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Re: bug: vm-get-new-mail always reports no mail when outside vm buffer

#9090
From: Darrin Jewell
Date: Thu, 14 May 1992 16:50
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Hmm.. I will investigate the problem further later this week when I
get a bit of time.  I will see if I can discover under what situation
it doesn't work as expected.

  thanks for a great mail reader...

     -darrin  (jewell@fenchurch.mit.edu)

Kyle Jones writes:
>Darrin B. Jewell writes:
> > VM: 5.32 (beta)
> > Emacs: 18.57
> > 
> > If the command vm-get-new-mail is called outside of a vm buffer, 
> > it will report "No new mail." even if there is mail waiting.
>
>I just tried this M-x vm-get-new-mail from the *scratch* buffer
>and the new mail was retrieved from the spool.
>
> > I would suggest that a correct behavior would be one of the following:
> >   1. (preferred) It pulls up the inbox buffer and then retrieves new mail.
>
>That is what it should do currently.  "It works for me."
>
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