[Info-vax] Real-time new mail notification

[Jeffrey H. Coffield]

Michael T. Davis wrote:

> 
> 	The users are in Process' PMDF MessageStore, which in our case is
> actually running on the same VMS environment where their VMS accounts (still)
> exist.  Even if we could work out a way to notify them via terminal broadcast,
> since most of them are undergrad. students, they would be hard pressed to
> understand the concept of a command line, given the popularity of (if not
> preference for) systems like Gmail.  We also don't have the resources to
> maintain simultaneous interactive terminal sessions for each and every user,
> or even a majority of them.
> 
> Regards,
> Mike
> --
>                                          |    Systems Specialist: CBE,MSE
>          Michael T. Davis (Mike)         | Departmental Networking/Computing
>  http://www.ecr6.ohio-state.edu/~davism/ |     The Ohio State University
>                                          |     197 Watts, (614) 292-6928
>                    ** E-mail is the best way to contact me **

So you don't want a process per user on your OpenVMS system but do want
a real time message sent to the users system. If the users systems
aren't behind a firewall so you the OpenVMS system could connect to the
users IP address, a small Java Web Start app could register the username
and IP address onto a single server process. Then set up to forward a
copy of the e-mail to this process and it could just look for the
destination user, connect to the users system and send the notification.

If there is a firewall in between there might be some feature in IPV6
(which I am not up to speed on yet) that allows a broadcast message that
could be used to establish the connection.

Jeff Coffield
http://www.digitalsynergyinc.com

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