Re: [techtalk] Pine and new mail

2001-03-09 Thread Jason
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Vinnie wrote: > I'm having this vauge brain thing that's saying "it's a compile time > option" It's entirely possible that you're right -- my pine came straight off the install disk when I set the system up, so who knows what options are set by default --

Re: [techtalk] Pine and new mail

2001-03-09 Thread Vinnie
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Jason wrote: > I think I've isolated the oddness. If I change the refresh interval (I > forget the variable name now) in my .pinerc, it doesn't do anything. I > tried changing it in /etc/pine.conf, and suddenly it's working. Beats me, > since it's reading other configurati

Re: [techtalk] Pine and new mail

2001-03-09 Thread Jason
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, the purple poetry goddess wrote: > One other setting you might want to set, under "Advanced User > Preferences", is check-newmail-when-quitting. It will prompt you to > "Quit, even tho new mail has arrived?" I think I've isolated the oddness. If I change the refresh i

Re: [techtalk] Pine and new mail

2001-03-08 Thread the purple poetry goddess
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Jason wrote: > My Pine mailbox doesn't seem to refresh itself as it should, or at least > as I'd like it to. Frequently I'll have a terminal window open with Pine > running, showing no messages in my inbox for several minutes, and then > when I quit to the command prompt it w

Re: [techtalk] Pine and new mail

2001-03-08 Thread Jason
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Rick Scott wrote: > As an interim fix - if I recall correctly, doing a screen redraw > (control-L) when you are on the `inbox' screen should make it grab any > new mail in addition to redrawing the screen. That does seem to be at least a partial workaround. Thanks. As an

Re: [techtalk] Pine and new mail

2001-03-08 Thread Rick Scott
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:40:32AM -0500, Jason wrote: > My Pine mailbox doesn't seem to refresh itself as it should, or at least > as I'd like it to. Frequently I'll have a terminal window open with Pine > running, showing no messages in my inbox for several minutes, and then > when I quit to th