Subject: Mail directory doesn't get created.

From: Ken Weaverling <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 16:40:55 -0400 (EDT)

Scenario:

   First time user. Never ran Pine before

   Executes command to send mail from command line:
   
   Example:    "pine someusername"

Problem:

   Mail directory is not created. Therefore, when user goes to send the
message, it is rejected because Mail/sent-mail doesn't exist, and it 
can't create it because Mail/ doesn't exist.  Can't postpone message
either. It says...

[Error opening folder "/user/home/path/Mail/postponed-mail"]

(I compiled in the default mail dir as Mail/ and not mail/ )

Work-Around:

   Tell user to run pine with no args, at least the first time.  To
rescuse their mail, they need to turn on rich-headers and get rid of
the Fcc: line

Version:

   3.87 on DG/UX 5.4R3.00

Other platforms:

   I was able to reproduce the postpone error message on a Sun 4.1.x 
system. But NOT able to reproduce the error by default on that machine.
I *believe* it is because the admin on that machine must have not compiled
in sent-mail support by default. If I manually create a .pinerc and 
specifically define sent-mail folder, I get the same error as noted above.

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From: "Brian P. Hampson" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 22:50:16 -0700 (PDT)

> [Error opening folder "/user/home/path/Mail/postponed-mail"]

Don't count on 3.89 making the problems go away.  We are on DG/UX 5.4.2 
and pine 3.89.  Same problems...not ALL the time :(  So much for 
reproducible bug.  Usually I just tell the user to run pine again and it 
creates the directory...

> specifically define sent-mail folder, I get the same error as noted above.

I didn't investigate it further since it seemed that once the second run 
has been done, all is fine (strange)

B.

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