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Title: You have mail...

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You have mail...

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/problems.html#pseudo-message 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.

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Keywords:

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Categories: Email , Network

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