E-Check

Version: 2.2

System Requirement :

Windows 95 / Windows NT 4.0

SVGA display card

Network card / Modem (with RASAPI32.DLL installed)

Notice: Modem dial-up is not supported under Windows NT.

Introduction:

E-Check checks your E-Mail!

E-Check is the best software to check your POP3 E-Mail accounts for new mail. Any feature you need is supported. Multi-account, modem dial up, MIME format, cool interface, time schedule, keyword filter, low network loading. Just try it out.

E-Check is a shareware. All rights are reserved to the author. You can freely try it within 30 days. After this, you must paid for it. If you want to register E-Check, see the register section.

Topics:

Author

Feature

Usage

Registration

Copyright


Feature

Features

Basic:

* Check up to 10 servers.

* Auto load your E-Mail program.

* Build-in viewer let you read mails directly.

* Changeable animation and sound for notification.

* Retrieve only title of mails to reduce network loading.

* Many functions help you manage your mail boxes.

* Hot keys, pop-up menu, tray icon, dockable button bar, and more ...

What's New 2.1:

* Modem automation supported.

* Support MIME format: Quoted-Printable and BASE64.

* Build-in viewer can print your mail.

* Keywords to highlight important mails.

* Auto retrieve new mails.

* Support MIDI files as sound notification.

* A wave file added.

What's New 2.2:

* Scheduled auto check.

* Easy ways to register.

* Keyword filter to highlight mails or do auto delete. (Registered version only)

* Console password protection. (Registered version only)


Usage

I want E-Check to be small, smart, and cool. I try hard to design the interface and wish everyone can easily use it without a manual. So, I just describe briefly here. If you still get a problem on using it, sorry about that. Just give me a mail.

Topics:

Install & Uninstall

Hot Key, Pop-up Menu, Dockable Button Bar

Sound & Animation

E-Mail Program

Filter

Delete Mails

Viewer

Modem

Schedule

Console Protection

<Install & Uninstall>

Installation: Unzip it into a directory on your hard disk and make a short cut on desktop for it. Then, run it, that's all. Surely, you must set up some options for the first time. They are nothing but common network settings such as IP address, login name, and password. You must fill all the data needed besides password. If you didn't enter a password in the option page, E-Check will ask you for it when E-Check access the server for the first time, then the password will be remembered till you exit E-Check.

Uninstallation: I really hate some huge programs which put a lot of trash everywhere in my hard disk. So I make E-Check a "Garbage-free-ware". All the files are put into the same directory and there is no need to install any other DLL or something. If you want to uninstall it, just kill the entire directory of E-Check.

<Hot Key, Pop-up Menu, Dockable Button Bar>

There are hot keys for you to execute some functions. You can see them in the main menu. Pop-up menus are available for mail lists and tray icon. Just right click on them, then the pop-up menu will appear. The buttons on the main window are dockable, you can put them anywhere you like.

<Sound & Animation>

You can choose your own animation and sound files which you want to display when there are new mails in your mail box. If you do not want a animation or a sound to be

played, just left blank the file name in the option page.

The program looks fine on 1024x768x65535 screen. At least 800x600x256 is recommended. You can change the animation that will be displayed when new mails coming. The animation must be a 200x150 AVI file. There is an AVI file included in the E-Check pack.

If there are new mails coming in, the animation will be displayed on the screen. By checking 'Stay on top' option, you can make it always be the most top window. Double click on it will bring up the minimized main window and close this animation.

Sound can be disabled by checking the 'No Sound' option. Both WAV and MIDI format can be used as sound notification.

<E-Mail Program>

E-Check is based on POP3 which can not send out E-mails. If you want to reply a mail, you must assign an external E-Mail program to do so.

You can assign a E-Mail program like Eudora and turn on the 'Auto Load' function. After this, the program will be loaded by E-Check automatically to help you reply the new mails. Also, you can load it by click the load button.

<Filter>

You can set five keywords and their colors in option page. If one of the keywords is found in 'From' or 'Subject' of your mail, the color will be changed to notify you. You can also let mails with these keywords to be auto deleted by check the delete box.

<Delete Mails>

You can delete a mail by selecting delete from main menu, pop-up menu or button bar. Then the mail will be marked by a 'x'. It will not be deleted until the next check. Before this, you can use 'undelete' to unmark one or all mails. If you check up the 'Auto Delete' option, all mails on the server will be deleted automatically. You can also delete some mails by setting up the filter.

<Viewer>

If you want to view a mail, just double click on it. Turn on 'Auto View' will automatically download new mails for you. You can open many viewers at the same time. Check the 'No Header' option will erase the header of mail. If you press the print button in the viewer, the contents of viewer will be printed. Fonts for the viewer and printer can be set from option page.

Mails encoded by Quoted-Printable and BASE64 format will be decode automatically. Other MIME format like attachments maybe cause some problems. Mails that are greater than 64K bytes will not be displayed.

<Modem>

Notice: Modem dial-up is not supported under Windows NT.

All settings are in the option page 'Dial up'. Be sure to check the 'Enable dial up'. If it is been disabled, it may mean that you have no RASAPI32.DLL installed in your windows system directory.

'Check only when connected' decide if E-Check should dial up for you when you are off-line. You can also setup redial times and redial interval. If you want to dial up manually, you can click the dial button on the button bar. To cancel a dial up session, you should click the dial button again.

<Schedule>

You can assign the time schedule to check mails. The integers standard for hours must range from 1 to 24, and each must followed by a ', '. For example:

8,11,18,24

will check mails at 8:00 am, 11:00 am, 6:00 pm and 0:00 am.

<Console Protection>

You can protect your mails by assigning a console password. It will be asked when restore the minimized E-Check program. If fail to enter the password for 3 times, E-Check will be terminated.


Registration

E-Check is a shareware. You can freely try it within 30 days. After this, you must paid for it.

Please run register.exe by yourself or click the 'Register' button in the register page to launch it. You can choose the method of paying by cash, checks, or credit cards. Fax, E-Mail, postal mail registration are all available. You can choose the single user version for personal use or a site-license to run E-Check on a public machine. Single user version has a discount when you register multiple copies.

Registered user will get a register code by E-Mail. This code will enable 'Registered Only' functions such like mail filter and password protection. The 'Why not register' screen will be removed too. There are also free update and free support for you.

If you have any problem about registration, please contact:

sales@kagi.com

support@kagi.com

brianhuang@kagi.com

or visit this WWW site:

http://www.kagi.com/

For questions about the register program, please refer to the help file included in it.


Copyright

The copyright of E-Check is belonging to Brian Huang.

The icons I used in E-Check are get from internet FTP sites and been declared as

freeware. I don't know who are the original authors, but I'd like to say thanks to them. If you do not agree the usage of these icons, please tell me, I will remove them as you wish.


Author

Name:

Brian Huang

E-Mail:

b3701246@cc.ntu.edu.tw

b3701246@bizet.ntu.edu.tw

brianhuang@kagi.com

Address:

618 room, Boy's 8th dormitory of National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

WWW:

http://king.cc.ntu.edu.tw/~b3701246/ECheck.htm