Subject: Re: your mail

From: Andy Linton <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1993 09:23:44 +1100 (EST)

I make reasonably heavy use of 'Incoming Message Folders' via a filtering 
program. Each morning when I come in I have to go through each one to 
check if new mail has been deposited.

Would it be possible in some future version - Pine 19.0 will do - to have 
a flag e.g. an '*' beside any incoming folder that has 'new' mail in it?

andy
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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1993 14:48:48 -0800 (PST)

Andy,

Yes, we do plan to provide more complete support for Incoming folders in 
the future.  We will probably have an indicator, as well as notification 
like you get for the INBOX.

Thanks for the suggestion!

--DLM

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1993 22:49:15 -0800 (PST)

Andy,
Just to set expectations:  Some indication of which incoming-msg folders
have unseen mail is definitely a high priority.  And TAB will then skip
the folders that don't have unread mail.  How Pine will find this out
without actually opening a folder is an issue that still needs to get 
nailed down in the new IMAP spec, but this will happen pretty soon.

However, new mail notification for folders other than INBOX is more
problematic, both for performance/resource reasons and for U.I. design
reasons.  (For one thing, an IMAP stream would have to be kept open for
each of these folders, and it isn't obvious how to clearly communicate to
the user which folder has the new mail, etc, etc.) So this part will take
a lot more consideration, and is unlikely to happen "soon"... 

-teg

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From: Software Maintenance Account <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1993 16:54:36 -0500 (EST)

> a lot more consideration, and is unlikely to happen "soon"... 

*If* you implement this feature, please make sure it is not a default
behavior!  I would not like to have my pine screen beep at me every five
minutes as items got added to folders for active mailing lists....

--David

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1993 14:39:00 -0800 (PST)

David,

That is a good point, thanks for bringing it up!

--DLM