| Here's (I think) a bug in xfaces:
|
| 4) I have some users who use elm (blech! VM all the way :) and xfaces
| will recognize they have new mail, but after they read it xfaces
| still says they have new mail (they set their update to 15 seconds
| and xfaces just never updates).
|
| It's not until *more* new mail comes in that xfaces updates their
| mail (deleting the old mail faces and adding the new ones).
|
| I don't know much about elm, but I think it's one of those grody
| mail agents that keeps your read mail in your system mail spool
| instead of moving it; somehow xfaces can't tell that you've read
| that mail.
|
| However, faces works correctly for them in the same environment.
|
I don't think it's a bug. Faces works by checking the status of a mail
message by checking for a line: Status:. Elm adds that after you've read
the mail, but does not synchronize the mail folder to itself until either
you tell it to or new mail arrives. The solution I use is to hit $ after
reading a mail message. This forces synchronization. (I think it's $.
I'm in elm, so I can't check and did you ever have one of those keystrokes
you hit several times a day but can't be sure of when you tell it to
someone?) If anything, this is an idiosynchrosy with the way elm works.
Hope this helps...
-- Charles B. Owen Charles.B.Owen@dartmouth.edu Dartmouth College Office: 603-646-3297 6211 Sudikoff Laboratory, Rm 108 Home: 603-448-5677 Hanover, NH 03755 http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~cowen/