Welcome to SAVEMAIL v3.12 for Epoc Release 5 ------------------ To be used with the following devices: - Psion S5mx & S5mx-pro - Psion S7 & NetBook - Psion Revo & Revo Plus - Ericsson MC218 Supported languages (see the language.txt file for new languages): - UK/US English - German - Netherlands - French - Italian WHAT'S NEW ------------------ v 3.12 * added support to the Italian Revo(Plus), having different shortcuts from the Italian 5mx (!?!) * fixed a bug when the list of the Attachments was longer than 255 chars * solved the problem with From and CC/BCC fields exceeding the 255 chars limit: now they are correctly stored and never truncated * for the above reason, the MailBox Data file structure has been slightly changed: now the From field has become a "memo" field; see UPGRADING below * the procedure for copying the messages from Email has been modified and made a little faster PLEASE READ CAREFULLY ------------------ SaveMail is a program that automates the process of copying your messages from Psion Epoc ER5 built-in Email app to any number of "preformatted" Psion Data files (e.g. one for Work and another for Home), or to a "plain" Psion Word document, where they can be easily edited, sorted, printed, searched or simply stored. Very useful to speedup the ER5 Email program, notoriously slowing down its performances when it has to work with many messages (especially if stored to a CF Card...): by moving them to any user defined Data file, the program performances remain high over time! Before proceeding, keep in mind the following: * the option "Retain original text when replying" must be selected in order to get the right time and date of a message; to enable it, launch your Email program, select any received message and open it, then select menu - tools - viewer preferences... and tick that option; * especially when you choose to store multiple messages, SaveMail may take some time to accomplish its task: please note that while the program is running, your device is NOT available for other operations and you also should NOT switch to other tasks or applications; * for the same reason, disable the "automatic switch off" feature or use a reasonable value of time to let the program finish its task before the machine is turned off (if this should happen, simply turn it on again and SaveMail should go on working...); * be also advised NOT to touch the keyboard while SaveMail is running, because this could interfere with the scheduled sequence of keystrokes, thus leading to some misbehavior of the program itself (including the deletion of all your messages in the worst case, only if the "auto-delete" option is selected); * use the "auto-delete" option with care, as there is no way of restoring any deleted message from Psion Email. I strongly recommend a good BACKUP before starting to play with SaveMail... * I decline responsibility for any loss of data that may result from the use of this program. HOW TO INSTALL AND USE ------------------ 1) Unzip the savem_r5.zip file. 2) Launch the SaveMail.sis file and select language and destination disk. 3) Install Macr5Lib.sis if you are not running Macro5 4) SaveMail should appear in your "Extras bar", ready to be used. 5) If you want, you can use Macro5 to create a shortcut to SaveMail (select "Program" in the shortcut "Type" definition). 6) Call SaveMail through the "Extras bar" or the Macro5 shortcut: the first time you launch it, a Setup process will start... - letting you select your machine type and/or language (to set the correct shortcuts used by the program; if you can't find your model, or the program tells you that the selected model/language is still not supported, just have a look at the LANGUAGE.TXT file, where you can find all the information I need to set-up a new machine type); a second option lets you disable the "Date extraction" procedure (by doing so, you can get a faster process, but the date field in the target data file will refer to the date and time of the storing procedure and not the real one); a final option lets you select an appropriate value for the pauses between keystrokes in the program: this is to adapt the program speed to different processor clock and different media support (Data files and Email messages stored to RAM are much more faster to be opened than the ones stored to a CF Card or to an IBM Microdrive); as a general rule use lower values if you do not have large Data files or many messages in Email, and if you keep them in RAM; increase the values if you use CF Cards (increase more with IBM Microdrives) or if you find any error messages when running the program; - once passed the first window, a second one will ask you for the location of your default Data file (the one that will be used by default to store your messages); if you do not have any previous .box Data files to use, select the Action "create a new Mailbox Data file" and a dialog will let you create a new Data file and place it wherever you want; - a third window will let you choose the folder where the program can store any attachment it finds (you can select an existing folder or create an new one); an option is given to "Optimize names" for "Card view" (each attachment name on a new line of the attachment(s) field in the target Data file) or "List view" (a number before each attachment, no line feed between them); a final option is given to use full pathnames or not: according to your preferences, the Attachment(s) field of the target Data file will contain the name and path of any stored attachment (e.g. C:\Documents\Mail_Attachments\readme.txt) or the name only (e.g. readme.txt); the "Set Filters..." button opens a dialog window where you can specify up to 4 attachment names that will be always filtered by the program, and so won't be saved to disk (useful for attachments like "winmail.dat" or "attachments" that sometimes come with your mail and can be safely ignored) - finally a last window will ask if you want to enable the choice of different Data files (note that you can create multiple Data files also in a second time using the "create new Mailbox Data file" option), and if you want to open a dialog window to automate the process of storing (and deleting) a group of messages each time you launch SaveMail. 7) All these settings are stored to a SaveMail.ini file located in the folder "C:\System\Apps\SaveMail"; if for any reason you need to change these settings, simply delete the file, and when you will recall SaveMail, the setup process will be launched again. Alternatively, you can relaunch the Setup procedure from within the program, in the target data file window (if enabled). 8) Once accomplished the setup process, these are the steps to follow: - launch your Email program - select an Inbox or Sent folder - highlight a message without opening it (do not press Enter) - call SaveMail through the "Extras bar" or the Macro5 shortcut 9) According to the options you have selected in the setup process, once launched, SaveMail may: - ask for the location of your target Data file to store your message(s) - ask for the number of messages to automatically store - ask if it has to delete the original message(s) from Email - ask if it has to close the target file when done - ask if it has to ignore the attachments - an option is also given, to temporarily change the attachments folder 10) If everything is OK, once SaveMail has finished its task, you should find yourself again in the Email screen, but you should also find the message(s) stored to the (selected) target Data file. UPGRADING ------------------ From v3.12 the MailBox Data file structure has changed, as the "To" field and the "Attachment(s)" one are "memo" fields and no more "text" fields (limited to 250 characters): if you create a new target Data file from the program itself, the file will be of the new type; if you want to update any previous Data file to the new structure (only if you suppose to have to deal with messages with the "To" field exceeding the 250 char limit), just follow the instructions below: * create a new MailBox Data file from within SaveMail and leave it empty * open this new Mailbox file * select Menu/File/More/Merge in... * select the old MailBox file you want to update * press OK and it will be completely copied into the new one NOTES ON THE "PREFORMATTED" MAILBOX DATA FILES ------------------ The "preformatted" DATA files, where the messages from Email are stored, have the following labels: Subject (type: text length: 250) second sorting key (ascending) Date (type: text length: 30) first sorting key (descending) From (type: text length: 250) To (type: memo length: unlimited) CC/BCC (type: memo length: unlimited) Attachment(s) (type: memo length: unlimited) Body (type: memo length: unlimited) NOTES ON THE "PLAIN" WORD FILE ------------------ You can save your message(s) to a "plain" Psion Word file; the program can create a new Word target file for you, or can use an existing one; each field of the original message(s) is copied as text, with an appropriate description (e.g. subject, date etc.); if the target file already contains other messages, the new one will not overwrite them, but will be placed at the beginning of the document. NOTES ON THE DATE FORMAT OF THE MESSAGES ------------------ This program copies the DATE string of the original message (no matter which format is selected in your System settings) and changes it to "yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss" in order to have them correctly sorted by date in the MailBox file (it works both with 12h and 24h TIME format). KNOWN ISSUES ------------------ * If a message has the "Subject" or "From" fields particularly long, only the first 250 characters are copied to the target file; if this happens, a dialog is displayed to alert you and a (*) mark is put in the Subject field of that message; the auto-delete option is safely disabled * The same may happen for the Attachment(s) field * SaveMail can't deal with FAX messages, which are simply ignored and never deleted (the copy and paste process doesn't work with them...) * SMS messages are copied to the target file, but some fields must be manually rearranged at the end of the storing process * if a SENT message is moved from its original Sent folder, its "From" field disappears: the program detects this and leaves that field blank * if a SENT message is moved from its original Sent folder, the "Reply to" option doesn't work, so the date field in the target data file refers to the time of storing and is marked with (*); if this happens, a dialog is displayed to alert you, and the "auto-delete" option is always disabled * for the two above reasons, it is always better to use SaveMail with SENT messages before moving them from the Sent folder * for Purple Software Navigator users: when running SaveMail, you have to disable the "Return to Navigator" option (general preferences). This will let SaveMail cycle between the Email application and the Data target file, without Navigator popping out between them, thus locking the program. TRANSLATIONS ------------------ From version 3.11 onward the use of external RSC files for each language makes it really easy to add new translations. If you are interested in making your own translation in a new language (and maybe making it available for other users), do not hesitate to contact me at sergioalisi@geocities.com You only have to translate a hundred short phrases or singe words (supplied as an Epoc Data file). ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ------------------ A great thank you to: * Pascal Nicolas for writing Macro5 and helping me in making this program work... Visit his homepage for a huge library of useful macros: http://pnicolas.epocboulevard.com/ * Mario Collado (author of Assistant) for all his suggestions! Visit his homepage at http://www.psionwelt.net/MarioCollado/ * Guillaume Sabouraud (http://www.chez.com/chemtools/opl.htm), author of RSCcompiler (an Epoc32 tool for compiling rsc files, making it a lot easier to add support for new languages) * Corrado Formicola, Jarle Hallingstad and all the beta testers from UPS5 Digest Any comments & suggestions are welcome! E-mail me at: sergioalisi@geocities.com Visit my homepage at: http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/bridge/1492 THANKS & ENJOY