Subject: Manual Check for mail

From: Bruce Mahfood <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 13:22:52 -0400 (EDT)

Presently, when mail comes my way, xbiff lets me know about it, but pine 
doesn't know about it, and I can't force it to, until it does its 
periodic check for mail.  Is it possible to have a command which allows 
the user to do a manual check in such cases?  It really does drive me a 
little batty, knowing that I have mail, but can't read it because I have 
to wait for the scheduled mail checker to inform my process that it is there.

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From: "g.h.chinoy" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 14:24:15 -0500 (CDT)

Typing ctrl-l not only clears the screen it checks the mail spool, 
updating pine.

I believe that's a 3.89 thing, since when we had 3.87, the way to force a 
manual update of mail was going past the last piece of mail in the mail 
Index so that Pine beeped at you twice.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 10:16:12 -0700 (PDT)

>From the upcoming FAQ (thanks for the question, Bruce):

When mail comes my way, xbiff lets me know about it, but pine doesn't know
about it. Is it possible to have a command which allows the user to do a
manual check in such cases?

There are currently two ways to force a new mail check. 

  o At the last message in a folder, press 'N' 4-5 times. 

  o Press `^L' (Refresh Display). 

--DLM

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