Mailbag Assistant 2.0
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(28 September 2000)

Information
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If you're buried alive in email, Mailbag Assistant, a powerful and
user-friendly message organizer, can come to your rescue with tools
to search, organize and archive your overflowing mailboxes -- tools
that you've probably found missing or inadequate in your mail
program. Mailbag Assistant complements your mail program without
interfering with it, leaving your native mailboxes absolutely
intact. It reads and processes your current and archived mailboxes
with ease, whether they are stored on your computer, on a networked
drive, or on removable media.

The search tools are particularly powerful, providing advanced
features like Boolean operators, along with easy-to-use wizards. In
addition to searching for exact matches in your emails, Mailbag
Assistant lets you search for approximate matches and Soundex
(sound-based) matches. These tools make it easy to define, group and
find relevant messages quickly and accurately.

Novice users will enjoy Mailbag Assistant's easy-to-use grid layout,
ability to sort emails simply by clicking a column heading, and
Quick-Match searches. Power users will enjoy Mailbag Assistant's
tools for creating subsets of messages, extracting addresses and
attachments, and compiling traffic and word statistics. There's also
a full-featured scripting language that lets you automate repetitive
tasks like opening mailboxes, searching messages, and archiving
emails. Advanced users will appreciate its powerful command-line
interface support.

Whether you're maintaining mailboxes with thousands of emails, or
just want to save time hunting down a few old ones, Mailbag
Assistant makes it much easier to search your mailboxes, organize
your emails efficiently, and archive them in an easy-to-retrieve
way.

Mailbag Assistant requires Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000 (or higher),
and supports mailboxes for Outlook Express (including v5.x), Eudora,
Netscape Messenger (including v6), Pegasus, Forte Agent, The Bat!,
Calypso, Poco, and FoxMail.


Installation
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Just execute the program Setup.exe and follow the instructions.

How to Uninstall
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You can uninstall Mailbag Assistant by using the Control Panel's
Add/Remove Programs or the Uninstall Mailbag icon in the Start menu.


Technical Support
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Free technical support by email is available to registered users of
Mailbag Assistant. However, we reserve the right to terminate
support to users who in our judgement are unreasonable or abusive,
or who have problems which transcend the scope of this software. If
you have a problem installing or running your registered copy of the
software, you can ask for help by writing to <support@fookes.com>.
If you have problems ordering or getting your registered copy of
Mailbag Assistant, please contact the online distributor's customer
support (Digital River: <custserv@DigitalRiver.com>), or write to
<sales@fookes.com>. Please do not use these email addresses for
questions about using Mailbag. We provide a free mailing list to
help you with all non-customer support issues (see below).


Questions and Answers
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If you have questions about using Mailbag Assistant or would like to
learn some time-saving tricks from other users, then please join the
Mailbag Assistant mailing list (even if it is just for one
question). It is free for everyone (registered and non-registered
users). Mailbag's author frequently answers questions and also uses
the list to announce updates and changes to the software. You will
find more information about this list on the following web page:

   http://www.fookes.com/support.htm

To subscribe to the list, just send an empty email to this address:
   <mailbag-subscribe@egroups.com>

and to unsubscribe later, send an empty email to the following
address:
  <mailbag-unsubscribe@egroups.com>

You will also find useful information, links, and other Mailbag-
related resources (upgrade programs, answers to common questions,
etc.) by visiting one of the Mailbag Assistant web site at:

   http://www.fookes.com/mailbag/


Feedback
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Bug reports, criticism, and comments are very welcome. You can send
suggestions to the Mailbag mailing list at <MailBag@eGroups.com>
(note that you will have to first subscribe, as explained above). Or
you can write directly to us by sending your email to
<mailbag@fookes.com>.


I hope you will find Mailbag Assistant useful.
--Eric Fookes

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Mailbag Assistant™ is a trademark of Fookes Software, Switzerland
     Copyright © 1999-2000, Fookes Software, Switzerland
                 - All Rights Reserved -

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