CE Software Announces Low Price Options for SMTP Gateway for QuickMail; QM-Internet Gateway Available in 10 to 50 User Licenses.

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 26, 1996--CE Software, Inc., today announced the availability by June 28 of new user licensing options for the QM-Internet Gateway(tm), a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) gateway which connects QuickMail(tm) to the Internet. The gateway will be available in 10, 20, 25, 50 and Unlimited user licenses ranging in price from $495 to $2,495.

Easy Internet Connectivity

CE Software's QM-Internet Gateway is a simple, cost-effective means for QuickMail users to send and receive electronic mail messages via the Internet. They simply send and receive E-mail messages using QuickMail's easy-to-use graphical interface. QM-Internet completely automates the process of accessing the SMTP host, and exchanging mail between the user's entire QuickMail network and the Internet. No UNIX system is required. The gateway even runs on the same Macintosh as the QuickMail Server.

QM-Internet offers the following features:

-- SMTP support, as well as Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3) account monitoring

-- Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) compliance

-- Recognition of non-MIME character sets and content encoding

-- Automatic character set detection and enclosure encoding and decoding when sending and replying to mail messages

-- Support for file enclosures (text, graphics, binary files, etc.)

-- Destination encoding, targeting exact encoding protocols at specific sites

-- Recognition of 16 international character sets for sending and receiving messages worldwide

-- Aliasing, enabling users to receive messages in one mailbox addressed to accounts with user name variations (i.e., [e-mail] or [e-mail])

-- Group addressing, for building simple Internet mailing lists which include addresses from both inside and outside the company

-- QM Forms tunneling, enabling the fonts, message and graphics of a QuickMail form to be preserved when sent over the Internet to another QM-Internet Gateway

-- Customized, user defined QuickMail forms for outgoing Internet messages

-- Binary, AppleSingle, AppleDouble, BinHex and uuencode enclosure formats

-- Fully compatible with Apple OpenTransport 1.1

Pricing and Availability

QM-Internet is sold through CE Software's standard direct sales channels. Th gateway is available at $495 for 10 users, $895 for 20 users, $1,095 for 25 users, and $1,795 for 50 users. QM-Internet for an unlimited number of users has a suggested retail price of $2,495. International customers should contact the CE Software distributor in their country for pricing and availability.

CE Software, Inc.

For more information contact, CE Software at 800-523-7638 inside the United States. Outside the United States call 515-221-1801 or via the World-Wide Web at http://www.cesoft.com.

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Copyright (c)1996 CE Software, Inc. All rights reserved. CE Software, QM-Internet Gateway and all other brands or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

CONTACT: CE Software, Inc.

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