Subj : Re: Reading the scan_ptr for the 'mail sub'
To   : Nightfox
From : Khelair
Date : Tue Mar 24 2015 07:34 pm

  Re: Reading the scan_ptr for the 'mail sub'
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Mon Mar 23 2015 21:35:06

 Ni> slightly similar.  For personal email, if you want to point the user to
 Ni> the first unread message (similar to a newscan in a sub-board), you could
 Ni> iterate through personal messages to the user, starting with the first,
 Ni> and look for the first message that doesn't have the "message read" flag
 Ni> set. The user could read their messages out of order, but that would still
 Ni> get them to an unread personal email.  I think that's what Khelair was
 Ni> going for.

  Aye, this is the behavior that I'm looking for.  The interface that I'm
implementing (see bbs.eschwa.com if you want an example) is very minimal, and
handles everything by first unread on forward.  That is the starting point,
anyway, as you mentioned...  After that you can go forward, backward, or jump
to any particular message, yes.  It's a very, very linear interface, where
basically you can scroll through the whole system from email to message boards
by doing nothing other than thwapping the spacebar at the end of each one.

  -D/K

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