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Check for New Mail in Incoming Folders
Patch is available for versions: pine 4.10 pine 4.20 pine 4.21 pine 4.30 pine 4.31 pine 4.32 pine 4.33 pine 4.40 pine 4.41 pine 4.42 pine 4.43 pine 4.44 pine 4.50 pine 4.51 pine 4.52 pine 4.53 pine 4.55 pine 4.56 pine 4.58 pine 4.60 pine 4.61 pine 4.62 pine 4.63 pine 4.64 New features have been added to this patch, they can be found at the bottom of this page. 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 enable [X] enable-check-incoming-folders. Make sure that you also enable [X] enable-incoming-folders. This patch reports new mail in incoming folders in two ways, depending on if you have enabled or disabled the feature enable-fast-recent-test.
Starting in version 4.33, the patch tries to make its work when you are not doing any work, in other 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. New functionality was added starting in version 4.56. There is a new variable called inc-fld-timeout, which controls for how long should Pine attempt to connect to a server before giving up on trying to check e-mail on that server. The default is 5 seconds, which is also the minimum and the maximum is 60 seconds. The idea is that you should set this default to be a large number if your connection is fast, but a small number is your connection is slow, so that Pine won't waste much time trying to check e-mail in a slow connection. Notice that Pine will fail silently in this case, it will not give any report of the error (because such error can potentially appear many times during the same session, which is considered obstructive). New functionality was added in version 4.58. A new configuration option recheck-all-incoming-folders was added to make Pine check all incoming folders all the time. Pine normally checks for new mail in incoming folders that do not have new mail. If Pine knows that there's new mail in a specific folder, the check is skipped for that folder. Enabling this feature makes Pine check all folders for new mail. This is useful if you use two clients to read your e-mail, and do not open the folders with new mail using Pine. If you only use Pine to read your mail, then you do not need to enable this feature. The patch for version 4.58 includes another patch that fixes a bug when checking the status of a maildrop. This bug fix patch is not a bug fix for my patch, but for the maildrop feature in Pine. New: I have added new functionality in 4.60, which allows you to see how many unread and the total number of messages in each incoming folder that is checked for new mail. This functionality is tied to the feature enable-fast-recent-test, which must be disabled in order to make it work (the reason why this new feature is tied to this feature is because there was a bug in the library code of Pine for versions previous to 4.60 which would make any other method fail. This had nothing to do with my patch, but it affects it, so I had to make this decision to avoid users having to suffer from this bug in deffective UW-IMAP servers). The patch for Pine4.61 has a new feature which allows you to determine how and when new checks will be performed. The new variable is called incoming-check-rule, which can be set to any of three values: automatic, automatic-after-first-manual-check or manual-only, which makes Pine check for new mail automatically (without user intervention), or only after the first manual check or only manual checks are allowed. You can always force a check for new mail by pressing ^H. New functionality was added in version 4.63. The main idea is to speed the check in incoming folders, and changes like this will keep coming in future releases of this patch. If you see a full report in the folder screen which includes the number of new and total messages in a folder, then you probably know that getting this informationmay be time consuming. In order to speed getting this information, some checks may be skipped. Here's how it works: Internally, a loop of checks is started in INBOX and all folders are checked. In subsequent checks, a check in a folder may be skipped if the last check on that folder took too long. The number of checks that are skipped depends linearly on the number of seconds that the last check took to be completed on that folder. If the check on a folder is fast, then such folder is checked all the time. If the total amount of time that a check has taken is too long, then that check is interrupted, and the full cycle of checks may not be complete. Externally, you will see in the folder list screen a folder name followed by a code, a space and the report of new and total number of messages in that folder. For example INBOX~ [0/3]. There are 4 possible codes:
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