[7548] in SIPB bug reports
Re: new pine does not move messages to inbox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Sun Apr 2 16:22:31 2000
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 16:22:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
To: Corey James Reed <cjreed@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
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On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Corey James Reed wrote:
> properly. When pine tries to move the mail, it gives an error (something
> about how mail can only be moved to an existing folder). Mail is left in
> the "POP_inbox" folder and if I quit pine, when I come back the messages
> will then be in the proper "INBOX" folder.
Rats. You're the fourth person this is happening too. I know
what's going on, and will see about putting in a better fix for
it.
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.
Please let me know if this doens't help,
Jacob Morzinski jmorzins@mit.edu
MIT SIPB
