[mew-int 00562] Re: newbie q: auto check/retreive new mail and mail notification

[J. T.]

Thanks for the reply. I fiddle with it some more, and
find out the following:

I set those varibles through the curstomize group
interface, when I say "save for future sessions", the
customized varibles will be written to my .emacs file,
however with a sorted order in customized variable
section, and there, '(mew-use-biff t) comes in front
of '(mew-use-cached-passwd t). Somehow, this order
will not get the biff timer going. (When i check
timer-list, the mew-pop-biff timer is not shown at
all).

Change the order of mew-use-cached-passwd and
mew-use-biff seems to work.

I hope I am wrong, but if the above observation is
correct, shouldn't this be fixed? (Since a lot of
newbies are going to customize interface instead of
manually write (setq ...).

Anyway, I am now happily running Mew! Thanks again for
this wonderful tool and support, I think it handles
MIME, mule stuff better than any other MUA in Emacs.

j.t.


--- Tatsuya Kinoshita <tats at example.com> wrote:
> In message [mew-int 00558], on Wed, 7 Nov 2001,
> "J. T." <j70005t at example.com> wrote:
> 
> > describe-variable mew-auto-get, it says it is
> true.
> > But in fact mew will not retrieve mail unless I
> hit
> > "i".
> 
> `mew-auto-get' works when you hit `M-x mew RET'.
> 
> > Also, about mew-pop-biff-bark, I did not see it
> "bark"
> > even when there are indeed new mail on the pop
> server.
> > I did set a mew-biff-interval smaller than the
> passwd
> > timer unit.
> 
> Set t to `mew-use-biff' and `mew-use-biff-bell'.
> 
> -- 
> Tatsuya Kinoshita


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