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- CALLERS AUTOMATIC NOTIFICATIONS OF MAIL WAITING 18-1
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- 18. CALLERS AUTOMATIC NOTIFICATIONS OF MAIL WAITING
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- RBBS-PC has the ability to notify callers about mail waiting for them when
- they log on. Callers can be notified for any pair of user/message files
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- (a) how many new messages were left, and
- (b) whether any new messages are to them personally.
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- RBBS-PC can be configured such that the messages individually reported by
- number to the caller when the caller logs on are all messages (i.e. both
- old and new, or just new messages since the caller last logged on, or
- no messages at all via CONFIG parameter 19. Of course, RBBS-PC allows the
- SysOp to determine if callers are reminded of the mail they have left.
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- In a file specified in CONFIG parameter 93 (the default is CONFMAIL.DEF),
- the SysOp can list the message/user file combinations to check for mail
- waiting in the format
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- <user file>,<message file>
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- where these are related conference file names. If it is assumed that RBBS-
- PC is running in a DOS subdirectory off of the main root directory of the
- "C:" drive and that there are two conferences, RBBS-PC and BETA, then an
- example of the contents of the CONFMAIL.DEF file is:
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- C:\RBBS\BETAU.DEF,C:\RBBS\BETAM.DEF
- C:\RBBS\RBBS-PCU.DEF,C:\RBBS\RBBS-PCM.DEF
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- The names are processed exactly as typed, so inclusion of the drive/path is
- necessary. The SysOp controls what conferences get checked for mail by
- listing these file pairs. Conferences not listed will not be checked.
- Callers will get a report only for conferences that they are a member of.
- Two items of information are reported:
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- number of new messages since last in the conference, and
- whether any new messages are address to the caller.
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- The name used in RBBS-PC for the main message base is taken from the file
- name for the message base. As with conferences - if the prefix of the user
- file ends with "M", the name will be the composed of all but the last
- character. If the name is "MESSAGES", it will be called "MAIN". Otherwise
- the main message base will be called the full prefix.
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- The main message base and users file can be included in the list to scan.
- You may want to coordinate the USERS and MESSAGES file names in the same
- fashion that conference user files and message file names are coordinated.
- If the main message base is to be known as TOP then call it TOPM.DEF and
- call the users TOPU.DEF. RBBS-PC will just as well with the default names
- USERS and MESSAGES and call the main message base MAIN.
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- There are 3 philosophies that can be implemented on message reporting using
- the CONFIG parameter 19:
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- 1) Report everything.
- 2) Make a fast minimal report.
- 3) Make an optimum intermediate report.
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- Reporting everything means reminding callers of messages they left, and
- give the messages numbers of old and new mail. To do this it is necessary
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- RBBS-PC 17.3A TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL 18-2
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- to set configuration parameters to remind callers of old mail and to report
- ALL messages to caller. Also place "sub-boards" and private conferences in
- the mail scan list of CONFMAIL.DEF.
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- Making a fast minimal report means that callers will not be reminded of old
- messages, specific message numbers will not be list, only the number of new
- messages and whether any are personal will be reported. This option is for
- when you want people to get the caller to the command level as fast as
- possible. For example, the main message base is not even used. To do this
- set configuration parameters to NOT remind callers of old mail and to
- report NO messages to caller. Put the main message base as well as "sub-
- boards" and private conferences in the mail scan list of CONFMAIL.DEF.
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- Providing an optimum intermediate report means reporting individual message
- numbers only for the new mail as well as # of new messages (and whether any
- personal). The best way to implement this is to set the level of reporting
- messages to the caller to New Only and to put all "sub-boards" and private
- conferences in the mail scan list of CONFMAIL.DEF. Set CONFIG parameter 21
- to NOT remind callers of old mail.
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