> When I say a mail scanner. it mean something that scans the 
 > bases for new mail. and lets the users know.
I wrote this a few years ago and have used it ever since.  I'd imagine that 
some other folks also still use it, as I did receive some feedback about it 
for a while after I first released it into the big wide world.
I'm not aware of any bugs...
CHEKM11B.LZH   55808 10-18-91 CHEKMAIL v1.10b, message waiting
                              announcements for Opus 1.70
 > and possibly let 
 > them read their waiting mail while they are sitting on their 
 > haunches and saying "Gee, it shows my message numbers. why 
 > won't it show me the actual message text?
CHEKMAIL doesn't do that.  It just tells you that you have mail waiting.  
However, I do have another "neat trick" up my sleeve, with another little 
program:
MSGCPY11.LZH   30090 10-12-91 Save echomail addressed to local users
                              (Opus 1.70 & Fido V12)
To use this program you create a "Replies to Local Users" message area on 
your system.  The program scans through your echomail areas and copies all 
messages addressed to local users (and not marked as "received") into your 
replies message area.  Then you run the CHEKMAIL program (or other 
mail-waiting announcement utility) to tell users that they have mail waiting. 
 That way, your system can advise Mary Smith that she has messages 2,5,14,16 
and 27 in Message Area 2.  Each message may have originated in a different 
echo, but she only has to go to Area 2 to read each of them.  Replying to 
them is another matter; I have made no provision for automatic posting of 
replies back to the original echo.  For purely personal reasons, I suppose.  
I figure that if they can't be bothered to actually go into the echo to post 
their reply, then their reply probably isn't worth posting.
The above cited programs are available here for file request 23 hours, if 
anyone wants them or cares.
--- Msgedsq 2.2e
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