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The following is a MailChek suggestion put forward by
Mike Janke of 135/4 (The Kendall Switchboard):
MailChek creates a LOT of disk activity. Personally, I don't like
to watch my hard drive grind away before and after every caller.
I've gotten around that problem by running MAILCHEK COMPILE as an
event twice a day, skipping the UPDATE after every caller, and by
using an option in my bulletin menu to do the check if the user so
desires. This eliminates the "up to the minute" accuracy of the
MailChecking procedure, but after all, how many people call more
than once or twice a day. Here's what I do...
1: Run MAILCHECK COMPILE as an event. Times are up to you.
2: DO NOT have OPUS exit and run MAILCHEK UPDATE after every call.
3: Put an option in your bulletin that displays what is now called
WELCOME.BBS/GBS. You will need to change the name of course.
4: Use the LINK option in the control file to display WELCOME2.BBS
or GBS. WELCOME2.BBS/GBS should contain something like this...
^A ; pause so user can read mail list
^OCc:\opus\delmail.bat ; deletes temporary mailchek files
^L ; clear the screen
^Osc:\opus\misc\bulletin ; redisplay bulletin menu
5: What is that stuff up there you say? MAILS1-3 creates a couple
files that are normally deleted when MAILCHEK UPDATE is run
at logoff. Since UPDATE is not being used, those files MUST be
deleted in some way. If they aren't, the next user logging on
will get someone elses mail waiting list... Guaranteed.
The temporary files that MAILCHEK.DAT ;contains users name
MAILS1-3 creates are MAILCHEK.BBS ;ansi & ascii version
MAILCHEK.GBS ;of mail waiting list
So, DELMAIL.BAT is executed with the embedded ^OC command. This
batch file deletes these three temporary files with the lines...
DEL C:\OPUS\MAILCHEK.DAT
DEL C:\OPUS\MAILCHEK.?BS ; Delete both the .BBS and .GBS file
And after the batch file is run, the embedded commands return the
user to the bulletin menu. You could also add a line to the
batch file to get rid of the DUMMY file that grows and grows with
each caller.
Maybe future versions of MAILCHEK will delete these files right
away and end the need to run a batch file to do this. We'll all
have to ask Marc to add this feature! <hint><hint>