Hi Joseph, Joseph N. wrote: > I have suggested that a friend try Beonex for herself and her family. > They are looking for a substitute for AOL. But they had a question > about how they would know if mail is received while they are working > on the 'net. I can't really answer them, because I use The Bat! as my > primary email program.
It must be mentioned that AOL Mail can not be retrieved with beonex. If this ist wanted, Netscape should be used instead. AOL can be used as dialup-provider. Put it in the background and work with beonex. Additionally a new Mail-provider is needed if AOL shall be replaced. > > 1. Once a person starts the Beonex browser, no mail is retrieved > unless the user manually starts the email module and clicks to > retrieve messages, correct? Partly. The Mail module must be started manually, that's right. But the mails can be retrieved automatically if defined in the mail account settings (e.g. every 10 Minutes or so) > > 2. Once that process is begun and the program starts downloading > periodically, is there any alert--noticeable while within the > browser--when mail is received? > Normally You get a "New Mail" notification. But sometimes it does not work. See Mozilla 1.0 release notes. Greetings Michael
