Subject: Read-Only Inbox

From: Marc Osenberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 08:54:37 +0200 (MET DST)

Greetings from Germany.  I have not been able to straighten out a problem 
and am hoping someone can give me a tip.  Please reply to my address (and 
not only to the list) since I also don't know how to recieve the list!

The problem is that my Inbox has "Read-Only" on the top status line.  
This means that there is only one message, actually a collection of all 
the messages of the past few weeks.  New messages just get added on to 
the end.  You have to scroll through the entire thing to get to new 
messages at the end.  Reply and Forward don't work because it tries to 
reply/send to the entire message at the local address.  It won't allow me 
to delete the message, and saving it also does not cause it to be removed 
from the Inbox.

I guess the main question is how to change the status line so it is no 
longer Read-Only.  I spent hours last night trying to find a command 
somewhere but no luck.  Please help me out if you know what I should do!  

Thanks so much,

Marc Osenberg, Koeln

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 01:03:38 -0700

You need to find out why your mailbox is not being recognized as a
mailbox, but instead is being treated as an ordinary file.  Most likely,
it is because there is some junk (possibly blank lines) before the first
characters, which should be "From ".

You are still running Pine 3.91.  If you upgrade to Pine 3.94, you may
find that it will recognize your mailbox, since 3.94 knows to discard
blank lines at the start of a mailbox.

> somewhere but no luck.  Please help me out if you know what I should do!  

-- Mark --

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