Subject: new mail notification : too long?

From: Joel Boonstra <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:15:38 -0400 (EDT)

Hey folks,

I've had it quite a few times with pine 4.44 now that I get tricked into
thinking I have new mail, when I really don't.  Here's what happens:

I get new email.  Pine notifies me in the status line something like:

  New mail! From <someone> about <something I probably don't care about>

Something in the email piques my curiousity, and I go off to Galeon to
check it out.

When I come back (5 minutes later, give or take), the new mail
notification is still in the status line, even though I'm reading the
new mail that it's reporting, and opened it up 5 minutes ago.  Is this
expected behavior?  Shouldn't that notification disappear after a
certain time that's less than 5 minutes?

I don't remember this happening with previous versions, but I may be
forgetting.

Thanks!

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From: Kenneth Crudup <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 14:29:11 -0700 (PDT)

> Something in the email piques my curiousity, and I go off to Galeon to

Why would you use two MUAs?

	-Kenny, curious

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From: Joel Boonstra <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 09:13:21 -0400 (EDT)

> Why would you use two MUAs?

Galeon is my web browser (http://galeon.sf.net/).  When I say something
'piques my curiousity', that means that there some URL or whatever that
I want to read up on, so I switch over to another app (and usually
another desktop) for awhile.

Sorry for being unclear -- I was trying to get across that I leave the
email open for potentially awhile, and when get around to reading email
again, the new mail notification is still there, even though the mail
has been open for awhile.

Does that clear things up?