Subject: Bad mail box

From: chang s l <[email-masked]>
Date: 21 Jul 1995 19:36:24 GMT

We have users reported a pine  problem described below.  Any idea as to
how the null characters were in the message.  How would a pine user know
there is a problem? How can a pine user get
around the problem and see all his messages?

Thanks,
Shui Chang, [email-masked]
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Pine misses some messages which Mail can find.  For example, using the
same mailbox which contains 488 messages, Pine sees 483 messages while
Mail sees them all as shown below in (2)&(3).  The last lines of 
messages #483 and first lines of message #484 are

------- End of Forwarded Message                   #483
 
---------
Sandy G
UNIX Systems 

 
>From daemon Wed Mar 29 20:03:14 1995              #484
Received: from KSV3.PRIV.ORNL.GOV by cos1.priv.ornl.gov (8.6.10/4.03)
          id PAA13623; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 15:03:13 -0500
Received: from conversion.ornl.gov by KSV3.PRIV.ORNL.GOV (PMDF V4.3-13
#7371)
.............................................

However, if the lines are displayed in octal, null characters are
proceeded "From....." in #484 as shown below(1).  The presence of 
null characters may be the cause for Pine not seeing anything after
that. 

(1)
=======================================================================
0000000    3   3   0   9   6   c   3   3   0   9   6  lf   <  sp nul nul
        063 063 060 071 066 143 063 063 060 071 066 012 074 040 000 000
0000020  nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul
        000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
*
0003520  nul nul nul nul nul nul nul   F   r   o   m  sp   d   a   e   m
        000 000 000 000 000 000 000 106 162 157 155 040 144 141 145 155
0003540    o   n  sp   W   e   d  sp   M   a   r  sp   2   9  sp   2   0
        157 156 040 127 145 144 040 115 141 162 040 062 071 040 062 060
0003560    :   0   3   :   1   4  sp   1   9   9   5  lf   -   -   -  lf
        072 060 063 072 061 064 040 061 071 071 065 012 055 055 055 012
0003600    >  sp   F   r   o   m  sp   d   a   e   m   o   n  sp   W   e
        076 040 106 162 157 155 040 144 141 145 155 157 156 040 127 145
0003620    d  sp   M   a   r  sp   2   9  sp   2   0   :   0   3   :   1
        144 040 115 141 162 040 062 071 040 062 060 072 060 063 072 061
0003640    4  sp   1   9   9   5  lf   3   3   1   2   3   a   3   3   1

(2)
=========================================================================
  PINE 3.91   FOLDER INDEX                <mail/[]> 950329  Msg 483 of
483      
  A 476 Mar 28 Spangler_HRCS@  (4,101) re: Human Resources Software
(fwd)   
    477 Mar 29 [email-masked]  (1,309) COS Pool meetings - Apr/May
      
    478 Mar 29 BEG C L        (1,691) Uniface patch for Oracle 3.1
driver f
    479 Mar 29 [email-masked]  (1,581) Re: Uniface licenses (fwd)
      
    480 Mar 29 Dave l         (992) Meeting
      
    481 Mar 29 Ban L J         (1,737) Re: Question concerning C++
on COS3  
    482 Mar 29 BEICH C L          (910) Re: Uniface licenses (fwd)
      
    483 Mar 29 [email-masked] (26,429) Proposed '96,'97,'98 GPE

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(3)    
=========================================================================
Mail [5.2 UCB] [AIX 3.2]  Type ? for help.
"950329": 488 messages 4 new 5 unread
  481 [email-masked] Wed Mar 29 16:38  53/1748 "Re: Question
concerning C++ o"
  482 [email-masked] Wed Mar 29 16:44  23/951 "Re: Uniface
licenses (fwd)"
  483 [email-masked] Wed Mar 29 19:18  150/5705 "Proposed
'96,'97,'98 GPE"
>N484 [email-masked] Wed Mar 29 20:12  115/2994 "Req. for
COS3"
 N485 [email-masked] Wed Mar 29 20:12  27/978 "52Y-HKJ09"
 N486 [email-masked] Wed Mar 29 20:20  31/1433 "Joachim
Schneibel"
 N487 [email-masked] Wed Mar 29 20:29  61/1555 "Denton's
money"
 U488 [email-masked] Wed Mar 29 21:12  222/11810
"Yellow Alert - Deteriorated"