Keith Gorlen says:
> Discussions similar to this one on mail delivery have appeared on this
> group before. I don't recall any previous discussion of mail
> *notification*, however. How does the user know to read his mail?
> Around here, our non-AMDS users tend to use "xbiff", which requires one
> connection and mail server process per user. Does this "scale
> perfectly"?
stock xbiff uses no server connections, actually -- it simply stats a
mailbox and lets you know if it changes. I'm unaware of versions of
this adapted for use in POP environments. However, I'd suggest that
the "right thing" is to go for the MIT style solution again and use a
notification service like Zephyr. This solution does indeed scale
properly.
I understand the Zmail people have another neato notification system
for use in POP environments but I know no details about it.
Perry
