[Dxspider-support] Mail Enhancement?

[Ian Morrison]

Ditto here! All users are via rf. I like Dirks's idea.

73, de Ian
VE3IEM

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Sent: June 6, 2003 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] Mail Enhancement?


> Brian,
>
> Actually, the "New Mail Pending" pending (I like Dirk's idea of appending
it to
> the end of the prompt) would keep coming up regardless of what the user
was
> doing until he/she READ the personal mail.
>
> Please note, in my situation all our user throughout the network are
directly
> connected via RF to a cluster. Nobody node hops in order to reach a
cluster.
> So, there would be no 'mail pending' prompts being generated over a
wide-spread
> area, especially NEVER across a backbone. The prompt would go directly to
the
> user and nobody else.
>
> I hope this clears up what I'm suggesting.
>
> 73, Steve - K2SC
>
> > Greetings;
> >
> > (In the words of OJ... ) to take a stab at this, I would assume that if
a
> > user is at the keyboard and is active, (s)he may also execute commands
which
> > the last
> > string returned would be the cluster's prompt... such as a show/time
which
> > would print:
> >
> > show/time
> > Local Time:  6-Jun-2003 0658, UTC 1058Z
> > N1URO de N1URO-3  6-Jun-2003 1058Z >
> >
> > I would guesstimate that new mail is (or could be) a boolean expression
> > somewhere in the code. If its not, perhaps it could become one and then
when
> > the user is active and executes a command could it be possible to then
include
> > a 'new mail beacon' of sorts just prior to the prompt returning? An
example of
> > what I'm saying would then change the output of the above command to:
> >
> > show/time
> > Local Time:  6-Jun-2003 0658, UTC 1058Z
> > New mail has arrived for you ^G
> > N1URO de N1URO-3  6-Jun-2003 1058Z >
> >
> > This would then inform the user (s)he has mail waiting and would
prohibit
> > mail beacons across a network (RF or wired) in the event the user is not
at
> > the console/keyboard.
> >
> > just my worthless $0.02 :-)
> >
> >
> > 73 de Brian N1URO
> >
> > Please support:
> > NON-HTML in Email messages
> > Forwarding via amateur radio
> >
> >
> >
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