[Info-vax] Real-time new mail notification

[Ade]

If you're talking VMS mail, you could try interrogating the 
VMSMAIL_PROFILE.DATA file. It holds usernames and mail counts etc (word at 
offset 35 or 36 I think).

Ade

"Michael T. Davis" <DAVISM at ecr6.ohio-state.edu> wrote in message 
news:hbs7q2$9df$1 at charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu...
> Has anyone developed a foreign mail protocol (or some other
> mechanism) for real-time new mail notification?  I remember way back when,
> Pathworks for VMS had the "Pathworks Listener" that could inform an 
> end-user
> of mail delivered to the VMS server.  This is the kind of thing I'm 
> seeking.
> I know I could try to leverage Deliver (either standalone, or from PMDF), 
> but
> since it relies on a batch process, I wouldn't really consider this "real-
> time."  Deliver also modifies the message headers, which is not desirable. 
> It
> would be nice if the solution was Web based on the client, to keep things
> "platform agnostic."  I see that, besides Mac OS X, Growl is being 
> developed
> for Windows, and that might be a suitable alternative platform for the 
> client.
> (There's apparently also something called "mumbles" for Linux, which 
> provides
> support for Growl Network Notification messages.)
>
> For some background, we've migrated the vast majority of our users
> over to Process' PMDF MessageStore (or MsgStore).  In our environment, 
> this
> calls for creating a forwarding address in VMS Mail pointing to the 
> MsgStore
> address.  Long-time users lament the loss of real-time new mail 
> notification
> available with native VMS Mail, so I'm on the hunt for a way to maintain 
> that
> functionality.  We don't want to use any of the myriad of polling-based 
> mail
> checkers; it's bad enough that users specify tiny wait times to check 
> their
> mail automatically to try to approach the old behavior.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
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