Subject: PC-PINE configuration woes

From: Eric Penn <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 22:31:37 -0800

Help!!

I'm trying to install PC-PINE.  I've extracted the archive, and placed it
into its own directory.  When I run pine.exe it asks me where my inbox is
stored.  I provide a path to my local inbox, and save it in the pinerc
file.  Pine then beeps at me and tells me that no such folder exists!

I've checked the spelling, case (not that case should matter on a PC), and
pathname.  All are correct.  I've tried it both with and without "inbox"
on the end of the path...  I've tried it with and without a leading C:...
I've tried putting my inbox in the root of C:...  All to no avail.

Pine hates me.  It won't read my mailbox.  I really want to use this program
can anyone help?

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From: [email-masked] (Eric Penn)
Date: 28 Mar 1996 18:08:01 GMT

On 28 Mar 1996 05:07:23 GMT, Morton Lee Cohen wrote:

Thanks for the reply, Morton!

>        Until you receive mail, after PC-PINE is installed, you will not
>have a folder. In fact, if you read mail using another mail reader, first
>like the Freeport Mail System on Freenets, all incoming mail is read into
>your mailbox folder and your INBOX is deleted by that mail reader. So, if
>you use PC-PINE after you accessed your mail, thru the FREENET Mail System,
>before you use PC-PINE, you will receive, error after warning error, that
>the INBOX doesn't exist. 
>
>        PC-PINE, when used first, doesn't delete the INBOX Folder. It
>remains, but empty, if configured to copy mail, once quitting PC-PINE to
>your mailbox folder and deleting the newer mail.

>        From my understanding, PC-PINE doesn't run on Home Computers, not
>attached to a INTERNET Mail Server, at this time. If you are installing
>PC-PINE to read your Mail OFFLINE and upload your replies in a
>postponed-Messages folder.

Obviously I'm missing something simple here.

My INBOX exists -prior- to installing PC-PINE.  I currently have about 50-60 
incoming email messages in my INBOX.  This is a local berkeley mailbox format 
file in a valid folder, created by a POP3 client external to PC-PINE.  I also 
have a duplicate INBOX in the same exact format (with the same exact 
contentes) on my POP3 mailserver at mail.crl.com.

I am attached to a POP3 mailserver.  In my pinerc, I have defined a inbox

   inbox-path=C:\PROGRAM FILES\INTERNET ACCESSORIES\INBOX

and 

   incoming-folders={mail.crl.com/pop3}.mailbox

PC-PINE tells me that the pre-existant INBOX at the path specifified does not 
exist (even though it does), and then tells me that my remote specification is 
invalid (even though it is not).

What am I doing wrong?

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From: [email-masked] (Morton Lee Cohen)
Date: 29 Mar 1996 06:12:14 GMT

> invalid (even though it is not).

Hi Eric,

	If you posted the above inbox=path statement exactly as you have it
listed in the configuration file, can you tell me, if spaces can exist in
the path statement. Under MS-DOS, which I'm using at home, version 5.0, the
space is considered to be an illegal character.

	Would not the PINE program just see the following:

inbox-path=C:\PROGRAM ?

You wrote:

	If Unix allows longer directory names, shouldn't you have an
underline character between PROGRAM_FILES and INTERNET_ACCESSORIES instead
of a space?

example:
inbox-path=C:\PROGRAM_FILES\INTERNET_ACCESSORIES\INBOX

	I am not familiar with Unix as I am with MS-DOS, but would not the
same rules apply for illegal characters in the path?
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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 08:51:22 -0800 (PST)

Eric, Morton:
I'm not sure if this is a complete solution, but try putting quotes
around the DOS path name that has spaces in it.  Also note that even
if you succeed in accessing a local copy of the Unix-style mailbox,
PC-Pine can only open it READ-ONLY.

Also, the remote inbox-path spec is not correct for POP.
Drop the ".mailbox" or change that part to "inbox".

-teg