frankh@durin.sparta.COM (Frank Halsema) (12/29/90)
Is there a biff type program for PCNFS that will alert the user to new mail with a tone and keep it up every few minutes until he picks it up. Thanks -- Frank Halsema UUCP: durin!frankh SPARTA, Inc. Internet: frankh@durin.sparta.com 23041 de la Carlota, Suite 400 Laguna Hills Ca, 92653 (714) 768-8161 EXT 339 (714)583-9114 FAX
magoo@pvi.UUCP (Tim Lentz x255) (12/30/90)
In article <4805@durin.sparta.COM> frankh@durin.sparta.COM (Frank Halsema) writes: > >Is there a biff type program for PCNFS that will alert the user to new >mail with a tone and keep it up every few minutes until he picks >it up. Thanks > If you use the default SMTP server on the unix host then the answer is YES. The SMTP client causes mail to pop a very nice dialog box informing you of new mail. It sounds like you are using the POP server which is also included with the distribution. The POP client doesn't pop the dialog box. We use POP because the dialog box trashed the screen when using XEROX Ventura Publisher. SMTP worked fine with all other applications including MS Word. POP also works better for us in the way it delivers the mail. SMTP treats your PC as a separate node. To read mail at your PC, the mail must be addressed to you@yourpc. If your PC is turned off the mail sits in a queue on the server until either the PC comes back on the net or a timeout value is reched. SMTP also brings all mail to the local disk. POP leaves it on the server if requested which is nice if you read your mail on unix hosts along with your PC. I don't have the manual in front of me but I believe the above is correct. Hope this helps. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ boulder!pvi!magoo Just a fool waiting on the wrong Ass. System Mgr. block. Putting a little ZEP in Precision Visuals, Inc. Boulder, Co your step.