Subject: Re: Pine exits at each mail check

From: Gopi Sundaram <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:39:11 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Bill Andersen wrote:

> I am using pine v4.1 on AIX 4.1.5

Please upgrade. It will fix all your problems ;-)

> If you have to exit pine in order to check for new mail (as
> explained in the FAQ), then why have a "mail-check-interval"
> setting?

You only have to close and reopen mailboxes accessed through the POP
protocol to get new mail. Because of the way Pine handles Inboxes, you
have to quit and restart to check for new mail if your INBOX is
accessed via POP.

You can learn how to get around this problem here:

http://www.cse.sc.edu/~gopalan/Pine/other.html#newmail

If you use IMAP, Pine will honor the mail-check-interval.

I have no idea what is causing your problem though.

[Sorry if this breaks your threading. My mail config has recently
changed and the masquerading broke my posting address. This is a
resend]

-- 
Gopi Sundaram
[email-masked]
http://www.cse.sc.edu/~gopalan/Pine/

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From: "Bill Andersen" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:21:02 -0500

>Please upgrade. It will fix all your problems ;-)

Oh, if only it were only that easy!  I'd love to upgrade,
but the latest version of pine I can find for AIX 4.1.5
in a "smit" installable format is pine v4.1 from freeware.bull.net

OK, before everyone goes "come on guy, compile the dang code!",
here's why I need a pre-compiled version...

1) I have no compiler on this machine.  It was supplied
   by our software vendor and even though I realize I could
   get GNU C or such, my software vendor won't allow me to
   add the compiler (I have asked).

2) My support contract DOES state the above also... dang!

3) Yes, I know, I _should_ trash my software vendor.
   Maybe some day...

4) It took an act of congress to get them to agree to putting
   pine on the machine one I found the "smit" installable version.
   Hey, I am counting my blessings I even  _have_ email on my
   dumb terminals.

>have to quit and restart to check for new mail if your INBOX is

Thanks for the explaination, however, I'm not using POP to access
the INBOX.  pine is simply running on the AIX box and accessesing
/usr/spool/mail/$USER.  Why then, does new mail not show up until
I quit and re-run pine?  On a single terminal (without FacetTerm),
I can run pine and let it set there for hours without any new mail
showing up in the INBOX.  Quit pine and re-run and there might be
30 messages?

I checked out the URL you sent earlier (thanks), but it was related
to POP/IMAP mail notificiation.  My AIX uses sendmail to receive the
mail, so pine simply accesses directly on the machine.

Am I lost without the upgrade or can I make v4.1 work somehow?

Bill