Baton Mail v0.9.8b

> Baton Mail allows you to add mail authentication to your older email
> clients.
>
> With SPAM on the rise, most ISPs have added the need to authenticate
> before being able to send email thru their servers. With older email
> clients (like Claris Emailer, Eudora Lite, or just about any mail
> client older than the last year or two), this authentication ability
> is missing. Baton Mail adds this ability by acting as a private mail
> relay station
>
> Baton Mail is a small application that you run in the background on
> your computer. You configure your email client to send outbound
> email to Baton Mail, which in turn performs any necessary
> authentication with your ISPs mail server, and then relays the
> outbound mail.
>
> In addition, some ISPs have have begun blocking all SMTP traffic
> that is not going to their mail server. As a result, some companies
> have started allowing SMTP traffic on ports other than the standard
> SMTP port. Again, many older mail clients don't allow you to change
> which port mail is sent out on, preventing you from using a company
> mail server instead of your ISP's. Baton Mail can come to the rescue
> here as well, by allowing you to assign what port you want to
> connect over.
>
> Baton Mail also works with AOL accounts, allowing you access to send
> out AOL email without using the AOL mail client. This can allow you
> to use your AOL account in conjunction with any email sending
> software.
>
> And finally, Baton Mail supports multiple account configuration
> files. With this, you can use Location Managers "Auto Open Items" to
> change your Baton Mail settings when you change locations. This
> makes it painless to change mail servers when traveling.
>
> ? Excerpt: [Baton Mail v0.9.8b web page][1] (Wayback Machine)

This is the final version of Baton Mail from 2002. It was released as
a freeware.

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

Baton Mail v0.9.8b is a 68k encoded application. It runs OK on PPC
Macintosh.

 * Features
   * POP Authentication
   * SMTP Authentication (Plain, Login, CRAM-MD5)
   * Assignable POP and SMTP ports
   * AOL SMTP access
 * Squashed Bugs/Added Features (in this build)
   * Fixed(?) a major bug that caused the computer to freeze when sending attachments
   * Added support for altering the listening port (resource STR 1128)
   * Added support for altering the first tried auth type (resource STR 1129)
   * Removed the need for Baton Mail to bring itself to the front for decent speed
 * Known Bugs
   * Can lose track of last used config file if it is moved (just use the File-Open to refind it)
   * Fails to pay attention to EHLO banner's advertised auth types, instead tries types blind

  [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20051229003701/http://www.mythtech.net/baton.html

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