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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 11:20:28 GMT
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- From: Ned Freed <NED@SIGURD.INNOSOFT.COM>
- Subject: RE: Notifying POP3 users of new mail.
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- This cannot be done efficiently in MASTER.COM -- it would require breaking
- out of VMS MAIL for each message, and the overhead cost of doing this
- is really huge. It is unfortunate that firing up VMS MAIL is expensive,
- but it is and there's nothing we can do about it. It is also fairly
- nontrivial to do the translation of local channel addresses into
- meaningful usernames -- the rules for this are complex and far from
- obvious.
-
- The best way to do this would be for us to provide a hook in the local
- delivery process to call some of your code. The best we could do
- would be to give you the address we're passing to VMS MAIL (this is quite
- different from the original recipient address). You could then go off
- and do whatever you want with it.
-
- Another possibility is for us to send out the notice ourselves. But
- this requires some knowledge of the protocol used to ring up the
- PC. POP is only a remote mail access protocol; it doesn't have remote
- notification capability as far as I know. So what protocol do you use for
- this?
-
- We would probably just add the hook in any case; but we could also
- write the specific module to deliver these notifications if, say,
- Multinet is what you use as a transport.
-
- Ned
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