On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 13:31:26 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 18:25:53 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> Outgoing messages may remain in the outbox and fail to get sent for >> reasons other than an SMTP upload abort. For example, due to a typo >> or some other oversight you might sometimes prepare an outgoing message >> that fails to comply with the RFC's. In this case the message will >> remain in your outbox and fail to get sent, and you won't even get any >> error messages during the SMTP session. Things like that can happen >> also as a result of an occasional glitch in the matrix, even when the >> SMTP session is not aborted, and even when your outgoing message is RFC >> compliant. > So let Arachne alert me, or alternatively open the Outbox, only when > there *IS* stuff left unsent. The very lack of such an alert will then > tell me that the Outbox is empty. >> My preferences are differnt. After doing SMTP I would always want to be >> left looking at my outbox, regardless of whatever screen I should call >> the SMTP function from. > Other than to see that it is empty there doesn't seem to be any point in > looking at the Outbox. OK, here we go. ;-) --- place into arachne.cfg --- AfterSMTP file:alert.dgi ______________________________ --- place into mime.cfg ---- file/alert.dgi |if exist $M\\*.tbs call beep.bat ____________________________ -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/aqc/