JACMail Version 3.0 is very similar to previous Versions. I have abandoned attempts to add encryption to Email service, as TLS 1.0/1.1 is no longer supported on many servers. TLS 1.2 supports ECC (Elliptical Curve Cryptography), which is what I want to use because it avoids having to store keys. Unfortunately I have not yet found a way to recover the Raw Agreed Secret to support TLS 1.2 using CNG. The current Email standards are ancient and difficult to work with. It does not easily support encryption or non-latin character sets, and the lack of authentication allows the proliferation of unsolicited email and malware. Because of the large installed base of MTAs, previous attempts to upgrade it have failed. Therefore, I have removed encryption from JACMail, and I am currently concentrating on a private email service using ECC and authentication. JACMail V3 uses SimpleSock, which makes it faster.
JACMail is an Email Client Program designed to allow fast and efficient recovery of email from a POP3 server, and the sending of email through an SMTP server. It is primarily oriented towards text based messaging with attachments, and does not directly support highly formatted HTML based email or embedded objects. It receives and stores both text/plain and text/html messages, and Web based emails (HTML) can be sent to your default browser for viewing. It also supports Plain Authentication based POP3 and multiple mailboxes. The mailboxes are stored in an Access database utilizing ODBC.
The code uses IP Version independent system calls, so it will only work on Windows systems that actively support both IPv4 and IPv6. That more or less restricts it to Windows Vista or later. It has been tested on Windows Vista, Win 7, Win 8.1, and Win 10, and utilizes the following standard components and references:
RICHED32.DLL
RICHTX32.OCX
COMDLG32.OCX
MSSTDFMT.DLL
MSBIND.DLL
MSADODC.OCX
MSDATGRD.OCX
which the user must have available in order to compile the program.
J.A. Coutts
JACMail is an Email Client Program designed to allow fast and efficient recovery of email from a POP3 server, and the sending of email through an SMTP server. It is primarily oriented towards text based messaging with attachments, and does not directly support highly formatted HTML based email or embedded objects. It receives and stores both text/plain and text/html messages, and Web based emails (HTML) can be sent to your default browser for viewing. It also supports Plain Authentication based POP3 and multiple mailboxes. The mailboxes are stored in an Access database utilizing ODBC.
The code uses IP Version independent system calls, so it will only work on Windows systems that actively support both IPv4 and IPv6. That more or less restricts it to Windows Vista or later. It has been tested on Windows Vista, Win 7, Win 8.1, and Win 10, and utilizes the following standard components and references:
RICHED32.DLL
RICHTX32.OCX
COMDLG32.OCX
MSSTDFMT.DLL
MSBIND.DLL
MSADODC.OCX
MSDATGRD.OCX
which the user must have available in order to compile the program.
J.A. Coutts