MD2 1.4.4, the 68k version, is the last version of MD2 with an autocheck feature for email. This is bad, because it isn't very stable (at least for me) under MorphOS 1.4. Besides, with a PPC version of MD2 available, we'de all rather run that anyway, right? So what to do? MDRX of coarse!

Throw the following script into your MicroDot/Rexx/ directory, and start it after you start MD2PPC. The script exits when you close MD2, so no worries there. You can, of coarse, change the time setting to whatever interval you choose. Sorry I didn't make this a real downloadable, but we've all got MorphED now right?

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/*
$VER MD_Checker 0.5, 11 August 03
Created With: GoldED Studio 6, on MorphOS 1.4
*/

checktime = 120

address md.1
checkmailnews mail

call TIME('R')

do forever
if TIME('E') > checktime then do
address md.1
checkmailnews mail
call TIME('R')
end
address command
wait checktime
end

Update: I've been running it for several hours now, and it has, on average, been using less that 1% of cpu time. Since other things are running, I think it is doing well so far. Anyone else willing to give this a go-around?

While I'm probably just yammering at myself, I did make the arexx plugin for md2. I also made a variation of the script to do the same for news.

Enjoy The Download

Sounds cool, but I'm using YAM