General Description of Operation

The graphical user interface is built up of the following main parts:

• Internal Mail Folder Tree : The mail repository, which is drag-drop sensitive. Most important folder is the super-inbox (red) which displays the incoming messages of all synchronized Email IO accounts ( MS Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Netscape, Mozilla, MAPI-compliant clients, POP/IMAP/SMTP accounts ).
• The Out-folder, Draft-folder and Sent-folder are especially important when TEA works a standalone POP/IMAP/SMTP client.
  Note: MS Outlook is supported in an advanced mode: Answered mails can also be shifted to the Outlook's own folder tree instead of TEA's internal tree. The mode can be selected in Outlook account settings).
• Display List for Inbox & Current-Selected-Folder: Show the emails in the folder. Colors and bold high-lighting for new and classified mails
• Mail Previewer below Mail List Display: Can display Text and HTML mail. Note: You can force displaying in text-only mode in Menu/Config/Settings
• Template List : List of temlates (answer/forward/text-snippet) with Short-Key-Name, Full-Name. Color high-lighting for macro-powered templates.

The core engine features the following main functional components:

• Internal mail folder repository
  
• Support for multiple parallel Email-IO accounts: Thus you can super-control all you email inboxes and other email clients with this single super-client software
• Autoresponder: The auto-response processor: works in combination with template's normal mail classification system (classification word patterns and macros)
• Standalone POP/IMAP & SMTP email client
• MS Outlook advanced synchronizer
  
• MAPI synchronizer ( for Eudora, Netscape, Mozilla and any MAPI enabled email client software)
  
• MS Outlook Express synchronizer ( OE Extended Integration )
• Text & HTML pre-viewer
  
• Text & HTML mail editor, external HTML editor interface
• Embedded Python macro language interpreter: Supports mail classifiction and answer macros. 3 base macros (Application-Startup, Common-Answer-Macro, Common-Classification-Macro) can be set up in Menu/Config/Common Base Macros
• Mail template processor understanding variables and short macro-expressions.
• Smart Keyboard auto-sense function for triggering answer templates efficiently: Simply type the beginning letters of template's keynames - and optionally use the cursor inside the auto-completion drop-down-list
  
• Windows global hot-key function to enabling quick access to TEA's template text snippets
• Autosave & Backup System: Multiple cycling backup is supported in order to protect you valuable template and email data.