Subject: automatic mail retrieval from POP server

From: Aaron Shtromas <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 08:05:15 -0400 (EDT)

i receive my mail on a pop server, and i configured pine to what i
understood to be enabled new mail notification (an asterisc in upper left
corner?). however, it does not seem to work, i never see new messages in
my folders. to get them, i end up having to quit and restart pine. i know
that pine periodically connects to the server because when the server goes
off line or there's a network glitch pine complains about not being able
to connect (i forget the exact message wording).

is there something that needs to be enabled or disabled to get this
behaviour? or should i complain to the server admins? this are the
cuurent feature setting in mine .pinerc:

feature-list=auto-open-next-unread,
        auto-zoom-after-select,
        auto-unzoom-after-apply,
        compose-cut-from-cursor,
        compose-maps-delete-key-to-ctrl-d,
        compose-rejects-unqualified-addrs,
        delete-skips-deleted,
        enable-8bit-esmtp-negotiation,
        enable-8bit-nntp-posting,
        enable-aggregate-command-set,
        enable-background-sending,
        enable-cruise-mode,
        enable-dot-files,
        enable-dot-folders,
        enable-flag-cmd,
        enable-flag-screen-implicitly,
        enable-goto-in-file-browser,
        enable-incoming-folders,
        enable-jump-shortcut,
        enable-mail-check-cue,
        enable-newmail-in-xterm-icon,
        enable-tab-completion,
        enable-unix-pipe-cmd,
        expanded-view-of-addressbooks,
        expanded-view-of-distribution-lists,
        expanded-view-of-folders,
        fcc-on-bounce,
        include-attachments-in-reply,
        news-approximates-new-status,
        news-read-in-newsrc-order,
        print-formfeed-between-messages,
        quit-without-confirm,
        save-will-advance,
        show-cursor,
        show-selected-in-boldface,
        signature-at-bottom,
        tab-visits-next-new-message-only,
        use-subshell-for-suspend,
        print-offers-custom-cmd-prompt,
        print-includes-from-line

tia,

-a

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Aaron Shtromas ([email-masked])                        a hired hand @ IBM
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