Subject: Bug in Pc-Pine detected out of Free storage

From: Alex Sharaz <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 12:24:01 -0900

Hi all,

I've been using all 3 versions of Pine to access my mail message store 
via IMAP and I'm now in a position where I want to provide the service to 
our users at Hull ( Up till now they've only had the UNIX version 
available to them). The problem is that I keep getting the 
Bug in PC-Pine detected out of free storage message appearing... 

Our networked PCs have about 504K of conventional memory free... I'm not 
sure about /extended/expanded memory at the moment. I can connect to our 
mail server machine using a userid that has never used e-mail before and 
PC-Pine will crash. I can then use the same machine to connect to my 
account and I can  read manage/compose and send  mail o.k.

I'm a bit unsure as to where to start looking for the problem.

Are any of you using PC-Pine3.91 from Remote booting PCs in a Novell 
Networked environment? (I assume it must be a fairly common configuration)

What sort of PC setup are you using.?

Has anyone else had problems with the "out of free storage" problem?

Alex

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From: "Raleigh Moody ([email-masked])" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 16:11:51 -0900 (PDT)

> Has anyone else had problems with the "out of free storage" problem?

Yes, we have.  We're using PC-Pine 3.91 on our Netware 3.11 network and 
we see this message on machines (mostly 286's) which don't have a lot of 
free conventional memory.  Apparently, PC-Pine likes a lot of free 
conventional memory.  I don't know what the magic number is, but we seem 
to have no problems on machines which have at least 520K free.  The 
aggravating part about this is, and I'm sure you know what I mean, is 
that it doesn't warn you when you first go in that there is enough memory 
for it to handle everything.  You can go into Pine and be happily working 
away when all of a sudden you'll get kicked out with the "out of free 
storage" message.

My solution has been to fiddle with the various drivers, loading as many 
high as possible to free up as much conventional memory as possible.  We 
use MS DOS 6.2, by the way.  I find it amazing that PC-Pine has memory 
shortage problems on machines which WP 5.1 has absolutely no problems.  
What's up with that, Pine Team People?  Why does PC-Pine need so much 
free conventional memory?

As far as your apparent inbox-reading problems, let me point out that not 
all imapd versions are created equal.  When we were first having problems 
(with 3.90) I downloaded the imap from cac.washington.edu (the one 
pre-compiled for Solaris 2.3) and had mucho problems on our Sparc5.  PC's 
would have difficulty reading some INBOX files which became corrupted, 
yet the Unix mail program had no problem reading the INBOX.  I switched 
back to the previous imapd version then had absolutely no problems.  Try 
changing imapd versions.

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