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From: indra@amdcad.AMD.COM (Indra Singhal)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Problems with newmail
Message-ID: <27327@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 19 Sep 89 00:22:24 GMT
References: <278@loria.crin.fr>
Reply-To: indra@amdcad.UUCP (Indra Singhal)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices
Lines: 34

In article <278@loria.crin.fr> tombre@loria.crin.fr (Karl Tombre) writes:
>I have problems with newmail on a SUN 3/260 and SunOS 4.0 : I start
>newmail in my .login file, with newmail looking actually not at my sun
>mailbox but at a remote mailbox (that of the main mail server). I also

I suggest you start wnewmail from within .sunview rather than .login. I have
never had a problem, sunview always kills the process when I exit. Give it a
shot, I use the following line in my .sunview to start it:

cmdtool  -Wp  460   0 -Ws 565  76 -WP 1088 536 -Wt
/usr/lib/fonts/fixedwidthfonts/sail.r.6 -Wl Newmail -WL Newmail -c wnewmail

[note: the above is a single line, join them with your favorite editor]
it starts a scrollable command tool with very tiny font so I can have
a small window close to the border.

>I have also found another problem with newmail when running on the
>main mail server (a Convex) : I am advised that new mail has arrived.
>If I enter elm and read this new mail, then quit elm without deleting
>the new mail which has now been read, newmail tells me a second time
>that there is new mail. What is strange is that the first time, I get
>the newmail messages WITH the name of the sender, but the second time
>WITHOUT the name of the sender...

This is something I have noticed too. I have no explanation.

>Karl Tombre - INRIA Lorraine / CRIN
>EMAIL : tombre@loria.crin.fr - POST : BP 239, 54506 VANDOEUVRE CEDEX, France


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