Subject: Re: "New Mail" message and filter

From: [email-masked]
Date: 11 Dec 1996 17:20:21 GMT

On 11 Dec 1996 14:26:14 GMT, Martin Bialasinski ([email-masked]) wrote:
> Hi,

> I have just installed mail filtering via filter and it works fine.

> There is just one problem:

> when I recieve a mail into the main inbox, I get a message "New Mail...".
> When a mail gets filtered and therefor gets into a additional inbox, I 
> don't get this message. I can however scan for new mails using the 
> tab-key, but that's not the same.

Pine is not able to constantly monitor mail outside of your main INBOX.  
Thus, you are forced to use the tab key.

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Adam Myrow

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From: Jeff Loll <[email-masked]>
Date: 15 Dec 1996 10:04:16 GMT

Martin Bialasinski ([email-masked]) wrote:

: I have just installed mail filtering via filter and it works fine.

: when I recieve a mail into the main inbox, I get a message "New Mail...".
: When a mail gets filtered and therefor gets into a additional inbox, I 
: don't get this message. I can however scan for new mails using the 
: tab-key, but that's not the same.

I use filter also.  At login, I have the computer run a little
script file to process the file called "filter-log" and
print out how many messages were sorted into which folders.

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From: [email-masked] (Martin Bialasinski)
Date: 12 Dec 1996 15:34:13 GMT

DearOldDad ([email-masked]) wrote:
> : BTW: I could set up a webpage showing how to filter mails using filter, 
> : if there is a need

> There probably is, but you should understand how it (the email) works 1st
> before you advise others.  Please take this post in the manner in which it
> is intended, not meant to be a flame, just trying to advise that filtering
> sometimes needs to be thought out carefully.  BYE.

I don't care, but I noticed, that many users are can't aggregate the infos
in the filter man pages, the elm filter guide and pine help.

So I just thought of a step-by-step instuction how to configure pine, 
filter-rules and .forward, nothing more.

Would have been more work for me than I already have, so maybe it's best 
not to do it.

BTW: Not to know, that pine doesn't support monitoring multiple inboxes,
when the helpfiles doesn't mention it (at least I didn't found anything 
about that), doesn't mean I don't understand how email works.

Ciao,
	Martin

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