DM,
Is it possible with baja to notify a user there is new mail waiting; say for example when a main menu that is a baja module is executed? The reason I ask is becuase the way I have set up sbbs, baja modules are called one after the other the moment a user logs in. All my sbbs menus are baja modules. SBBSecho doesn't get a chance to notify the user of new mail.
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.
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.
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.
Thanks, I'll take a look at that.
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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.
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.
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Re: Re: new mail notification
By: Bill McGarrity to echto on Wed Jan 20 2016 07:21 am
Try adding an ! to your fidoin command. That will tell sbbsecho to notify users of waiting netmail or echomail.
The ! is there. %!sbbsecho%. -lesr!
As DM has already entioned, sbbsecho will only notify FTN style echonail. Netmail and/or email should show. On my system, it shows after all the logon screen which is fine for me.
Re: Re: new mail notification
By: Bill McGarrity to echto on Sat Jan 23 2016 13:46:00
As DM has already entioned, sbbsecho will only notify FTN style echonail. Netmail and/or email should show. On my system, it shows after all the logon screen which is fine for me.
Yes, that is correct. The way I have my system configured, baja module passed off to baja module passed of to baja module, there are no notifications after logging in.
I found the telegraphs. There's a bunch of them pending.
http://imgur.com/0ofUCLE
Why they aren't being displayed is what puzzles me.
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