Hello All,

Is it possible to set Mystic to notify about waiting Netmail upon login? Its been a number of times now that I did not notice a Netmail waiting for me
until I actually physically checked. While it is certainly not a trainsmash,
I think it is good to reply to such as quickly as possible.

Regards,
Jan Henkins

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On 02/25/17, dotslash said the following...

Is it possible to set Mystic to notify about waiting Netmail upon login? Its been a number of times now that I did not notice a Netmail waiting
for me until I actually physically checked. While it is certainly not a trainsmash, I think it is good to reply to such as quickly as possible.

I haven't played around with it, but couldn't you put a command in the
prelogin menu to scan for new personal message? Or change the new email scan
to a global personal message scan?

I'll play around with it and see which way works better.


Dan Richter
aka Black Panther
Sysop - Castle Rock BBS
telnet://castlerockbbs.com
The sparrows are flying again...

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On 02/25/17, dotslash said the following...

Is it possible to set Mystic to notify about waiting Netmail upon login? Its been a number of times now that I did not notice a Netmail waiting
for me until I actually physically checked. While it is certainly not a trainsmash, I think it is good to reply to such as quickly as possible.

Ok, I did some research and some testing on this end. I haven't found
anything specifically for netmail, but you can execute the global personal
scan from the prelogin menu. Here is how I set it up:

prelogin menu, under FIRSTCMD:

Replace the MC command, which only checks email with GO (Go to new menu).
Under the data, enter 'personalscan', without the quotes. This will run a personal mail scan, just like hitting 'G' from the message menu. This scans email and all message areas for new mail addressed to the user, in this case, you.

I hope this makes sense. I do have it set up on my system here, and it works smoothly. The check only takes a couple seconds, with over 2300 message bases... :)


Dan Richter
aka Black Panther
Sysop - Castle Rock BBS
telnet://castlerockbbs.com
The sparrows are flying again...

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Hello Dan,

On 24/02/17 23:37, Black Panther wrote:

[snip]

Ok, I did some research and some testing on this end. I haven't found anything specifically for netmail, but you can execute the global personal scan from the prelogin menu. Here is how I set it up:

prelogin menu, under FIRSTCMD:

Replace the MC command, which only checks email with GO (Go to new menu). Under the data, enter 'personalscan', without the quotes. This will run a personal mail scan, just like hitting 'G' from the message menu. This scans email and all message areas for new mail addressed to the user, in this case, you.

I hope this makes sense. I do have it set up on my system here, and it works smoothly. The check only takes a couple seconds, with over 2300 message bases... :)

Thank you very much! I've made the changes, and will see if it prompts
me for waiting netmail.

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