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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
To: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: 20.1b8 success on Solaris -- but it's *SLOW* (and a few new probs)
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Dan Rich writes:
 > >>>>> "Kyle" == Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:
 > 
 >     Kyle> The new display-time function indicates mail is present only if
 >     Kyle> the modification time of the spool file is greater than the
 >     Kyle> access time.  This is new behavior with the XEmacs version of
 >     Kyle> time.el.  So look for something in your environment that reads
 >     Kyle> the mail file, as that will definitely make the mail waiting
 >     Kyle> indicator go away.
 > 
 > How did it work in the earlier versions?  The above is fairly useless,
 > as any other mailbox monitor (xbiff, or xbuffy in my case) will cause
 > the XEmacs indicator to turn off.

Earlier versions just checked for a non-zero length spool file,
which is also what VM does.  The default behavior might ought to
be changed to back to the old way to avoid an instant FAQ.

