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26.Apr.2003



Official release from YAM v2.4
DESCRIPTION

YAM (Yet Another Mailer) lets you send and receive electronic mail over the Internet and maintain archives of messages in your computer. The idea came to Marcel Beck in 1995 when he first tried using email: the programmes available at the time were either powerful but complicated to configure, or else used a too limiting graphical interface. The goal, therefore, was to program a cross between AdMail and AirMail, with a few ideas from Pegasus Mail.

YAM made its first public appearance in early 1996 under the "mailware" concept. The unexpectedly enthusiastic response from the public led to a steady development of YAM that reached its finest hour in version 1.3.5, the last incarnation in the "classic" series. By then, YAM had turned into one of the most popular Amiga programmes ever, and won Marcel the appreciation and several awards from the Amiga community thanks to its simplicity and ease of use. Unwilling to stop at that point, Marcel spent almost two years developing YAM2. In the summer of 1999, a greatly improved YAM set some of the standards that would be lately imitated by other popular Internet applications. In November 2000, Marcel finally gave up out of lack of time and motivation, but was yet kind enough to release the "final" YAM 2.2 together with its sources under the GNU General Public License. On this day and age, Marcel Beck is still fondly remembered by many as one of a selected few who made a difference on the Amiga.

Today, after YAM 2.3 and 2.3p1 fixed some of the most outstanding problems in the original sources and almost 18 months of hard work have been spent, the YAM Open Source team is proud to make the legend continue with YAM 2.4, the most powerful Amiga mailer to date.

NEW FEATURES
  • Hierarchical folder list - folders can now be arranged into groups, and nested at the user's discretion
  • SMTP & POP3 TLS1/SSL3 support for stunnel servers, using AmiSSL.library
  • Email address cache, making it possible to "remember" the last N used recipients if they don't appear in the address book
  • More powerful recipient string gadgets, resolving aliases, real names and email addresses "on the fly" as they are found in the address book or the email cache
  • Optional pop-up menus in the folder & message lists
  • Automatic codepage detection and translation, specially meant for cyrillic users.
  • Reworked status bar
  • Automatically finds the suitable mailing list support settings
  • Extended support for mailto: links
  • Search function in the Write window
  • Customizable size format and localized unit display
  • Individual appicon stats for folders, with an user-definable label
  • New hidden option "JumpToIncoming"
  • Deleting a block of text with RAmiga-Del automatically inserts a "[...]" marker
  • Built-in mouse wheel support
  • New "marked" status
  • "application/pdf" is now in the built-in list of MIME types
  • Extended documentation
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
  • AmigaOS V39+, MC68020+, MUI3.8+ and the latest BetterString, NList, NListtree, TextEditor & Toolbar classes (included)
AVAILABILITY DIRECTORY
  • /pub/aminet/comm/mail (hopefully soon comm/yam :-)
FILE NAMES
  • YAM24.lha - Main archive - basic 020 binary and English guide
  • YAM24cpu.lha - Diffs for 040/060 processors and the GPatch utility
  • YAM24loc.lha - Foreign language support files: catalogs & guides
  • YAM24con.lha - Additional graphics, ARexx scripts, etc.
  • YAM24mos.lha - MorphOS binary, includes starter
OTHER DISTRIBUTABILITY
  • Free software, distributed under the General Public License
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • Kudos to Brian for bringing c.s.a.a. back to life!
(nba)

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