Subject: Pine [bug] ; 3.91

From: "Christopher \"AWOL\" Curtis" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 21:45:40 -0400 (EDT)

We have users who, because they are evil little boys and girls and don't
delete their mail, have aliases sending their mail to their home directory
instead of the INBOX directory.  As part of the script that does this, the
MAIL environment variable is set, but PINE ignores it.  Most other mail
readers do not. 

Although this in itself is just an inconvenience, I modified
/usr/local/lib/pine.conf to set inbox-path to $MAIL.  Works fine _if_ MAIL is
set, but dumps otherwise.  Likewise, if MAIL is set but has no value, PINE
dumps. 

I don't know if this is a bug, but PINE should not simply ignore the MAIL
variable.  What we've had to do is either take each user who obviously
doesn't know what they're doing by the hand to fix the problem, or set
incoming-folders to include the new default mail folder. 

This is a problem for people who don't have the special mail folder, and just
makes the whole thing complicated all over again.  That's why we tried to get
people to use PINE in the first place, to avoid complication... 

T |        Christopher Curtis       | ... when you have eliminated the | O
E |   Sun Lab System Administrator  |   impossible, whatever remains,  | S
A | Florida Institute of Technology |  however improbable, must be the | /
M |       Melbourne, Florida        |          truth   - Doyle         | 2

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 16:07:52 -0700 (PDT)

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Hmmm...  We thought this bug was fixed, but it still seems to be there for
some platforms, e.g. SunOS...

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|/ |_ |  |  Software Engineer, Pine Development Team   (206) 685-4045 (FAX)
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