
			  USERS' MANUAL
		     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
		   Mail Expert	   Version 1.0
			    FREEWARE

		      Author:  Zhang Duo
	       Email:	  mailexpert@chinaren.com
	  WebSite: http://MailExpert.home.chinaren.com
	      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
		  WELCOME TO USE Mail Expert !

    This file include the latest new about and the usage of
Mail Expert.  If this file contains something contradicting
to what has been posted  on the author's  website, refer to
this file.
    Mail Expert is the English name of this software.

    (1:-  A brief Introduction to Mail Expert
    (2:-  System Requirements
    (3:-  Usage Guidance
    (4:-  Frequently Asked Questions
    (5:-  Technical Support
    (6:-  File List
    (7:-  About the Author




1. A Brief Introduction
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     It has been a really nice summer vacation. I made up my
mind to write an offline mail send and receive software. After
two weeks' hardworking and two weeks' elaborate testing and
bug-finding, Mail Expert came into being. I distributed it as
a FREEWARE. The main features of the software are intellegence,
powerful in functions, small in size, fast in speed. I used
a lot of AI in this software. Facilitating the users is my
biggest joy!

     Main Features:

	   Offline E-mail sending and receiving
	   Letters reply, forward and redirect.
	   Create your own MailBox including InBox, Sent Box,
		   Unsend Box and the Trash Box
	   Setup your mail account and POP3, SMTP server with
		   professional help.
	   Humanist Email Font
	   Compose letters with MDI Windows
	   Browse multiple letters at the same time
	   A Powerful AddressBook
	   Auto add the sender's email address to Address Book
	   Attachment Editor
	   Attachment association Editor
	   Emails import and export
	   Print the your email on the printer via a key
	   Set your personalized Signature
	   HTML format mail browsing
	   A built-in FTP to upload/download your attachment
		   to/from a FTP server(something like CuteFTP)
	   Make a floopy disk including the Mail Expert package
		   and your email. You can go to a netpub to
		   have your composed email sent with only one
		   disk now.
	   Email 128 bit encryption with maximum compression
	   A long list of SMTP and POP3 Server
	   Built-in Ping Tooket to see the connection condition
	   Ontime mail receiving
	   Complete support for Windows long filename
	   No Advertisements to disturb you for good and all

      Tested with SMTP and POP3 server based on Unix, Windows 95,
Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000. Support ASCII 7 bit and 8
bit code.
      The biuld-in FTP supports Microsoft FTP Service 2.0/3.0/4.0
UNIX V/VI/VII/VIII, WS-FTP Service, VM, ULTRIX, MacFtpd and so on.
More than 10 catagories.
      Mail Expert is programmed with Object Oriental Programming,
compiled by Delphi 5.0 and user-friendly. I tested the software
with extreme care, because I am fastidious about every byte of
the user's memory. Above all, it may run safe on your computer.


2. System Requirements
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			   Basic	   Recommended
		 CPU	80486 DX/66	Pentium 133 or above
		 RAM	    8M		   16M or more
		 O.S	 Windows 95	    Windows 98
	     Display	 Super VGA	    SuperVGA
		      640x480(16 colors)   800x600(256 colors
						   or more)


3. Usage Guidance
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     Before you send or receive your email from your remote
Mail Provider's server, you MUST first provide Mail Expert v1.0
with the neccessary information about your E-mail's UserID,
password, your Mail Provider's POP3 server as well as your
Internet Provider's SMTP server.
     NOTE: POP3 = Post Office Protocol
	   SMTP = Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
	   POP3 Server = a server where your mail account and
			 your mails are stored.
	   SMTP Server = a server which practise SMTP to deliver
			 your mails.

   | 3.1 How to Setup the neccessary information?
   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     1. Click 'Option' on Mail Expert's MainMenu.

     2. Fill in 'Your Name' and 'Email ID' below the title -
	'User information'

	 e.g My name is Zhang Duo, and my Email Address is
	     kangfu2000@etang.com, so I fill in the 'Your Name'
	     blank with 'Zhang Duo', and then I fill in the
	     'Email ID' blank with 'kangfu2000'.
	   (ATTENTION: you should not fill with your full email
		       address like 'kangfu2000@etang.com' in
		       the second blank. Only the part before
		       '@' is enough.)

     3.  Fill in the 'POP3 Server' blank which below the title -
	'POP3 Server information' with the DNS or IP address of
	 your Mial Provider's POP3 server. And fill in the blank
	 below with the corresponding Port of the server above.
	 Generally,  the Port should be 110,  if not notified
	 beforehand. And you will see the default Port has been
	 filled for you. If you are not sure about your POP3
	 Server Port, contact with your Mail Provider.

	 If you have already applied for a free E-mail account,
	 and you are not so sure or virtually have no idea of
	 your Email Provider's POP3 Server, take it easy!  You
	 just click the button - 'POP3 Server List', you will
	 find a vast quantity of POP3 Servers that are all free
	 of charge. For example, if your Email address is
	 'someone@china.com', you can find a server whose address
	 is 'pop.china.com'. Sure! This is the very POP3 Server
	 you are looking for. More than 40 POP3 Servers, you can
	 not miss it!

		 HINT: Some Mail Providers don't provide you with
		       a mail account supported by POP3. Maybe
		       they want you to use your Web Browser like
		       Netscape, IE or Opera to open their Website
		       to see their sponser's ugly Advertisements.

	 Most important of all, don't forget to fill in the 'Email
	 Password' blank with the corresponding password of your
	 currently filled Email account.

		 HINT: Your Mail Provider's POP3 Server should not
		       be substituted by another POP3 Server. As
		       mentioned above, all your emails in a mail
		       account are stored on the specific POP3
		       server.
		       e.g. If I have an email account - hi@io.com
			    and suppose the io.com Corporation's
			    POP3 Server is pop.io.com, so all my
			    mails in this account are therefore
			    stored on pop.io.com.  If replace the
			    POP3 Server with a POP3 Server of
			    another Mail Provider's - mail.5415.com
			    and you will not receive your email
			    successfully. Because you are being
			    attempting to receive from another
			    account - hi@5415.com. Interestingly
			    if your mail password are just the
			    same as the owner of hi@5415.com, you
			    can receive his or her email.


     4. But when it comes to the blank 'SMTP Server Information',
	it is the other way round. SMTP server only performs the
	simplest routine job - mail delivery. Therefore you should
	find a SMTP server nearest to you. You can use PING tookit
	to find the nearest server. (Presented in this README)

		HINT: Better use your Internet Provider's SMTP.
		      Fastest in theory.
	Or you may chose one from the SMTP Server List. Just click
	the button on the right of the blank, chose one, then click
	'OK'. The SMTP server you chose will automatically appear
	in the blank.

	The SMTP Server Port more often than not is 25 with the
	exception that a corporation don't want his SMTP server
	easily used by others esp. Hackers.

	e.g. My Internet Provider(who provides me with Internet
	     Access) is Fudan University, therefore I use her
	     SMTP server, because it is the nearest SMTP server
	     as far as I am concerned. So I use mail.fudan.edu.cn
	     or 202.120.224.9 as my SMTP server.

       ATTENTION: Some Corporation's SMTP will automatically
		  inspect the Receipient of a mail. So you are
		  restricted to send your mail to certain school
		  of people.

     5. Well, Click 'OK', and now everything is Okay!

   | 3.2 How to Receive your E-mails?
   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     1. Click on the 'Receive' speed button of the panel on the
	top.

     2. Wait until all mails have been transferred from the remote
	POP3 Server. If you have had a check on the 'Auto Add
	the Mail Sender's Address to the AddressBook', all the mail
	sender's email address will automatically be added to the
	build-in AddressBook in the meanwhile.

     3. Okay, Browse your new emails now.

   | 3.3 How to Send your E-Mails?
   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     1. Click on the 'Compose' speed button of the panel on the
	top.
		(You can compose more than just one
		 letters concurrently if you want to.)

     2. Click on the 'AddressBook' button on the downright of
	the Receipient blank of the New Mail Composition Form.
	And chose the Receipient, cc, Bcc.
	(In order to diminish the possible errors during your
	 typing and make full use of your Auto-Added AddressBook
	 and form the users a good habit of using the AddressBook
	 we strongly recommended you to do so. And I am awfully
	 sorry about my not allowing you to input the Receipient
	 cc, Bcc directly in the respective blanks.)

     3.  Fill in the 'subject' blank.

     4.  If you want some attachment(s) accompanied with the
	 letter. Click on the 'Attachment' button. You can
	 now select your would-be attachment(s). It is recommended
	 that the number of your attachments should not exceed
	 three which would be denied by some SMTP servers.

     5.  Write your letter context in the memobox below.
	 (If your are nearsighted or not very sensitive to the
	  color Black, click on the button 'Font' on the upleft
	  of the current memobox, change the Font, everything
	  will be okay.)

     6.  If you have the desire to send your newly-composed mail
	 click the 'Send Now' button. If you want to send it
	 later, or want to re-edit it, click the 'Send Later'
	 button, Mail Expert will automatically save your newly
	 composed mail to the Unsent Mail Box. If you want to
	 cancel your currently composed mail, click the 'Cancel'
	 button, of course, nothing will be saved!

    | 3.4 About the AddressBook
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     Mail Expert provides a user-friendly, easy to use AddressBook.
     All operations pertinent to the AddressBook will be done with
     Mail Expert's instruction while you operate.

    | 3.5 About the Association Editor
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     Mail Expert v1.0 combines a build-in Association Editor.
     Association is a relationship between an application and a
     specific typed file. For example, files with extension .DOC
     is opened by Microsoft Word;files with extension .HTML could
     be opened and viewed by Internet Explorer or Netscape
     Navigator. Such relationship is called Association.
     Mail Expert build-in Association Editor is like that of the
     'Explorer' of Microsoft Windows. Easy to use!

    | 3.6 About the System Option
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     Chose  'Option' -> 'System Option' of the MainMenu. You can
     change a number of options related to Mail Expert behavior.
     Attend to your setting on your Web Browser. Without a correct
     setup option, Mail Expert will not perfectly support the Hyper
     Text Format File such as .html and .htm which is common on the
     Internet. So set right path of your IE or Netscape.

     NOTE: Microsoft Internet Explorer's main executable file is
	   IExplorer.exe located in the "?:\Program Files\Internet
	   Explorer" directory.
	   Netscape Navigator's main executable file is Netscape.exe
	   Mail Expert will search and set IE as your default Web
	   Browser.

    | 3.7 About the Signature Option
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     Signature is a brief personalized account of the mail sender
     that attached to the end of every E-mail you sent. It may be
     your motto or your self-introduction, or even ASCII art which
     will be found in many BBS of the world. It is recommended to
     be within 5 lines of text.

    | 3.8 How to deal with received letter
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     You may Reply, Forward, Redirect your letter. The three
     corresponding speed buttions are on the right of the panel
     of Mail Expert on the top.



4. FAQ(Frequently Asked Questions)
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     Q: I have installed Mail Expert v1.0 on my computer, but it
	doesn't work when receiving email. Why?
     A: Before you receiving your E-mail for the first time, you
	are requried to Click on 'Options' on the MainMenu. Chose
	'Account Option' and fill in the neccessary information
	as memtioned in Chapter 3.1

     Q: I have set up my Email account, but Mail Expert refused to
	send or receive my mails saying 'WinSock Error...', Why?
     A: Make certain in your Windows\System Directory whether there
	is a file distributed by Microsoft Corporation named
	'Wsock32.DLL', without which you will not run TCP/IP
	protocol on your computer. And Mail Expert need it. It is
	usually installed automatically by Windows 95/98 if you
	enabled TCP/IP support. You can download this file via the
	Internet from Microsoft FTP(ftp.microsoft.com) or you may
	extract it from your Windows Installation CD-ROM disc.

     Q: I am completely at sea when you speak of such word like POP3
	SMTP, can you explain it?
     A: POP3(Post Office Protocol 3) in itself is a kind of Network
	Data Transfer Protocol. A server running this protocol is
	called a POP3 Server. All your mails are stored in this very
	server if you have an account on it. For example, My Email
	Address is mailexpert@etang.com, and the POP3 Server of etang
	Corporation is pop.etang.com, therefore all my mails are
	stored on it.
	SMTP(Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is also a Network Transfer
	Protocol. SMTP Server, which supports SMTP protocol, generally
	specialize in delivering the requester's mails. It may Deliver
	mails directly to the destination or Transfer the mails. SMTP
	and POP3 can be implemented on one machine or respectively.
	Also take etang.com and 5415.com for examples. the SMTP Server
	of etang Corporation is smtp.etang.com while her POP3 Server
	is pop.etang.com. But it is not the same way with 5415.com.
	mail.5415.com is running both SMTP and POP3 protocol.

     Q: My E-mail account is at xxx.com, but I don't know her POP3
	Server. Can I use Mail Expert?
     A: If your Mail Provider provides you with a Web-based mailbox,
	Mail Expert v1.0 will not support it just the way Microsoft
	Outlook doesn't. But you will find 70+ POP3 Mail Service
	Provider in the 'POP3 List' of 'Account Option', double-click
	any item, we will walk you through the application for a new
	Email account provided by the Mial Provider you have chosen.

     Q: My email address is somebody@126.com, Why I failed?
     A: 126.com is a Mail Redirect System only, which doesn't render
	POP3 or SMTP service.

     Q: I now use a 80386 computer, why I cannot run Mail Expert?
     A: Though Mail Expert v1.0 is initially developed on a 386DX/40
	computer, hard to believe(:-), compiled by Delphi 2.0C/S,
	I use a 80387 Emulator to rough it. Later I optimize and
	re-compiled my Mail Expert with Delphi 5.0 Enterprise Edition
	(A well-done, excellent Compiler). So the minimum hardware
	requirements should be 80486 DX/66 with 8 Mega RAM.

     Q: Does Mail Expert need any DLLs during the running?
     A: Mail Expert v1.0 's main executable file MailExpt.exe is a
	standalone program, which means it does not need any DLLs
	to hook.

     Q: I have to send and receive my E-mail at a Netpub, can I
	compose my E-mails with Mail Expert at home and send them
	out in a Netpub?
     A: Of course. For you, Mail Expert is a facilitator. She
	offers you a utility - 'Make a Netpub Disk', by which you
	can compose your E-mail with Mail Expert beforehand and
	Mail Expert will finish backuping up all your mails and
	herself to a Floppy Disk (We spare you more than 700 KB
	free space to store your emails and attachment). You can
	now take it out to anywhere as you like.

     Q: I am suspicious that my MailExpt.exe been infected by
	virus. How can I make sure?
     A: Your worry is otiose. Every time Mail Expert initializes
	herself, She will check whether MailExpt.exe has been
	affected by viurs or binded up with Hacker Programs.
	Once alterations are found, Mail Expert will pop an alert
	windows indicating the changes.

     Q: I am fond of seeking things new. How can I always get the
	latest version of Mail Expert ?
     A: The author has a Website, where you can get the lates
	information on Mail Expert and download the latest version.
	I place my Homepage on chinaren.com
	The OFFICIAL download site is:

	       http://mailexpt.home.chinaren.com

     Q: Does Mail Expert has BackDoors?
     A: I can raise up my hands and pledge there are NO BACKDOORS,
	Trojan Horse, background Ads Refresh. And I cherish every
	user's privacy. FREEWARE as Mail Expert is, I don't want
	any Advertisement Vendor to contact me. My sole purpose is
	to save every byte of user's RAM and every mimute of my
	user's valuable time.


5. Technical Support
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     If you have any suggestion, proposal or puzzle about Mail Expert
     feel free to contact me via E-mail.  My E-mail address is,

	       Technical MailBox: mailexpert@chinaren.com
		 Private MailBox:   kangfu2000@etang.com

     But you must write me in English or in Chinese.
     My mailbox is always welcome.

     New Release and bugs will be posted on my Website,

	      http://MailExpert.home.chinaren.com

     Acknowledgement to etang.com and chinaren.com Corporation.


6. File List
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	      MailExpt.exe    Main Executable file
	      License.txt     The file you now are reading
	      Readme.txt      The user's manual
	      File_ID.diz     A brief self-introduction

7. About the Author
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      I am now a university student in my third year. And I am
major in Chemistry. Physcal Chemistry is really tough to deal
with, so I will not have enough time on my Mail Expeert project.
The new release may be postponed, but I will have a try!
      My release are dependent on your kind suggestions.




					      Zhang Duo
				     People's Republic of China
					Septermber 14th, 2000







