Larry Rink wrote in a message to Minh Van:
 LR> I'd be happy to find a program that would automagically check for a
 LR> caller's mail and then display "You have MAIL! Read it now?"
Either way, it'd have to scan through the echos at some stage, either before 
they read it or while they read it.
Here's is what I use on my system :
This is what it looks like (minus colour of course :-) :
==============================================================================
Would you like me to check for new mail?
  1 Personal mail, tagged areas 
  2 All new mail, tagged areas 
  3 Personal mail, all areas
  4 All mail, all areas
  5 Local, netmail and e-mail areas, personal mail
  6 Local, netmail and e-mail areas, all mail
  N No mail
[1,2,3,4,5,6,n] : n
==============================================================================
And this is the file (\\ used to show linewrap of course :-)] :
==============================================================================
[acs =4999] [goto nocheck]
[comment This skips a guest-type account]
[cls]
[LightGreen]Would you like me to check for new mail?
  [Lightred]1 [gray]Personal mail, tagged areas
  [Yellow]2 [gray]All new mail, tagged areas 
  [Yellow]3 [Gray]Personal mail, all areas
  [Yellow]4 [Gray]All mail, all areas
  [Yellow]5 [Gray]Local, netmail and e-mail areas, personal mail
  [Yellow]6 [Gray]Local, netmail and e-mail areas, all mail
  [Yellow]N [Gray]No mail
[Lightblue][[[LightRed]1[Lightblue],[Cyan]2[Lightblue],[cyan]3[Lightblue],[cya
n] 4[Lightblue],[Cyan]5[Lightblue],[Cyan]6[Lightblue],[Cyan]n[Lightblue]] 
[Cyan]: [Gray Menu]123456n|
[Choice]n [Quit]
[Choice]1 [Goto PT]
[Choice]2 [Goto AT]
[Choice]3 [Goto ANP]
[Choice]4 [Goto AA]
[Choice]5 [Goto LNP]
[Choice]6 [Goto LA]
[Choice]| [Goto PT]
[/PT]
[Key_Poke]TYR
[Menu_Cmd Msg_Browse]
[Quit]
[/AT]
[Key_Poke]TNR
[Menu_Cmd Msg_Browse]
[Quit]
[/ANP]
[LightGreen]Note :
[gray]This system has a large number of message areas available. Searching \\ 
\\ them all
would, of course, take a relatively long time. We suggest that you go to the
Message Menu, and [lightcyan]T[gray]ag any areas that interest you. Then \\ 
\\ select option #1 (the
default) from this menu in future. That way, you'll greatly reduce the time
needed to search for new messages to you. Be sure to tag Local.Private and
Local.Comments so you can be reached by other users/SysOp's wanting to send 
you
private messages!
[Key_Poke]AYR
[Menu_Cmd Msg_Browse]
[Quit]
[/AA]
[LightGreen]Note :
[gray]This system has a large number of message areas available. Searching \\
\\ them all 
would, of course, take a relatively long time. We suggest that you go to the
Message Menu, and [lightcyan]T[gray]ag any areas that interest you. Then  \\ 
\\ select option #1 (the
default) from this menu in future. That way, you'll greatly reduce the time
needed to search for new messages to you. Be sure to tag Local.Private and
Local.Comments so you can be reached by other users/SysOp's wanting to send 
you
private messages!
[Key_Poke]ANR
[Menu_Cmd Msg_Browse]
[Quit]
[/LNP]
[Key_Poke]LYR
[Menu_Cmd Msg_Browse]
[Quit]
[/LA]
[Key_Poke]LNR
[Menu_Cmd Msg_Browse]
[/NoCheck]
[Quit]
==============================================================================
The users seem to like it...
Dave
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