[Info-vax] Real-time new mail notification

[BillPedersen]

On Oct 30, 7:34 am, DAV... at ecr6.ohio-state.edu (Michael T. Davis)
wrote:
> In article <d0346df1-4669-4864-ba07-046627fbd... at c3g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
>
>
>         Mr. Stephen "Hoff" Hoffman chimed in privately, indicating it might be
> an interesting project.  We exchanged a few messages, but I'm not sure where
> we left things.  As you point out, notifying an arbitrary "user station" is
> fraught with issues.  We discussed tying into a pre-existing client-side
> notification system, like Growl (seehttp://growl.info), which is at least
> available for Mac and Windows.
>

This is one of the those "Ah Ha!" moments when you then say, why not
look to porting this to OpenVMS.  It is an Open Source oriented
project and this is just the sort of thing we have been talking about
to get more exposure and functionality in the environment.

And you situation seems to be at a point where this might make sense
as far as an effort.

Bill.

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