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MR/2 ICE Major Feature List

Some of the more obscure of these are OS/2-only features, never ported because no one has ever asked for them.

   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).
   Auto configures itself to existing IAK setup, when available.
   Use of pop-up or "context" menus abound. Try the right mouse button in index lists, on toolbar buttons and in address fields.
   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.
   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.
   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.
   POP3 server "Manual" Mode (header preview).
   "PreFetch" filters that can be used to control the retrieval of headers-only and/or full message bodies, automatically, depending on certian criteria.
   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.
   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.
   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)
   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.
   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!
   Persistently sizable windows almost everwhere. Multiple message windows can each have different positions.
   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.
   Font and color selection dialogs, as well as drag/drop support from OS/2 pallets for message viewer windows.
   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.
   Formated *and* draft printing. A host of options including paper size selection and default typeface and size for text.
   Selectable reply "templates" allow you to boiler-plate needed replies. Powerful set of reply-time variables available.
   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.
   Links to external utilities like WebExplorer and Ftp ... simply click, RMB, click to load or ftp any URL embedded within a message.
   MIME support with many configurable options. Makes full use of ALL defined WPS associations for "viewing" an attachment.
   UUEncoding/decoding. Multiple files-per-message supported.
   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.
   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).
   Pop up calendar (will be enhanced to provide to-do list/appointments).
   Pop up calculator.
   Multiple account support.
   Sort message indexes to 3 levels (many options).
   Find text in the message list or search all messages for text on demand. Powerful boolean (AND/OR) logic available.
   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.
   Dynamic window index ... easily find any open window and/or messages index.
   Many configurable options. For example, turn on/off various warnings and prompts.
   Clipboard access enhanced to include APPENDING to clipboard and pasting *with* quote string. 

MR/2 ICE Competitive Feature List

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".

   Lowest registration price of all OS/2 emailers. Lowest and most flexible site license pricing.
   Absolutely nothing crippled in unregistered version. No xx day timeouts. A simple, once-per-invocation nag after 60-90 days.
   Newsreader will be integrated as a single unit (in development, very close).
   Conversion utilities to aid in converting FROM most of the more popular OS/2 and Windows mailers.
   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).
   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.
   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)
   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.
   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.
   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.
   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.
   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.
   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.
   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.
   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.
   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.
   UUCP Support
   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.
   An (optional) split screen editor with one click or keystroke selective quoting. No other OS/2 emailer has this.
   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!
   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.
   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 ...).
   Flexible Address Groups that can be used for large bulk mailings. Access lists of addresses stored in text files, if desired.
   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.
   Smaller items: append to clipboard, save messages to text files (appending *or* overwriting, and/or with divider lines); save singularly or in batches.