Subject: New Mail Check from Remote Pine

From: [email-masked]
Date: 19 Apr 1995 16:51:44 -0400

I use pine in a window on a workstation at work to monitor personal
email received at a local ISP.  I connect to the remote IMAP server
when I start pine in the morning.  Periodically, pine tells me there
is new mail.  There doesn't appear to be a way to force pine (other
than by existing and restarting) to do a new mail check.  It sometimes
appears that there is new mail available, but pine takes its time
about telling me that the new mail is available.  For example, I
usually read news on the ISP because they support a threaded
newsreader and Transarc (where I work) doesn't.  tin on the ISP will
tell me there is new mail, but it may take 10s of minutes before I
receive a new mail notification from pine on my local window.

Is there a way to force a check?  I couldn't find anything under other
commands.  Can the check interval be configured?

Thanks,
Barry

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Barry Wolman
Pittsburgh, PA

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 13:59:40 -0700 (PDT)

The mail check interval for Pine is 2.5 minutes.  To force an early check,
press ^L. 

|\ |  |\/|  David L. Miller    [email-masked]  (206) 685-6240
|/ |_ |  |  Software Engineer, Pine Development Team   (206) 685-4045 (FAX)
University of Washington, Networks & Distributed Computing, JE-20
4545 15th Ave NE, Seattle WA 98105, USA

On 19 Apr 1995 [email-masked] wrote:

> Date: 19 Apr 1995 16:51:44 -0400
> From: [email-masked]
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: New Mail Check from Remote Pine
>

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From: [email-masked] (ben.rose)
Date: 28 Apr 1995 15:42:35 +0100

[email-masked] wrote:
: I use pine in a window on a workstation at work to monitor personal
: email received at a local ISP. Periodically, pine tells me there
: is new mail.  There doesn't appear to be a way to force pine (other
: than by exiting and restarting) to do a new mail check.  It sometimes
: appears that there is new mail available, but pine takes its time
: about telling me that the new mail is available.  For example, I
: Is there a way to force a check?  I couldn't find anything under other
: commands.  Can the check interval be configured?

Well, I'm new at this game but I do know how to force a check (at least it
works on my system). If you select inbox from the folder list and then hit
ctrl+l any new items are instantly added to your box.
Hope this helps. As for ignoring the interval...no idea...can anyone else
help?

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