By James E. Powell

OpenPost lets you create-and mail-sticky notes without the hassles of an Exchange post office.

The program is primarily designed as the electronic equivalent of sticky notes. They are date- and time-stamped, with six different background colors, and can be organized into folders. You can tag multiple notes to print or delete them, or drag them to other OpenPost files.

OpenPost's text editing is pretty basic: cut, copy and paste (including bitmaps), without support for different fonts. There's no Subject line for a note. Instead, the program uses the first line of text in its display-which includes a color code and the date and time you created the note-in a simple list with resizable columns.

You can mail notes back and forth to shared network directories without using a mail post office. In traditional systems, you use the Send Mail command, select the recipients, then type the text of the note. In OpenPost, you write the note first, then select the mail server, then choose recipients.

OpenPost's simplicity, however, translates to a lack of features. There's no security and no reply or forward button. You can't group notes by subject, and your notes aren't automatically retrieved.

There's nothing fancy here, which is exactly the point. The learning curve is five minutes at most, and you won't need a system administrator. If your offices span the globe, you'll find support for English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish all in the box, yet the product consumes less than 1MB of hard disk space.

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OpenPost 4.0
Price: $24.95 per user
Pros: Easy to install and administer
Cons: Lacks standard features
Platforms: Windows 95, 3.1x, NT
Disk Space: 1MB
RAM: 4MB
Pacific Software Publishing
800-232-3989, 206-688-8080
WinMag Box Scor: 2.5