[Info-vax] Real-time new mail notification

[Bob Koehler]

In article <hbs7q2$9df$1 at charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, DAVISM at ecr6.ohio-state.edu (Michael T. Davis) writes:
> 	Has anyone developed a foreign mail protocol (or some other
> mechanism) for real-time new mail notification?

   Please define what you mean by "real-time" in this instance.  I know
   at least six definitions and none of them seem to fit.

> Long-time users lament the loss of real-time new mail notification
> available with native VMS Mail,

   You just want a broadcast message to a logged in user's terminal(s) 
   when mail is received?  A simple program installed with OPER privilege 
   can call the $BRKTHRU[W] system service.  It may need WORLD privilege 
   to scan the process list and see who's logged in.

   It should be straightforward to hang that off an existing mail
   program, without the mail program itself needing any additional
   privileges.