file) or "List view"
- (a number before each attachment, no line feed between them); a final option
- is given to use full pathnames or not: according to your preferences, the
- Attachment(s) field of the target Data file will contain the name and path
- of any stored attachment (e.g. C:\Documents\Mail_Attachments\readme.txt) or
- the name only (e.g. readme.txt); the "Set Filters..." button opens a dialog
- window where you can specify up to 4 attachment names that will be always
- filtered by the program, and so won't be saved to disk (useful for attachments
- like "winmail.dat" or "attachments" that sometimes come with your mail and
- can be safely ignored)
- - finally a last window will ask if you want to enable the choice of different
- Data files (note that you can create multiple Data files also in a second
- time using the "create new Mailbox Data file" option), and if you want to
- open a dialog window to automate the process of storing (and deleting)
- a group of messages each time you launch SaveMail.
- 7) All these settings are stored to a SaveMail.ini file located in the folder
- "C:\System\Apps\SaveMail"; if for any reason you need to change these settings,
- simply delete the file, and when you will recall SaveMail, the setup
- process will be launched again.
- Alternatively, you can relaunch the Setup procedure from within the
- program, in the target data file window (if enabled).
- 8) Once accomplished the setup process, these are the steps to follow:
- - launch your Email program
- - select an Inbox or Sent folder
- - highlight a message without opening it (do not press Enter)
- - call SaveMail through the "Extras bar" or the Macro5 shortcut
- 9) According to the options you have selected in the setup process, once
- launched, SaveMail may:
- - ask for the location of your target Data file to store your message(s)
- - ask for the number of messages to automatically store
- - ask if it has to delete the original message(s) from Email
- - ask if it has to close the target file when done
- - ask if it has to ignore the attachments
- - an option is also given, to temporarily change the attachments folder
- 10) If everything is OK, once SaveMail has finished its task, you should
- find yourself again in the Email screen, but you should also find the
- message(s) stored to the (selected) target Data file.
-
- UPGRADING
- ------------------
- From v3.12 the MailBox Data file structure has changed, as the "To" field and
- the "Attachment(s)" one are "memo" fields and no more "text" fields (limited to
- 250 characters): if you create a new target Data file from the program itself,
- the file will be of the new type; if you want to update any previous Data file
- to the new structure (only if you suppose to have to deal with messages with the
- "To" field exceeding the 250 char limit), just follow the instructions below:
-
- * create a new MailBox Data file from within SaveMail and leave it empty
- * open this new Mailbox file
- * select Menu/File/More/Merge in...
- * select the old MailBox file you want to update
- * press OK and it will be completely copied into the new one
-
- NOTES ON THE "PREFORMATTED" MAILBOX DATA FILES
- ------------------
- The "preformatted" DATA files, where the messages from Email are
- stored, have the following labels:
- Subject (type: text length: 250) second sorting key (ascending)
- Date (type: text length: 30) first sorting key (descending)
- From (type: text length: 250)
- To (type: memo length: unlimited)
- CC/BCC (type: memo length: unlimited)
- Attachment(s) (type: memo length: unlimited)
- Body (type: memo length: unlimited)
-
- NOTES ON THE "PLAIN" WORD FILE
- ------------------
- You can save your message(s) to a "plain" Psion Word file; the program
- can create a new Word target file for you, or can use an existing one;
- each field of the original message(s) is copied as text, with an appropriate
- description (e.g. subject, date etc.); if the target file already contains
- other messages, the new one will not overwrite them, but will be placed at
- the beginning of the document.
-
- NOTES ON THE DATE FORMAT OF THE MESSAGES
- ------------------
- This program copies the DATE string of the original message (no matter
- which format is selected in your System settings) and changes it to
- "yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss" in order to have them correctly sorted by date
- in the MailBox file (it works both with 12h and 24h TIME format).
-
- KNOWN ISSUES
- ------------------
- * If a message has the "Subject" or "From" fields particularly long, only
- the first 250 characters are copied to the target file; if this happens,
- a dialog is displayed to alert you and a (*) mark is put in the Subject
- field of that message; the auto-delete option is safely disabled
- * The same may happen for the Attachment(s) field
- * SaveMail can't deal with FAX messages, which are simply ignored and
- never deleted (the copy and paste process doesn't work with them...)
- * SMS messages are copied to the target file, but some fields must be
- manually rearranged at the end of the storing process
- * if a SENT message is moved from its original Sent folder, its "From" field
- disappears: the program detects this and leaves that field blank
- * if a SENT message is moved from its original Sent folder, the "Reply to"
- option doesn't work, so the date field in the target data file refers to the
- time of storing and is marked with (*); if this happens, a dialog is
- displayed to alert you, and the "auto-delete" option is always disabled
- * for the two above reasons, it is always better to use SaveMail with SENT
- messages before moving them from the Sent folder
- * for Purple Software Navigator users: when running SaveMail, you have to
- disable the "Return to Navigator" option (general preferences). This will
- let SaveMail cycle between the Email application and the Data target file,
- without Navigator popping out between them, thus locking the program.
-
- TRANSLATIONS
- ------------------
- From version 3.11 onward the use of external RSC files for each language makes
- it really easy to add new translations.
- If you are interested in making your own translation in a new language (and maybe
- making it available for other users), do not hesitate to contact me at
- sergioalisi@geocities.com
- You only have to translate a hundred short phrases or singe words (supplied as
- an Epoc Data file).
-
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ------------------
- A great thank you to:
- * Pascal Nicolas for writing Macro5 and helping me in making this program
- work... Visit his homepage for a huge library of useful macros:
- http://pnicolas.epocboulevard.com/
- * Mario Collado (author of Assistant) for all his suggestions!
- Visit his homepage at http://www.psionwelt.net/MarioCollado/
- * Guillaume Sabouraud (http://www.chez.com/chemtools/opl.htm), author of
- RSCcompiler (an Epoc32 tool for compiling rsc files, making it a lot
- easier to add support for new languages)
- * Corrado Formicola, Jarle Hallingstad and all the beta testers from UPS5 Digest
-
- Any comments & suggestions are welcome!
-
- E-mail me at:
- sergioalisi@geocities.com
- Visit my homepage at:
- http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/bridge/1492
-
- THANKS & ENJOY
-