Subj : new mail notification
To : Digital Man
From : echto
Date : Tue Jan 19 2016 10:25 am
Re: new mail notification
By: Digital Man to echto on Mon Jan 18 2016 16:15:52
> SBBSecho only deals with FidoNet mail, or more specifically, FidoNet netmail
> and echomail. Is the kind of "mail" you're referring to? SBBSecho creates
> the telegrams to users, notifying them of received netmail and echomail,
> when it tosses the mail. SBBSecho doesn't need to run during logon to do
> this as the telegrams created when SBBSecho does run just sit there until
> they are displayed to the user and then automatically deleted.
Yes, apologies, it's netmail and echomail. I can send a test netmail message
to another sbbs bbs that is operating with a default configuration and during
the login sequence SBBSecho displays,
SBBSecho: So-and-so sent you netmail from this node
When I log into my sbbs, SBBSecho never displays the message about waiting
netmail. I suspect it is because I am calling baja module after baja module.
Is there a way to read the telegrams without SBBSecho? And what state does
SBBS have to be in to display the telegrams; I mean, what actions have to
place before SBBS decides it's OK to display telegrams. From my observations,
SBBS will not display telegrams while a baja module is running, i.e. waiting
for user input. I might be wrong about that, but that appears to be what I am
experiencing.
> If you're just interested in displaying the number of personal email
> messages waiting for a user, you can use the MAILW @-code to display this
> value.
