Subject: Bug (ID 7J7DP): pine doesn't like mailbox files beginning with blank line

From: Alex Lewin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 12:47:50 -0500 (EST)

If I take an otherwise-kosher mailbox file with several messages in it,
prepend a blank line, and run pine on it, pine will not recognize that
there's more than one message--instead, it shows one message, whose name
is the same as the name of the mailbox file, and whose contents are the
contents of the entire file. (Is this pine's way of indicating that the
mailbox file is corrupt?)

mailx doesn't have a problem with files beginning with blank lines.

Thanks
Alex

Pine built Tue Mar 19 19:07:34 EST 1996 on host: hawkeye
========== struct pine * ==========
ui:	login = lewin, full = Alex Lewin
	home = /ah/lewin
home_dir=	/ah/lewin
hostname=	hawkeye
localdom=	hawkeye
userdom=	vgi.com
maildom=	vgi.com
cur_cntxt=	{vgi-mailhost}mail/[]
cur_fldr=	INBOX
actual mbox=	{norm}INBOX
msgmap: tot=138, cur=137, del=0, hid=0, exld=0, slct=0, sort=Arrival
inbox is mail_stream
term type=xterm, ttyname=/dev/pty/ttyq6, size=40x80, speed=normal
======= Current_val options set =======
        personal-name : Alex Lewin
              user-id : lewin
          user-domain : vgi.com
          smtp-server : vgi-mailhost
           inbox-path : {vgi-mailhost}INBOX
   folder-collections : {vgi-mailhost}mail/[]
                      : {vgi-mailhost}/local/mail/archive/[]
          default-fcc : /ah/lewin/mail/Out
 default-saved-msg-fo : saved-messages
     postponed-folder : /ah/lewin/mail/postponed-msgs
       mail-directory : mail
       signature-file : .signature
         address-book : /ah/lewin/.pine-addressbook
         feature-list : old-growth
                      : signature-at-bottom
                      : delete-skips-deleted
                      : expanded-view-of-folders
                      : enable-mail-check-cue
                      : save-will-quote-leading-froms
                      : save-will-advance
                      : show-selected-in-boldface
                      : include-attachments-in-reply
                      : auto-zoom-after-select
                      : compose-cut-from-cursor
                      : enable-dot-folders
                      : enable-flag-screen-implicitly
                      : print-formfeed-between-messages
 initial-keystroke-li : i
      customized-hdrs : Reply-To: [email-masked]
                      : Return-Receipt-To:
                      : X-Anon-To:
                      : Precedence:
                      : References:
  saved-msg-name-rule : by-sender
        fcc-name-rule : default-fcc
             sort-key : Arrival
   addrbook-sort-rule : fullname-with-lists-last
               editor : emacs-for-mail -nw
 composer-wrap-column : 74
  reply-indent-string : >
         image-viewer : xv
 use-only-domain-name : no
              printer : a2ps -t4 -nn -p | lpr
 personal-print-comma : with banner [] banner printed for lewin; while read li; do echo  done | a2ps -t4 -nn -p | lp'
 personal-print-categ : 2
     standard-printer : a2ps -t4 -nn -p | lpr
 last-time-prune-ques : 112.10
    last-version-used : 3.92
        bugs-fullname : Alex Lewin
         bugs-address : [email-masked]
     suggest-fullname : Pine Developers
      suggest-address : [email-masked]
       local-fullname : Local Support
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  kblock-passwd-count : 1
       viewer-overlap : 2
 status-message-delay : 0
  mail-check-interval : 150
       elm-style-save : no
      header-in-reply : no
        feature-level : sapling
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       save-by-sender : no
======= Command_line_val options set =======
======= User_val options set (/ah/lewin/.pinerc) =======
        personal-name : Alex Lewin
           inbox-path : {vgi-mailhost}INBOX
   folder-collections : {vgi-mailhost}mail/[]
                      : {vgi-mailhost}/local/mail/archive/[]
          default-fcc : ~/mail/Out
     postponed-folder : ~/mail/postponed-msgs
         address-book : ~/.pine-addressbook
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                      : show-selected-in-boldface
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                      : compose-cut-from-cursor
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                      : enable-flag-screen-implicitly
                      : print-formfeed-between-messages
 initial-keystroke-li : i
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                      : Return-Receipt-To:
                      : X-Anon-To:
                      : Precedence:
                      : References:
  saved-msg-name-rule : by-sender
             sort-key : Arrival
               editor : emacs-for-mail -nw
         image-viewer : xv
              printer : a2ps -t4 -nn -p | lpr
 personal-print-comma : with banner [] banner printed for lewin; while read li; do echo $li; done | a2ps -t4 -nn -p | lp'
 personal-print-categ : 2
 last-time-prune-ques : 112.10
    last-version-used : 3.92
======= Global_val options set (/usr/local/lib/pine.conf) =======
          user-domain : vgi.com
          smtp-server : vgi-mailhost
           inbox-path : inbox
   folder-collections : My-Mail mail/[]
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          default-fcc : sent-mail
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       mail-directory : mail
       signature-file : .signature
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         feature-list : old-growth
                      : signature-at-bottom
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 initial-keystroke-li : i
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 composer-wrap-column : 74
  reply-indent-string : >
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 use-only-domain-name : no
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     standard-printer : a2ps -t4 -nn -p | lpr
        bugs-fullname : Alex Lewin
         bugs-address : [email-masked]
     suggest-fullname : Pine Developers
      suggest-address : [email-masked]
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 status-message-delay : 0
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      header-in-reply : no
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