Administration

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.

Broadcast Notification

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

Default: 4

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

De-duplicate station notify addresses

This option prevents multiple delivery notifications on a workstation that may have more that one connection on the server. i-Mail checks the network card numbers of the station list before sending notification and removes duplicate entries.

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.

Delivery Status Notification

Some of these features require DSN aware clients. To test this, send a message to a user local to your system requesting return receipt. If you get the receipt back from the server then you have a DSN aware mailer. Otherwise you will have to rely on the recipient anwsering your return notification requests.

Disable all return notification

Setting this option disallows any status notification options. Turning this on overrides all other notification settings.

Override SMTP client notification requests

Setting this option on uses the following settings regardless of what type of notification the client requests.

Notify sender if message is successfully delivered

When set the system will notify the sender if a message is successfully delivered, unless overriden by the client.

Notify sender if message fails to be delivered

When set the system will notify the sender if a message fails to be delivered, unless overriden by the client.

On delivery success, return full message

When set, and success notification is active, the notification is returned with a copy of the original message attached, unless overriden by the client. Set to off if only the header is required in the return receipt.

On delivery failure, return full message

When set, and failure notification is active, the notification is returned with a copy of the original message attached, unless overriden by the client. Set to off if only the header is required in the return receipt.

Allow full message to be returned if requested

When enabled, users can request that full messages are returned in the notification envelope. When disabled all return receipts have the header only.

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 different users are logged in on one station each and the connection level is set to 4, all users will receive their individual notification. As you can see, this option applies to the number of connections per user name.

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.