BenMail - A Windows(tm) based Mail reader
    (part of the BenNet suite of programs)

BenMail is a Windows 3.1 based internet mail reader, for use with WINDIS, KA9Q,
and DICS, or any similar SMTP queueing systems.

It features:
- Simple, friendly interface, featuring HintBars.
- Supports multiple mailboxes.
- Keeps a copy of all messages sent in a special mailbox.
- Group reply feature for replying to mailing lists.
- Records messages as new, read, or unread.
- Right mouse button menus, and short cut keys.
- Built in address book.

BenMail was developed with my own time & resources. Its aim is to provide my
wife and I with a friendly mail program. It is still developing and growing,
many features still need to be added - and I am very open to suggestions and
comments! If you haven't got the VBRUN300.DLL and THREED.VBX files somewhere
you will need these, I have put them in a ZIP file: BENLIB.ZIP

Why should you try it??? Well, here are some comments from users:


  "...It took me about two minutes to set it all up and I was very
  impressed that it just fitted straight over the top of the PCElm
  setup."
						- Jez Higgins   

   "I have recently started using Demon Internet, and I was ready
  to give it up as a bad job when I found how difficult it was to
  use any of the Windows-based email packages.  Then I discovered
  BenMail.  ...It is easy to install and use, and doesn't take up
  masses of disk space."  
                                                - E J Scaplehorn


This version is "Shareware" - Please feel free to share,  use and enjoy
it for non-commercial/non-profit-making  purposes (otherwise contact me
to negotiate). I am proposing a small (£15) voluntary registration fee,
to fund development (I need to register a help editor, and if I can buy
VB 4, make a 32-bit version). Registered users receive a help file, and
can be included on the beta-testers list. Here you can ask for specific
features to be added to upcoming versions, all registered users receive
free registration of later versions.

Enjoy - Comments etc to benmail@hanover.demon.co.uk

- Benjamin Ellis

Please note:
BENNET,  BENMAIL AND ASSOCIATED PROGRAMS AND DOCUMENTATION ARE PROVIDED
AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, IMPLIED OR EXPRESS. INCLUDING, BUT
NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY & FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL BENJAMIN ELLIS, OR OTHER AUTHORS,
BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER - INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT,
INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, NEGLIGENCE, OR OTHER DAMAGES.

THESE PROGRAMS, AND DOCUMENTATION, ARE COPYRIGHT BENJAMIN M J ELLIS 1994.
YOU ARE GRANTED PERMISSION TO USE THESE PROGRAMS FOR YOU OWN PERSONAL USE