Administration

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Notify Tab

 

 

Purpose

Use this tab to configure NetWare broadcast notification of mail messages. This facility allows you to enhance the reception of mail messages by finding the logged-in user and notifying them of new mail, regardless of whether their mail client is running.

General Use

Enable Notify For Hosted Domains

When enabled, users of the local i-Mail system are sent a broadcast message when new mail arrives

Enable Notify For Remote Domains

When enabled, and local lookup is turned on for a defined remote domain, users are sent a broadcast message when new inbound (normally internet) mail arrives.

Maximum Number Of Connections To Notify

This option allows you to specify how many NetWare connections will be broadcasted the mail notification message for a single mail recipient.

Hosted Domain Notification Message

This is the message that will appear on the users screen for local i-Mail users.

Remote Domain Notification Message

This is the message that will appear on the users screen for users on a remote mail system.

 

Notes

Please note the difference between maximum users and maximum connections. If a user is logged in to 5 computers at the same time and the maximum connection limit is set to 4, only the first four occurrences of that user (as per MONITOR.NLM) will receive the message.

On the other hand, if 24 users are logged in and the connection level is set to 4, all users will receive notification. As you can see, this option applies to the number of connections for a single user.

Concepts

In many mail applications, especially for system administrators, the user may either not have mail loaded because it takes too long to start up or they are always moving about the network performing different tasks. NetNotify alleviates the lack of notification in these scenarios by using Novell's built in messaging services. Generally, if a user is logged in to the network somewhere, NetWare will track them down and deliver the notification. At this point the user can decide whether to read their mail now or later.

 

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