r E-Mail is written in "classic" Pick Basic code, with source included to accommodate changes.

r E-Mail is completely menu driven.  This greatly reduces training.  The functions and programs are all intuitive, and most screens provide online help.

r End-users can choose functions from one screen.

r A comprehensive Configuration File Maintenance program allows selected settings and other characteristics unique to your implementation.

r E-Mail supports up to twenty (20) printers plus the user's slave printer.  The custom Printer Picker is invoked the first time per session that the user prints email, statistics, MailBox reference listings, documentation, or any other printing.  In addition, the user may set a "personal printer" choice which overrides the Printer Picker.

r E-Mail supports an unlimited number of users per system.  Anyone who has access to the system--hardwired, leased lines, mux, modem and so on--may use the E-Mail systems as long as the System Manager has set them up in the database.

r E-Mail user "logon" routines are provided with the package.  These identify the user to E-Mail.  The logon routines may be run stand-alone from TCL or may be incorporated into the end-user's application logon routines.

r If the end-user has a MailBox identification routine in the application logon routine, a subroutine that is provided may be called to identify the user to E-Mail.  Additionally, a subroutine in E-Mail which gets the user's Mailbox ID may be changed to accommodate particular circumstances.  E-Mail functions with any type of terminal or emulator.

r The efficiently designed database stores the physical email piece only one time, regardless of the number of owners of the mail.  Owners are symbolically attached to the physical piece via a cross reference file.

r There are three "locations" where the email can exist for a particular user:  In the MailBox, in the Archives, or deleted.  When all users have deleted a piece of email, the physical email and the cross reference record are deleted automatically.

r A Purge routine is provided that automatically deletes "stale email" which has gone unread for a period of time determined in the configuration record, usually 120 days or more.

r Each user may elect to use the Personal Preferences function.  These include setting a printer of choice, turning off the delete confirmation, turning off MSG notification and screen border choices.

r E-Mail keeps global system-wide statistics, which are available for display by any user.  A screen-full of statistical information is displayed including total number of pieces sent and received as well as averages, number of users, number of groups, and much more.
r Statistics for each individual user are also available that indicate number of pieces sent and received, as well as the current number of pieces in both their  MailBox and their Archive.