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
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--- place into mime.cfg ----

file/alert.dgi |if exist $M\\*.tbs call beep.bat
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