Subject: Re: Dual Edged Sword

From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 13:55:37 -0700 (PDT)

You haven't given us much to go on...  more details symptoms plus info on
your installation, versions, OS flavor, comm software, and usage patterns
would perhaps provide a starting point.

-teg

On Tue, 27 Jun 1995, Kurt wrote:

> It sure is frustrating to have a fine program like PINE and PICO, with
> no installation instructions- at least no *complete* installation
> instructions.  Sometimes PINE works, sometimes it doesn't...  but MAIL
> always works.  Some of my PINE users get their mail, others only get
> it sometimes...  The screen often fills up with garbage when choosing
> C to compose.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on this situation?  I really want to use
> PINE, it's much nicer than MAIL....  except it doesn't work reliably.
> I have checked all the documentation at the FTP site, the web site,
> and here on the USENET, to no avail....
>
>

---

From: [email-masked] (Kurt)
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 19:44:46 GMT

>would perhaps provide a starting point.

You are right...  most of my problems regarding folders, files,
permissions, etc. have been solved, and they aren't PINE's fault.
They were MY fault.  However, PINE does ocassionally crash, squirting
all manner of characters onto the terminal on its way down...

But I have a more important question I would like to pose to you.
It's not anything wrong with PINE, either.

Is there some way to have the system notify users who are in
application programs that they have received mail?  Like the "write"
command?  Can SENDMAIL be configured to do this?  Or am I out of luck
altogether?

aTdHvAaNnKcSe

Kurt Risser

---

From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 11:24:40 -0700 (PDT)

> command?  Can SENDMAIL be configured to do this?  Or am I out of luck

Try looking at the "biff" command.

Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle