Peloria Technology Corp. announces new Mail Scout(TM) rule server for cc:Mail; smart, automatic responses to messages and more; virtual agents on demand.

BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 1994--Peloria Technology Corp. announces new rule-server software that operates on cc:Mail inbox messages.

The rule server software runs on its own PC, on the same LAN as a cc:Mail post office. It inspects inbox messages for local cc:Mail users and, depending on the instructions in its rule set, responds appropriately to those messages that meet the conditions proscribed within those rules. Those responses can include message answering, forwarding or discarding, file fetching, timed reminders or other actions. It provides these powerful and flexible automated responses based on message content, the message recipient, the message subject, the message originator, the time and date or other considerations. New Mail Scout(TM) for cc:Mail is available (ships late January 1995) for $50 per user for 1-19 users, $25 per user for 20-99 users, $17.50 per user for 100-999 users, $15 per user for 1,000 or more users or as a negotiated site license (all prices suggested U.S. resale at participating resellers; inquiries are invited).

The Mail Scout rule server also includes free Windows client software for creating and submitting rules to the server. Its robust security safeguards require a password before a submitted rule will be accepted, to prevent a user from affecting another's inbox messages. The Windows client can also control which available rules will be active, which inactive.

Each rule performs as one or more mail agents, responding to specified conditions in proscribed ways. This makes Mail Scout rules more powerful than the simple agents of earlier-generation e-mail. A sophisticated vacation rule, for example, can invisibly forward copies of incoming messages to a personal remote address, send an explanatory notification to the sender, sort the incoming mail into folders, throw away ``junk'' e-mail, trigger a pager gateway for specific messages, and more. Mail Scout rules can send messages out on a regular schedule, automatically alert people to upcoming occasions, tattle on a message that has not received a reply by a stated deadline, act as a file librarian and more. And Mail Scout can take advantage of every gateway, router or other facility available to the local cc:Mail post office.

Users can create Mail Scout rules using an easy Windows buttons-and-options screen. They can fill in exact text that the ``From:'' line or ``Subject:'' line or message body should (or should not) include for example, for that specific rule to trigger. These trigger attributes can involve a time or a date, whether or not a message calls for a receipt, the priority of the incoming message, whether the recipient is primary or a ``cc:'', or any of several other criteria. No matter how complicated the rule, the user deals with a logical and intuitive interface.

Peloria is also creating a rules language developer's kit, scheduled for release in the first quarter of 1995. This will fully document the underlying rules language and make it easier to create and prototype even more intricate or robust rules.

Peloria Technology Corp. (established 1994) develops new software solutions for common business needs, with a focus on the electronic mail genre. The term ``peloria'' is of botanical origin, and refers to the abnormal occurrence of a regularity in something that is normally irregular.

For more information contact Peloria Technology Corp., 348 E. Olive Ave., Suite G, Burbank, CA 91502; 818/840-0500; fax: [phone].

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Mail Scout(TM) and PagerGate(TM) is a trademark of Peloria Technology Corp. Other trademarks are the properties of their owners.

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CONTACT: Peloria Technology Corp., Burbank

              Jennifer Jackman, 818/850-0500
                                Internet:  JJackman(at)peloria.com