Mailbag Assistant 3.0 (Trial version)
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Information
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If you're buried alive in e-mail, let Mailbag Assistant come to the
rescue with turbocharged tools to search, organize, analyze and
archive your mountain of messages ­- tools that are inadequate or
simply unavailable in conventional mail programs. Mailbag Assistant
complements your mail program without interfering with it, leaving
your original message files absolutely intact. It reads and processes
your current and archived e-mails with ease, whether they are stored
on your computer, on networked drives, or on removable media.

The powerful search tools provide both easy-to-use wizards and
advanced features like Boolean operators with multiple criteria. In
addition to searching for exact matches in your e-mails, Mailbag
Assistant lets you search for approximate and Soundex (sound-based)
matches. These flexible tools make it simple to define, group and
find relevant messages quickly and accurately.

If you're not an experienced computer user, you'll enjoy the
program's simple grid layout, which allows you to sort e-mails in
many ways just by clicking column headings. You can also use Mailbag
Assistant's E-mail Wizard and Quick-Match searches to track down
messages quickly and easily.

If you're a power user, you'll appreciate tools for creating message
subsets, extracting addresses and attachments, and compiling traffic
and word statistics. You can also take advantage of a full-featured
scripting language to create custom operations and automate
repetitive tasks like opening message folders, searching through
correspondence, and archiving e-mails. The program even provides
professional investigators with a valuable forensic tool: you can
search for a wide range of information, including server details,
quickly and efficiently in very large collections of messages.

Whether you're maintaining message folders with thousands of
e-mails, or just want to save time hunting down a few old ones,
Mailbag Assistant makes it much easier to perform searches, organize
your e-mails efficiently, and archive them for rapid retrieval.

Mailbag Assistant requires Windows 9x/2000/NT4/Me/XP, and supports
Outlook Express, Eudora, Netscape Messenger, Pegasus, The Bat!, Forte
Agent , Poco, Calypso, FoxMail, Juno 3.x, EML message files, and
generic mailboxes (mbox, Berkeley mail format, BSD mail format, Unix
mail format). The following mail formats can be accessed by first
importing them into Outlook Express: Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft
Exchange, Microsoft Internet Mail, and Microsoft Windows Messaging.


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.


Online Help
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Mailbag Assistant is now supplied with an HTML Help file for online
help. Older versions of Windows may not be able to open HTML Help.
An error message is displayed on such systems whenever you invoke the
online help. As a remedy to this issue, a WinHelp version of our Help
documentation is available from our Web site at this link:

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

Once you have downloaded the file, just launch mbghelp.exe and
install its contents in the Mailbag Assistant program folder.


Technical Support
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Free technical support by e-mail 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 (e.g., Digital River: <custserv@DigitalRiver.com>), or write
to <sales@fookes.com>. Please do not use these e-mail 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 e-mail to this address:
   <mailbag-subscribe@yahoogroups.com>

and to unsubscribe later, send an empty e-mail to the following
address:
  <mailbag-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.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/


Distribution License
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Provided that you verify that you are distributing the most recent
trial version of Mailbag Assistant, you are hereby licensed to make
as many copies of the Trial package as you wish; give exact copies of
the original Trial package to anyone; and distribute the Trial
package in its unmodified form via electronic means (Internet, BBS's,
Shareware distribution libraries, CD-ROMs, etc.). You may charge a
distribution fee for the package, but you must not represent in any
way that you are selling the software itself.

Please read the file License.txt for more details.


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


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

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                 - All Rights Reserved -

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