Subj : Re: 2 questions
To   : Zip
From : Al
Date : Sun May 09 2021 02:29 am

  Re: Re: 2 questions
  By: Zip to fusion on Sun May 09 2021 11:11 am

 Zi> Also, a "normal" mail scan during login (that shows all new i.e. unread
 Zi> messages addressed to me) is hard to achieve.

The logon mailscan only looks in the local email base.

 Zi> Requires lots of fiddling with flags and scanning functions and sometimes
 Zi> still shows messages that you didn't expect it to. The concept of "e-mail"
 Zi> and global personal messages and the scanning of those is confusing, to
 Zi> say the least.

When I want to scan for mail addressed to me, I use the global personal scan and that has always worked well for me. I have every base turned on for scanning (Z from each message group, not sure if the global scan looks at that).

The only thing I find is that the global scan menu needs the /NOLR option added or it sets the last read to the messages read in that scan, so you can miss messages in a new scan.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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