Bug in Solaris server

[Quentin Stafford-Fraser]

Muddassar,

If you think about this you'll realise that it is nothing to do with VNC.  VNC is
simply a modified X server; it's only concerned with the display side of
applications, and won't affect their underlying operation.

It sounds from your message as if you're running two copies of the Netscape mail
monitor; one under X, one under VNC?  Netscape isn't very good at detecting new
mail at the best of times, and when you have two copies running on the same
machine, it's even more likely to get confused.  Under many systems, the email
program simply checks whether you have had any new mail since you last asked.   If
there are two programs asking at different times, one of them will probably get
the wrong answer.  There are many different ways of detecting new email, and I
suggest you ask on the Netscape newsgroups before assuming it's a VNC problem!

All the best,
Quentin

Muddassar Farooq wrote:

> Hi,
> I am experiencing a very serious nature of bug in X-server for solaris.
>
> I am running it on sunsolaris. After a day when I login to my solaris
> desktop at X-server to recieve an email, it tells me that no new
> messages are recieved i.e. using netsacpe email.
>
> After that as soon as I run  X-win32 to remotely login to my solaris
> machine, surprisingly the mail icon shows that email ia there and I
> recieved 10 messages.
>
> After that as soon as I change to X-server the icon for email indicates
> that there is an email also. This means that incoming message are not
> directly recieved by the server.
>
> What does this mean ????? and why this strange beahviour.???
>
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