MAILWAIT.EXE
Mail waiting utility for TAGMAIL
Version 3.10
Copyright 1989-90, by Michael VanderVeer
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Introduction:
MAILWAIT is a utility to be used in conjunction with TAGMAIL
to show users the mail they have waiting the TAGMAIL system.
There are currently only 2 Places this utility can be run
from easily. Logon.BAT and TAGMAIL.BAT (BEFORE! running
TAGMAIL).
Command line options:
There are only a few options on the command line to
MAILWAIT. They are as follows:
? Display a short help screen.
-A Use an alternate PRM file. The default PRM file is
TAGMAIL.PRM. The name of the PRM file to use should follow
this command line switch.
-C Compile message area indexes. This option is normally used
right after the renumber phase of system maintenance. This
command will delete the old MAILWAIT.IDX files from each
message area and rebuild them.
-D This option will DIS-ABLE the True Real time message search.
Mailwait, if it does not find the MAILWAIT.IDX file in a
message area, will search through the messages in the area
one at a time for messages to the current user. With this
command line option, if the MAILWAIT.IDX file is not found,
the area will be skipped and not searched.
-R Include recieved messages in the display. This is only used
while using the display mode.
-N This is a display output option. Normally Mailwait will
overwrite the last message area name if there were no
messages for the current user in that area, This option if
used will force MAILWAIT to list each area on a separate
line even if no messages to this user were found.
-U Update indexes. This option is similar to the compile
option except it will add new messages to the indexes and
not completely re-build them.
-X This option followed by a number will mark an area as to be
excluded from the current search, compile, or update.
Using no command line options (with the exception of the -R)
will cause MAILWAIT to attempt to find the TAGMAIL.PRM file and
then the TAGMAIL.SYS file so that it may display user mail.
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Running MAILWAIT:
MAILWAIT should be run from the TAGMAIL directory with the
appropriate command line parameters as listed on the last page.
All other information needed by MAILWAIT will be found in the
TAGMAIL directory.
Mailwait is designed to be run in the LOGON.BAT file,
although others have run it in the TAGMAIL.BAT file before
TagMail. This choice is yours to make.
Questions/Comments:
Should you have any questions or comments on MAILWAIT,
Please send them to me at FidoNet 1:120/151 (313)-588-3487.
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