Dear all;
Hi guys I'm looking for some volunteers to help me test this Windows program. I've been working on it for the past six months and have tested it with Aow 1, Wizard's Throne and Shadow Magic (original CD versions) and also with Shadow Magic from Steam. I haven't tested it with any of the games from Impulse. I am quite confident it should work, as they are the same games, but it may be that there are slight differences in where the game is installed and what the registry keys are set to. So I would like to test it properly. The program is Free by the way!
If you would like to help please email me on the address below, I've just written it that way to stop spam bots scraping it from the page. Thanks in advance! 
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The Age of Wonders games were released in a time where most ISPs provided open SMTP servers, not requiring explicit authentication or any encryption. These days, and since the age of SPAM, those kinds of SMTP servers are rare. The development of SMTP servers over time effectively broke the play by email automatic-send function of the game. Players could still use the manual sending option, to use their own email client, but this involved manual repetitious actions for each game played.
Recently though a group of Age of Wonders fans have been working together to develop an application to restore the automatic send ability. The Age of Wonders Email Wrapper is a lightweight application that is run on the same PC as the game. It works by emulating an open SMTP server and accepting SMTP requests from the game.
When the game sends an email it will connect to the Age of Wonders Email Wrapper, as it would a real server, to send the email. The Wrapper then receives the email and sends it out over the internet using a modern SMTP server specified by the user and with whatever authentication or encryption is necessary.
The Wrapper can also download email games from IMAP and POP3 email accounts. So it essentially encapsulates the entire Email functionality of the game.
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Demo Video
david dot honess at gmail dot com
