Subject: Re: VMS Pine and MAIL.MAI

From: [email-masked] (Alan J Flavell)
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 11:18:52 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>
[email-masked] (IAN VAZ) writes:
 
>I have Pine running on a VMS system.  Works fine as long as you have
>an existing MAIL.MAI file.  If you are a new VMS user who has does not have
>a MAIL.MAI file and then invokes PINE,...., craaassssshhh.  It dumps its
>stack because no MAIL.MAI file is found.
 
This used to happen with another 3rd party mail implementation we used.
We fixed it by sending a mail to every new user, as they were registered,
using of course VMS "MAIL".  Sometimes the stupid solutions are the
best!