Re: [ILUG] Netscape: New Mail Update Query

From: John Kinsella (John.Kinsella at domain ul.ie)
Date: Tue 21 Sep 1999 - 12:48:50 IST


AFAIK the "vcheck for mail every X mins" works but the message pane is
only refreshed when you click on "Get Mail".

A minor irritant, I know, but seems a strange design choice.

Or "have I missed something"^2?

John

Dave Airlie wrote:
>
> >
> > 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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