Subject: forcing mail check

From: Carl Reimann <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 13:18:15 -0400

Is there any way to force a mail check? I don't like having to quit Pine 
and start it up again repeatedly when I am waiting for mail to arrive.

Carl

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From: Aladdin Khamis <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 08:51:30 +0000 (GMT)

> and start it up again repeatedly when I am waiting for mail to arrive.

There are currently two ways to force a new mail check. 
     * Press `Ctrl-L' (Refresh Display). 
     * At the last message in a folder, press 'N' 4-5 times. 

Also, you can enable-mail-check-cue in your setup/config so pine will 
display an astrik (*) in your upper left corner whenever pine is checking 
for new e-mail.  Something else you would like to know is that pine 
checks for new mail every 2.5 minutes, you might be able to change that, 
but I don't know how to do that yet.

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From: "J. Lynn Hilton" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 17:54:20 -0400 (EDT)

The 2.5 minute time frame is set by a configuration variable at compile 
time.  In file  pine/osdep/os-<your-opsys-here>.h:

/*--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
#define NEW_MAIL_TIME      (150) /* How often to check for new mail. There's 
                                   some expense in doing this so it shouldn't
                                   be done too frequently.  */
/*--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

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From: John Anfuso <[email-masked]>
Date: 26 Apr 1995 13:39:13 GMT

>but I don't know how to do that yet. 
 
You can't change it.  Personally I think the pc-pine version should allow   
this to be modified.  Most other winsock mail programs do, and I haven't   
heard any ISPs complain about network overload.  Maybe edu and other   
sites are different. 
 
John.

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 09:03:33 +0100 (BST)

Of *course* it can be changed!  It's only a program compiled from source 
code files.  Change the appropriate magic number in the source file (many 
others have given the name of the relevant file elsewhere in other 
messages) and recompile.

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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 16:44:40 -0800 (GMT)

> > heard any ISPs complain about network overload.  Maybe edu and other   

	So, I'm lead to believe he is speaking about pc-pine.  I've not
seen the source of pc-pine on ftp.cac.washington.edu so I suspect it
is not an easy task to recompile.  

					Ed

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From: "J. Kelly Cunningham" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 14:19:10 -0600

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| Is there any way to force a mail check? I don't like having to quit Pine 
| and start it up again repeatedly when I am waiting for mail to arrive.

down-arrow at the bottom of the message index works for me.

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