Subject: How do I manually check for new mail

From: James Boorn <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 16:41:19 -0600 (MDT)

I want to set the option mail-check-interval to 0 and manually
tell pine when to check for new mail.  I cannot seem to find the
key sequence to perform a new-mail check, is there one?

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 20 Sep 1997 01:06:38 +0200

>> James Boorn writes:

JB> I want to set the option mail-check-interval to 0 and manually
JB> tell pine when to check for new mail.  I cannot seem to find the
JB> key sequence to perform a new-mail check, is there one?

>From the tech-notes:

New Mail Notification

   Pine checks for new mail in the INBOX and in the currently open
   folder at least every two and a half minutes. It used to be 30
   seconds instead of 150 seconds, but we increased it in order to
   reduce the load on large systems with lots of Pine users. The value
   can be changed at compile-time in the pine/os.h file. If you really
   don't want to wait you can force a new mail check by pressing N
   Next with the cursor on the last message of the message index or by
   redrawing the screen with a ^L.
   
   When there is new mail, the message(s) will appear in the index,
   the screen will beep, and a notice showing the sender and subject
   will be displayed. If there has been more than one new message
   since you last issued a command to Pine, the notice will show the
   count of new messages and the sender of the most recent one.

Is that what you're looking for? 

Robin   

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From: Jeff <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 19:20:41 -0400 (EDT)

> key sequence to perform a new-mail check, is there one?

Control-L when viewing the Index of the Inbox.

-jeff
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