Subject: Re: Pine hangs up on NFS IRIX mailbox

From: [email-masked] (Matthew Black)
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 12:28:19

In article <Pine.SGI.3.91.950214170905.1386B-100000@San-A> Gildas PERROT <perrot@San-A> writes:
>Hi,
>I have problems to read e-mail on NFS mailbox directory with Pine 3.91
>under IRIX 5.3. I got a patch from SGI to solve problems with NFS and
>mail lock file but this one just solves the problem for 'Mail' reader,
>not for Pine. When pine tries to read mail in an NFS mailbox, it hangs
>up. I didn't have this problem under IRIX 4.0.5. However, I recompiled
>Pine under 5.3 without more success.  I know that I can use IMAP from
>Pine but I would prefer NFS for several reasons.

>Does anyone solve this problem ?        Thanks in advance for help.
>Gildas.
># Gildas PERROT, Associe de recherche # Ecole Polytechnique          
># Institut de Genie Biomedical        # C.P. 6079, Succ. Centre-Ville    __o
># e-mail: [email-masked]      # Montreal H3C3A7, Canada   ------ \<,
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You may want to build your pine with the MBOX driver:
   /usr/src/pine3.91>  ./build sgi EXTRADRIVERS=mbox

We have our mail spool NFS mounted.  By the way, MAIL_ATT doesn't work
with an NFS-mounted mail spool which is not exported with root permission.
MAIL_BSD does work fine, though.

--matt
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From: Gildas PERROT <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 14:39:11 -0500

Hi, I just have mounted mail directory with nfs3 instead of nfs and my
problem has disapeared.

Gildas.