FoxTool is designed to work together with Foxmail. It reformats eMails and fixes some annoying bugs, it seems to work correctly under Windows 9x and Windows 2000/XP. FoxTool is freeware. The full source code is available within the installer.

Note: Since I switched to Thunderbird I cancelled FoxTool development.

Current features:

  • Available in many translations
  • Removes multiple Re: from the Subject and replaces it with a customized response marker
  • Converts Underscores (_) in the Subject into Spaces
  • Removes spammarker (**SPAM**) or other user defined strings from the subject
  • Removes multiple empty lines from body
  • Wraps the lines after a specified length
  • Supports %SIGNATURE variable for random signatures
  • Check for eMails on startup
  • Change hyperlink internet browser
  • Modify dictionaries and select between them (Open Office import available)
  • Change spell check options
  • Detect and change DNS server for eMail Express
  • Insert user defined From:-header via context menu
  • Fix “„Firefox two window bug”
  • Warns, if subject is empty
  • Send key presses to foxmail on program start
  • Remove Foxmail traces on exit (For usage on a USB stick for example)

FoxTool is freeware.

Versioninfo:

Current Version: 1.0
Last Update: 10/11/2004

Usage

To make usage of FoxTool use instead of Foxmail.exe the FoxTool.exe to run Foxmail. It will run the Foxmail.exe and wait in the tray area for a hotkey or a compose dialog to apply the corrections. Right click on the blue Foxmail symbol in the tray area to configure FoxTools options.

For the signature function you need a text file that contains the signatures (See signatures.txt to see how it works). Every new line is treated as a single signature. Place now the %Signature variable into your text email template and it will be replaced by FoxTool. A good source for german and english signatures is email-signatures.de.

You can undo the changes that FoxTool made to the mail body by pressing Ctrl+Z twice.

Hint: Nearly any option has a contextsensitive help, just stay with your mouse over the items for some seconds.

Visit the The Hare’s Lair: FoxTool Forum to get support.

Changes

1.0

  • Change/detect DNS server for eMail express
  • Updated translations

1.0 R C7

  • Warn when subject is empty
  • Improved default browser settings
  • Improved browser recognition (Maxthon, Opera)
  • Improved Dictionary selection
  • Regular expression is no longer case sensitive
  • Some settings don’t need to be saved explicitely anymore
  • Bugfixes
    • Wrong Datatype for spell check registry settings
    • Use Global Hotkey value wasn’t saved

1.0 R C6

  • Hook DLL no longer treated as Virus (McAffee)
  • Change dictionary settings/default dictionary
  • Compile/decompile Foxmail dictionary
  • Convert Open Office into Foxmail dictionary

1.0 R C5

  • Added a time that FoxTool waits before an automatical operation is applied
  • Improved FoxTool “Close when Fomail closes” function
  • Shortcut is now displayed in tray menu

1.0 R C4

  • Option “Run foxmail minimized”
  • Automatical check eMails on start even when Foxmail is started minimized
  • Automatic translation of message dialog buttons
  • Removed response marker length limitation
  • Bugfixes
    • Windows didn’t shutdown if FoxTool was active

1.0 R C3

  • Major bugfix: FoxTool hid other programs from the taskbar

1.0 R C2

  • New Parameter: -tray, which prevents Foxmail to be started automatically
  • Bugfixes
    • Click on “Options” created a new form, even if one already existed

1.0 R C1

  • Insert eMail address into From- and Reply-To-header
  • New parameter -p to specify Foxmail-Path by commandline
  • Close Foxmail when FoxTool is closed
  • Bugfixes
    • Check on start and send key didn’t work properly
    • Close together with Foxmail (Win9x)
    • Last character of a line could be cut
  • 0.4.5.0
  • “<br>” in signature file is now replaced by line wrap
  • Quick hints for every button, etc.
  • Opportunity to remove now any string from subject
  • Added Firefox-Patch to fix „Two-window-bug“
  • Bugfixes
    • “-url” parameter is now added for firefox browser

0.4.4.0

  • Possibility to clear Foxmail traces on exit
  • Added function keys to key sequence (F1, etc.)
  • Bugfixes
    • Fox Tool closed when Foxmail was minimized
    • Fox Tool reported an error when Hide-SMS-Registry didn’t exist

0.4.3.0

  • FoxTool now quits, when Foxmail exits
  • Hide SMS entries in Foxmail
  • Added possibility to send keys to Foxmail (To move focus to In-Box for example)
  • New and updated translations

0.4.2.0

  • Reads Foxmail path from the registry
  • Some corrections on the user interface and smaller program improvements

0.4.0.0 beta

  • Changed subject repair system to regular expressions (more flexibel)
  • Automatical check eMails on start for
  • Set program that is used to open hyperlinks
  • Support for %SIGNATURE which is replaced by a random signature
  • Multilingual user interface

0.3.4.0 beta

  • Redirect start parameters to foxmail.exe
  • Option to disable foxmail splash screen
  • Added a response marker all response markers are replaced with

0.3.3.1 beta

  • Bugfixes
    • Wrap funtion cut the first character of a line if last character of the line above was a space character

0.3.3.0 beta

  • Bugfixes
    • Shortcut wasn’t saved
    • Automatic apply of Foxtool didn’t work if options weren’t opened

0.3.2.0 beta

  • Improvements on the options show & hide behaviour and the UI
  • Increased speed (Optins dialog is only created when needed)
  • Close-button minimizes now to tray
  • Bugfixes
    • Individual Response Marker wasn’t replaced correctly

0.3.1.0 beta

  • Smaller improvements on the UI
  • Bugfixes
    • Response Marker was not recognized correctly

0.3.0.0 beta

  • Added a graphical userinterface, so FoxStarter.exe became obsolete and all options can be edited with it
  • FoxTool can be applied when compose dialog is opened automatically

0.2.0.0

  • Recognizes some international response markers (AW: and SV:)
  • Supports individual response marker
  • Only one running instance for FoxStarter.exe allowed
  • Bugfixes
    • “Re: Re: Re:” wasn’t reduced correctly
    • If subject was empty, text was pasted into subject field

0.1.1.0 beta

  • Bugfixes
    • Corrected a smaller bug in line wrap detection

0.1.0.0 beta

  • First public release

Download

Mirror @ home.arcor.de
Mirror @ hazeleger.net Thanks to Dick Hazeleger
Mirror @ foxmail.free.fr Thanks to Pierre Creuseveau
Mirror @ webalice.it/alanford Thanks to Alan Ford
Mirror @ My Foxmail Thanks to ReZ