> I was wondering if anyone knows of an easy way of checking via > asp if a user has new messages within their mailbox when they > haven't logged in. <snip>
If there's an easy way, I'd like to know about it. We researched this same issue for several weeks, and tried the usual suspects: POP3 protocol, IMAP4, etc., until we finally figured out how to do it with a combination of open-source ASP, a custom COM object, and the webmail interface. The best surprise was that it performs extremely well (gets the new msg count in < 0.5 s, and keeps load off the webmail server when people don't login just to check for new messages). We added a bunch of features (like the ability to compose a new message from your regular website), and bundled it up into a product called "You've Got Imail". It's being used by a couple of hundred IMail admins out there since it's release over a year ago. Details and a live demo link are at: http://www.humankindsystems.com/products/detail.htm?code=IM-YGI Note that KillerWebMail is pre-configured to work with YGI, but you can make it work with any set of web templates, as we explain in this article: http://support.answertrack.com/?kb=785 Ron Hornbaker President/CTO . . . . . . . . . . . . http://humankindsystems.com . . . . . . . . . . . . w e c o d e. w e c a r e. . http://AnswerTrack.com - eCRM email tracking solution . http://KillerWebMail.com - the name says it all . http://hksi.net/products - EZSignUp, You'veGotIMail!, etc... . http://hksi.net/testimonials - 2,237 admins can't be wrong Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
