Frequently asked questions on

Ultimate Mail Tool

Q. How to get UMT? Where can I find the latest information about UMT?

A. Please check UMT Home Page or UMT ftp area for latest information. In files README and Release.Notes you can find latest information about UMT.

Now we also have the following mirrors:

  1. Primary site for US
  2. Primary site for Europe
  3. Secondary site for US *

* Thanks to tima@komkon.com for giving us space on 'ftp.komkon.com'.

Q. I just download UMT and it says 'License Expired'. What can I do? I read that this version UMT is free? Why do I need to have license at all?

A. You can get new licnse from any UMT ftp site. For example: UMT.license.common.valid.till.year.2001 . We use licnesing now to make sure that nobody will be using outdated versions. If you feel uncomfortable having license for short period of time, please write to umt@topaz.kiev.ua and we'll generate for you personal key. Do not forget to include your hostid. See README for details.

Q. I'm using Red Hat Linux and would like to have UMT in RPM format. Is it possible?

A. Yes! Now you can download UMT in RPM format from and UMT ftp site.

Q. How to contact with UMT developers for hints, questions, and bug reports?

A. You can contact us at the following addresses: umt@topaz.kiev.ua internal mailing list forUMT development team.

Q. If there is mailing list there UMT users exchange questions, hints and there all news about UMT get announced?

A. You can subscribe to umt-users mailing list: send letter to umt-users-request@whale.gu.kiev.ua with a following string in a message body "subscribe umt-users <your@address>"

Q. What platforms are supported?

A. Currently we support IRIX, HP-UX and Linux-ELF. We no longer going to support Linux-AOUT.

Q. What is the latest version of UMT?

A. The latest version of UMT is UMT 1.0 Beta3.

Q. What should I pay for UMT?

A. This is beta version, and it's free of charge. Linux versions will be free forever.

Q. What package should I download? What is the difference between *static* and *share* archives?

A. UMT uses Interviews(IV) library for it's GUI. For running version of UMT with IV-shared you have to install IV shared library. If you use several products, that use IV, or have IV reinstalled, it's useful to install UMT with IV-shared. In other case you can install UMT with IV-static.

Q. How to customize UMT? I have customized config file, but there us no changes in UMT.

A. UMT has one global config file(cfg) (/usr/local/lib/UMT.cfg) and one local cfg for each user (~/.UMT/user.cfg). Options from global config can be overridden by options from local. If you have changed global options and have the same options in your local cfg, it will not change setup of UMT.
Now UMT read cfg files only at startup. So, for working your changes in cfg you need to restart UMT :(

Q. I've read about UMT Configurator. Where can I download it?

A. Once there was an UMT Configurator for UMT Beta1. It was standalone Stk application. We do not support it now and it will not work with latest versions. Use your preferable editor to customize UMT.

Q. I cannot change the size of the fonts used in viewing my messages. How can I change the font size in the message view window?

A. First of all, you can change the system font (menus, text, text buttons) by editing SystemFont item in your config file, or by adding option -fn <font> at UMT command line. You can change all fonts in MsgView(Body and Header) and MsgEdit windows by editing section RTFEditor.Fonts and RTFEditor.HeaderFonts.

Q. How can I get UMT to use a German keyboard ? I managed to get some Keys working, but when I try to override Shift+[0-9] then the US keys are still there instead. And what is the Keycode for the right ALT key? I am using left ALT for keys like {[]}\ BTW, my keyboard works normal when entering the header lines like the subject.

A. Yeah, there are two handlers, that process keyboard - InterViews' for header, and our own for MsgBody. And all hints below are for our Editor only: For customizing the keyboard edit your config. file, section RTFEditor.Keyboards. Add subsection German, to German subsection add the field HotKey, MainKeys, AlternativeKeys. For HotKey write the key-switcher, and for *Keys just type all the keys from keyboard (NOTE: you should comment symbol >"< like >\"<). You can type only the symbols, that different from default keyboard, for both sections, but it was not tested enough. So, the better way is to open your editor, that supports German, and edit this subsections: type all keyboard symbols for MainKeys in English mode and for AlternativeKeys in German mode. For using ALT-<key> just type Alt+<your_symbol> "\{". For example, you can check the files from directory sample-configs from your distributive.

Q. It looks like filters doesn't work...

A. Because it is not the first letter with question about filters I'd like to describe the algorithm:

Our team spent a lot of time with arguing about the algorithm for filters, because there is sense to apply filters while Arriving new letter. I think, the right way to solve the problem is to make it customizable, or to ask people from this mailing list :)

Q. How can I change "From:" field in outgoing messages?

A. You should not change "From:" field! You can add "Reply-To:" if you'd like all answers come to another address.

A. Yes, we planned to use algorithm with adding "Reply-To:" field. But we have some letters with this problem, when UMT fills "From:" as user@computer_name. There are some ways to solve this problem:

Q. I just downloaded UMT . It's wonderful. Clearly the best mailer available for Linux, and certainly the best one I've used on any platform. BTW, I added an X-mailer header that identifies UMT as my mailer. I'm new to this mailing list and I have some questions, but first of all I would like to thank the developers of UMT for a GREAT program!

A. Thank you very much.

  • Original Author: Sebastian Kamyshenko
  • Maintainer: Vadim Zaliva
  • Last Modifyed: 10/20/96