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From: sra@hocda.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Annoying emacs bug
Message-ID: <299@hocda.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Oct-83 16:29:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: hocda.299
Posted: Wed Oct 12 16:29:55 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Oct-83 23:17:37 EDT
Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel
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We are running emacs version 4.5 on our VAX 11/780s and WE 3B20s.  There
is an annoying bug/feature/misfeature that I would like to change.  I have
accounts on most of our UNIX machines, and forward my mail to the machine
I use most often.  Emacs keeps telling me, on the machines that I forward
my mail, that I have mail.  Of course I can't read my mail because there
is nothing there other than the "Forward to ..." line.  Does anyone have
a way of either
   a) Checking the contents of the mail file and don't print the
      "<BEEP> you have mail" message if it contains nothing but the
      "Forward" line
or
   b) Turning off the check for mail, as a mode.

The beeps I get every few hundred characters is rather annoying, and it
overwrites the date/time display.  Any suggestions?

					Scott Abbot
					Bell Labs, Merrimack Valley
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