The future of YAM

YAM 2.0 Screenshot Gallery

• Copyright information window
• Main window (folder list and message headers)
• Message window
• Transfer window (downloading mail)
• Write window; internal editor
• Write window; security and other options
• Find window (search for certain messages)
• Address book; main window
• Address book; single person entry
• Address book; mailinglist entry
• Configuration; First steps
• Configuration; TCP/IP settings
• Configuration; Receive mail
• Configuration; Folders
• Configuration; Filters
• Configuration; Read options
• Configuration; Write options
• Configuration; Reply/forward options
• Configuration; Signatures and taglines
• Configuration; GUI layout
• Configuration; PGP, remailer, logfiles>/A>
• Configuration; Start/quit options
• Configuration; Miscellaneous settings
• Configuration; ARexx macros

Planned additions and improvements in YAM 2.0

Main window

• Message size is now shown in bytes
• Contents and column width of message list can be selected by the user
• During startup, the copyright window displays progress information
• Graphical toolbar replaces text buttons
• All button and status images are user definable
• Toolbar modes: image only, text only, mixed
• Functions also available through pulldown menus
• Removed default 'Archive' folder
• Deleted messages are moved to a special 'Trash' folder
• Folders are listed in a listview including number of total and unread messages
• Folders containing unread messages are highlighted
• Folders can be protected using a password (XPK encryption)
• Folders can be automatically compressed using XPK
• Clicking the column titles in the message list will sort the messages
• Selection of multiple messages by pattern
• Messages can be redirected to another person (the original
• From header will be preserved)
• The status can be changed manually from read to unread and vice versa
• Messages with a high importance will be highlighted
• Messages can be sorted by increasing or decreasing message date, dated received, sender, recipient, subject, status or size
• Two sort keys for each folder
• Max.age option: Messages that are older than a certain age are automatically deleted
• Startup options: load all folders, mark new mail as unread, send queued mail, download new mail
• Quit options: send queued mail, delete old mail, removed deleted mail
• User can set width and contents of each column for the folder, message and address book lists
• NEW: Built-in support for multiple users (like MultiYAM). Optionally, addressbooks and other config files can be shared

Mail transfer

• Up to 16 POP3 servers can be checked in one step
• APOP login is now supported
• YAM displays transfer speed in cps
• Optionally, YAM marks new messages as unread before getting new mail
• Option to send messages in 8bit without MIME encoding
• Menu function to exchange mail (send queued and get new)
• POP3 password will be requested if there's no entry in the configuration
• Option to specify SMTP domain name for HELO command
• Select from a list which messages you want to download/delete from the POP3 server or import from a spool file
• Calculates remaining download/upload time
• YAM now uses UIDL to avoid duplicate messages
• Extensive filter statistics
• On new mail, YAM displays a requester and/or plays a sound (OS 3.x only) and/or executes a command

Filters

• 'Apply to new' can be set individually for each filter
• Additional searchable fields: CC, Reply-To, Date or user-configurable field
• Filters can search for a certain status
• Filters can search the whole message, header only or body only
• Substring search option obsoletes #? pattern
• Available comparison operators: equal, not equal, bigger than, smaller than
• Matching messages can be redirected, forwarded, replied (using an existing message file), moved or deleted, they can also start an ARexx script
• Multiple actions are allowed for each filter
• Filters and search function for address fields can use a file that contains many patterns ("killfile")
• Filters can be easily created based on the current search options, and vice versa

Message reading

• Option to display sender information (from the address book) in the header, including portrait
• Headers to show in 'short' format can now be configured
• Up to 4 read windows can be opened at the same time
• User can choose between automatical word-wrap and horizontal scrolling
• Message header is displayed in its own window
• New message header format with better readability
• Mutual exclude menus for header format
• Copy any portion of the message to the clipboard
• Nested textstyles are now supported
• Clicking on a http or ftp URL (which is automatically highlighted) starts user definable program like a web browser
• Attachments can be removed from the message
• Possibility to disable textstyles
• Charset translation
• Attachments lists (SAVE, DISPLAY and PRINT buttons) now contain a Cancel option
• Double-clicking an attachment will display it using the appropriate MIME viewer
• Decryption of PGP encrypted messages
• PGP signatures can be verified
• Public PGP keys can be added to the public keyring
• Sends read confirmation to the sender if requested

Address book

• Graphical toolbar replaces text buttons
• Functions also available through pulldown menus
• Address book can be saved under a different name
• Alternative address books can be loaded or appended
• Address book can be printed (short or long format)
• Single entries can be printed
• Function to duplicate an entry
• Address book can be sorted by alias, first name, last name, address or description
• Up to 4 entry windows can be opened at the same time
• Additional fields for person entries: street, city/ZIP, state/country, phone number, date of birth
• A picture of the person can be displayed in the window
• Additional fields for list entries: return address, mailinglist name

Message composing

• YAM now uses Texteditor.mcc by Allan Odgaard, a very fast MUI based editor which offers WYSIWYG of textstyles, ARexx port, configurable colors, cursor and frame
• Mailing list support: if To: field matches a folder-specific pattern, the return address is taken from the config
• Optional warning if Reply-To and From addresses are not equal
• Alternative reply intro is used if the recipient's address matches a given pattern
• Textclip library: marked text of any length can be saved in the library under a short name for later use.
• Option to set default directory for files to attach
• Graphical toolbar and pulldown menus for editor functions, including cut/copy/paste/undo and textstyles
• Message text can be saved
• Text and clipboard contents can be inserted quoted or
• ROT13 encrypted
• Optionally, the external editor will be launched immediately
• Editor font, tabsize, wordwrap column and cursor type are configurable
• 'Hello' and 'greetings' phrases
• New variable for reply/forward phrases: message id
• New variables for forward phrases: name/first name/address of original recipient
• New variable for quote text: first and last initial
• User can select none, standard or alternative signature
• Random tagline support, location and format of cookies are configurable
• Dropping a file on the YAM Appicon will either insert it in the editor or append it as an attachment
• Timezone for date header is now settable in the configuration and defaults to Locale prefs
• Support for additional headers
• Optionally turn of saving of sent messages
• Delivery confirmation using Return-Receipt-To
• Read/process confirmation using Disposition-Notification-To
• Support for Importance header field
• Encrypt and/or sign a message using PGP
• Anonymize a message using a re-mailer service
• Charset translation (includes some example translation tables like AmigaPL to ISO-Latin2)
• Message can be marked as HOLD to delay sending
• Editor option to automatically insert line breaks
• Small menu to insert Emoticons into letter
• Enhanced reply subject generation (Re[2]:, Re[3]:, etc...)
• Internal editor allows spell checking (spells as you type); an external spell checker like AlphaSpell is required
• NEW: Two write windows can be opened at the same time

ARexx

• MUI Arexx port has been disabled, YAM now uses the more powerful arexxport.library
• Contents of ARexx menu can be defined in the configuration window
• 10 ARexx hooks that will be called on certain events
• An Arexx script can optionally run asynchronously and/or open a console window
• New FOLDERINFO, MAILINFO and CONFIGINFO commands return internal information in a stem variable

Used third party software

• MUI by Stefan Stuntz
• Listtree.mcc by Klaus Melchior
• Mailtext.mcc by Olaf Peters
• TextEditor.mcc by Allan Odgaard
• arexxport.library by Andrew Cook
• XPK by Urban Dominik Müller

Things that WON'T be in YAM 2.0

• Newsgroups support
• Hierarchical folder structure
• Inline decoding of attached pictures and sounds
• Support for IMAP 2/4 protocol
• INet 225 support (working bsdsocket.library emulation for INet 225 is available)

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