[7545] in SIPB bug reports
Re: New Pine doesn't Inc correctly
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Fri Mar 31 22:42:51 2000
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 22:42:46 -0500
From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
To: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
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On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, t. belton wrote:
> Can only save to existing folders in Incoming Collection
>
> then says
> 1 of [however many] messages saved before error
A design flaw in pine causes pine to get very confused when
dealing with empty mail files. It will save the first message to
your INBOX, and then print the error message and leave all other
messages on the server. When you quit and then restart, you
re-start pine with a non-empty INBOX, and pine works okay.
A mundane work-around for this issue is to always leave at least
one message in your INBOX. An arcane work-around is to remove
all messages from your INBOX (save them elsewhere), quit pine,
and them remove the (zero-length) file ~/mail/inbox . When you
restart pine, pine will create a new inbox with a special
invisible message. The invisible message will always remain in
your inbox, which will prevent the bug from recurring.
I'd like to fix this, but implementing the mechanics behind the
arcane work-around got done first because it was easier.
Please let me know if this doesn't seem to explain what happened.
Sincerely,
Jacob Morzinski jmorzins@mit.edu
