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                                   PolyMail
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	   (PLEASE REVIEW THE ENTIRE CONTENTS OF THIS FILE!!!!)


Overview
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PolyMail is a new powerful E-Mail client software designed for Windows95
and NT 4.0. The user interface has been designed with the novice PolyMail
users in mind with "on-line" context-sensitive help. Usage should be obvious.

Features:
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1. PolyMail is able to get your E-Mail located on your POP server.
   It is designed to easily manage them.

2. You can easily send any E-Mail with attachments according to MIME 
   specifications.

3. You can define filters so as to automatically pre-process incoming
   E-mails,

4. You can Talk to somebody 'live'.
   Just connect you to a remote PolyMail and chat.

5. Debug. PolyMail includes full SMTP and POP debug. All POP and SMTP
   traffics are logged in separate windows. 

6. and many other useful things using (of course) modern Windows (C)
   tools or features...

--> On-line Help is available at any time. Press F1 key.

--> Contextual help is available in Configuration windows.
    Press the 'question mark' button (in each dialog box), or press F1 key.

Changes
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04/1997
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This is the First release of PolyMail (v 0.9).
It is not far from a 1.0 release. there are some known problems with few
sofware that hang it. For example PolyMail doesn't run fine with PcXWare.

REQUIREMENTS:
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   PolyMail requires you to have a properly installed WINSOCK.DLL 1.1 
   and over, and requires Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0.
   
     Windows NT and Windows 95 come with their own TCP/IP stack. 
     If you use a different vendors stack on these platforms you will
     need to replace the WSOCK32.DLL that comes with the OS.

PolyMail Install
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        To setup PolyMail, unzip the .zip file (plymusXX.zip) and copy
all files, either on a diskette or in a temporary directory.
Start the setup.exe program. In the install wizard, select the PolyMail
directory and the folder name.
After PolyMail has been correctly installed, you are ready to start PolyMail!

Start PolyMail and Go to Options/configuration first.

PolyMail UnInstall
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        PolyMail is provided with an uninstall option.
        To automatically remove PolyMail , start the unInstall Shield program
        by selecting the unInstall icon in the PolyMail folder.

        To manually remove the PolyMail software:

Delete the PolyMail directory and all files it contains,
delete the corresponding entries in the registry base:
        HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\PolyMail\\ and
        HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\PolyMail\\.
	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\JMV\\.

That's all.

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-> TODO
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RFC1896: The text/enriched MIME Content-Type
and many other things...

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AUTHOR INFORMATION

	Jean-Michel VANSTEENE
	1, Avenue Ambroise Par
	78390 BOIS D'ARCY
	FRANCE

	E-Mail: vanstee@worldnet.fr
		vansteen@worldnet.fr

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DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

THIS SOFTWARE AND MANUAL ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT
WARRANTIES AS TO PERFORMANCE OF MERCHANTABILITY OR ANY
OTHER WARRANTIES WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED.  BECAUSE
OF THE VARIOUS HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS INTO
WHICH THIS PROGRAM MAY BE PUT, NO WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE IS OFFERED.  GOOD DATA PROCESSING
PROCEDURE DICTATES THAT ANY PROGRAM BE THOROUGHLY TESTED
WITH NON-CRITICAL DATA BEFORE RELYING ON IT.  THE USER
MUST ASSUME THE ENTIRE RISK OF USING THE PROGRAM.  
