[bit.listserv.mailbook] Msg: Error building index .....

REICHETZ@AWIIMC11.BITNET (Christian J. Reichetzeder) (02/06/90)

Following scenario:
 1) Neither UNREAD NOTEBOOK not UNREAD MAILINDX exist
 2) No MAIL is in your reader
 3) you invoke MAIL with
    /* this is part of our standard PROFILE EXEC */
    queue 'QUIT'
    'EXEC MAIL (NOSCREEN'

Whenever all of the  above is true you get the message and  no index is built.
If you don't stack QUIT, all is  o.k. (MAIL telling you the Mailbox is empty),
but the user would be  in the menu in case some mail is  here. What we do with
this automatic invocation of MAIL is:
  a) read in the MAIL (users tend not to look in the reader often)
  b) if something was received ring the BEEP (users want to make something
     else first not see the menu)
With earlier versions this setup worked fine for us, but now ...
Any chance that this will be fixed ?
Christian