Subject: INBOX check bug

From: Henrik Edlund <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 00:35:31 +0100 (CET)

I am experiencing this when I have an empty INBOX.

When I new message arrives Pine does not notice it. Even if I press Ctrl-L
to force a check nothing happends. I have to quit Pine and start it again
in order to get it to see the message.

It works great when there are already other messages in the INBOX.

I have experienced this in at least Pine 4.20, 4.30, and 4.31. I am
running on a Linux system with glibc 2.1 (Mandrake 6.1).

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From: "Aaron S. Hawley" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 21:28:32 -0500 (EST)

are you accessing your inbox using the pop3 protocol?  then you might be
asking an faq:

http://www.washington.edu/pine/faq/usage.html#5.5

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From: Henrik Edlund <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 11:30:42 +0100 (CET)

No, I am accessing a local inbox. Config:

inbox-path=~/mail/incoming/INBOX

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From: Ron Poulton <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 19:13:02 +0000 (GMT)

I'm also having this problem with Pine 4.21 (Unix).  I have my mail in the
/var/spool directory and it takes Pine a little bit to catch up on
reading them.  Sometimes if I refresh the screen with Ctrl-L, it'll list
the new email.

I'd like it to be somewhat instantaneous.  A check every few seconds would
be pretty useful.

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From: Henrik Edlund <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 04:31:11 +0100 (CET)

I have solved my problem now by setting the mail-check-interval config
option to 15 seconds instead of the default 150 seconds. This way the
INBOX refreshes itself every 15 second. I can still refresh it with Ctrl-L
if I have other messages there but I like to keep it empty (handle mail
and then remove them), and when it is empty Ctrl-L refuses to recognize
newly arrived mail. So I either have to wait <15 seconds or quit and
restart Pine. The reason this is annoying is that I have a signal that
goes off when I receive mail so it is a pain to have to wait until Pine
shows it.