Mailbag Assistant 1.0
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(16 September 1999)

Information
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Mailbag Assistant is a powerful message organizer that complements your e-mail program. This user-friendly utility for Windows is designed to help you view your mailboxes and archives, find and group messages quickly, and create archives with your important e-mails. Mailbag Assistant is well suited for people who value their correspondence, and especially those who receive and keep large amounts of e-mail.

As you master the power of Mailbag Assistant, you will relieve your current e-mail program from the work of organizing your messages and streamlining your mailboxes. As a result, you will have more time to deal with your correspondence. The first release of Mailbag Assistant can open mailboxes from Eudora, Netscape Messenger, Outlook Express 4, Pegasus, The Bat!*, FoxMail*, Calypso**, and Agent**. Mailbag Assistant handles with ease your current mailboxes as well as your archived ones, no matter where they are stored on your computer. The program is safe to use together with your e-mail program, as it does not modify your mailboxes.

Powerful search commands let you find all messages in the grid that match your criteria. The search criteria can contain multiple expressions connected with operators like "and", "but not", and "or". Expressions can consist of dates, text, and regular expression patterns. Searching can be limited to a specific field, or cover the whole message. The search tools in Mailbag Assistant make it easy to group together all related e-mail messages. Other tools let you extract information from messages, like e-mail addresses, traffic details, and word statistics. And a merge command based on customizable templates lets you export your e-mail data in just about any text format you may need.

* Status information is currently not extracted
** Calypso and Agent mailboxes can only be read when they are saved as text files


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 is available to registered users of Mailbag Assistant. 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 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/mailbag/maillist.htm

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

and to unsubscribe later, send an empty e-mail 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 e-mail 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, Fookes Software, Switzerland
                 - All Rights Reserved -

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