In the IACT article you find some words about REXXMail by M.C. de Geus. REXXMail uses intensive the WPS functionality and you find also a documentation "REXXMAIL in 21 steps" there.
http://www.degeus.com/rexx/index_english.html
Note: Marcus de Geus has sent me more information about RexxMail.
RexxMail is an object-oriented e-mail client written in REXX that makes full use of the extensive range of facilities offered by the OS/2 Workplace Shell (WPS). The RexxMail user interface uses only standard WPS components (folders, file and program objects, etc.). RexxMail mail message objects are separate, plain text, files that can be used anywhere on the WPS desktop. You can use your favourite editor to compose and read mail messages, and since both incoming and outgoing attachments (including HTML content) are presented as standard WPS objects, you can also use your favourite software to process these.
The program takes up very limited system resources (the RexxComm-stripped REXX code weighs in at a puny 88 kB), and only when performing RexxMail-specific tasks such as sending, collecting, and processing e-mail message files. For all other tasks, it relies on the unequalled object-oriented data handling environment of the WPS.
RexxMail features a multi-user configuration as well as a wide range of individual user options, including:
- choice of text reader for incoming messages;
- choice of text editor for outgoing messages;
- preprocessing of incoming attachments (e.g. virus scan);
- preprocessing of outgoing attachments (e.g. data compression);
- preselection of header entries to show for incoming messages;
- preconfigurable message object title content;
- send message text as quoted-printable or (word-wrapped) ASCII;
- send selected messages or all messages as ASCII text;
- intelligent 8-bit (PC850) to 7-bit (ASCII) text conversion;
- conversion to 8.3 filenames for selected filename extensions;
- full error and message traffic logging;
- RFC to ISO-sorted date conversion;
- choice of message icon stationery colours.
Configuration of these features is by means of a single plain text file.
The original release of RexxMail, published a few weeks ago, did not offer POP3 or SMTP services, relying instead on external programs such as sendmail and MailPOP3 to send and collect mail to and from a network.
While this type of setup satisfies the current needs of the author, it is fairly complex to install and maintain, particularly if you have to include the configuration of the sendmail program.
To make installation and operation easier, RexxMail has been updated with built-in POP3 and SMTP services. The updated RexxMail also includes a mailing list feature with the option of sending personalized messages.
The updated version of RexxMail will be available after the weekend from:
http://www.degeus.com/rexx
RexxMail is released under the terms of the GNU license, see
www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
Regards,
Marcus de Geus
Source: OS/2 ORG