Subject: 3 questions

From: Wojtek Bogusz <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 00:48:19 +0100 (MET)

Hello !

 I have to say I am not very experienced user of pine. But all are 
starting one day :-) So instead of digging in manuals or in archives of 
this mailing list I have decided to ask those probably easy questions:

 1. When you open your INBOX you have mails sorted from newest (top)
to oldest (bottom) that comes to you. Is there a way to have mails 
permanently sorted from oldest (top) to newest, just like in any other 
folders ?

 2. When pine is running and new mail comes (you can see in on you xbiff, 
which checks mailbox once in 10 s.) you have to wait really long time 
until pine will realize that there is some thing new in mailbox. It is 
very irritating. And most of the time it is quicker to quit pine and 
re-run it again. Is there a way to force pine to reopen INBOX ? Or to 
customize time beatweane checking mailbox ?

 3. Is there a plane to write Xwindows interface to pine ? Or may be there
is written one ... ? 

 If it is a FAQ or it is well explained on one of the page of the manual 
just please give me the pointer :-)

 Thanks 

 Wojtek Bogusz

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 17:05:31 -0800 (PST)

Wojtek,

You can set the default sort ordering by changing the "sort-key" variable 
in your ".pinerc" file.  If you press "N" several times at the bottom of 
the index or press "^L" in the index, that will force pine to recheck 
your inbox.  We have no immediate plans to write an X interface for Pine, 
but we have heard reports of someone else doing their own conversion.

--DLM

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