version 3.0

Mail Monitor allows you to easily monitor all your POP3 mail boxes. When you have received new mail, Mail Monitor can inform you about this with visual effects and sound. Mail Monitor can also launch your Email Reader. Mail Monitor support an unlimited number of mailboxes. You can see your messages in the message list, and you can delete any messages from server without ever loading them. You can mark messages as read and Mail Monitor will not notify you about them again. Also Mail Monitor allows you to preview messages without any risk for you and your computer from malicious viruses. The message is loaded into a text box and no scripts are allowed to be executed. This helps you protect your computer from mail viruses. If you see some unknown letters you can easily delete it if you think it is not for you.

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The great feature of Mail Monitor is filters. You can setup filters for messages to delete SPAM or unneeded emails. We have already created some rules to filter spam. But you can add your own rules. Filter rules are based on logic expressions. Don't worry - it is easy to create new rules!

All messages can be divided into 4 categories:

1. Normal
2. Approved - messages from your friends, colleagues etc.
3. Spam - unneeded messages that can be deleted
4. Dangerous - messages with viruses (for future use)

Filter rules can mark any message as one of these categories. Later on you can delete all spam messages at once after you sure that all filters works correctly.

The other use of filters is to change notify sound or disable notify for some messages. Now Mail Monitor can say whatever message you want!!

Multilingual support

Mail monitor is the ideal solution to read message in different languages. Mail Monitor supports UNICODE and you can read the subjects and messages in any language supported by your Windows.

Privacy

Since version 1.6 Mail monitor now encrypts all the passwords to your mail boxes. In addition you can protect any password from larceny. When you turn on Protect password check box in the Account Properties dialog Mail monitor encrypts your password using your System/User information. So if somebody steals your toolbar files the password will stay protected. We recommend you protect all passwords if more then one person shares one computer.

Note: if you are using protected passwords Mail Monitor loses all passwords after reinstalling Windows or/and changing network settings. In this case just enter password again.

Notify Animations

In the properties dialog box you can select a specific animation to notify you about new messages. Mail Monitor support BMP and PNG file formats for animation. Animation pictures must contain one or more images. The frames in the animation should be vertically. For BMP format the color RED=255 GREEN=0 BLUE=255 is transparent. For PNG format use alpha channel inside file. Animation is drawn with ~20 FPS (frames per second).

Here is small sample animation in PNG format:

Regular Expressions

Mail Monitor can use regular expressions to filter messages. Here is syntax of regular expressions:

All characters are literals except: ".", "|", "*", "?", "+", "(", ")", "{", "}", "[", "]", "^", "$" and "\". These characters are literals when preceded by a "\".

Wildcard

The dot character "." matches any single character

Repeats

A repeat is an expression that is repeated an arbitrary number of times. An expression followed by "*" can be repeated any number of times including zero. An expression followed by "+" can be repeated any number of times, but at least once. An expression followed by "?" may be repeated zero or one times only. When it is necessary to specify the minimum and maximum number of repeats explicitly, the bounds operator "{}" may be used, thus "a{2}" is the letter "a" repeated exactly twice, "a{2,4}" represents the letter "a" repeated between 2 and 4 times, and "a{2,}" represents the letter "a" repeated at least twice with no upper limit. Note that there must be no white-space inside the {}, and there is no upper limit on the values of the lower and upper bounds. All repeat expressions refer to the shortest possible previous sub-expression: a single character; a character set, or a sub-expression grouped with "()" for example.

Examples:

"ba*" will match all of "b", "ba", "baaa" etc.
"ba+" will match "ba" or "baaaa" for example but not "b".
"ba?" will match "b" or "ba".
"ba{2,4}" will match "baa", "baaa" and "baaaa".

Alternatives

Alternatives occur when the expression can match either one sub-expression or another, each alternative is separated by a "|". Each alternative is the largest possible previous sub-expression; this is the opposite behaviour from repetition operators.
Examples:
"a(b|c)" could match "ab" or "ac".
"abc|def" could match "abc" or "def".

Sets

A set is a set of characters that can match any single character that is a member of the set. Sets are delimited by "[" and "]" and can contain literals, character ranges, character classes, collating elements and equivalence classes. Set declarations that start with "^" contain the compliment of the elements that follow.

Examples:
Character literals:
"[abc]" will match either of "a", "b", or "c".
"[^abc] will match any character other than "a", "b", or "c".

Character ranges:

"[a-z]" will match any character in the range "a" to "z".
"[^A-Z]" will match any character other than those in the range "A" to "Z".

Note that character ranges are highly locale dependent: they match any character that collates between the endpoints of the range, ranges will only behave according to ASCII rules when the default "C" locale is in effect.

Character classes are denoted using the syntax "[:classname:]" within a set declaration, for example "[[:space:]]" is the set of all whitespace characters. The available character classes are:

alnum Any alpha numeric character.
alpha Any alphabetical character a-z and A-Z. Other characters may also be included depending upon the locale.
blank Any blank character, either a space or a tab.
cntrl Any control character.
digit Any digit 0-9.
graph Any graphical character.
lower Any lower case character a-z. Other characters may also be included depending upon the locale.
print Any printable character.
punct Any punctuation character.
space Any whitespace character.
upper Any upper case character A-Z. Other characters may also be included depending upon the locale.
xdigit Any hexadecimal digit character, 0-9, a-f and A-F.
word Any word character - all alphanumeric characters plus the underscore.
unicode Any character whose code is greater than 255, this applies to the wide character traits classes only.

There are some shortcuts that can be used in place of the character classes:

\w in place of [:word:]

\s in place of [:space:]

\d in place of [:digit:]

\l in place of [:lower:]

\u in place of [:upper:]

Secure Connection (SSL)

Mail Monitor supports SSL protocol to connect to POP3 servers. All data transferred using through SSL connection are encrypted.

Advanced filtering

Mail Monitor can filter messages using rules and mark them as SPAM or as other category. Since version 1.9 Mail Monitor can save messages that satisfy to conditions and execute command. To save message check the "Save Message To Folder" checkbox and select path where to save messages. To run command check the "Run command" checkbox and write the command you want to execute. You can use %msgfile% to pass saved message as parameter to command. This feature allow you to build you own mail processing system. Mail Monitor will check messages and saves them for future processing of your program or scripts.

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Changes history

.:: version 3.0 ::. (18 June 2006)

• New: Popup balloon notify
• New: Not modal reply dialog
• New: Option to open Mail List on new mail
• New: Customize the columns in the Mail List (right-click the list header)
• New: Some new columns can be added in the Mail List (Account, Recipient, Delivery Date, Message Type)
• New: Quick View Filter by message type in the Mail List
• New: Quick View Filter by message date in the Mail List
• New: Added the button to close Mail List and mark all messages as read
• New: Check All Accounts button now have the drop down menu to check any account without selection
• New: Hotkey to check all accounts
• New: Checking Mail indicator on the main button
• New: Filter rules can be assigned to the selected accounts only
• New: Mail List can be Always On Top
• New: Prepared for new localization system
• Fixed: Impossible to copy conditions into the first rule
• Fixed: Date parser cannot read the date in some cases
• Some other minor bug fixed and improvements

.:: version 2.0 ::. (26 July 2006)

• Fixed: Malformed datestamp in mail monitor spamlog (2006-9-1 9:1:1)
• Fixed: Adding the complex filter condition can cause crash
• Fixed: Setting the check interval into 0 will cause constantly mail checking
• New: Right aligned Size column
• New: Add Unread filter into accounts list
• New: Added read status column (you can click this column to mark message read/unread)
• New: Added junk status column (you can click this column to mark message as spam)
• New: Added own mail reader for account
• New: Windows Vista support

.:: version 1.20 beta ::. (25 May 2006)

• Fixed: Mail List window position not saved

.:: version 1.18 beta ::. (15 May 2006)

• Fixed: double sound play
• Fixed: Filters on Return-Path field don't work
• Fixed: Ignore "Reply-To" field on reply
• Added: Time into log
• Added: Now you can resize Quick Reply window
• Added: "Pause check" button

.:: version 1.17 beta ::. (20 March 2006)

• Fixed: Incorrect message date parsing
• Fixed: Duplicates on import
• Fixed: Impossible to use '-' in email address
• Fixed: Bad filter settings after switching the message type
• Fixed: Ignore "Continue with other rules" filter option

.:: version 1.16 beta ::. (07 November 2005)

• Fixed: Impossible to send message with size more then 1KB
• Fixed: Impossible to send messages via GMAIL
• Fixed: BSOD on open Mails List on Windows 98
• Fixed: Connection type is ignored
• Fixed: Crash on deleting account
• Fixed: Filters is not working correctly

.:: version 1.15 beta ::. (01 November 2005)

• Improved POP3/SMTP engine including SMTP authorization, SSL, TLS
• Improved logging
• SOCKS4/5 and HTTP1.1 proxy servers support
• Added hotkeys for mail client and messages list
• Improved stability
• Bug in the "no sound" feature when first time is greater then the second
• Press Ctrl+Q to mark selected messages as read
• Press Ctrl+L to load selected messages
• Added URLs auto-detection in message view
• Many bugs fixed

.:: version 1.14 beta ::. (07 May 2005)

• Fixed: Bug with "First check delay"

.:: version 1.13 beta ::. (06 May 2005)

• Fixed: Quick reply don't works correctly
• Fixed: Impossible to disable APOP authentication
• Fixed: Impossible to stop mail checking
• Added: Option "First check delay"

.:: version 1.12 beta ::. (11 April 2005)

• Fixed: Impossibbe to read mail from GMAIL via POP3.
• Fixed: Message List locks on changing filters.
• Fixed: Remove dublicates when importing rules.
• Fixed: Some messages cannot be loaded.
• Added: Options to disable confirmation for loading and deleting mails.
• Added: Quotation in reply message.
• Added: Connection log.
• Changed: Many user interface changes.
• Changed: Improved handling POP3, SMTP and SSL/TLS protocols.

.:: version 1.11 beta ::. (18 November 2004)

• Fixed: Impossibbe to read mail from GMAIL via POP3
• Fixed: Hi CPU usage
• Fixed: No tips in the messages list window
• Fixed: some minor bugs

.:: version 1.10 beta ::. (10 August 2004)

• Fixed: Explorer crash on deleting account from the messages list
• Fixed: Impossible to open filters dialog if any language other then English is used
• Fixed: Filters button is enabled even if filters are turned off
• Fixed: Tab order in the Messages List
• Fixed: Installation error
• Added count down timer into messages list
• Some minor changes

.:: version 1.9.8 beta ::. (21 January 2004)

• Fixed: Impossible to disable autocheck mail

.:: version 1.9.7 beta ::. (12 January 2004)

• Fixed problems with sound notify
• Fixed text of buton
• Added support for TLB v.2.2.0.14

.:: version 1.9.7 beta ::. (12 January 2004)

• Fixed problems with sound notify
• Fixed text of buton
• Added support for TLB v.2.2.0.14

.:: version 1.9.5 beta ::. (8 December 2003)

• Fixed "No sound between" option
• Added support for TLB v.2.2.0.10

.:: version 1.9.4 beta ::. (26 November 2003)

• Explorer crashes when loading incorrectly formated messages.

.:: version 1.9.3 beta ::. (04 November 2003)

• Explorer crashes when loading empty message.

.:: version 1.9.2 beta ::. (26 September 2003)

• Explorer crashes.
• Filter "Message Body contains regular expression" works incorrectly.

.:: version 1.9.1 beta ::. (25 September 2003)

• Quick Reply from any address
• Display first non-empty message part
• Filters by multiple fields (like some Received)
• Added filters by all text parts
• Fixed "Free message body does not works correctly"
• An option to change the font/color used in message preview (context menu)
• Some minor changes

.:: version 1.9 beta ::. (18 September 2003)

• Support for secure (SSL) connection
• Filtering using regular expressions
• Filtering by message text
• Filtering by attachments
• Message preview pane
• List of all header fields
• Support for unicode languages
• Copy/Move filtering conditions between filtering rules
• Execute custom command on new mail
• Save message by filter
• Execute command on filter (use %msgfile% to execute with saved message as parameter)

.:: version 1.8.1 beta ::. (23 March 2003)

• Fixed the bug in quick reply dialog
• Fixed explorer crash if POP3 server does not support UIDL command (Yahoo POPs! etc.)
• Added check boxes to disable some filtering conditions

.:: version 1.8 beta ::. (17 March 2003)

• Support for DNSBL services to filter spam
• Added regular expressions in search function (using * and ? symbols)
• Sort messages in the message list window
• Save message as..
• Save last values in add condition
• Resort accounts
• Filtered views
• No sound between X and Y hours
• MD5 APOP Authentication support for POP3
• Import/Export conditions
• Double clicking on a message to load it
• Disable automatic checking
• Color highlight of messages (text/background colors)
• Change icons in mail list window for accounts
• Automatic re-applying of filtering rules
• An option to change the date/time format used for the Date column
• fix: Very long header field can be truncated
• fix: Message list and preview window flickers

.:: version 1.7.3 beta ::. (8 December 2002)

• Fixed: Impossible to make condition with MATCH CASE flag
• Fixed: Duplicating messages in the message list

.:: version 1.7.2 beta ::. (6 December 2002)

• Added: compatibility with POP3 servers without UIDL command support (like Yahoo POPs!)

.:: version 1.7.1 beta ::. (4 December 2002)

• Fixed: Messages in UTF-8 encoding can crash explorer.exe

.:: version 1.7 beta ::. (30 November 2002)

• Added: Max Size into search functions
• Added: toolbar into mail list window
• Added: Create filtering conditions based on message
• Added: Load strings from text file
• Added: Support for dial-up connections
• Added: Support PNG format (with alpha blending) for animation images
• Fixed: Draw of notify animation in items with text and menu items
• Some visual enhancements

.:: version 1.6 beta ::. (13 November 2002)

• Security fix: encrypting POP3 passwords inside plugin file
• Added: Protecting POP3 passwords from larceny
• Added: Show number of new messages on button
• Fixed Mail List window position on multi monitors systems

.:: version 1.5 beta ::. (11 November 2002)

• Added filtering feature. Filters allow you to delete spam from server, change notify sound or disable notify on some messages.
• Log file of deleted messages
• Advanced message display in the Messages List window
• Changing the columns order in the Messages List window

.:: version 1.4 beta ::. (27 July 2002)

• Fixed: Incorrect processing of the message UIDL can cause explorer crash

.:: version 1.3 beta ::. (27 July 2002)

• Added "Suspend Account" feature
• Pressing Ctrl+A in mails list now selects all emails in list
• You can use Del key to delete mails from server
• Fixed explorer crash

.:: version 1.2 beta ::. (18 July 2002)

• Added context menu for accounts inside mail list window
• Added delete confirmation
• Added accounts highlighting to indicate new mail
• Added icon for account to indicate account state (ready, error, checking)
• Fixed crashes in some cases
• Some minor bugs fixed

.:: version 1.1 beta ::. (29 March 2002)

• Added text if button in the menu
• Added Change Icon feature
• Improved support of Windows XP
• New mail notify using icon, not animation
• Mail reader can be executed with parameters
• Delete accounts now works correctly
• Added Load Message feature in the message list
• Fixed incompatibility with Windows 98/Me
• Some minor bugs fixed.