[Info-vax] Real-time new mail notification

[Michael T. Davis]

In article <hbunhm$55k$1 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip
Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply) writes:

>In article <hbs7q2$9df$1 at charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
>DAVISM at ecr6.ohio-state.edu (Michael T. Davis) writes:
>
>> 	Has anyone developed a foreign mail protocol (or some other
>> mechanism) for real-time new mail notification?
>
>$ SET BROADCAST=MAIL
>
>> Long-time users lament the loss of real-time new mail notification
>> available with native VMS Mail,
>
>Oohhh, so you've moved them off VMS MAIL and they are angry.  What do we
>conclude from that?
>

	We moved them off of VMS Mail largely because they said they needed
something different, but were unable to fund a complete replacement (hardware
and software), so we shifted to PMDF MessageStore.  (We were already running
PMDF for Internet mail.)  As far as that change goes, the lack of notification
is really the only feature that anyone's mentoned that they miss.  I would
certainly not categorize them as angry, just a little disappointed.

Regards,
Mike
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