Subj : Re: Local Mail Check Issue
To   : TALIADON
From : Zip
Date : Mon Jun 27 2022 07:20 pm

Hello TALIADON!

On 27 Jun 2022, TALIADON said the following...
 TA> That's why I love you guys: this was precisely the issue.

Glad to be able to help! :)

 TA> That's a great explanation Zip: I had waaaaaaay too many "g" strings. I
 TA> think I understand the "g" and "z" codes a little better at this point.

I also learned this the hard way. :)

It took me quite some time to get working ACSes for the message bases, as well as a "normal" mail scan during logon. In earlier versions (at least), the mail scan included messages that had already been read, which was confusing to say the least...

The /YOU flag added to the "(MQ) Message quick scan" and "(MN) Message new scan" functions in A47/A48 helped making things work the way one would expect.

At the moment I use:

(MQ) /NOSCAN /NOFOOT /YOU /LIST /NOREAD

....for scanning and displaying "new" (unread) messages, and, after (if) answering yes to read them, I use:

(MN) /P /G /NOLR /NOREAD /YOU

....to perform the actual reading (and without "destroying" the last read pointers so that I can still browse through new echomail regardless of reading the "personal" messages).

The above works for both "e-mails" (private messages) and echomail, and can be used both in the prelogin menu and the personalscan menu.

If one only wants to scan for new "e-mail":

(MC) /UNREAD

....should suffice (in the prelogin menu as well as the (C) command of the message menu).

Hope this helps someone. :)

Best regards
Zip

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