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We thank everyone who has helped support PMMail by alleviating
some of the burden of developing utilities for PMMail. If you think
you have a good idea for a needed utility and want to write one,
feel free to contact us
(info@blueprintsoftwareworks.com) for any information that
you might need to help you write the utility. All of these
utilities come with very good documentation that
must be read prior to using them. Please note that
neither Blueprint Software Works, nor the individual third party
authors are responsible for any damage done to data on your
harddrive, related to PMMail, or not.
Hobbes restructuring means more tools
for PMMail
Updated November 2nd,
1999
Although the Hobbes restructuring meant a lot of broken links on
our page, it brought a lot of good with it. PMMail now boasts the
only mail product for OS/2 to get its own directory on Hobbes. To
keep up to date, we have provided this link to
view the PMMail directory on Hobbes. Once there, please look at
the file 00index.txt for good descriptions of all
of the utilities up there. New ones arrive each week, so be sure to
check it often!
Table Of Contents
Section 1: Conversion
Utilities
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Eudora 1.4x address book
conversion
by Paul Lemmons
For those of you who have never upgraded Eudora from 1.4x or
work for companies that keep a common address book in Eudora 1.4x
format this program will convert the Eudora address book into a
PMMail 1.5x address book.
To obtain this utility send a note to paullem@azstarnet.com with
the subject line of "EUDORA TO PMMAIL" (minus the quotes) and the
next time I read my mail you will have it automatically sent to
you.
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Post
Road Mailer 2.x Converter to PMMail
by Tom Kusterer
The PRMtoPMM.ZIP package includes:
MConvert.exe - PRM to PMM message/folder
converter
MConvert.TXT - Readme for MConvert.exe
AConvert.exe - PRM to PMM address book
converter
AConvert.TXT - Readme for AConvert.exe
Please read the readme for each package before you run it. The
readme files really do contain some important information.
Download PRMTOPMM.ZIP
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Post Road Mailer 3.x Conversion to
PMMail directions
by Bruce W. Landeck, Spitfire Software
The current versions of Post Road Mailer store the messages in a
coompletely different format than the 2.x versions. Fortunatley the
format is now much more closely related to PMMail.
The following text file contains brief directions for making the
conversion.
Download Post Road Mailer 3.x conversion
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MR/2 ICE to
PMMail Address Book, Accounts, and E-Mail
by Blueprint Software Works, Inc.
The MR/2 ICE conversion utilities are now built into PMMail!
Simply choose Tools -> Migrate from the main PMMail window, and
a Migration wizard will help you through the migration of your old
data to PMMail. For more help, consult the online help during the
migration.
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PMMail 1.1 to PMMail 1.9 Address Book,
Accounts, and E-Mail
by Blueprint Software Works, Inc.
The PMMail 1.1 conversion utilities are now built into PMMail!
Simply choose Tools -> Migrate from the main PMMail window, and
a Migration wizard will help you through the migration of your old
data to PMMail. For more help, consult the online help during the
migration.
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Post Road Mailer Address Book
Conversion
by Paul Lemmons
Moving from Post Road to PMMail 1.5x? Then you will want to move
your address book with you. This program will convert the Post Road
Mailer Address book to PMMail 1.5x.
To obtain this utility send a note to paullem@azstarnet.com with
the subject line of "PRM TO PMMAIL" (minus the quotes) and the next
time I read my mail you will have it automatically sent to you.
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Eudora 1.5x
and Eudora/Pro Address Book Conversion
by Paul Lemmons
When Eudora upgraded from 1.4x to 1.5x they changed the format
of their address book. If you are running Eudora 1.5x or Eudora/Pro
you will need this utility to convert the address book to PMMail
1.5x format.
To obtain this utility send a note to paullem@azstarnet.com with
the subject line of "EUDORA 15X/PRO TO PMMAIL" (minus the quotes)
and the next time I read my mail you will have it automatically
sent to you.
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Listserv
Review and simple layout conversion to PMMAIL Address
Book
by Paul Lemmons
Listserv Review and simple layout conversion to PMMAIL Address
Book
Ever wanted to create a mailing list from the output of a
LISTSERV REVIEW output or from a flat file containing addresses?
This utility will do just that. Not that I think that anybody would
ever use this to generate a SPAM distribution, but if the urge is
undeniable my only request is that you exclude me from it. :)
To obtain this utility send a note to paullem@azstarnet.com with
the subject line of "LISTSERV TO PMMAIL" (minus the quotes) and the
next time I read my mail you will have it automatically sent to
you.
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Ultimail
2.10.004 to PMMail converter
by Torben Schou Jensen
Correction until now have been:
1997.03.26 v1.0
- First version
1997.03.27 v1.1
- Source directory must now be given as parameter as its best to
keep the tool away from the real Ultimail directory.
- Leak in use of file handles found, so maxfh is not needed
more
1997.03.27 v1.2
- real conversion of multipart emails with attachments added
- use of @trans-folder dropped
1997.03.28 v1.3
- converted folders could not be deleted within PMMail due to a
switch in folder.ini set wrong, this is now corrected
- switch for attachment on mail was not set in folder.bag, now
it is
- now with marking in folder.bag for converted sent mails
(3)
- long folders are now converted to folders named UMxx???0.FLD,
where xx=pos1-2 of real name and ??? is random numeric number
- some adjustments of the folder.bag update
- a little fix so all converted mails have 'MIME-Version:' in
header
The file is a self extracting RAR-archive.
Download U2PM13.EXE
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Post Road Mailer 2.0 converter to
PMMail
by Bob Swift
I developed a bit of a REXX routine to help convert the Post
Road Mailer *.POP files and include them in the FOLDER.BAG files
used by PMMail. What brief instructions there are are included in
the program itself. The only drawbacks that I know of are that it
won't convert attached files (unless they are uuencoded in the body
of the message), and it requires you to manually move the *.POP
files into the desired destination folder prior to executing the
conversion program.
We have lost track of this utility and can not find another
copy!
If you have a copy or know where we can find one, please let us
know.
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A UUPC/2 gateway
for Pmmail
found by Eilko Bronsema
resubmitted by Frank Beythien
The UUPC/2-Gateway POP3D08D.EXE can be used to transfer Mail
from NetscapeMail to PMMAIL. (NetscapeMail can be used to POP Mail
true a SOCKS-Server.)
Download UUPC.ZIP
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A Eudora,
Netscape, MS-Exchange, and Elm
converter
By Christoph Reimer
Mailcut/2 is perhaps one of the most comprehensive migration
tools avaiable for PMMail for OS/2. The new version, 1.10 adds many
new conversion tools for many different e-mail formats as well as
both a command line and a GUI environment.
There is too much to say about it, so download it, and review
the docuemntation for all the goodies!
Download MAILCUT.ZIP
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A Golden CommPass
to PMMail converter
By Bruce Judd
This utility is a REXX script to convert GCP saved mail and
forum msg's to a format that works with PMMail/2. It has a
readme.txt file that explains how to run it.
It may not work with all of the newer files created during the
past year. I have been off of CSI since November of 1998, but it
translated every file I had from 1994 to 1998 without error.
Download CS2PMM_M.ZIP
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Section 2: Assorted Utilities
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Utility to allow PMMail to post to a
USENET Newsgroup
by Ethan Hall-Beyer
This is a small script I put together to post articles to an
NNTP server, from within PMMail 1.5, via REXX exit. All the socket
stuff is taken from
INEWS.CMD as included with the TRN distribution (see his header
below).
You need the RXSOCK.DLL rexx socket dll file to use these
scripts.
It is pretty simple to use. It goes through the raw message
article supplied by PMMail, and looks for the string "/////" which
indicates the end of header information. Hence, in the message
body, you must enter newsgroup information *before* the "/////".
For example, the first three lines of an
article posted from PMMail would be:
Newsgroups: uw.test, comp.os.os2.mail-news
Keywords: test pmmail news
/////
<article text>
The values that can be entered before ///// are Newsgroups:
Keywords: Summary: Disclaimer: and Distribution:. "Newsgroups:"
*must* be given. Also, certain settings like "Organization:" and
your newsserver (if NNTPSERVER environment is not set) can be
edited a few lines down. You can look through and edit it to make
it recognize other header entries and stuff (Like X-No-Archive:,
etc....)
To have it post, place PMMLNEWS.CMD in the \PMAIL\PMMAIL
directory, and set up a Outgoing REXX filter to call REXX Program
"pmmlnews.cmd". Search "Body:" for the string "/////" - you can
edit script to use a different string. When posting an article, I
usually "mail" it to myself as well (because you have to mail it to
*someone*).
The script creates a log file USENET.LOG in the \PMAIL\PMMAIL
directory, so you can see if things go through properly.
This script invalidates the PGP signatures, and will not work
with PGP encryption.
I can be reached at eahallbe@descartes.uwaterloo.ca, if you have
any questions.
We have lost track of this utility and can not find another
copy!
If you have a copy or know where we can find one, please let us
know.
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Utility to strip out attachments
from a message to save hard drive space
by Samuel Audet
This utitility will strip attachement data to save disk space,
but that leave the filename in the messages for later use.
Download pmmutilos2.zip
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Utility to change the status of all
e-mail messages to the "Sent" status
by Samuel Audet
This Utility changes the status of all messages in a folder to
'sent' status (useful when migrating or reindexing your Sent Mail
folder, where PMMail 1.5x puts them to the 'read' status).
Download PMM15U11.ZIP
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Collection of new icons for
PMMail
Author Unknown
These 2 icons change the new mail folder from green to a nice
light/medium blue (or in the computer world its cyan). This also
comes wiht a resource editor that allows you to add resources to
executables.
Download PMMFOLDR.ZIP
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A
listserve administration and moderation tool (with PM
interface!)
Matthew C. Davis
McList! is a fully-functional mailing list processor that's
fast, easy to use, and downright simple. You never have to muck
with configuration files or do any of the other unfriendly things
all the other mailing list processors make you do.
It is also secure! McList allows you to ban users from the list,
password protect any functions you wish, and even preview messages
before they leave your system.
McList is a full-blown mailing list that you can run out of your
personal e-mail account!
Here is an abbreviated list of features that have been added
since its v1.00 release!
- Password-based security implemented.
- Users can now be banned and unbanned.
- Fully functional, local PM interface for all aspects of McList
maintenance. (run McList.Exe without parameters)
- McList now has a slick PM Interface!
- McList now resides in its own directory --
x:\PmMail\McList\
- New Fatal Error Handler notifies you of unrecoverable
errors.
- McList is now FAT compatible!
- McList now lets users remotely request a copy of the FAQ!
Editor's note: This is a really impressive product
with a great documentation, a nice PM interface, very user
friendly, and best of all a FAQ list! Good job Dave!
Download MCLST201.ZIP
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Double byte character support tool
for PMMail
Author Unknown
RXJIS.ZIP contains a DLL called from REXX procedure, source
code, sample REXX programs and documents (sorry, in Japanese).
RXJIS document says detail infomation about Japanese double byte
processing can be obtained from
"Understanding Japanese Infomation Processing"
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
ISBN 1-56592-043-0
and some RFCs such as
- RFC822
- RFC1468
- RFC1521
- RFC1522
- RFC1554
- RFC1557
Some things to do are ...
- USE system font insted of Helv. or Sans. Now I'm using "PM
drag'n-drop Font" feature and works perfectly.
- DO double byte aware MIME encoding when sending a message. Warp
uses "Shift-JIS" (or "SJIS") encoding but the standard is MIME
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp" encoding.
MIMESEND.CMD in RXJIS.ZIP does this.
- DO MIME decoding when receiving a message. MIME to SJIS.
MIMERECV.CMD in RXJIS.ZIP does this.
Editor's note: This was sent to me so that PMMail could
support Double Byte character sets, which I do not want to
discriminate against. Unfortunately, as stated above, all of the
documentation is in Japanese. Combined with the fact that I do not
have a double byte machine set up, I really can't look at the
documentation. There is an e-mail address of the person who wrote
it, however, no name was given (that I found).
Download RXJIS.ZIP
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Information on setting up ISO
8859 character sets
Nigel Clarke and Mats Dufberg
Nigel, a long time beta tester, and Mats, the guy even I turn to
for MIME RFC comprehension help, have put together this guide for
setting up PMMail to use International character set support with
the ISO-8859 interchange system.
Download ISO8859.ZIP
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A
valuable and complete listing of utilities, hints and
tips
Nigel Clarke
Nigel, a long time beta tester, has put together and maintained
this fantastic and popular list of utilities, hints, and tips.
Included here is the updated contents of popular utility
repositories whose contents are pertinent to PMMail, as well as a
few "how to's" for using some of the utilities. This document is
just a wealth of information, and the most complete of its
kind.
Download PMMUTILS.ZIP
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Help document for setting up PGP with
PMMail/2.
Nigel Clarke
Nigel, a long time beta tester, has put together a document that
takes you through the steps of setting up PGP on your system and
configuring it and PMMail for proper use.
Download PMMPGP.ZIP
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Address book sorter for the RMB popup
menu.
Gyan Scott Penrose-Kafka
Gyan has written this utility which will sort your address books
so that they will appear in sorted order when you invoke the RMB
context popup menu for inserting addresses. This is one of our most
requested feature, and Gyan was kind enough to write this
utility.
Download pmmas101.zip
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A
Robot for Automating mailing list tasks in
PMMail
Harald Wilhelm
I have written a Robot for PMMail. In addition to other Robots
does it store, archive and index every submitted message. A list of
these messages can be retrieved by any mailing list member with the
List command and any already sent message can be retrieved too.
Many settings like available accounts, available grouplists and
account directories are read from the PMMail settings files. Some
features include:
- Maintain an unlimited number of mailing lists. Simply copy a
really small EXE file to a unique filename for every mailing list
in use.
- Fetch data from PMMail automatically. This is true for Account
information and grouplists.
- Maintain a huge amount of different text events.
- Submitted text will be stored, indexed and can be retrieved by
member of the mailing list by index.
- Uses PMMSEND.EXE from PMMail to work smooth within PMMails
environment.
- Statusline.
- Customizable Toolbar.
- Bubble Help.
- 32-Bit Warp 4 optimized code.
- Freeware.
Visit the PMMail Robot home
page
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REXX Script for Exporting your PMMail
1.92 address books
Haug Buerger
This little REXX script exports the adress database of pmmail
1.92, it is free for any non comercial use. Use at own risk!
Download PMMAS10.ZIP
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A
PMMSend wrapper to make PMMSend work like the UN*X MAIL
command
Alexander Mai
AMFE is a REXX-script which offers a syntax like the un*x
utility *mail* i.e. it can read and send from stdin and also prompt
interactively for missing data like address and/or account. You can
also specify a default account and use its default signature. (all
missing features related to sending messages will be implemented in
future releases ;-)
Download AMFE.ZIP
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An
HTML interface for the PMMail
addressbook
Moses A. Fridman
PMM2HTML.CMD will extract the email addresses and names of
people in my PMMail/PMINews address book, and write them to a file
in HTML mailto: tag format.
Download PMM2HTML.ZIP
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A
script to process digests for display with
PMMail
Paul Orgren
UNDIGEST.CMD is a REXX script to trick PM Mail into treating a
multipart digest as a regular message. Install this script in a
.cmd file, and then put it into use by adding a filter to incoming
messages that have a subject line known to be a digest you
subscribe to (use A_c_count/_U_tilities Settings... and select the
"Filter" tab)
Download UNDIGEST.ZIP
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Two REXX scripts to convert Double Byte
and other features
Koji Wakamiya
How to use: On the REXX page of account utilities setting,
assign PMMLSEND.CMD to Message Send Exit and PMMLRECV.CMD to
Message Receive Exit.
On Filters page, add a filter to re-convert sending message to be
put on Sent-Mail folder:
- Description : (any name you like), check Enable
- Simple : Search-from : for-(your name) : No Connective
- Type : Outgoing(Post-Send)
- Actions : REXX Exit (Background) : PMMLRECV.CMD
If you want to delete "Reply-To:" field from your mail, assign *
on your Reply-To Information fields both. (This is reasonable to
send mail to Mailing-List.)
Download PMMLDB.ZIP
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A
REXX script for filtering that will move e-mail to another
account
Simon Hampton
Many ISPs give their clients the possibility to have a second
alias which points to their one unique e-mail box (for example
sending to Liesbeth.Devriendt@skynet.be will cause an e-mail to
arrive in my mail box, Simon.Hampton@skynet.be). If you set up a
filter, then it is easy to put all the mails sent to the alias into
a seperate mail folder. But if your alias user sends a mail using
PMMail, then the ordinary address is used in the reply-to and from
fields, so anybody replying to such a mail will return it to mail
account holder rather than the alias. Not sucha big deal, but I
wanted to get round this problem. This program simply changes your
normal return to address and from address to point to your alias
rather than normal email address.
All you need to do is edit the two lines below, place the script
somewhere sensible, e.g. \PMAIL\pmmail, and set up a filter:
account => utilities => new
Give the filter a name, have it search thefor text that you only
find in mails from the alias user (find something unique in their
signature file), set it as 'pre-send' and set action as rexx script
(background) and insert the full path and name of this script.
Download ALIAS.ZIP
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A
Utility To Implement Talking E-mail and Enhanced Speech
Capabilities
Samuel Audet
BackTalk 1.3
OS/2 System Speech
(notably as an e-mail notifier, speaking clock, speaking alarm and
speaking IRC!)
Download BTALK v1.3
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Utility to view PGP 5.5 messages in
PMMMail without View Full Message
Skip Huffman
I notice that other people also find it annoying to have to
"View Full Message" just to see an email that has been signed with
PGP 5.5 Well, I wrote a quick little rexx script to make those
messages visable. Here it is:
Of course I make no guarentees of any kind with this. It seems
to work for me.
Download PGP5view
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Utility to Syncronize 2 address
books
Steve Ryckman
Here is what it does:
Find the book name in BOOKS.DB in the source directory.
Read all entries for that book number into memory from ADDR.DB
in source directory.
Find the book name in BOOKS.DN in the destination directory.
Read all entries that are NOT in that book number from ADDR.DB
in destination directory.
Write all entries just read from ADDR.DB in destination
directory (erase the book from it).
Add all entries read from the ADDR.DB in the source directory,
replacing the book number in the record as they are being written
so they line up with the BOOKS.DB on the destination machine.
Download PMMail Address Book Synchronizer
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Utility to Archive folders and
messages
Dave Serls
The PMMail Offline Folder and Archive Maintenance Utility has a
small command-language similar to ICSL for specifying maintenance
criteria for moving, deleting, and archiving messages based on the
date/time (with aging), sender, recipient, etc. of the headers. It
archives via Info-ZIP, storing a 'pofamu.bag' file IN the .zip
file. The .zip can be the expanded in an empty folder and that file
renamed to 'folder.bag'. It's available on Hobbes and should be at
version 1.6 there in /pub/os2/apps/mail/util.
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Utility to check system date/time and
decide if messages should be forwarded to another
account
Jaime A. Cruz, Jr.
>Here is a set of REXX scripts, suitable for running as a
filter (using the 'program.<>' tag), which will
check the current system date/time to decide if messages should be
bounced to another address. (For example, if you want your home
mail bounced to you at work during the day)
Below is a link to a ZIP file containing four REXX programs. The
important one is PMMFilt.CMD. That is the program that actually
verifies the date and time and passes either "Send" or "Ignore"
back to PMMail/2. The other three programs are external functions
required by PMMFilt. One calculates the Day of the Week
(JCDoW.CMD), one converts Calendar (mm/dd/yy) date to Julian
(yyddd) format, and the last one determines whether or not a given
year is a leap year or not (JCLepYer).
I wrote all of the programs, and I've put them all in the public
domain. They work for me, there's no guarantee they'll work for
anybody else but the source code is there for people to fiddle
with. The programs also have fairly extensive internal
documentation. Hope you find it useful!
I found only one side-effect of using this procedure. The
PMMail/TEMP directory gets filled with a bunch of small files of
the form *.RET that contains the returned information from the REXX
script. Shutting down PMMail and restarting it clears these files
out, but I leave my computer on ALL the time.
What I did as a circumvention: Use Object Desktop's Object
Scheduler to launch a script every night to clean out this
directory along with Netscape's CACHE directory.
I may be reached at the following jaime.cruz@nassauwings.org
.
You can download it
here.
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Utility to allow automatic reciept
of faxes by email
Trevor Smith
PMM2FAX is a REXX script which will locate the Subject: and
From: fields as well as the attachment file name in an email
message. This information is then used to call FxRcv.exe (which
comes with PMfax) so the FAXes can be logged with a subject and
name attached to them.
You can download it
here.
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Perl script for synching mail and
address books with your Palm
StellarCOM
StellarCOM has got a variety of Perl utilities for working with
the Palm. Among these are two for synching mail and the address
books with PMMail.
You can reach their website and utilities at the following http://www.stellarcom.org/palmstuff
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