Subj : Re: new mail notification
To : echto
From : Bill McGarrity
Date : Tue Jan 19 2016 11:21 pm
-=> echto wrote to Digital Man <=-
ec> Re: new mail notification
ec> 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.
ec> Yes, apologies, it's netmail and echomail. I can send a test netmail
ec> message to another sbbs bbs that is operating with a default
ec> configuration and during the login sequence SBBSecho displays,
ec> SBBSecho: So-and-so sent you netmail from this node
ec> When I log into my sbbs, SBBSecho never displays the message about
ec> waiting netmail. I suspect it is because I am calling baja module
ec> after baja module. Is there a way to read the telegrams without
ec> SBBSecho? And what state does SBBS have to be in to display the
ec> telegrams; I mean, what actions have to place before SBBS decides it's
ec> OK to display telegrams. From my observations, SBBS will not display
ec> telegrams while a baja module is running, i.e. waiting for user input.
ec> I might be wrong about that, but that appears to be what I am
ec> 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.
ec> Thanks, I'll take a look at that.
Try adding an ! to your fidoin command. That will tell sbbsecho to notify
users of waiting netmail or echomail.
