I would like an export feature where I can offload messages to
 say a writable CD so I could do my own archiving of items that
 I think are important.

                                        Regards,

                                          Jim


On Thu, 06 January 2000, Randy Glenn wrote:

>
> Hello all. Due to my recent problems with my e-mail program, I am now motivated to write my own
> E-Mail program using Visual Basic. Not wanting all of that effort to go unreimbursed, I want to sell
> it to others. For this reason, I ask you now what features you need and want in an e-mail client. I
> figure that many of you out there use e-mail enough to know exactly what you want.
>
> Some of the features I have though of so far:
>
> -Mail stored in Access database for easy integration with Office products.
> -Ability to define message encoding on a per-contact or per-group basis (eg. all mailing lists are
> plain text, but my buddy is HTML mail)
> -Mail received on one account is sent back out with a return address and SMTP server defined for
> that account
>         -so if I get mail on my Bigfoot account, it gets sent out over bigfoot with my bigfoot address, if
> I want - not my ISP address / server
> -Support for multiple users
> -Ability to receive Hotmail, Yahoo! mail (maybe)
> -E-mail checking applet (low memory usage) running in system tray to alert you of new mail (so you
> don't have to have the whole program running to get mail)
> -A full-featured, ad-bearing version for those who want all the features, but are too cheap to pay.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> -Randy
> http://i.am/PICxpert - PICxpert@techie.com
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