Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:50:41 -0500 From: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> To: Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com> Cc: FreeBSD List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Pine Corupting Inbox Message-ID: <8B5240D5-EC66-468F-BE44-27BE9928F4E3@goldmark.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0804211047340.90934@ns1.kq6up.org> References: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0804211047340.90934@ns1.kq6up.org>
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On Apr 21, 2008, at 12:53 PM, Chris Maness wrote: > I think that pine is corrupting my inbox, so that it is unreadable > by UW-IMAPD. When using squirrelmail after using pine I see the > headers, but squirrelmail is unable to open the e-mails. When you read your mail with (al)pine with it picking up mail directly from /var/spool/mail, (al)pine will move the mail from /var/spool/mail into mailbox folders in your home directory. Now normally, this puts the mail in a place where it can still be picked up by uw-imap server. Indeed, under default configurations the uw-imap server will perform pretty much the same action when it gets new mail out of /var/spool/mail. So when everything is working right, even reading the mail locally with pine shouldn't mess things up as they have for you. > I switched over to alpine since I do understand that pine is no > longer supported. If other people have experienced this it would be > nice to have at least a notice when it is installed. I have used > pine for almost 10 years without this problem, but maybe this is an > incompatability with a newer version of UW-IMAPD. Here is what I would do to start diagnosing my first guess at the problem: (1) Set up (or use) a clean vanilla user account, say fred. (2) Send fred mail. (3) log in as fred and have fred read mail with pine, with as close to a default configuration as possible. (4) See if fred can see his mail via squirrelmail. If so (5) Look around ~/fred to find where pine put the mail. (6) Compare the mail file locations for ~/fred and for you. (7) If there are difference (which is what I'm expecting), then look through your .pinerc Post back a report about how those steps go. If things break at step 4, then still do step (5) and report that back here. Good luck. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/
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