Subject: Re: Pine 3.93 hangs writing fcc after newsgroup post

From: Ian Russell Ollmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 11:30:45 -0700

To update the problem, I was able to solve the hangups by moving the
existing sent-mail-Apr96 file to a new name and letting pine create its
own fresh copy. Strange.

				Ian

On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Ian Russell Ollmann wrote:

> 
> 
> I am having a problem with pine 3.93 (Silicon Graphics Pers. Iris 4D/35,
> IRIX 5.3). When I post to a newsgroup such as this, the post goes out OK,
> but then it goes to write a copy of the post to the Fcc, and the little
> ascii clock sits and spins, never finishing. Mail goes out just fine,
> though it is Fcc'd to the same file. The path to the Fcc: location is
> defined in a slightly convoluted fashion in my .pinerc:
> 
> default-fcc=~/mail/sent-mail-$MONYR
> 
> where MONYR is an environment variable, which at the moment is equal to
> "Apr96". This has worked fine for the last year. Any suggestions? There do
> not appear to be any permission problems and the file is mounted on a
> local file system, so pine is not waiting for NFS, or at least I hope it
> is not.
> 
> Otherwise, I love the new version. It seems much more responsive. The old
> version (3.92) would often hang for a few seconds from time to time.
> 
> 
> 				Ian Ollmann