Subject: DON'T DELETE mail entry problem

From: "Bill Andersen" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:23:30 -0500

The accounting package we are using checks
for new "mail" each time a user returns to
the main menu.  It then displays the word
"MAIL" on each sub-menu to inform the user
of new incoming mail.

I recently installed pine as our mail client
to give my user better features, but since
pine stores some of the settings in the mail
entry titled "DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE..."
our accounting system ALWAYS thinks there is
mail for the user.  If we delete it, the "MAIL"
message goes away on our accounting menu, but
obviously pine will recreate it with default
values the next time pine is used.

This "MAIL" feature on our accounting package
is very nice for our users, but is worthless
when using pine.

Any suggestions?

Also, is there any particular reason pine stores
"whatever it stores" in an email entry?

Bill Andersen

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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:35:26 -0700 (PDT)

*** Bill Andersen ([email-masked]) wrote in the pine-info list today:

:) I recently installed pine as our mail client to give my user better
:) features, but since pine stores some of the settings in the mail
:) entry titled "DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE..." our accounting system
:) ALWAYS thinks there is mail for the user.  If we delete it, the
:) "MAIL" message goes away on our accounting menu, but obviously pine
:) will recreate it with default values the next time pine is used.

If the message is deleted then Pine should not recreate it (at least in
version 4.33). The message should only be created when a new folder is
created. You should also set the [X] quell-folder-internal-msg
configuration option in your pine.conf file.

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Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/

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From: "Bill Andersen" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:20:25 -0500

Eduardo,

  Thanks for the help.  I deleted the message for each user
  then added the quell-folder-internal-msg to pine.conf under
  feature-list...

  It seems to have corrected the problem.

Bill

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