Managing IR mail

[boblong@xxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Long)]

W-J has suggested that to cope with the quantity of mail we've been
getting, a program like Eudora is recommended.  I'd like to put in a
plug for the one I use, Agent.  It is presently in late public betas,
as Agent .99, with the final version (Agent 1.0) scheduled by the end
of the year.  During the beta period, it costs only US$ 29 if you're
willing to download the program and the manual (the latter to be
finished only at the time the program is).  They are presently up to
Agent .99e, which includes filtering as elaborate as you want to make
it, file-foldering that also can be made as elaborate as you want, and
so on.  For example, I've set it up so that all incoming mail from
this group automatically goes into an IR Photo folder; all other
e-mail goes into a default e-mail folder.

To come next month is the one obvious omission: Base64 decoding, which
will be incorporated in Agent .99f.  Also promised at least by the
final version is handling of multiple languages, which may be of
importance to this group and certainly is of importance to me, since I
do a certain amount of e-mail in French or on French subjects, and the
garbling of diacriticals is a constant pain.  For example, the company
that offers Agent is Forti.  If that got garbled on your screen, here
it is without the diacritical: Forte.

Both 16- and 32-bit versions are available.  There are many more
features, present and planned, but this is not the place to list them
all.  If you're interested, check out Agent on the Forti web site:

        http://www.forteinc.com/

You can even download Free Agent (comparable to Eudora Light) as a
demo from there.

[No, I have no connection with the company outside of being a
delighted customer.]

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