Documentation of Mail Prime 0.3

To use or try Mail Prime, you need to install two libraries :

Note : Mail Prime 0.3 doesn't need anymore the Mail&News library.

Mail Prime is intended for online pop3 mail downloading. Therefore, you need to parameter your connection :

Install Usinagaz (in port 0 only) and Navigator, create a program called 'Connection' according to windows modem log file, and using the following examples :

Note : example of program for Connection
with a Sportster Flash V.90 Voice PnP modem :
...and for an Olitec Speed'Com V92 Ready modem
(example with PAP authentification)
connection1 connection2

1. Connect to internet with your favorite isp, then, launch Mail Prime : use the MailP entry of the library.
You should see a menu on the bottom of the screen with "New", "Inbox", "Unsent", "Check", "Send" and "Option".

2. Press the F6-F key to configure Mail Prime. After a few seconds, an inform appears. You have to complete the forms : enter your email adress (a string), your smtp server (under IP form, for instance "15.135.64.89") and your pop3 server (same remark). You also have to type in your login (a string) and your password (a string too). The prefix is the string which will be added at the beginning of all lines when replying to a message. Choose whether your want only new mail or all mails, and whether you want to save a copy of the mails on the server or not. Then, press OK.
The inbox display comes back.

3. To download your mail, press F4-D (Check).
After some minutes, the inbox displays the new mail. To navigate inside the inbox, use the vertical arrow keys.

4. To read a mail, press ENTER. (press ON to come back to the inbox).
When reading a mail (performed by Navigator), you can scroll the mail using the up and down keys. You can access the following or previous mail using the right and left arrow keys.

5. To reply, go to the bottom of the page and press ENTER twice. You will be able to edit the mail prefixed by the prefix defined in Options, then to choose the subject of your reply and the recipient's email. The mail is then stored in the outgoing box ('Unsent').

6. Press F3-C to display the outgoing box ("Unsent"). Inside the Unsend screen, you can edit the mails ready to be sent using ENTER when the cursor points to a mail.

7. Press F5-E to send the mails loaded into the outgoing box.

8. Inside the Inbox or the Unsent box, press Backspace ( <= ) to delete a mail.

9. To write a new mail, use the F1-A (New) entry. It launches Navigator (refer to Navigator's documentation) and you can write a mail into a nice input form

(press ENTER first, then use the left and right arrows to move to another input form, and ENTER to enter a form and type in text, then ENTER again to validate the text. Press ENTER when "Send" is highlighted to validate the new mail).

10. To hide the menu or make it visible, press NXT.

11. To quit the program, press ON.

That's all folks !

Yoann Désir.
yoanndesir@yahoo.com
http://www.hp-sources.com/internetprime/english.html