Subject: Pine for Vax/VMS

From: Philip Plant <[email-masked]>
Date: 3 Jan 1996 14:26:15 GMT

Hi folks,

I'd just like to say thanks to everyone who replied to my plea for help with 
installing VMS Pine - the advice was greatly appreciated!  Actually though, there is 
just one leetle problem I still have...  Well actually it's a rather big one really, 
I've set the folder-collections variable to: [MYDIR.MAIL][] which is accepted at 
startup, but whenever pine tries to r/w to any folder except INBOX it bombs out with 
'Pine internal error' <gasp>.  I've tried variations on this, but no luck.  And if 
the variable is left undefined, I get: 

Folder "sent-mail" in <SYS[]> doesn't exist.  Create?

And naturally it can't create it if I say yes.

If anyone could give me a hand with this one I'd be really grateful!

Thanks,

Philip Plant,

Computer Officer
Silsoe College.

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From: [email-masked] (Alan J. Flavell)
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 20:46:09 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, Philip Plant
<[email-masked]> writes:
just one leetle problem I still have...  Well actually it's a rather big
one really, 
>And naturally it can't create it if I say yes.

You may have overlooked it in the morass of WWW writeup that I
pointed you to at http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7Eflavell/vms-pine.html,
but there are several configuration fields that you have to get
just exactly right - this VMS port of PINE does not support other
values.  Your symptom looks to me like you still have the default
Fcc: configured.  This does not work and you must turn it off.
The work-around is to add a "customized header" of BCC: to your
own email address, assuming that you want to keep a copy of your
sent mail.

I'd suggest go over my writeup again and get the settings to the
ones that I list there.  Hope that helps.