From: Dave Airlie (david.airlie at domain ul.ie)
Date: Tue 21 Sep 1999 - 12:27:12 IST
>
> Fine.
>
> Why then do I have to explicitly choose the New Mail button in the
> Netscape mail client after biff (or whatever) makes a bong (or watever)
> to tell me I have new mail. Should Netscape not be able to read
> /var/spool/mail/me and update the messages pane?
Can you set something to check for mail every X mins or is that only on
the POP server bit, netscape should just stat the file every so often,
Doesn't netscape move your inbox from /var/spool/mail to ~/nsmail or
someat also .. this may be part of the problem ...
Dave.
>
> Or have I missed something? :-)
>
> John
>
>
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