[Alpine-info] another long shot question?

[Karen Lewellen via Alpine-info]

actually, no on the screen reader...think of a screen reader like your 
monitor.
In some systems the screen reader itself is a part of the computer's os.
In others it is launched long before anything else.
The error alpine presents is inbox is closed due to access error.
It is not waiting, if that resonates.
And, as shared, the problem only seems, for me at least, to happen with 
certain Alpine configurations..I do not know enough about alpine to know 
why however.



On Thu, 16 Oct 2025, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:


> On Wed, 15 Oct 2025, Karen Lewellen via Alpine-info wrote:

>

>>  In terms of there being an alpine solution I mean.

>>

>>  Most of the time I use pine instead.  One specific reason is that very

>>  very often I must stop and read  material while in my inbox..an article

>>  for example.

>>  In every alpine build to which I have access save for here at shellworld,

>>  my inbox closes while I am reading..pine does not do this.

>

> I'm not really sure what is going on here.

> I know that when I start another program from within alpine it can either

> set the other program going and continue or wait for the second one to finish 

> before resuming. With a screen reader that *might* fit your description.

>

> The "URL-Viewers" and " Defining URL-Viewers in an X windows environment: for 

> advanced users and systems administrators" help pages *may* give some hints 

> on this.

>

>>  Still, for reasons I cannot follow suddenly my work related rolling stone

>>  newsletter subscriptions have stopped.

>>  The shellworld admin uses a service, he does not manage the mail of his

>>  customers directly.

>>  I know my rolling stone account is fine, tested it by trying to

>>  re-subscribe, and it pulled my preferences right up.

>>  I suppose it is comparative to my whitelisting question, a way that

>>  content gets through, even if some odd source tries to say otherwise.

>>  what I find personally frustrating is I am missing this needful

>>  content..but getting  several spam messages from tiktok that I cannot

>>  filter.  we have no spam folder here.

>>  before folks suggest I go elsewhere, one critical item here for me is

>>  several browsers. I can in pone and alpine change what browser I want to

>>  use for displaying a email link.  Rarely needful with rolling stone, their

>>  site rocks with  lynx the cat..pun attended.

>>  Given most sources expect one to have a spam folder to correct this

>>  problem though, I am seeking an option before I sing out to rolling stone

>>  itself.

>>  Any ideas?

>

> If your newsletters are no longer being sent because you do not appear to be 

> reading them, it may be because (al)pine and lynx do not examine javascript 

> or images (sometimes transparent or single-pixel to make them "invisible"). 

> Each of these is often included in newsletters to signal

> that the newsletter is being read.

>

> -- 

> Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK

>                    andrew at aitchison.me.uk

>

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