What the program does

The program permits you to easily save and retrieve all emails.

Enter your email program, such as Netscape. Put your mouse on the email you want to save, and press Ctrl + S. A box will come up saying "Save Message As..", default .txt, and will usually give a default name, such as untitled.txt. Press OK. Now enter the program, EmailDatabase, and press Alt R to read this default file. It reads the file, and enters all the data into the database. Subject, date, address. You can add notes and comments. Very simple. Now go to the next email, and add it.

You will see a row of the email details, along with a list of the From and To addresses, with the email as a square on the bottom. This square is small to make it easy to read. You can edit anything you wish.

The body is cleaned of formatting and other junk (like excessive > signs). Attachments are removed.

There are a few things you have to do first. The first time you have to pick the file untitled.txt with the file selector, by pressing the menu Read. The next time it will remember this file.

You have to select a category. Press Alt C for the category table. Some sample categories are given.

You can also add faxes. You sent email to the President, and a fax to the Governor. Same email. You can then have this info stored.

You can instantly find all the emails you sent to your children last year. Their names may not have been in the email, and so search would not work. The emails may have been over several categories, and so browsing the categories would not work. You cannot do this in Outlook. Imagine that! You can get all the emails sent to or from people of a certain category, including all other emails on the same subjects!

In today's era, we need to work with the best tools available. The powerful and easy tools of databases are still very much underutilized and poorly understood. People think if you put things into drawers and file cabinets, you can easily get what you want. But you want a paper from this drawer, another paper from that drawer in that file cabinet. Without SQL, since you have a large number of drawers and cabinets, you cannot get the papers. With SQL, it is as easy as opening a single drawer in one cabinet.

In your large organization, you have a group of people who work on different projects. You can see all the emails from this group. There may be a lot of people in the group, and the people worked on various projects. Not only can you see the emails, but also you can get all the email on a single screen or file, rather than the need to press a key to jump to the next email.

You can create a file in Word, and print a letter to a friend. In the program, press New Letter. Paste the content of the Word file, which you may do by pressing Replace All from Clipboard.You now have a record of the letter you sent.

I send email to my Senator. The Senator will accept email only from his site, and I have to fill in all the fields. Before pressing the Send button, I copy the text, go to my program, and press New Internet, and paste in the text. This way you have a copy of the letter you sent to the Senator.

This is a database to store correspondence.