MailMaint - Readme File for Beta Release 4.3 - 23rd April 2024
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MailMaint for Windows is a simple POP3 Mailbox Maintenance application
that supports multiple POP3 mailboxes, allowing headers to be accessed,
messages to be read and deleted, and new email and replies to be sent.
Old headers are stored on the PC to minimise access time, but this
application is not designed as an offline mail reader. Whole messages
can be relayed to another mailbox, chosen from an address book.
MailMaint also includes basic spam detection filtering and deletion,
with user designed filers.

MailMaint's main purpose is deleting messages that have become stuck in
the POP3 mailbox and are not being properly deleted by your normal email
application.  This typically happens when the mail headers are corrupted
or deliberately wrong (very common with spam email).  But MailMaint will
also be very useful for those that need to access multiple mailboxes.

While MailMaint is normally installed under Windows with all the
settings kept in the system registry, it is may also be run from a USB
stick, with all server settings and preferences saved on the stick. This
will be useful for people that travel a lot and need to access POP3 mail
in a better manner than a web interface.



Installation
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MailMaint comprises a single program file MAILMAINT.EXE and a help file.
No files will be installed in the Windows directory. The only prerequisite
is Windows Vista or later although not tested on anything earlier than
Windows 10.

MailMaint is usually distributed as a ZIP file which should first be
unzipped into a temporary folder.

The program MMSETUP.EXE should then be run to install MailMaint.  About
30 Mbytes of disk space is required for the software and some files
that will be created when mailboxes are accessed, but this can increase
depending on how many messages are left on the POP3 server.

If you have received an executable with a version number like
MAILMT4S.EXE, this should be run just like MMSETUP.EXE to install the
software.

If updating from an earlier MailMaint release to 3.5 or later, the
Address Book will be empty, so please note any addresses from the old
version so they may be re-entered.  Likewise the window sizes and
selected columns are reset to default for an upgrade, so will need to
be reset.


Release Notes
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These are now in the help file.


Viewing the Help File
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Microsoft stopped installing the winhlp32.exe program needed to display
historic HLP files with Windows Vista, hoping software vendors would
update their help files to the CHM format.  Some did, some did not,
mostly sunsetted applications that are no longer supported.

A knowledgebase article 917607 explains some of this:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/917607

It includes links to download standalone installers to install winhlp32
on Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 2008 and 2008R2, a separate download being
needed for each platform.

Microsoft has not yet provided installers for Windows 2012, 10 or 2016,
and probably won't.  Yet the original winhlp32 still works fine on these
platforms.

Magenta Systems has therefore built a zip file contains all alternate
means of installing winhlp32 on Windows Vista and later, including Windows
2012, 10 and 2016, on 32 and 64-bit editions.  The zip may be downloaded
from:

https://www.magsys.co.uk/apps/

or

https://www.magsys.co.uk/download/software/winhlp32-inst.zip

The zip is also included with the distribution.


Distribution
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MailMaint may be freely distributed via web pages, FTP sites, BBS and
conferencing systems or on CD-ROM in unaltered zip format, but no charge
may be made other than reasonable media or bandwidth cost.  Any
notifications must state that MailMaint is shareware and copyrighted by
Magenta Systems Ltd.  Please email Magenta Systems Ltd if you distribute
MailMaint in some way, so you can be notified of upgrades or other
important changes.



Copyright Information
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MailMaint is copyright Magenta Systems Ltd, England, 2024.

Magenta Systems Ltd
9 Vincent Road
Croydon
CR0 6ED
United Kingdom

Phone 020 8656 3636, International Phone +44 20 8656 3636

Email: mailmaint@magsys.co.uk
Web: https://www.magsys.co.uk/mailmaint/
Download: https://www.magsys.co.uk/mailmaint/mailmnt.zip



