QuickEmail Users Manual

Introduction
QuickEmail was written to send emails quickly and easily. It does require a little configuration if your email server provider requires authentication. You can also setup a default "From" address (recommended) and a default "To" address. There are no news readers, POP email retrievers, calendars, or other bulky applications to get in the way.

Software License
This application and its source code (if provided or obtained) is licensed under the GNU General Public License. Please read this if you plan on distributing this application. This application also uses JavaMail. Please refer to JavaMail homepage for information about this product and its licensing.

First starting QuickEmail
To run QuickEmail, simply double-click on the QuickEmail.jar file, or run from the command prompt: java -jar QuickEmail.jar. When QuickEmail first starts the main email form will display.

QuickEmail's main screen
QuickEmail's main screen

Configuring QuickEmail
To configure QuickEmail, click the "Options..." button, which will bring up the "QuickEmail Options" dialog.

QuickEmail Options screen
QuickEmail Options screen

Enter the host email server address (e.g. outgoing.mailserver.com). If the host requires authentication to send email (refer to the host site's support or FAQ), check "Authentication Required" and enter the username and password. Additionally, you may enter a default "To" email address and default "From" address. Values entered here will defaulted into the main screen's "To" and "From" fields.
Click "Apply" to save the changes (you will be receive a pop-up indicating the save was successful), and "Close" to return to the main screen.

Send an email
Enter a "From" and "To" email address (if not set or different than the default), enter a subject, and write your email text in the large edit box. When complete, click "Send" to send the email. If successful, you will receive a pop-up indicating the email was sent without errors.

Support

QuickEmail was written by and copyrighted to Michael Latham. Questions, bug reports, and programming opportunities may be emailed to: Drachen Soft. I will try to respond as quickly as possible.

Appendix

QuickEmail is written in Java using JEdit, JFrameBuilder, and JavaMail. Without their products, I would not be able to freely give this product. Both JEdit and JavaMail are open source products that were free for me to use. JFrameBuilder is low cost and the best low cost Java screen layout application I tried.
Currently, these products can be found at the following web sites:

jEdit home page

JavaMail

JFrameBuilder