Subject: pine fails to expunge (using MH drivers) (3.91)

From: Alan Thew <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 20:35:29 +0000 (GMT)

When attempting to expunge deleted items from my "inbox" folder, pine thinks
there are more items to be expunged than there really are and fails to delete
anything. If I try and expunge on a quit, pine will occasionally crash.
This is not always consistent although always fails on the same items.

I can manipulate the folder using MH primitives but these cannot cope 
with the volume which is high. pine _seems_ to be OK on other folders.

I've searched the filestore in case pine has some "special" file where it 
can store information like this but have found nothing. Running a trace 
and using debug level 9 doesn't seem to get me any further apart from 
showing that some pointers (in the general sense) have been trashed.

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 17:14:17 -0800

> This is not always consistent although always fails on the same items.

What do you mean by "there are more items to be expunged than there really
are"?

> with the volume which is high. pine _seems_ to be OK on other folders.

Can you provide any other information?  Do you mean that this only happens
on your INBOX folder?

> can store information like this but have found nothing.

There's no special file; deleted status is in memory.

> Running a trace

Can you elaborate on this?

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