MultiMail Screen Shots

Default color scheme, MS-DOS version

From DOSEmu in X.

Startup screen – packet list With a filter, in expert mode
Area list, Blue Wave Area list, QWK
Letter list, BBS Letter list, Usenet
Letter window ANSI viewer

Aqua color scheme, Linux version, in xterm

An example of a light-background scheme. This xterm was started with “-fn vga -tn linux” – useful for viewing ANSI pics.

Startup screen – expert mode Letter window

With transparency, in Eterm

New in 0.39 – whichever color is defined as the background in “Main_Back” becomes transparent. (Version 0.38 always made Black the transparent color.) This can be used to good effect with a light-background scheme like aqua.col. Here I’m using the standard iso-8859-1 character set, 10x20 font.

Startup screen – expert mode Letter window

The standard color scheme, but with the background set to blue and made transparent.

Area list – expert mode Letter window

Not all terminals are created equal

The pictures at the top of this page show what MultiMail is supposed to look like, but some terminals lack support for color, the special box-drawing characters, or both. In many cases, this isn’t really the fault of the terminal, but of the corresponding entry in the terminfo database – you can sometimes edit that to fix the problem. In other cases, changing the font can help. Anyway, the “lowest common denominator” MultiMail display looks something like this (contributed by Alan Zisman):

Older Macintosh OS X

I’m happy to report that performance under macOS’ Terminal has improved since that snapshot was taken.

With macOS 15.3.2

MultiMail