Using the Mail Facility › Send Application News

Send Application News

The mail facility allows you to send application news for a specific application. Application news consists of a line of text that replaces an application's description on the TPX menu. If the news is greater than one line in length, the rest of the message appears in the mailbox of any users who have that application on their TPX menu. The application news will appear on the menu and in the mailbox of every user until it is deleted.

To edit a user list

1. Access the mail facility, as described in Accessing the Mail Facility in this chapter.

   The Message Menu is displayed or you are automatically navigated to a mail menu option if your Get Mail First field is set to yes.

2. Type 15 at the prompt and press Enter.

   The Generate Application News panel is displayed.

The Generate Application News panel is similar to the Generate a Message panel (described in Sending or Storing Messages), with the following differences:

• Any text entered in the line marked "News for Menu" will appear on the TPX Menu of all users with the specified application on their menu. If you do not enter text on this line, the first line of additional text appears on the Menu.
• The Only sender may delete field determines whether recipients can delete the news from their mailbox before the news has expired. After the news expires, any user can delete the news.

Otherwise, you use the panel as you would use the Generate a Message panel.