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- Watchdog Mail Monitor
- Windows Sockets E-Mail Client Application
- Author: Richard M. Beddard III
-
- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!THIS PROGRAM IS A BETA VERSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-
-
- Tell the world about your Watchdog! :)
-
-
- Keep those bug reports and suggestions coming in. I can't fix it if I
- don't know about it, and I can't add something new to it if you don't
- request it.
-
-
- !!!ATTENTION!!!
- please read the Known Problems section at the end of this file.
-
- VERSION:
- ========
- 0.21b - BETA
-
- HISTORY:
- ========
- 0.22b - Fixed a bug that wouldn't let you turn off the notification
- dialog (I'd tell you guys about it, but you would laugh).
- - Fixed a bug that caused information to be lost when switching
- between tabs in the property sheet.
- - Fixed a bug that would not let you properly browse and change
- the notification sound.
- - Added support for non-standard POP3 ports.
- - Added ability to launch an app when new mail has arrived.
- 0.21b - Fixed some potential bugs (nothing had happened yet, but the
- possibility of it failing later existed).
- - Added an option to turn off animation (who would do that? :)
- - Added ability to check mail on demand.
- - Added a notification dialog to inform you of new mail, as well
- as the ability to turn it on and off.
- 0.21a - Fixed some gui problems that appeared on screens set to less
- than 1024x768.
- - Fixed a bug which allowed multiple options dialog boxes to be
- opened at the same time.
- - Fixed a bug which let watchdog check the mail while the options
- dialog box was open.
- - FINALLY! I got the dog animation working! Thanks goes out to
- Scott Adkins and Charles Shopsin whose combined information did
- the trick.
- - Added an informative message on the notification tab telling
- you how many messages are waiting.
- 0.2a - Gave the watchdog a major facelift. All GUI is now Windows 95.
- - Converted all Dialogs to Property Sheets.
- - Fixed a bug where watchdog would check mail with no hostname.
- 0.1a - Initial alpha version
-
-
- DISCLAIMER:
- ===========
- This program is provided as is. I accept no responsibility for it.
- If you use it then so be it. Most programming information and all
- icons were gathered on the net.
-
- I hereby claim that this program exists. :)
-
-
- REDISTRIBUTION:
- ===============
- I encourage you to freely redistribute this program.
-
-
- LICENSE
- =======
- I hereby license you to use this product. :)
-
-
- DESCRIPTION:
- ============
- Watchdog Mail Monitor is a POP3 mail checker. It was created using
- Borland C++ version 4.52.
-
-
- REQUIREMENTS:
- =============
- Watchdog requires you to have a properly installed 32-bit WINSOCK.DLL,
- at least a 386, and Windows 95.
-
-
- INSTALLATION:
- =============
- YOU MUST HAVE A PROPERLY INSTALLED 32-BIT WINSOCK.DLL FOR THIS
- APPLICATION TO WORK!! YOUR HOST MUST SUPPORT THE POP3 PROTOCOL!!
-
- 1. Simply unzip the distribution into the desired directory.
-
- 2. Add watchdog to the start menu. (Select start then settings then
- taskbar then the start menu programs tab and then Add...)
-
- 3. Run the program and setup preferences by right clicking on the dog
- icon in the tray and selecting options.
-
- Registry keys created:
- (in case you want to remove them if you decide not to continue using
- watchdog)
-
- Under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software simply delete the key titled BSE
-
-
- USAGE:
- ======
- Once connected to the internet, run watchdog. A small dog icon will
- appear in the area of your clock in the taskbar (this is known as the
- tray notification area to programmers). To set program options and
- exit watchdog, right-click on the dog icon for a menu providing these
- options. To see how many messages you have waiting, simply hold the
- mouse cursor over the dog icon for a short period of time (a tip will
- magically appear to inform you of how many messages are waiting).
-
-
- VALID COMMAND LINE OPTIONS:
- ===========================
- None.
-
-
- WHERE TO GET IT
- ===============
- http://www.mountain.net/~gambit/home.html
-
-
- SUPPORT
- =======
- Bug reports and suggestions for improvement SHOULD be sent by e-mail
- gambit@access.mountain.net
-
-
- BUG REPORTS, SUGGESTIONS, ETC...
- ================================
- Send all bug reports, suggestions, etc to gambit@access.mountain.net
-
- If you like this program, please let me know about it!
-
- Post your comments in comp.protocol.tcp-ip.ibmpc, alt.winsock and
- in the windows groups on usenet and places like compuserve.
-
- I stress that I can't add a feature you might like if you don't tell
- me about it.
-
- Tell the world about your Watchdog!
-
-
- KNOWN PROBLEMS
- ==============
- - Watchdog reportedly doesn't respond when started up without a
- connection to the internet. Need to look into this further because
- that is how I run it when I am working on it and I don't have any
- problems with it. More information is needed.
-
- - Watchdog reportedly causes an unhandled exception in Windows when
- "mail" is put in as the host name. I CANNOT get this to happen on my
- system which leads me to believe that it is a winsock setup problem.
- More information is needed.
-
- - The apply button is always grayed out. I'm researching this.
-
- - Watchdog tries to check the mail even when there is no connection
- active. While I hadn't thought that this would be a problem, I
- received a lot of requests to have this fixed. What happens is that
- Watchdog makes use of the winsock API, Windows 95 detects this and
- launches the old connection dialog. I have decided this is a problem
- and I am looking for a way to fix it.