SimpleMail 1.1.1
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Written by Matt Pauker <mpauker@peganet.com>
       and Jon Watte   <hplus@ix.netcom.com>

(Read Me by Matt Pauker)
7/8/96

Introduction
============

Once upon a time, the BeBox developer guru Jon Watte asked, over the
bedevtalk mailing list, for a simple command-line mailing tool.  Seeing this
as a good opportunity to sharpen my socket skills,  I (Matt Pauker),
decided to create it.  SimpleMail 1.0 (Which nobody but myself and Jon ever
saw) was the result.  Jon added some features and made some bugfixes,
leading to SimpleMail 1.1, the first released version.


Installation
============

1) Move the 'mail' application into /boot/bin/
2) Start up a Terminal
3) You need to set up a shell variable containing the hostname of the
   SMTP server you're going to use.  To do this, type:
   
   env SMTPSERVER=<your-SMTP-server-here>
4) Unless you've got some way to receive mail on your box, you should
   also set a return address.  To do this, type:

   env RETURNTO=<your-address-here>

Usage
=====

To send mail to someone, simply type:

mail <address> [<address>, <address>, ...]

SimpleMail will then prompt your for a subject, followed by the message
text.  End your message with a '.' or a ctrl-D, and SimpleMail will
immediately send your message.

There are some commands available while entering the message text:

~q			Aborts the message and quits.
~r <file>	Adds text from the specified file


Revision History
================

1.1.1	Two major bugs (Which prevented SimpleMail from working properly)
		were fixed.  Many thanks to Joerg Stegemann
		<stegeman@ai-lab.fh-furtwangen.de> for finding, reporting, and even
		 giving fixes for them.
		(Ah, public domain software is a thing of beauty when it works.)
		
1.1		First released version

1.0		Initial version; never released

Notes
=====

SimpleMail 1.0 was written in about 4 hours.  The code was pretty bad,
and I didn't do too much to niceify it, so don't just me on it. :)
Fortunately, before release, Jon Watte made some bugfixes and added some
additional features, upping SimpleMail to 1.1.  As usual, his code is
impeccable. :)

As always, if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, feel free
to mail me at <mpauker@peganet.com>.