Subject: PINE and an e-mail anamoly

From: [email-masked] (Help Desk Technical Assistant)
Date: 11 Jul 95 16:36:34 -0500

Tuesday, 11 July 1995

Since yesterday I am experienceing an anamoly with Linux-based PINE.  I sent
e-mail from my VAX VMS account at school to my Linux account.  I login
sucessfully into my Linux account, and it reports that I have new mail. 
However, I go into PINE to view the new mail, and I get messages similar to
"Message 0 of 0" within PINE.

My mail is on my Linux account, but PINE will not show it to me.  I know it is
on my Linux account-- somewhere.  I just do not know where else to look.  It
should be in the /var/spool/mail/xxxxx directory (xxxxx = username), but bash
(Bourne-again shell) tell me that xxxxx is not a directory.

How can I get PINE back to normal so that it recognizes my incoming mail?  I
would greatly appreciate whatever help you can provide me, and I thank you in
advance for that help.

Very respectfully,

Martin Cubas ([email-masked]) <=- VAX
             ([email-masked]) <=- Linux

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 14:55:43 -0700 (PDT)

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/var/spool/mail/xxxxx is usually a file rather than a directory, so you
might double-check that.  Also check the "inbox-path" in the Setup/Config
screen.  If there is a value there, try deleting it...

|\ |  |\/|  David L. Miller    [email-masked]  (206) 685-6240
|/ |_ |  |  Software Engineer, Pine Development Team   (206) 685-4045 (FAX)
University of Washington, Networks & Distributed Computing, JE-20
4545 15th Ave NE, Seattle WA 98105, USA

On 11 Jul 1995, Help Desk Technical Assistant wrote:

> Date: 11 Jul 95 16:36:34 -0500
> From: Help Desk Technical Assistant <[email-masked]>
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: PINE and an e-mail anamoly
>
> Tuesday, 11 July 1995
>