Subject: Re: Every Time I try to use 'COMPOSE MAIL" I get an ERROR HELP!!!

From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 09:22:43 +0100 (BST)

It *REALLY* helps if, when you describe such problems you also include:

*  Which version of Pine you are using: 3.91? 9.92? 9.93? 3.94?

*  The platofrm your Pine is running on (DOS? Windows? Some flavour of
   UNIX?)

ANYWAY....

Guessing from the Message ID header field of your posting that you are
still using Pine 3.91 I suspect you are having your problems from having
an existing-but-empty postponed messages folder or interrupted mail
folder.

Check these (using "ls -l" if you are on a UNIX system)...

	ls -l $HOME/.pine-interrupted-mail
	ls -l $HOME/mail/postponed-msgs

(replace "/mail/" with the name of the subdirectory in which your folders
are stored if different).

If either of these exist but are empty delete them.

The better solution is to upgrade to the current version of Pine (3.94)
which, I believe, does not suffer from the problem.

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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On Fri, 28 Jun 1996, ??The Riddler?? wrote:

> Ever time I Try to COMPOSE MAIL I get the error:
> 
> "Bug in Pine detected: "Received abort signal".
> Exiting pine."
> 
> If you have any answers PLEASE respond... to this or 
> [email-masked]
> Thank you
>

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From: Randy Brozyna <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 11:50:22 -0400 (EDT)

> [email-masked]
I've just started using Pine 3.91 and came across what sounds identical. 
Below is listed what I posted to our local help desk:

Pine will normally access the local file structure seeking the sent-mail
file.  However, if the pinerc has been modified to include a ftp site, as in:
*{ftp.cac.washington.edu/anonymous}pine/pine-info/[]
and this occurs first in the folder-collection, then Pine will abort.

Solution:
Delete file named core from users directory.
Make certain sent-mail file location occurs first in folder-collections,
as in:
mail/[]

[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Conrad Sabatier)
Date: 29 Jun 1996 17:19:39 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
>"Bug in Pine detected: "Received abort signal".

I was getting this from time to time.  Something having to do with the 
postponed box.  Look in your home directory for the file 
.pine-interrupted-mail, and delete it (mine was zero bytes, and obviously 
was confusing pine).

Conrad, *finally* learning *not* to use ^O as in pico :-)

-- 
Conrad Sabatier -- http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads