------------------- ELOQUENT 2.02 ------------------- Topics covered in this document: 1. About Eloquent 2. Installing and Using the Demo 3. Ordering Information 4. Release Notes for version 2.02 **** ABOUT ELOQUENT **** Eloquent is a full e-mail and news agent that caters to the needs of everyone from novices to power users. All your messaging needs - composing and sending e-mail messages and news posts, reading and filing e-mail, and reading Usenet news - can be done conveniently and easily with Eloquent. There is no need for a myriad of add-on programs and utilities. If you currently use other mail agents, making the transition to Eloquent is simple. Eloquent is compatible with NeXT's Mail.app and will read and write Mail.app mailboxes and addresses. You can exchange NeXTMail with other NeXT users, Sun mail with Sun Mail Tool users, or exchange MIME or uuencoded mail with users on other platforms. Pine and MH users can also use Eloquent with no trouble since Eloquent will read and write Pine mailboxes and address books, and MH mailboxes. Version 1.0 had many useful features that simplified user's lives, like sorting incoming mail, extended searching capabilities, the ability to save composed messages for later editing and delivery or posting, and smart mailboxes that would perform actions - such as replying to messages or redirecting them to another address - for you. Now, Take 3 has added to the capabilities and usability of Eloquent in version 2.0. The first thing that you will notice in 2.0 is the new look. Many parts of the UI have been redesigned to make it more attractive and easier to perform common tasks. Eloquent 2.0 increases the level of customization that is available to the sophisticated user, while decreasing the amount of configuration required. Version 2.0 introduces the Eloquent Browser. The Browser replaces the former Mailboxes and Newsgroups panels. Because of its hierarchical structure, you have access to mailboxes and newsgroups in multiple folders on your computer, or remote servers (through POP, IMAP and NNTP). The Browser is similar to the File Viewer in the Workspace Manager, so you're already familiar with the environment, and will be able to access mailboxes, newsgroups, local and remote hosts, and other files that Eloquent uses, as easily as you locate files in your own Workspace. The Browser also lets you create groups of unrelated items, so that they can all be accessed from one convenient place. As connectivity becomes more important, it won't be unusual for you to need to use mail and new services on multiple hosts. Eloquent provides for this by allowing you to access mailboxes and newsgroups from more than one remote server at the same time. Eloquent will even retrieve your mail from multiple system mailboxes, and save your usernames and passwords (if you want!) so that it can log in for you. The viewer concept has also been expanded in 2.0. A shelf has been added to the viewer for easy access to commonly used mailboxes and newsgroups. There are more configurable options available - including changing which headers are shown in the list of messages, reversing the order of messages, sorting messages by threads, and showing message sizes in a mailbox (with large sizes highlighted). Once you have a viewer configured the way you want it, you can save it, so that the same customized settings are then available for all your mailboxes and newsgroups. You can configure system-wide viewers, or create specialized viewers and assign them to individual mailboxes. **** INSTALLING AND USING THE DEMO **** The copy on this ftp site will run under NEXTSTEP 3.1 or higher on Intel or Motorola hardware. The program has been archived with tar and compressed with gzip. To install the software, untar and ungzip it using appropriate software (such as Opener.app), and copy the Eloquent.app to an appropriate place (such as the /Apps folder in your home folder). When you double-click to start up the application for the first time, Eloquent's license panel appears. Either enter your license key, or if you are running it in demo mode, click the Demo button. In demo mode, Eloquent adds text to mail messages and news posts you send, indicating that the message was sent with a demo program. In addition, a panel appears every eight minutes that requires you to type in "demo" to continue using the program. Nothing has been disabled in the demo - all of Eloquent's features are available for you to try. !!!!!!IMPORTANT!!!!!! Before sending any messages, you will need to enter your e-mail address in the Send Preferences panel (Choose Info > Preferences from the main menu). To learn about using Eloquent, you may want to open the on-line Help, and start with the Introduction to Eloquent. There are some sample viewers included with this demo to provide examples of the different ways viewers can be configured. Copy the viewers to a permanent directory (such as ~/Library), and open them by double-clicking. (You may need to log out and back in after installing Eloquent before viewer files will be recognized by the Workspace Manager.) A mailbox or newsgroup can be opened in a viewer by dragging it from the browser over the area of the viewer just below the shelf. (See the Help entries "Open a newsgroup" or "Open a mailbox" for more information.) The software can be made fully functional by entering a license key obtained from Take 3. More information on licensing Eloquent is given below. Please direct any questions you may have to Eloquent_support@take3.com. (Use the pre-addressed message under Info > Support) We welcome comments and bug reports. Use the Info > Bug Report menu item to send your exciting suggestions or insightful observations to Eloquent_bugs@take3.com. We think Eloquent is a great app, but your suggestions will help make it even better. **** ORDERING INFORMATION **** The evaluation version can be made fully functional by entering a license key obtained from Take 3. Choose Info > license in the main menu to review the license agreement. Please refer to our website, http://www.take3.com, for current ordering and pricing information. **** Release Notes ***** PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A MAINTENANCE RELEASE ONLY. NO NEW FEATURES HAVE BEEN ADDED SINCE 2.01. ______Changes since 2.01_______ Users can no longer set the same mailbox for the Default mailbox and the INBOX. Flags passed to sendmail changed, and ability to set other flags added to Preferences. If Eloquent can't display an image properly, it will resort to showing the ASCII contents of the message, rather than not showing anything at all. More tolerant of different SunMail messages. No longer crashes when pressing Return to advance to the next message in a news viewer. Return does not advance to the next messages in a news viewer. Upper limit of data contained in To: field increased to 50K to better handle messages sent to many recipients. Demo expiration removed. Changed time to type in demo from three to eight minutes Fixed problem with resizing send document Options panel. EloText no longer warns about unknown graphic cell classes in Console window. Changed the default state of Save Password button to false, so that administrators can take off the button on the nib file to keep users from setting it. Changed default preference for sending mail to SMTP to encourage use of SMTP over sendmail. __________________________________________________________________ If you have a question that this document does not answer, direct questions to Eloquent_support@take3.com. 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