CE Software Announces QuickMail 3.5; Delivers Free America Online Gateway, Internet Sampler and More in the Box.WEST DES MOINES West Des Moines (də moin`), city (1990 pop. 31,702), Polk co., S central Iowa, a growing suburb W of Des Moines; inc. 1893 as Valley Junction, renamed 1938. Products manufactured there include cement, metal items, and pumps. , Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 7, 1995--CE Software today announced QuickMail(TM) 3.5 -- bringing a host of new features to its number one selling electronic mail solution for Macintosh and PC systems. QuickMail 3.5, already the industry's most mature and reliable Local Area Network (LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. )-based E-mail system, now includes an America Online See AOL. gateway, Internet connectivity, drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. capabilities and more. "QuickMail has always delivered everything users need to fully leverage their E-mail right out of the box," said Ford Goodman, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of CE Software. "With this introduction, we are once again setting a new standard for the industry with gateways to AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. and the Internet, rich text capabilities, advanced rules functionality and more." Delivering America Online Gateway In Every Box As part of a strategy to serve as a universal mailbox, the latest version of QuickMail now includes an America Online gateway. With this gateway, QuickMail users have the ability to send and receive messages via America Online directly from the QuickMail interface. The gateway allows users to transfer standard messages and file enclosures over this leading on-line service. Providing gateways to CompuServe, AppleLink, MCI Mail (messaging) MCI Mail - The first commercial Internet electronic mail service, launched by MCI in about 1981. Vint Cerf was the chief engineer. Reading mail was free but you had to pay to send. Users discovered you could communicate for free by sharing an account. , SprintMail, GEnie, and now AOL and the Internet, QuickMail can truly serve as a universal mailbox. Internet Access See how to access the Internet. Extends Mail Capabilities With every QuickMail purchase or upgrade to version 3.5, users will receive a 10 user Internet Sampler sampler, sample piece of needlework or embroidery, of silk, cotton, or worsted, for the preservation of some pattern or as an example of the ability of a child or a beginner. In museums and private collections there are samplers dating from as early as 1643. Pak. This nonstackable InterCall gateway fully supports up to ten QuickMail users. It provides seamless access to the Internet via a dial-up UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Protocol (UUCP (UNIX to UNIX CoPy) A Unix utility that copies a file from one computer to another. It was widely used for mail transfer. Unlike TCP/IP, which is a routable communications protocol, UUCP provides a point-to-point transmission where a user at one Unix computer ) connection and supports such Internet features as: o Internet mailing list subscriptions o Multipurpose mul·ti·pur·pose adj. Designed or used for several purposes: a multipurpose room; multipurpose software. multipurpose Adjective Internet Mail Extension (MIME) compliance o Recognition of non-MIME character sets and content encodings o Automatic character set detection and content encoding when replying to mail o Integrated reading and posting of Usenet NetNews o Unbatching, decompression and forwarding of articles from Usenet NetNews o Binary, AppleSingle, AppleDouble, BinHex and uuencode enclosure formats Users can purchase an unlimited user version of the InterCall gateway for $495. "By including a 10-user pak of the InterCall gateway in every QuickMail box, we can give organizations the opportunity to essentially "test drive" the Internet before investing in connections for their whole organization." said Goodman. Delivering Server-Based Mail Management Capabilities CE Software was the first E-mail vendor to market with mail rules capabilities for Macintosh users with the release last year of its client-based rules in version 3.0. Driven by customer demand, CE Software has now added a Server-based MailManager, this PowerPC native application off loads mail management activities to the server. Users establish server-based rules that can automatically reply, forward, and delete messages without manual intervention. With this new feature users can shut down or take machines on the road while the server-based MailManager automatically deals with their mail. By providing users with both client and server-based rules, QuickMail 3.5 delivers E-mail users the widest variety of automated mail-management options available. New Release To Support Drag And Drop Functionality CE Software has also added Drag and Drop functionality in both the Macintosh and Windows QuickMail clients. Users can now file messages into any mail folder and print, save, delete messages simply by dropping them on QuickMail's graphical button-bar interface. To attach or remove files from a message, users can also drag documents directly between a QuickMail message and the desktop. Drag and drop text is also fully supported between QuickMail 3.5 and Windows applications and those Macintosh applications that support standard MacOS Drag and Drop implementations. Stylized styl·ize tr.v. styl·ized, styl·iz·ing, styl·iz·es 1. To restrict or make conform to a particular style. 2. To represent conventionally; conventionalize. Text For Macintosh and Windows Users This version of QuickMail also boasts stylized text capabilities allowing users to personalize any QuickMail message by varying font, color, size and style attributes. Stylized text flows seamlessly between Macintosh and Windows platforms. "As more and more companies use E-mail as their main communication tool, it is imperative that users be able to customize and personalize their messages," explained Goodman. Real Time conferencing A "live" teleconferencing session that uses communications equipment fast enough to keep up with the speech and movements of all participants. See teleconferencing. Without Inerruption QuickMail 3.5 also includes modifications to QuickConference, a "real time" conferencing utility available in the box since QuickMail's debut. QuickConference has been redesigned as a stand-alone messaging application that Macintosh users can keep active all day as a background application without interruptions. With QuickConference users always have an active line of communication of their desktop throughout the day. Similar to "on-line" chats, QuickConference enables users to conveniently hold individual and group discussions on screen. New Release Provides QM Administrators With Powerful Server Tools With this release, CE Software has also strengthened QuickMail's security. A new password module allows administrators to establish minimum password lengths, mandatory alphanumeric passwords, even a password-aging criteria. QuickMail 3.5's enhanced Mail Authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. Tool (MAT) provides administrators with greater control over server space availability. Now QuickMail administrators have the ability to delete all mail, previously read mail or mail that is older than a specified date. MAT also allows administrators to delete client mail log entries older than a specific date. These enhancements to MAT provide administrators with greater control over server space availability. In QuickMail 3.5, CE Software has added a new folder (the CE Software folder) that removes the dependency on the Preferences folder within the System. This change decreases the size of the user's System folder The hard disk folder (directory) that contains the operating system. In Windows, it is typically the \Windows or \Winnt folder. In the Mac, it is called the System folder. See system file and system disk. and enables them to alias QuickMail folders to access filed mail via AppleTalk RemoteAccess (ARA Ara or Arrah (both: ŭ`rə), city (1991 pop. 157,082), Bihar state, NE India, on the Son Canal. A major road and rail junction, it is the administrative center for a district that produces grain, sugarcane, and oilseed. ). Future Releases QuickMail 3.5 represents the first release in a series of many on the QuickMail Product Road Map. Within the next twelve months CE Software will ship two more versions of QuickMail: version 3.7 in December '95 and version 4.0 in April of '96. "CE Software must continue to exceed the expectations of the Macintosh E-mail user," said Goodman. "That's why we are excited about sharing our product plans with our users and the industry. We feel strongly that both our feature enhancement path and subscription-based upgrade strategy serve our customers well." Pricing And Availability QuickMail 3.5 will be available through CE Software's standard direct and reseller distribution channels. For a limited time (until August 30, 1995), CE Software is offering an innovative Upgrade Subscription plan for all QuickMail customers. Customers at version 3.0 can purchase an upgrade subscription to QuickMail for just $6.25 per user and receive versions 3.5, 3.7, and 4.0. Those customers at version 2.6 can also purchase a QuickMail Upgrade Subscription for just $14.25 and receive 3.0 features as well as, 3.5, 3.7, and 4.0. For those customers interested in only upgrading to version 3.5, CE Software is offering other incentives. From now until September Until September is a 1984 romantic drama set in France. It stars Karen Allen as an American tourist in Paris who falls in love with a married Frenchman (Thierry Lhermitte). External links 15, 1995, QuickMail customers can upgrade to version 3.5 and get version 3.7 for free. QuickMail 3.0 customers will pay just $3 per user and customers at version 2.6 or below will pay just $13 per user. QuickMail 3.5 is available in one user paks for $199, 5 users paks for $449, 10 user paks for $649, 25 user paks for $1,449, 50 user paks for $2,549, and 100 user paks for $4,749. CE Software Inc. Established in 1981, CE Software Inc., a subsidiary of Ce Software Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ/NMS Symbol CESH) develops and markets electronic mail, scheduling and workgroup applications software for Windows/DOS and Macintosh environments. With over 2.8 million users worldwide, CE Software is a leading provider of LAN-based software applications for workgroups. For more information contact, CE Software Inc., 1801 Industrial Circle, West Des Moines, Iowa West Des Moines is a city in Polk, Dallas, and Warren counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 46,403; a special census taken in the spring of 2005 counted 51,744 residents. 50265. Phone 800-523-7638 inside the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Outside the United States call 515-221-1801. Note: Copyright (C) 1995 CE Software Inc. All rights reserved. All brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: CE Software Inc., West Des Moines Curtis Lee Curtis Lee (born 28 October 1941, Yuma, Arizona, U.S.) is an American singer of the early 1960s, and twice over, one of the beneficiaries of 1961 productions by Phil Spector. These were "Pretty Little Angel Eyes" (U.S. Top 10) and "Under The Moon Of Love" (U.S. Top 50). , 515/221-3074 or curtis_lee@cesoft.com |
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