sra@hocda.UUCP (10/12/83)
We are running emacs version 4.5 on our VAX 11/780s and WE 3B20s. There is an annoying bug/feature/misfeature that I would like to change. I have accounts on most of our UNIX machines, and forward my mail to the machine I use most often. Emacs keeps telling me, on the machines that I forward my mail, that I have mail. Of course I can't read my mail because there is nothing there other than the "Forward to ..." line. Does anyone have a way of either a) Checking the contents of the mail file and don't print the "<BEEP> you have mail" message if it contains nothing but the "Forward" line or b) Turning off the check for mail, as a mode. The beeps I get every few hundred characters is rather annoying, and it overwrites the date/time display. Any suggestions? Scott Abbot Bell Labs, Merrimack Valley hocda!sra or mvuxb!sa