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| ==MR/2 ICE Major Feature List==
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| Some of the more obscure of these are OS/2-only features, never ported because no one has ever asked for them.
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| Supports both POP3 and SMTP for reading and sending mail. Other protocols are available via the Custom Mail Driver option ("plug-in" code accessed via simple REXX interface).
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| Auto configures itself to existing IAK setup, when available.
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| Use of pop-up or "context" menus abound. Try the right mouse button in index lists, on toolbar buttons and in address fields.
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| Very friendly to US and non-US users alike. Uses the OS/2 Country Settings to determine date/time formats. Supports 47 different CodePages with an option to override the default OS/2 System setting.
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| Comprehensive support for MIME character set specifications including support for translations to and from ISO-8859-1 through 10 and KOI8-R (Russian). Message text conversions are automatically supported, as are Quoted-Printable header fields. Configurable to send outgoing hi-end ASCII data in 8bit or Quoted-Printable modes.
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| Filter support includes "simple" search criteria OR more powerful free-form criteria allowing the testing of various message areas (including specific header lines) with full boolean logic. Mix and match search criteria with AND/OR/NOT and nested parenthesis. Includes soundex capabilities and case sensitivity options. You may even invoke a REXX script to determine if a message "matches" the filter's criteria if special needs are required.
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| POP3 server "Manual" Mode (header preview).
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| "PreFetch" filters that can be used to control the retrieval of headers-only and/or full message bodies, automatically, depending on certian criteria.
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| User-programmable "Custom Mail Drivers" can bu plugged into MR/2 ICE allowing for interfaces with mail transports other than SMTP and POP3. For example, a UUPC/UUCP driver already exists.
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| Auto-backup feature. MR/2 ICE will recover most/all of any open editor sessions if an application *or FULL SYSTEM* crash occur. This includes lock-ups where a manual reboot has to be performed.
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| Phrases: Store commonly used text as a phrase. Phrases can be inserted into messages via selection list, picked from a menu or quickly referenced by a "tag". Insert paragraphs of text with a minimum of 4 keystrokes! You may create phrases by swiping text from any existing message, or by using the simple maintenance routine (add, modify, delete)
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| Clipboard History Manager: Maintains a history of text copied to the clipboard. This provides easy menu-driver access to the last 6 clipboard changes since MR/2 ICE was started.
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| Fax-by-email Interface. Thanks to MR/2 ICE's great ability to interface with external programs, applications like Keller Group's PMFax can use MR/2 ICE for transporting faxes (sending and receiving) via EMAIL!
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| Persistently sizable windows almost everwhere. Multiple message windows can each have different positions.
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| Toolbars w/bubble hints ("tooltips"), status bars, progression indicators. Optional whenever possible. Hint bubble display and/or delay configurable. A RMB click will always display hints, if they are turned on.
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| Font and color selection dialogs, as well as drag/drop support from OS/2 pallets for message viewer windows.
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| Powerful message viewer and editor. Things like a split screen editor. Spelling checker and thesaurus available (as separate files, get the MR/2 QWK-reader files via www/ftp). Simple things like Rot13 support and case conversions supported. Mono/PS font toggle (you can configure the font for each mode). Single button selective quoting.
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| Formated *and* draft printing. A host of options including paper size selection and default typeface and size for text.
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| Selectable reply "templates" allow you to boiler-plate needed replies. Powerful set of reply-time variables available.
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| Auto-checking for new messages via configurable time period. Beeping when mail arrives, and (optional) periodic beeping when new mail has arrived and MR/2 has not acquired focus. Minimized icon and task list show new mail count.
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| Links to external utilities like WebExplorer and Ftp ... simply click, RMB, click to load or ftp any URL embedded within a message.
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| MIME support with many configurable options. Makes full use of ALL defined WPS associations for "viewing" an attachment.
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| UUEncoding/decoding. Multiple files-per-message supported.
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| Address book with description, email address, notes and "tags". Group addresses to with unlimitted address listings, including nested groups/address book entries and lists from external files.
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| Powerful built-in text editor. Call this up at any time to edit any text file (does not have to be assocciated with the creation of a message).
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| Pop up calendar (will be enhanced to provide to-do list/appointments).
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| Pop up calculator.
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| Multiple account support.
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| Sort message indexes to 3 levels (many options).
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| Find text in the message list or search all messages for text on demand. Powerful boolean (AND/OR) logic available.
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| Navigate through messages in a host of ways. In most cases, you can select the disposition of a message and specify "next" or "previous" message with one menu item or keystroke.
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| Dynamic window index ... easily find any open window and/or messages index.
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| Many configurable options. For example, turn on/off various warnings and prompts.
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| Clipboard access enhanced to include APPENDING to clipboard and pasting *with* quote string.
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| ==MR/2 ICE Competitive Feature List==
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| Here are some (as far as I know) unique features that MR/2 ICE offers. This does not include items which seem to me standard across all emailers. Just the "competitive advantages".
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| Lowest registration price of all OS/2 emailers. Lowest and most flexible site license pricing.
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| Absolutely nothing crippled in unregistered version. No xx day timeouts. A simple, once-per-invocation nag after 60-90 days.
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| Newsreader will be integrated as a single unit (in development, very close).
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| Conversion utilities to aid in converting FROM most of the more popular OS/2 and Windows mailers.
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| Two mailing lists set up to aid in end-user support of the product, both powered by MR/2 ICE itself (and its mailing list add-on).
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| Remote control from the command line. Command line invoked options that can control the startup of MR/2 ICE and/or an existing, running copy. Use MR/2 ICE as the mail server (sendmail replacement) when sending email from other applications.
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| Phrases: Store commonly used text as a phrase. Phrases can be inserted into messages via selection list, picked from a menu or quickly referenced by a "tag". Insert paragraphs of text with a minimum of 4 keystrokes! You may create phrases by swiping text from any existing message, or by using the simple maintenance routine (add, modify, delete)
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| Filters: Boolean logic, parenthesis for nesting expressions, soundexing, examine values by ANY header field, ability to use external utilities to determine if a message should be filtered.
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| Prefetch Filters: Use filters to determine if a message should be fetched immediately in full, saved for later (header is available for reference) or to skip. Use any header data and/or message SIZE in the filter.
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| Clipboard History Manager: Maintains a history of text copied to the clipboard. This provides easy menu-driver access to the last 6 clipboard changes since MR/2 ICE was started.
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| WPS Viewers and Associations: truely an OS/2-specific features, but MIME and other attachments can be made to open using specific viewers, or simply to let OS/2's predefined viewers handle them.
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| Customization: Fine-tuning control of MIME settings, including character se conversion options that NON-US users demand. Self-adjusts to country specific settings (date formats, for example). Control of if/where th toolbar(s) display, notebook tab sizes and positions, etc. Customizable to an extreme.
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| Automatic recovery capabilities. If OS/2 crashes in the middle of a 1 hour message composition, your work will be there when you restart MR/2 ICE. MR/2 ICE auto-saves your work every 30 seconds and you can't tell that it does (unless you crash :). None of the other OS/2 mailers do this, and I believe it to be extremely important.
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| Comprehensive support for third party add-ons. Case in point is William Geiger's E-Secure PGP add on product. This is an excellent stand-alone PGP front end, which integrates seamlessly with MR/2 ICE. Why? Because MR/2 offers the hooks that were necessary and features were added as needed to facilitate third party interfaces.
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| User-programmable functions available via REXX. This includes automatic invocation via filters and/or "on demand" for any message via function key. For example, a sturdy REXX-based mailing list system exists using MR/2 ICE and it's filters as the engine.
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| Reply Templates with an extensive list of available "reply-time" variables. This let's you build complex reply forms selectable when you decide to reply to a message, or by an auto-reply filter.
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| UUCP Support
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| Custom Mail Driver. Users/third parties may code their own MAIL drivers to me used with MR/2 ICE. That's how the UUCP support was added.
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| An (optional) split screen editor with one click or keystroke selective quoting. No other OS/2 emailer has this.
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| A separate on-demand text editor. Open ANY file in another window (or several files in several windows) while composing a message. Great for referencing external information!
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| Spelling checker. Sure, many mailers do. MR/2 ICE boast a thesaurus. Spelling checker is smart enough to skip quoted material. Includes options for checking a single word, a block of works, from the current cursor position, or the entire file.
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| Text search (with boolean logic) through ALL messages in a folder. View each message, one at a time, and/or work with the whole list of matches in bulk (move, copy, delete ...).
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| Flexible Address Groups that can be used for large bulk mailings. Access lists of addresses stored in text files, if desired.
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| The message viewer/editor alone is loaded with features: two-click access to ftp and www URL's, paste w/quotes, run external utilities against the current message (via single function key press), open any file in a separate text-editor window (oh, I said that already :), single click toggle between mono and proportional fonts, split the screen and view original and reply, ROT13, there's so much more.
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| Smaller items: append to clipboard, save messages to text files (appending *or* overwriting, and/or with divider lines); save singularly or in batches.
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