:>  Pine leaves a "pseudo-message" in the mail spool which causes bash to
:>always state "You have mail." when logging on. Apparently this is to
:>support something called marking messages as Answeared when a reply is
:>postponed and to support pop and imap servers. I can suppress Pine's
:>leaving a message in the folder is I do not mind loosing this support. I
:>don't use these features so I am tempted to just suppress the function,
:>but if there is a way to get bash to ignore this pseudo-message then I
:>would prefer to do this since who knows, I may decide to use the other
:>features (especially the pop server) at a later time. Can anyone tell me
:>how to get bash to ignore the pseudo-message when deciding if you have
:>new mail.

"YOU HAVE MAIL" != "YOU HAVE NEW MAIL"

I do not see the problem.

cu
        Denis


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