[7939] in SIPB bug reports
Re: lost mail after using pine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Wed Feb 20 20:38:27 2002
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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 20:38:13 -0500
From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
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To: Kris Kolodziej <kwk@MIT.EDU>
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Kris Kolodziej wrote:
> I was over-quota on Athena when I used pine to incorporate all my emails
> from the IMPA server. Somehow 50%of my emails (in the Inbox on the IMAP
> server) got lost in the process. A Athena consultant was helping me
> check my folders, etc on Athena but we couldn't figure out where is my
> missing mail.
Hi,
I'm a little puzzled, because I haven't been able to make pine lose mail
myself. I've seen one or two suggestions on OLC that pine may have lost
someone's mail, and now there's your message, so something's probably
happening, but I don't know how to fix what I can't make happen myself.
Unfortunately, I don't expect your mail to be anywhere. When pine
incorporates your mail for you, it moves mail from one folder (the
server) to another (your Unix account) using the same function as if you
had invoked "save" from within pine. There's no external storage; pine
copies messages, checks to see if the copying was successful, and then
deletes (and expunges) the original messages.
From your report I'd infer that the "copy, and check for successful
copy" has a bug when interacting with over-quota AFS accounts. Can you
make it happen more than once, and tell me how to do so?
Jacob Morzinski
MIT SIPB
