1. Introduction


1.1 Purpose

Mac Mail Purger is a tool to help you manage your email accounts. It allows you to download messsages on your account and quickly delete unwanted emails from your mailbox. Advanced filtering options are available to allow you to preserve other emails in your mailbox.

1.2 Requirements

Mac Mail Purger requires any Power Macintosh or compatible, with Mac OS 8.1 or higher and Open Transport 1.1 or higher (included in Mac OS 8.1), and 1.5 Mb of free memory, as well as a TCP/IP connection to a POP3 mailbox. Mac Mail Purger does not support IMAP accounts or proprietary mail systems. If there are an exceptionally large number of messages in your mailbox or if you wish to display a particularly long email, you may need to increase Mac Mail Purger's memory allocation
1.4 Updates
The latest version of Mac Mail Purger is always available here
1.5 Bug Reports and Contact Information
Send bug reports, comments, suggestions etc… to fred.cheung@kagi.com
1.6 Acknowledgements
Thanks to all the great guys at Apple for making great computers and the best GUI
Thanks to all the friendly people who use the comp.sys.mac.programming.help newsgroup. Mac Mail Purger wouldn't be there without that newsgroup.
Thanks to all the people who have used previous versions of Mac Mail Purger and who reported bugs and gave advice and suggestions, making Mac Mail Purger a better product.
Mac Mail Purger uses the MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm from RSA Data Security, Inc. and the WASTE text engine which is © 1993-1998 Marco Piovanelli
1.7 Installation
Just copy the Mac Mail Purger folder to your hard drive. The "WasteLib" file should stay in the same folder as Mac Mail Purger
1.8 Legal Niceties
The  software and  accompanying  instructions are provided  ‘as is’  without  warranty  of any kind.  The  author  Frederick Cheung  does not warrant, guarantee,  or make  any representations  regarding the  use  or, or the  results  of  the  use of  the  software  or  accompanying  instructions in  terms  of  correctness,  accuracy, reliability, currentness,  or  otherwise.  The  entire  risk as  to  the  results  and performance  of the  software  is  assumed  by you.  If the  software  or  instructions  are defective, you,  and  not  Frederick Cheung,  assume  the entire  cost of all  necessary servicing,  repair or correction.
This software may be distributed electronically as long as it is not altered in anyway and is not separated from its documentation.
Any commercial distribution (this includes shareware compilations) is prohibited without the prior written permission of the author

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