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| Get unread E-mail in a folder.
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| Search E-mail, in a folder, by subject.
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| If you have trouble checking E-mail and have the option "run as service" checked on the General tab in setup try closing Call Soft and run it via the Start menu e.g. Start->Programs->Call Soft Pro . If that works consider not running Call Soft as a service but instead run when someone logs on.
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| This options allows you to retrieve E-Mail in a folder by day you use the same keys you defined on the Remote Message tab e.g. the same ones you use to navigate through your voice mails to navigate through your E-Mail. You can go to the next day by pressing 0 or the previous day by pressing the * key.
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| search for E-Mail in a folder by subject and optionally hear only a selected portion of the message and optionally retrieve only the most recent message.
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| It is designed to easily allow you to call in and retrieve the most recent news, weather or stock information. For example CNN can send you breaking news, Intellicast can send you weather and Price Waterhouse can send you specific stock information. There are many other services available on the Internet that might you.
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| If your E-mail client supports MAPI you can have Call Soft read your E-mail to you over the phone.
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| MAPI stands for Messaging Application Programming Interface. This simply means your E-Mail client can share it's data with other applications. There are two types of MAPI, simple and extended. Call Soft requires your E-Mail client to support extended MAPI. Unfortunately Outlook Express does not support this, however Outlook does.
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| You will also need to have speech enabled. We also recommend one of the professional voices found on our speech page. Using the standard voices, Microsoft provides, are difficult to understand when used in this capacity.
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| Call Soft deals with folders not accounts. For example Inbox is a folder, Call Soft can also read any sub mailbox connected to Inbox. So if your E-mail client is receiving mail for more than one person (multiple accounts), and if you want to check mail for a single account, you will need to redirect each account's mail to a folder, then have Call Soft read the mail in that folder. You can do this with Outlook by defining a rule.
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| If you use Outlook, you might be familiar with it's layout below ( see picture below). In this example, Call Soft would be able to read mail in Inbox, Art's E-Mail, Call Soft, George's E-Mail and Important.
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| · | Checking E-Mail Overview
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| · | Get unread E-mail in a folder.
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| · | Search E-mail, in a folder, by subject.
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