Subject: Problems deleting USENET messages.

From: Dave Knell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 14:22:00 +0000 (GMT)

At our university we are running pine 3.90,  I only today discovered the 
enable-aggregate-command switch...  previously I was going through Usenet 
mail message by message deleting all the messages I didn't want to read 
one by one.  

The problem arises, is that if I delete a lot > 50 or so...  when I 
change folder or exit, pine raises an 'Abort Signal' basically putting me 
back to unix shell... terminating the program... the .newsrc is not 
updated... and I still have 500 or so messages to delete...

This error happens if I even delete the messages manually, one by one.  I 
have even tried 'X' (expunging) the messages... that works, but it still 
crashes out when I go to quit or change folder.

Is this a bug in the program, or have I done something wrong??...  I am a 
bit confused by it all... and I just cannot delete mail in one big go...

We don't seem to have procmail so I cant filter out the messages I don't 
want.  I will have to see the systems manager for advice I think...

Anyway.....  any help is appreciated :-)

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