Subject: pine problems

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 95 17:32:44 EST

Hi, I have downloaded pine and it runs, but there are 2 major problems:

1. It won't recognize incoming mail, so it thinks I have no mail
even when I do.

2. Whenever I send mail, although it does send mail successfully, it always
beeps some error about failing to create sent-mail.lock.

Any suggestions?

Henry

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 00:08:14 +0100 (MET)

> 1. It won't recognize incoming mail, so it thinks I have no mail

It may take a long time (usually 300 sec). Try ^L (Control-L) or move your cursor
past the last line in the (I)ndex, then PINE will check for new emails.

> beeps some error about failing to create sent-mail.lock.

Look where this file is created (I think it's your maildirectory, look in the (C)onfig-
Screen for folder-collections) and check if you have write-permissions for this directory.
Looks like you don't have it (or don't have the directory at all!

Set write-permissions or create the directory, that should do it.

> Henry
Ciao,
 Michael
 
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