Kbase 13713: Enabling and Disabling Mail Notification in BTOS and CTOS
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
10/05/1998 |
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Enabling and Disabling Mail Notification in BTOS and CTOS
On BTOS/CTOS, there is a standard electronic mail utility called
"BMail" or "CT-Mail". It is possible for a Progress client session
running on BTOS/CTOS to receive a notification message on their
terminal indicating that the user has mail. The message would be
something like "You have mail" or "You have urgent mail", and it would
appear on the top line of the screen.
To enable this mail notification, the protermcap entry for the
terminal being used must be modified. In particular, the number of
lines on the screen must be reduced by one to "reserve" the line for
the mail notification message. The end result is that the application
will have one less screen line to work with, so this functionality
will have to be considered by the application programmer ahead of
time. (This is documented in the System Administration I manual on
page 4-14).
Most terminals on BTOS/CTOS (B28/B38) support up to 29 screen lines.
The default protermcap entry therefore should look something like
:li#29:
So, to enable mail notification this line would have to be changed to
specify a number of screen lines less than 29, for example
:li#28:
To disable mail notification, the above parameter (i.e., "number of
lines on the terminal") must be set to the maximum that is supported
by the particular terminal.
NOTE: If the above parameter is set to a value less than the maximum
supported by the terminal, then mail notification will occur
automatically. There is no way to suppress it in Progress. Consult
the mail software documentation for possible methods of suppressing
the mail notification messages from the mail software itself.
Progress Software Technical Support Note # 13713