Subject: Problems with pine and xbiff : detecting incoming mail

From: [email-masked] (Adriano Barenco)
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 94 12:32:41 BST

Hi everybody,

I am a new pine user and I am quite happy with it. However I have a little
problem : pine does not signal new incoming mail, it doesn't flash the screen,
doen't beep, doesn't do anything... Is there a way around this ? 

When using pine from my workstation (Sparc under solaris 2.3), I thought of 
using xbiff simultaneously (xbiff just opens a little window with an icon that 
signals when new mail arrives); xbiff worked fine, but then I noticed that pine 
didn't manage to detect the new mail when I tried to open the folder INBOX. 
To read it I have to exit pine and enter it again. So the combination pine+xbiff 
is not really good...

Has anyone a solution for this problem ?

Thanks in advance

Adriano Barenco

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From: [email-masked] (Jim Davis)
Date: 7 Jul 1994 15:10:44 -0700

In article <[email-masked]>,
Adriano Barenco <[email-masked]> wrote:
:Hi everybody,
:
:I am a new pine user and I am quite happy with it. However I have a little
:problem : pine does not signal new incoming mail, it doesn't flash the screen,
:doen't beep, doesn't do anything... Is there a way around this ? 
:
:When using pine from my workstation (Sparc under solaris 2.3), I thought of 
:using xbiff simultaneously (xbiff just opens a little window with an icon that 
:signals when new mail arrives); xbiff worked fine, but then I noticed that pine 
:didn't manage to detect the new mail when I tried to open the folder INBOX. 
:To read it I have to exit pine and enter it again. So the combination pine+xbiff 
:is not really good...
:
:Has anyone a solution for this problem ?

Worked fine for me on my Solaris 2.3 workstation -- pine should indeed
inform you of new mail, but it only checks every couple of minutes.
You can force it to check _now_ by typing Control-L.  So when I
noticed xbiff's flag going up, I would type Control-L in the xterm I
was running pine in to force pine to look for the new mail.

(Then I got tired of xbiff and decided I really could wait a couple of
minutes to find out I had new mail.)

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From: [email-masked] (Gordon C Joly)
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 14:34:59 GMT

You have to look for a file that changes: e.g. with MH

xbiff -file $HOME/.mail -update 30 

Gordo

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