YAM

YAM (short for Yet Another Mailer) is a MIME-compliant e-mail client written for AmigaOS based computers. It supports multi-POP3, APOP, SMTP, TLSv1/SSLv3, multiple users, PGP, unlimited hierarchical folders, filters, a configurable GUI (based on MUI) and an ARexx interface and many other features which are common for Mail User Agents (MUA) today.

The following list is a short summarise of the currently available features YAM provides in its latest version available:

General features:

• Straightforward installation and configuration, taking only a few minutes to set everything up.
• Runs "Out-of-the-Box" without any installation or Assign required for expert users.
• Easy operation using toolbar buttons, menus, keyboard and drag&drop functionality.
• Basic e-mail functions: Read, Write, Reply, Forward and Bounce mail
• Four standard folders: Incoming, Outgoing, Sent and Trash.
• Any number of user-definable folders, which can be compressed and/or encrypted via own passwords set.
• Hierarchical ordering of folders.
• Multiuser support. Optionally, address books and other configuration files can be shared.
• Searchable address book supporting groups and distribution lists.
• Full POP3 support allowing to check/download mails on startup, on demand or at regular time intervals.
• Configure an unlimited amount of POP3 accounts.
• Message download pre-selection: browse message headers and select only those mails you want to download.
• Write or Reply to your mails off-line and send them to the mail server using the built in SMTP support
• Extract sender information from message headers and create an address book entry with just a simple mouse click.
• Built-In support for MIME encoding/decoding for sending and receiving binary files.
• Interaction with web browsers: send mail from your browser, pass an URL to the browser.
• Handle message disposition notifications (MDN).
• Direct support for anonymous remailing (remailers) and mailing lists.
• PGP/MIME support: encrypt and/or sign outgoing messages, check signatures, decrypt messages. Direct support for PGP 2.6.x and PGP 5.
• Fast internal text editor with support for common mail styles (bold/italic/underline), glossary and with a spell checking interface.
• Comprehensive search capabilities. For example a full text search through all articles using a single query or a quick search to find/sort mails quickly in a folder.
• Automatic sorting of the post with an unlimited number of filters. Archiving or diversion of specified articles, automatic replies or the deletion of advertising are just a few of the possible applications of the filters.
• Event-sensitive starting of macros and comprehensive ARexx support.
• Freely customisable interface, thanks to MUI 3.x.
• Usable on either an own screen or on any public screen configured in MUI.
• Context-sensitive online help system, using help bubbles and AmigaGuide documentation.
• Context sensitive menus for direct operations on each mail.
• Localised to many languages.
• ... and much, much more

Technical highlights:

• Fully buffered TCP/IP interface with non-blocking I/O socket connections.
• POP3 compliant post office protocol implementation.
• TLSv1/SSLv3 secure layer connection support (requires AmiSSL v3) either by direct connection to port 993 or by using the STLS compliant SSL implementation through normal port 110 connections.
• APOP authentication support.
• SMTP compliant mail transfer protocol implementation.
• TLSv1/SSLv3 secure layer connection support (requires AmiSSL v3).
• SMTP-AUTH authentication support (DIGEST-MD5/CRAM-MD5/LOGIN/PLAIN).
• MIME compliant mail reading/writing.
• Base64 encoding/decoding.
• Quoted-Printable (QP) encoding/decoding
• UUcode encoding/decoding.
• Automatic selection of the "smartest" encoding algorithm.
• MBOX format compliant mail import/export routines.
• internal maildir format like mail management by storing each mail in a separate file.