Posted: December 29 2003 at 20:54 | IP Logged

I assume that the e-mail must remain on the server? I usually keep my e-mail client running, and, it empties the server as it gets messages. Would I need to turn on "leave copy of messages on server" to get this to work?

Thanks!

Posted: December 29 2003 at 21:51 | IP Logged

Tony,

Not actually.  What the process email functions will do is connect to your default MAPI client (Outlook Express, etc), and force it to retrieve mail from your server.  It will then scan the subjects of any new email received and process any intended for PowerHome and then optionally delete them from your mail client.  It should not matter if a copy of the message is left on the server or not since what is actually happening is that the messages go from the server to the client and then from the client to PowerHome.

Now, it sounds as if the email client is always running and set to periodically check for new email every X minutes.  I havent played with PowerHome in this mode yet so I don't know if it will process the email if the client has already received it.  I know that you can leave the email client open, don't have it automatically check for email, and then have PowerHome set to do the periodic checking using the ph_processemail function.

If you get a chance, do you think you could run some tests and let me know what happens if the email client has already received the email but it is unread?

Dave.

Posted: December 30 2003 at 08:41 | IP Logged

OK, thanks Dave. I'll test it.

Tony

Posted: December 30 2003 at 20:46 | IP Logged

Confirmed: It still works if the email client has already received the email but it is unread.

Tony

Posted: December 31 2003 at 17:34 | IP Logged

Tony,

Thats great.  I thought that was the case but wasnt sure since I don't really use this functionality. 

Thanks for testing for me,

Dave.

Posted: January 02 2004 at 11:38 | IP Logged

Robert,

Tony is correct.  Im working to have something out by this weekend.

Dave.

Posted: January 03 2004 at 09:04 | IP Logged

Interesting... Now that PH is triggering my e-mail checks, I never hear the WAV for new mail, and, I never get the new mail icon in my system tray!

I'm using OE 6.

Not that I care, but, I figured I'd just post the info.