Re: New email (SMTP) alert not triggered when not logged in
  By: deon to Digital Man on Mon May 29 2023 09:34 am

 > Hey DM,
 >
 > I've noticed with 3.19, and now 3.20, that when an email comes in (SMTP),
 > and I am not logged in - I get no notice that there is an email there
 > waiting for me (like you receive with echomail and netmail).

v3.19 will use the string configured in the NewMailNotice key of the [mail] section of your ctrl/sbbs.ini file. If the key isn't configured, it'll default to a message format string and sent that as a short message to the recipient (data/msgs/*.msg).

In v3.20, this feature was changed to use a (new) text.dat string instead. The mail server's "NO_NOTIFY" option flag can be used to disable this feature:
https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/99312621ae38ad326d4515fa596e8fe6c3a2ac50

These short messges (telegrams) are sent to user whether they are logged in or not.

 > I thought it used to happen, but I could be mistaken.
 >
 > When I am logged in, I do get a notification that an email had just been
 > received.
 >
 > Anyway that can be fixed (or added if I was mistaken and it was never
 > working)?
 >
 > IE: A "you've got new email" message when you log in.

That's how it normally works. Perhaps you have something consuming/deleting your user messages? I think ecWeb will consume/delete user messages. Do you have that open/logged-in somewhere?
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