Short: Mail editor, supports E-Mail/News/Fido. Author: gary@empire.u-net.com (Gary Colville) Uploader: gary empire u-net com (Gary Colville) Type: comm/mail Requires: 020, 4Mb, OS 3.x, MUI 3.8 Architecture: m68k-amigaos Description ----------- Monsoon is a new MUI-based e-mail client for the Amiga. As well as standard internet e-mail it also handles Usenet newsgroups and Fidonet point mail. Full POP3, SMTP (e-mail) and NNTP (newsgroup) clients are built in, as is a text editor. To use Monsoon for e-mail and news all you need is MUI and a TCP stack. For fidonet use a fido mailer such as Trapdoor is needed. NOTE: This is a beta test copy of Monsoon - documentation is incomplete and there may still be some small bugs in the code. Some features of Monsoon are: - Flexible and friendly MUI based user interface - Up to 512 e-mail areas, usenet newsgroups, fido echos and fido netmail area - Full Fido multi-boss and multi-network capabilities - Internal text editor - Supports POP3, NNTP and SMTP - Click-and-browse web browsing system - Fast built-in UU-encoder/decoder - Fast integral fido import module - Mail filtering and re-direction - Powerful userlist - Allows up to 16 TCP sockets to be used, for speedy downloading and browsing of usenet news - Superb multi-network mail filtering - Internal caches for fast performance on slow hard drives - ARexx port - Extensive listing, threading and search options - In-line FTX colour code interpreter - Support for very large message bases - Automatic correction of common spelling and formatting mistakes