Subject: "You Have Mail"

From: Linda Emerson <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 15:56:07 -0800 (PST)

Has anyone figured out why this message occasionally appears when exiting
Pine even if you have no new mail?  Sometimes I get it and sometimes I
don't.  When I do receive the message, I go back into Pine but never find
new mail, so I exit the program and the message disappears. 

Another one of those random things?

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 27 Aug 1996 02:59:18 GMT

Linda Emerson ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Has anyone figured out why this message occasionally appears when exiting
: Pine even if you have no new mail?  Sometimes I get it and sometimes I
: don't.  When I do receive the message, I go back into Pine but never find
: new mail, so I exit the program and the message disappears. 

     It's probably a faulty program that checks for new mail which is
thinking that pine's writing of folders is the arival of new mail.

--
Adam Myrow

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From: Bob Shaffer <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 09:59:22 -0400 (EDT)

You probally have mail check in your .profile (or equiv).  It checks
periodically for mail and then shows it at a shell prompt.

If the message was "You have mail" then you are probally keeping mail in
the spool directory instead of having it moved upon exit (through setup
options) to another folder.  Thus, you do indeed have mail unless you have
deleted every message in your inbox.

If there is in fact new (unread) mail then the prompt would display "You
have NEW mail". 

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