Artemis11

Short:        Monitor mailbox contents via POP3, AppIcon, requester, sample, etc.
Author:       troels@stud.cs.uit.no (Troels Walsted Hansen)
Uploader:     troels stud cs uit no (Troels Walsted Hansen)
Type:         comm/mail
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

Introduction
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This is a program somewhat similar to biff or xbiff for unix boxes.  The
difference is that while biff watches a mailbox file (like Sabot on the
Amiga), Artemis connects to your POP3 mailhost via TCP/IP and queries how
many mails you have waiting.

biff was developed a long time ago by the BSD programmers at Berkeley
University in California.  They named the program after one of authors' dog
because it had a habit of barking when the mailman came.  Continuing this
tradition I named my program after one of our cats, Artemis. :-) No, Artemis
doesn't meow at the mailman. :^)

The biff story is at http://lab.housing.fsu.edu/Pages/didyou_biff.html.

Requirements
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 · AmigaOS 2.04 or higher (V37)
 · Any TCP/IP stack

Features
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 · Monitors mailbox via POP3.
 · Works with AmiTCP/AS225/Inet225/Surfpack/mlink.
 · Displays AppIcon showing mailbox status and contents.
 · Displays requester/beeps screen/plays sample when new mail arrives.
 · Doubleclicking AppIcon opens requester with a "Get mail" button.

Version history
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Artemis 1.0 (27.04.96)
 · Initial release
 · Uploaded to ftp.netnet.net but never appeared on aminet!?

Artemis 1.1 (06.05.96)
 · Byte count is formatted in bytes/kilobytes/megabytes
 · Shows number of mails and bytes in About window. 
   Also the TCP currently in use is shown here.
 · The icontext wasn't updated if new mail arrived two times in a row.