Para-Mail
{{Short description|Email Client}}
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{{Notability|Products|date=June 2012}}
{{Infobox Software
| name = Para-Mail
| logo =
| screenshot =
| caption = Para Mail 2.16 under DOS
| developer = Kris Land (designer), Larry West (chief architect), Craig Arnush (software engineer)
| latest_release_version = 2.16
| latest_release_date = July 16, 1989
| latest_preview_version =
| latest_preview_date =
| operating_system = DOS
| genre = E-mail client
| license = Sold
| website =
}}
Para Mail was a proprietary, electronic mail client that was developed and maintained by Kris Land and his team. It was originally released in 1985 for MS-DOS, but was subsequently ported to Microsoft Windows. A version for Apple Macintosh also used to be available.
On January 3, 1990, it was announced that Paradox Development of Para-Mail was acquired by Office Automation Systems later known as OCTuS, Inc.
Features
Para-Mail was suitable for single or multiple users on stand-alone computers or on local area networks. A key feature of Para-Mail was that it supported image scanners, faxes, optical character recognition and voice mail all through one common user interface.{{citation needed|date=October 2012}}
The original version worked with Novell NetWare networks and its Novell's Message Handling System (MHS) mail system;[https://books.google.com/books?id=tRwEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22para-mail%22+netware+mhs&pg=PA39 'LAN E-mail products"], 2 Apr 1990, Network World magazine a cut-down MHS-only version called PM-Remote was bundled with NetWare.{{citation needed|date=October 2012}} Early versions used an idiosyncratic format for mail folders; later versions offer the standard Unix mailbox format as an alternative to the historical Para-Mail format.
Para-Mail supported the x.400, x.500 protocols as well as Novell's MHS.{{citation needed|date=October 2012}}
From being the de facto standard email client{{Citation needed|date=April 2007}} on Novell NetWare networks, Para-Mail, along with Eudora and others suffered a similar fate to Netscape Navigator when Internet Explorer version 3.0 bundled Microsoft Internet Mail and News version 1.0 free-of-charge within Windows 95.
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