On Nov 22, 11:57am, Keith Gorlen wrote:
> 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"?
I think any method that has to poll is inherently broken. The best solution
I can think of is the way zephyr works in the Athena environment. Since
/bin/mail already does asynchronous notification by sending a packet
to the comsat/biff port you just install a modified comsat that sends out
a zephyrgram when new mail arrives on the post office machine. This might
seem resource intensive at first, but its better then having all your users
run some sort of program that polls for new mail.
Roland
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