frechett@boulder.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) (10/22/90)
I am just curious... How fast is slocal? Is there any delay between when a message comes in and when you can read it? If you are doing automatic refiling will a message come in and you have time to see it somewhere before it is spirited away to another folder? Does it inform you before or after it does processing? The reason that I ask is that I do all this stuff without slocal. Ours is fried so I wrote my own scripts. When mail comes in it runs through my script to tell me that it has arrived. If bill@foo.bar sends me a message it will pop up MAIL from Bill@foo.bar at my cursor and then it backs the cursor up to the M in mail and stops. Meanwhile, the message is going through another 3 scripts to see if it should be refiled and whether it should be processed and some command extracted and exectuted or whether it should send something back to the sender of the message. This all takes about 3-4 sec on a slow day. I am curious how slocal compares to this. I have a new account that I beleive has a working version of slocal and I am considering installing it but I am not sure if it is worth the hassle. What I have it easily portable to machines that don't have mh at all. Any thoughts would be appreciated. ian -- -=Runaway Daemon=-