actually, no on the screen reader...think of a screen reader like your
monitor.
In some systems the screen reader itself is a part of the computer's os.
In others it is launched long before anything else.
The error alpine presents is inbox is closed due to access error.
It is not waiting, if that resonates.
And, as shared, the problem only seems, for me at least, to happen with
certain Alpine configurations..I do not know enough about alpine to know
why however.
On Thu, 16 Oct 2025, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
On Wed, 15 Oct 2025, Karen Lewellen via Alpine-info wrote:
In terms of there being an alpine solution I mean.
Most of the time I use pine instead. One specific reason is that very
very often I must stop and read material while in my inbox..an article
for example.
In every alpine build to which I have access save for here at shellworld,
my inbox closes while I am reading..pine does not do this.
I'm not really sure what is going on here.
I know that when I start another program from within alpine it can either
set the other program going and continue or wait for the second one to finish
before resuming. With a screen reader that *might* fit your description.
The "URL-Viewers" and " Defining URL-Viewers in an X windows environment: for
advanced users and systems administrators" help pages *may* give some hints
on this.
Still, for reasons I cannot follow suddenly my work related rolling stone
newsletter subscriptions have stopped.
The shellworld admin uses a service, he does not manage the mail of his
customers directly.
I know my rolling stone account is fine, tested it by trying to
re-subscribe, and it pulled my preferences right up.
I suppose it is comparative to my whitelisting question, a way that
content gets through, even if some odd source tries to say otherwise.
what I find personally frustrating is I am missing this needful
content..but getting several spam messages from tiktok that I cannot
filter. we have no spam folder here.
before folks suggest I go elsewhere, one critical item here for me is
several browsers. I can in pone and alpine change what browser I want to
use for displaying a email link. Rarely needful with rolling stone, their
site rocks with lynx the cat..pun attended.
Given most sources expect one to have a spam folder to correct this
problem though, I am seeking an option before I sing out to rolling stone
itself.
Any ideas?
If your newsletters are no longer being sent because you do not appear to be
reading them, it may be because (al)pine and lynx do not examine javascript
or images (sometimes transparent or single-pixel to make them "invisible").
Each of these is often included in newsletters to signal
that the newsletter is being read.
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Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK
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