ponders

ponders

[Deedra Waters]

I'm curious about something.... Ever sense I've been using procmail I've
stopped seeing  the you have new mail messages.....
is there a way I can get my computer to show me that again?

Re: ponders

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi Diedra -
I have recently begun to use procmail and I still get the "you
have new mail" message. However that message only occurs once,
and only when the shell prompt is next produced. So I have to hit
'enter' or run another program to hear the message. That is the
way it behaved before I began using procmail too.

HTH - Chuck



On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Deedra Waters wrote:

> I'm curious about something.... Ever sense I've been using procmail I've
> stopped seeing  the you have new mail messages.....
> is there a way I can get my computer to show me that again?
>
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Re: ponders

[Steve Holmes]

I still get those whenever I log on to the shell or upon exiting of a long
running program during which new mail has come in.  The default for my
"unfiltered inbox mail" is to go right back into /var/spool/mail/steve (in
my case) so the shell detects its presence.  I do remember from past
filtering experiences if I have all mail filtered into other local mail
folders, the shell will know nothing about it thus no new mail
notification.  I do recall an option that can be used to tell the shell
where to look for new mail; I think it is an environment variable.

On the other side, my shell tells me I have mail (not new mail) whenever
there is any old mail in my inbox.  Unfortunately, Pine likes to keep a
"dummy" message in there so the shell will tell me that I still have mail
even though a normal pine user will see that there is no mail (empty)
inbox.  I wish Pine didn't need that dummy message to do its thing.  Small
nuisence - certainly not a show-stopper nor something to get me to quit
using Pine.

On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Deedra Waters wrote:

DW> I'm curious about something.... Ever sense I've been using procmail I've
DW> stopped seeing  the you have new mail messages.....
DW> is there a way I can get my computer to show me that again?
DW>
DW>
DW> _______________________________________________
DW> Speakup mailing list
DW> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
DW> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
DW>

Re: ponders

[Geoff Shang]

On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Steve Holmes wrote:

> I wish Pine didn't need that dummy message to do its thing.  Small
> nuisence - certainly not a show-stopper nor something to get me to quit
> using Pine.

You can quell that internal message in the pine configuration screen.

Geoff.