When we announced Messenger Pro 4's availability in the first days of
2006, we described it as a yearly scheme, so, nearly 18 months later,
we hope our customers have had good value!

Now, the time has come for Messenger Pro 5, which debuts at the
Wakefield show this weekend.  Once again, we hope to provide ongoing
updates and enhancements just as with Mpro 4 (and indeed, Mpro 1/2/3
before that.)

Right now, we've added some major new content "off the bat" - most
notably, the way in which Messenger prints emails has been completely
revamped.  It now uses RISC OS outline fonts to ensure compatibility
with modern printers, and that allows better page layout, bold
headings and more.  Messenger Pro 5 also addresses one of the major
annoyances of printing from email programs, by dynamically scaling
prints (within reason - text is always readable) to fit neatly to the
nearest page.  This means that emails which spill three or four lines
onto the next page will no longer waste paper/time, but will adjust to
fit on a single sheet.  The combination of the new features and
revamped printing architecture should ensure that printing from
Messenger becomes a pleasurable, hassle-free experience.

Searching of messages has also seen a major overhaul.  It should now
be a little faster, and the search results are now handled so that you
can refine your search (ie. search for one thing, then narrow the
search), and store results without causing problems.  Search results
can now be dragged'n'dropped out of Messenger, saving the results to
disc or to another application.  The old system was quite inflexible
at times, and could have nasty results, so the new system is very much
welcomed!

A new choices window has been added to allow settings to be adjusted
for the MsgServe "back end" (and MsgServeS, the network server
version).  This provides access to many previously unavailable
features, for example, you can control how long Messenger keeps
backups of downloaded email (useful if you ever have disc errors!) and
much more.  Indeed, in the light of larger hard drives, we have
ensured that mail backups are kept longer anyway, to give users a
"lifeline".

The inbuilt-editor is now faster and more responsive, esp on older or
unoptimised systems.

We have also expanded the ability to have different email-addresses
and identities associated with your Messenger User.  This makes it
very easy to pick an "identity" from the menu when sending messages,
and have Mpro fill in the appropriate details.  For people with
multiple email addresses, or several people sharing, this will be a
huge boon.

More time consuming operations have been sped up, and percentage
completed bars now appear to show progress.  Status windows can be set
to appear only during long operations.

Threading of messages, attachments, HTML mails, scrolling, selections
and more have also received updates and enhancements!

We hope you'll feel that this represents a rather nice start to this
fresh round of Messenger Pro upgrades!

Ordering
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Messenger Pro 5 upgrade costs 20ukp inclusive from v4.

Users of v3 and earlier can upgrade for 35ukp which essentially buys a
whole new CD/manual pack.  Indeed, this offer is open to v4 owners who
want a new pack (eg. for a new machine).

You can order by phone, fax, email or via our website.  Please note
that we won't have time to update the "information" section of our
site until after Wakefield, but v5 is now on the ordering page.

If you are an existing Mpro server owner, you'll receive both client
and server upgrades for the standard price, so there's no extra to
pay.

If you're NOT an owner of the server edition (basically, that's the
"complete" version of Messenger Pro, as it contains all components)
why not take advantage of our 55ukp upgrade offer - you'll get server
version AND the v5 upgrade for just 55ukp, but do it quick, because we
only run the discounts for the month following the v5 release!

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