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