Mail Monitoring Script for AmIRC

                    v0.3 - First release

                  (C) 1998 Stefan Oggemar


Introduction

"No new mail", often you see this message after loading your favourite
email reader, and all the time you wished that there was some kind of
software telling you when you have new mail. There are a few POP account
checkers on the net but this one is to be used with AmIRC (the best Amiga
IRC client). Now you don't need to load your email reader or have Yam
in the background eating memory. This little script checks your email
account and tells you if and how many emails you have waiting on the server.
All this while still chatting with your friends on IRC.



Features

Not many at the moment but the one and only feature is:

        - Checks your POP account evey N:th minute
          (Where N is a number of minutes 1 - alot)



Installation

1. Copy the script to your Amirc REXX directory.
2. Edit the four lines in the top of the script

   server    - Add your servername here
   user      - Add your username here
   password  - Add your password here
   minutes   - Change this to any amount of
               minutes you want (5 minutes is default)

   DONT REMOVE THE SINGLE QUOTES!!!!!

3. In AmIRC, go into the Lists/Aliases dialogue and enter
   the following:

        mail /rx mailcheck.amirx %p

4. Save settings



Usage

There are only two commands:

   /mail start - Starts monitoring your POP account
   /mail stop  - Stops monitoring your POP account



To Do list

        * Add support for multiple POP servers/accounts
        * Use a config file and a config gui, instead of
          editing the script.
        * Start YAM to fetch the emails upon users request.



Contact the author

If you have bugs reports, ideas or just want to chat try one of the
following addresses. If you are sending a bug report, be sure to
include CPU, MEM, TCP/IP stack and AmIRC version in your message.

  Email:        stefan.oggemar@mbox200.swipnet.se
  Homepage:     http://come.to/ogges (mirror of the page below)
                http://home1.swipnet.se/~w-12831/ogge
  ICQ:          13167107
  IRC:          Channel: #Team*Amiga  (Official Amiga HELP channel)
                Servers: babylon.beyondirc.net
                         irc.snowhill.net