Mailsmith 1.1.3 Now Available from Bare Bones Software

Bedford, MA — April 2, 1999 — Bare Bones Software is pleased to
announce the release and immediate availability of an update to
Mailsmith, the company’s Internet email client. Mailsmith 1.1.3
features significant enhancements, and addresses an assortment of
customer-reported problems. This update is available free of charge
to all Mailsmith customers.

“Users of previous versions should be pleased by this update,” says
Rich Siegel, president and CEO. “We feel that Mailsmith 1.1.3
represents a significant step forward for the product, and we hope
that our customers will appreciate the improvements in this release.”

Mailsmith 1.1.3 features a new “POP Monitor” window, which enables
users to manually download or remove selected messages from their POP
server.

In addition, the ground-breaking “Rewrap Quoted Text” tool,
introduced as a plug-in in Mailsmith 1.1.2, has been integrated into
the application, along with several new commands aimed at
facilitating the manipulation of quoted text in messages. An
assortment of further user-interface refinements and feature
additions provide increased efficiency when managing email with
Mailsmith.

Many improvements which serve to enhance the usability, performance,
and reliability of the mail store have also been made to Mailsmith’s
internal mail store subsystem, and to the underlying database engine.

Version 1.1.3 is available to all registered Mailsmith customers free
of charge. An update package may be downloaded from the company’s web
site at (http://web.barebones.com/support/update.html), and a
complete list of additions and fixes incorporated in this release is
available at (http://web.barebones.com/products/msmith/rnotes.html).

Pricing & Availability

Mailsmith 1.1.3 is available now. Any BBEdit or BBEdit Lite user, or
owner of Claris Emailer or Qualcomm Eudora, is eligible to purchase
Mailsmith at the cross-upgrade discount price, US$59, which is
available direct from Bare Bones Software.

To order, please contact Bare Bones Software’s sales department at
(781) 687-0700, send email to (sales@barebones.com), or use the
secure online order form at:

(https://www.barebones.com/store/store.html)

For a partial list of domestic and international resellers, please
see: (http://web.barebones.com/resellers/resell.html). The suggested
retail price for Mailsmith 1.1.3 is US$79.

About Bare Bones Software, Inc.

Bare Bones Software, Inc., incorporated in 1994, is based in Bedford,
MA. Mailsmith is the most recent addition to their product family,
which is led by BBEdit, the premier HTML and text editor for
Macintosh. For more information, visit the company’s web site at
(http://web.barebones.com/) or send email to (sales@barebones.com).

Contact: Sandra Schneible, 781-687-0784, sandra@barebones.com