Emissary (Internet Software)


Emissary was a popular early commercial internet suite from Attachmate for Windows. It featured a web browser, FTP support, e-mail program, a newsreader program, and an HTML editor.
Though once considered a popular internet suite, but it fell out of favor after Internet Explorer 3 was released. Development was abandoned following the Microsoft antitrust case.

Releases

The following are releases of Emissary 1.x:
Emissary 2.0 was a collection of six applications:
Each of these applications ran within Emissary and had its own helpfile.

Features

Emissary 2.0 had the following features:

Technical

Web pages created with Emissary had the following meta tag:
Emails sent with Emissary had the following X-Mailer Header: X-Mailer: Emissary V2.00, by Attachmate Corp.

Releases

Emissary 2.0 has the following system requirements:
The internet suite was well received.

Editions

The following are the editions that were sold:
EditionRelease DatePriceMediumDevelopers
Emissary 1.11996??The Wollongong Group Inc., Attachmate Internet Products Group
Emissary 2.0 Desktop Edition1996DiskettesAttachmate
Emissary 2.0 Office Edition1996about DiskettesAttachmate