Features : E-Mail

LunaSuite Mail

Product Summary

LunaSuite Mail keeps you in touch when you're mobile. Not only can you communicate text messages, with LunaSuite Mail you can send and receive Name Cards, Appointments, audio recordings and even web pages. Support for open standards means great interoperability with other systems, and vCard support means you can communicate name cards with business contacts using other systems. LunaSuite is also an excellent way to extend your intranet to your mobile workforce: store your company's name cards on a web server and download to Newton!

Pick up a LunaSuite-enabled Newton, and you'll wonder where the mail application is. We've integrated LunaSuite as closely as we could into the Newton: you don't open a "mail program", you simply go to your InBox and tell it to receive mail.

To send mail, just write your message, hit "Mail" and send!

Sending Mail

Message Format To send a message, simply use the built-in stationery in your Newton. Send a message using a new Note and it will go as plain text. Choose Outline, and items will be indented and market with asterisks.

Merge Outgoing Messages Or send a collection of items together and LunaSuite will concatenate them.

Newton Objects The real power of LunaSuite comes when you mail other Newton objects, such as Dates, Calls or Audio Recordings. With LunaSuite Web, you can also send and receive Bookmarks as Newton objects; when you receive them, once Put Away they'll appear in your Bookmarks collection. Similarly, images and packages are no problem.

LunaSuite allows you to send Newton Ink, even as part of a message's subject.

You can also send an Audio Recording to another Newton user - true Voice Mail:

 

Exchanging Business Cards
LunaSuite supports the open vCard standard. LunaSuite support for vCard is transparent and seamless. If someone sends you a vCard, you can immediately put it away into your Names collection. To send someone a vCard, simply mail the Name you want to send. It's as simple as that! Because the vCard standard is open, you can even exchange business cards with users of Netscape Communicator 4, Lotus Organizer 97 GS, Microsoft Outlook 97, and other vCard-aware applications.		vCard     vCard is an open standard for electronic business cards. Representing business cards in electronic form enables a variety of things to happen: you can collect them together, sort and search them, send them to others, or access them through web pages or search engines. They contain a number of fields for phone numbers, street addresses, mail addresses, and even company logos, live Web addresses or pictures. They can store as many or as few contact details as you want and can reduce the need to re-type email addresses or telephone numbers. The vCard specification is available from the Internet Mail Consortium.

Distribution Lists are supported: you can mail to a group of people using the 'group' feature in the Names application.

Receiving Mail

Messaging Functions Features such as 'reply', 'forward' and 'redirect' are of course included. There's also the ability to add the sender of a message to the Names application

Scheduled pickups Want to wake up in your hotel room with your morning's email freshly downloaded? No problem. Use the "Activate Periodically" feature to have your email collected whenever you like:

Displaying incoming messages One problem with mail applications on other platforms: to view messages containing attachments, you start an external 'helper' application. Not so with Newton! Your message is decoded right there in the InBox and displayed using 'stationery'.

Take a look at the above example containing a radio commercial - you can play it immediately. The benefit is that LunaSuite Mail's seamless operation makes it easy to work with.

Remote Messages LunaSuite Mail's Browse mode downloads headers first and stores messages as 'remote'. Each message will then be downloaded in the background. To have messages downloaded first, tap them. 'Remote' messages can be kept in the InBox after disconnecting, and operations such as retrieve and delete may be performed on them.

Large messages (over a configurable size) may be left on the server. A 'remote' message is placed in the InBox, allowing you to retrieve the message if you want to.

Access to multiple accounts is easy: simply configure further Newton Owner cards, one for each account you want to access.

Plug-In API

A plug-in API allows for other transports to make use of this framework. Through the merge feature, two items in the outbox can be merged into one. This is useful for attaching some data to an email written in the Notepad.

The support for MIME types can be easily extended by third-party developers through the extensive API.

Product Specification

Mail Transports

• SMTP (RFC 821)
• POP (RFC

MIME Version 1.0 Compliant

• Send/receive Namecards, Dates, Notes, and other Newton objects to and from other Newton devices
• Multiparts: Supports mixed, digest and alternative

Document Types

• Sound: Basic audio (Sun .au format)
• Newton packages (put away under user control for security)
• Versit vCard
• Ink & Newton native data
• Send HTML documents, and view ones sent to you, if LunaSuite Web is loaded

Conversion Types

• UUEncode
• Base64
• Quoted-Printable

Availability
Available now from this website!.
Price
US $69 or around UK £42

Trademarks

• LunaSuite, LunaSuite Mail, and Lunatech are trademarks of Lunatech Research.
• Newton is a trademark of Newton, Inc.
• vCard is a registered trademark of the Internet Mail Consortium.
• All other product or service names mentioned in this document are trademarks of their respective companies.

Lunatech Research

Lunatech Research
Email: info@lunatech.com
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