Re: Reading the scan_ptr for the 'mail sub'
By: Digital Man to Khelair on Sun Mar 22 2015 20:56:29
DM> There's no such concept of a 'new-scan pointer' for email. Instead, all
DM> mail waiting for the current user is checked for the 'read' flag. If
DM> there is unread mail, that is when you typically tell the user they have
DM> "new mail", not based on any pointer value.
Roger that. Got some helpful code from [I believe it was, please shoot me if
I'm wrong] Nightfox that I implemented with little change. :)
Now I just need to go back and rewrite some of my modularized code a bit so
that I can re-use the existing routines and not my bastardized reinvention of
the wheel I already wrote with the other message bases, since everything is
pretty much the same in the interface I'm writing...
-D/K
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