
What makes this mailer any better or different from any other?

Goals:
 *	I wanted this to be a fairly full-featured mailer that is good, 
and doesn't try to handle everything -- I wanted to be able to use it as 
soon as possible.  :-)

 *	I wanted the mailer optimized for speed, both over slow dialup
and for cruising through lots of junk mail.  No mail filtering was added
since there are already good mail filters out there.

 *	I wanted a light-weight MIME aware mail handler that could be
compiled on some older systems (SunOS) without root access.  It does, however
require a working curses library, of which ncurses is the only one I've 
tried with this mailer.

Features:
	1.  Standalone -- You don't need many other programs or packages to
	    use this mailer.
	    The only requirements are a working curses library, C++ compiler,
	    and a working mail system -- I may write an SMTP module if there
	    is enough demand for it.

	2.  MIME aware -- While this mailer does not implement a full set of
	    the MIME mail extensions, it should handle most MIME mail.
	    It also handles some Sun mail attachment formats.

	3.  Optimized display -- With slow dialup in mind (14.4 baud), the
	    display is optimized for speed and quick mail reading

	4.  Threaded messages -- Articles by default are threaded by subject.
	    This allows one to plow through huge mailing list discussions,
	    sometimes spanning weeks, with very little effort.

	5.  Automatic detection of a modified mail file, and the changes will
	    then be merged with the current message listing.
	    
	5.  Automatically uncompresses and recompresses gzipped mailfiles

	6.  Rules for automatically determining the message save file.

	7.  Sort messages by author or subject, or neither. :)

	8.  Searchable message listings, including search through message text

	9.  Automatic ignoring of certain MIME types.
	    -- Get rid of those Micrsoft Exchange MIME trailers.

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Conclusion:

	It's better than mailx, not as full-featured as pine.
It's designed to be streamlined for the way I like to view mail, and if 
you like it, you're welcome to use it.

Enjoy!
	-Sam Lantinga				(slouken@devolution.com)

