Subject: pine 3.90/3.91 bug?

From: [email-masked] (Richard Jackson)
Date: 14 Oct 1994 18:37:48 GMT

Has anyone seen the following when a new user sends email?

Folder "sent-mail" in <Mail/[]> doesn't exist. Create? Y <= ENTER Y
      
[Can't create mailbox Mail/sent-mail: No such file or directory]

This occurs on a DEC Alpha system running OSF/1 3.0.  mail-directory
is set to Mail.  If I manually create ~/Mail, then the error condition
does not exist.  For an unknown reason, pine does not create ~/Mail.

Thank you,
Richard Jackson

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From: [email-masked] (Ken Weaverling)
Date: 14 Oct 1994 16:09:06 -0400

In article <[email-masked]>,
>does not exist.  For an unknown reason, pine does not create ~/Mail.

Yes, go into pine/os.h and look for and change the line...

#define DF_MAIL_DIRECTORY         "mail"

to

#define DF_MAIL_DIRECTORY         "Mail"

It seems like defining the mail directory in the global pine.conf is not
enough.

NOTE: the file pine/os.h is a symlink to the correct os_xxx.h file and 
won't be created until you build at least once and gets removed if you 
"build clean"

YET ANOTHER NOTE:  The comments in that file say to think real hard before
changing any of the defaults! :-)    However, we did because other MUAs 
want ~/Mail for folders and not ~/mail.

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