Shareware Solutions II, in association with Ewen Wannop, is thrilled to announce that Spectrum Automated Mailer for the Apple IIGS has been released.
Spectrum Automated Mailer, known affectionately as SAM, is a sophisticated and comprehensive suite of scripts for Spectrum v2.3 that provides an elegant but easy way for Internet-connected IIGS users to send outgoing e-mail to an SMTP mail server and to receive incoming e-mail from multiple POP3 servers.
SAM works in conjunction with Marinetti, and it is an offline mailer that allows you to manage, prepare and send e-mail through your Internet Service Provider's SMTP mail server. SAM will then read any waiting mail from multiple POP3 mail servers for all of your online e-mail accounts. Once offline, SAM lets you read and reply to your new e-mail, and if NiftySpell is installed, SAM will even spell check your e-mail messages. SAM has the ability to decode attached mail files, and it will even display HTML code that is sent through e-mail.
Additionally, SAM lets you file mail you want to keep in multiple personal mailboxes, and to optionally attach multiple files to any outgoing messages. Housekeeping features let you manage your archives, and a powerful search engine lets you search through these saved files.
SAM requires Spectrum 2.2 or later, Marinetti 2.0 or later, and to use SAM to send and receive Internet e-mail, you must have an account with an Internet Service Provider with which Marinetti can connect (SLIP or PPP).
SAM was written by Ewen Wannop, the author of Spectrum and Crock O'Gold.
A half-dozen screen shots (in Super Hi Res format) from SAM can be downloaded by clicking here.
A graphic based version of this site (complete with embedded screen shots) can be access by clicking here.