Shareware of the Month -- May

PMMail



Looking for an easy way to check your Internet or other UNIX
electronic mail? Perhaps a program that provides all the
convenience of a point and click OS/2 program? PMMail is the
first shareware product for OS/2 for this purpose.



PMMail connects to a POP (Post Office Protocol) electronic mail
server generally residing on the Internet (or in your UNIX host)
and delivers it to your OS/2 machine. PMMail can work over a
local network connection and via the IBM Global Network or
SLIP/PPP connection that come with OS/2 Warp. PMMail works with
OS/2 2.x and OS/2 Warp.



Installing PMMail is a snap. You tell PMMail the address of your
electronic mail servers and your login name and password. After
the install, each time that you start PMMail it logs into your
electronic mail server and retrieves all your electronic mail.
You can even have it automatically check your mail every couple
of minutes for new messages.



One of the many benefits of OS/2 is the multitasking abilities.
PMMail takes advantage of these abilities by multithreading the
receiving of electronic mail. The direct result is while your
electronic mail is being collected from your electronic mail
server, you can start reading your new messages and even
replying to them. You do not have to wait for all your messages
to come in before interacting with them.



PMMail is also packed with features that make receiving
electronic mail easier. One of these features is filters.
Filters allow you to screen messages and appropriately route
them. With filters, I can automatically send all messages with a
certain subject to a certain PMMail folder or I can
automatically delete messages from certain senders. Another
great feature is canned replies. This allows you to filter a
message and then automatically send back a reply. This is a
great way to distribute information. For example, if I am having
a party at my house, I can just tell everyone to send me
electronic mail with "Party" in the subject field. Then, I can
set up a filter to look for "Party" in the subject header and
automatically send back a canned reply with directions to my
house.



PMMail also has support for off-line electronic mail creation.
If you have to pay for your Internet connection by the amount of
time you are hooked up, this feature can save you money. You
only connect to the Internet to receive and send your messages.
You can read them and compose them without being connected and
paying services fees. Also, notebook users can compose and read
messages while they are away from their offices. Once they plug
into their network, the mail will be sent.



PMMail was written by Robert Novitskey, a junior Computer
Engineering major at Case Western Reserve University in
Cleveland, Ohio. He has been using OS/2 since he tried a beta
version of OS/2 2.1. Even though he has programmed for DOS,
UNIX, and X-Windows, he has been an OS/2 programmer since OS/2
2.0. He even learned C so that he could write Presentation
Manager applications. He programs for OS/2 over other operating
systems because he feels that the OS/2 API is very robust.



According to Robert, PMMail demand has been fantastic. He
receives over 200 messages per day about the software, which is
a lot more than he can handle. Since its first release on March
28, 1995, Robert has fixed some bugs and the latest release is
version 1.05. Before May 15, Robert plans on releasing a new
release, 1.1 which will add a few features and fix some bugs. He
will take a hiatus from developing PMMail during the summer
months because he is going to be busy working. However, he is
planning a major release, version 1.5, sometime in the fall with
support for Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)
attachments, drag and drop support, and a new revamped interface
for dealing with the address book. Soon to follow will be a
version that is fully Workplace Shell compliant.



His company, Southside Software, is planning on coming out with
a suite of internet applications for OS/2 including a FTP client
and a threaded newsreader.



Take a look at this great addition to OS/2's software library.
The shareware version is available from:



ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/32bit/network/tcpip/pmml105.zip

ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/network/tcpip/pmml105.zip



To order the registered version, which includes other features
such as uuencode/uudecode of attached files and free upgrades to
version 1.5:



Send check or money order for $30 US (payable to Robert
Novitskey) to:

SouthSide Software

7915 Linden Street

Mentor, OH 44065

USA



When sending in your registration, please provide the following
information:



Name:

Address:

Phone Number:

Email address:

How you heard about PMMail: 

Suggestions/Comments:

Method of Distribution of registered version: (Snail Mail or via
FTP)



Or call:

Voice:	1-800-414-4268 (US and Canada)

	1-910-791-7052 (World-wide)