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This patch allows you to check for mail in selected incoming folders. After you apply the patch you have to go into your configuration and go to:
 
incoming-folders-to-check =
 
You should write a space separate list of incoming folders where you want your new mail to be checked. If you want to check all of them you can write a "*" (do not include the quotes!) instead of the whole list.
 
After this you should check
 
[X] enable-check-incoming-folders
 
This feature won't work if you don't check enable-incoming-folders.
 
Here there is a screen shot of the kind of message you receive when you got new mail in any incoming message other than inbox.
 
NEW: Pressing ^H either from the index or the folder menu will check for new mail in Incoming Folders. This is only available from version 4.21 (^H is the definition of the Backspace key in my keyboard)
 
Starting in version 4.33, the patch tries to make its work when you are not doing any work, in another words, the idea is that if you are doing something (say moving in the index) then Pine won't check for new mail and wait until you are not active to check for mail. This avoids seeing delays when your priority is not to know if new mail has arrived. Contact me for easy instructions on how to remove this feature from the patch.
 
Also new in Pine4.33, Pine will mark as "selected" those folders with new mail, so when you are seeing the list of folders, only incoming folders with new mail will appear either in bold or with a "X" to its left. The advantage of this method is twofold, on the one hand, pressing "Z" in the incoming-folders collection will show only those folders with new mail (making it easy to find which ones have new mail) and it also allows you to know which folders got new mail when the list of incoming folders that got new mail is too long to be displayed in the status line at the bottom of the screen.
 
Last Updated 17:16:58 PDT Thu May 29 2003.