[2910] in Athena Bugs
zmailnotify and amount of mail it tells you about
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert S. French)
Thu Aug 17 11:09:16 1989
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 89 11:08:50 -0400
From: "Robert S. French" <rfrench@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bug-zephyr@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: belville@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Re: Sharon's bug report
zmailnotify should only tell you about the most recent four messages
you have received, no more. It should never tell you about a message
more than once.
The zephyr bug: In the zmailnotify man page, it says:
zmailnotify only retrieves four headers at one time in order
to reduce the competition for the mailbox lock on the post
office. If more than four mail messages are waiting, zmail-
notify should be run multiple times. If executed from a
zwgc(1) description file, this will happen automatically.
This isn't true, though. If you run zmailnotify more than once,
subsequent times won't give you _anything_ unless new mail has
arrived. You only get the most recent four messages. Period.
(I may have written this kludge of a program, but John wrote the man
page :-)
Rob
