You have mail...
Support knowledgebase (grimmer_pine)
Applies to
SuSE Linux: Versions since 6.0
Symptom:
You receive the message "You have mail." at each login, although
pine does not display any messages in your incoming mailbox.
Other mail notification programs are also affected.
Cause:
Beginning with version 4.00, Pine supports enhanced functionality
for sites using the standard Unix mailbox format or the MMDF mailbox
format. It does this by creating a "pseudo-message" at the beginning
of the folder. These values are essential for the correct operation
of modern IMAP and POP servers, but Pine also needs them to support
capabilities such as being able to mark messages as Answered when the
Reply has been postponed, and the ability to create a folder in one of
these formats. See the "Pine Questions an Answers" at
http://www.washington.edu/pine/QandA/
for further information.
Solution:
Starting with Pine 4.01, this feature can be disabled using a configuration
switch. You need to activate the following function:
SETUP -> Config -> [X] quell-folder-internal-msg
Sites which do not use IMAP/POP for remote mail access, and which need
to support mail tools that are adversely affected by the presence of
the pseudo-messages (e.g. some mail notification tools) may enable this
feature to tell Pine not to create them. Note that Pine's "Answered"
flag capability will be adversely affected if this is done.
Note too that, even if this feature is enabled, Pine will not remove
pseudo-messages when it encounters them (e.g. those created by UW's
imapd or ipopd servers.) This feature has no effect on folders that are
not in standard Unix or MMDF format, as pseudo-messages are not needed
in the other formats to record mailbox state information.
Keywords: PINE, BASH, MAIL, NEW, LOGIN, FOLDER, INTERNAL
Categories:
Email
, Network
SDB-grimmer_pine, Copyright SuSE Linux AG, Nürnberg, Germany
- Version: 03. Feb 1999
SuSE Linux AG - Last generated: 29. Mai 2002 by sdb (sdb_gen 1.40.0)