Subject: will the mail checking ever stop

From: Dan Roy <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 16:04:14 -0500

Before I mention my problem I want to say that overall, pine is a very
good mail reader, pine3.93 has some enhancements that make those of us who
depend on speech very happy!  getting rid of those overlapping lines from
screen to screen and the status line messages all the time makes things a
lot less complicated with unnecessarry chatter.

Anyway the help says that if you set mail checking to 0 it wil nto keep
telling you every time you have new mail!  This is really a problem since
it interupts the message your reading with new from so and so regarding
such and such.  also, if I am writing a message, pause, and a new message
comes in, I notice that some of the text from the new message is on the
screen and what I have previously written isn't viewable,  Anyway setting
the interval to 0 isn't working it is still beeping and chattering away
about new messages constantly, can anyone help?

If possible, please write to me directly, I don't always have time to
monitor the newsgroup, thanks in advance.

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 11:23:37 -0700 (PDT)

> about new messages constantly, can anyone help?

If the mail check interval is set to zero, the manual methods of checking
for new mail still work.  In particular, a Next Message command (n or
control n or down arrow) will cause a new mail check if you are at the
last message of a folder.  Also, control L will cause a new mail check. 
Could that be what is happening?  Thanks.

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

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From: [email-masked] (Randell Pelak)
Date: 14 Jun 1996 22:42:12 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
>monitor the newsgroup, thanks in advance.

Okay here is your problem.  Pine is working perfectly.  The stuff on your
screen is not from pine.  Sounds like a unix system your on and some kind
of mail notification program is running.  The only mailnotification progrma
I know is called biff and it does exactly what you said yours is doing.
So, try dissabling it with the command "biff n" at your unix prompt.
This will only work for that login though.  You will need to make
modifications to your .login and such.  If any of this unix stuff gives you
trouble e-mail me and I will help, but I don't get most of the posts so
e-mail is best for reaching me.

By the way the pine notification is a little you have new mail from thing
tahat appears on the reverse text line below the reading window.  It
doesn't go over any of your message, but you should see this first hand
soon enough.  Good luck.