Subject: Problems with the PINE inbox

From: Gagan Jeet Bhalla <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:02:42 -0700

Hi everybody,
	I'm hoping someone could help me out. Lately, I'd changed my 
read/write permissions to my account and from then on for some 
strange(and possibly unrelated reason)  reason, I'm not able to recieve 
any messages in my PINE Inbox although I know that I'm getting new 
messages everyday(which I check on Netscape). I tried playing around with 
 the Configuration within PINe but to no avail. Hope some of you can 
help,
	Thanks,
					-Gagan

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From: [email-masked] (Abhay Roy)
Date: 28 Sep 1996 08:57:22 GMT

Gagan Jeet Bhalla ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Hi everybody,
: 	I'm hoping someone could help me out. Lately, I'd changed my 
: read/write permissions to my account and from then on for some 
: strange(and possibly unrelated reason)  reason, I'm not able to recieve 
: any messages in my PINE Inbox although I know that I'm getting new 
: messages everyday(which I check on Netscape). I tried playing around with 
:  the Configuration within PINe but to no avail. Hope some of you can 
: help,

You are not very clear on what you did ;-( When you say you have changed
read/write permission for your account, do you mean your home directory
permissions ? You /var/spool/mail<user> (INBOX) permission ? Or something
like chmod -R <perms> . ?

A simple test will be to look at the size of your mail folder (INBOX).
Assuming you are running Unix, you could do "ls -l <path-of-INBOX>",
and see if the size is changing.

Once you see the INBOX with > 0 bytes in it, next you can see the pine
configuration (~/.pinerc) to make sure you have the right filename set
for your inbox. (variable inbox-path)

If that appears to be fine, you might want to consult your system admin,
who can throw some more light on this problem.

Later,
-Roy-
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                   Abhay Kumar Roy, Software Engineer
                           Cisco Systems Inc.
    "Better to understand a little, than to misunderstand a lot."
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