Subject: "Invalid INBOX format" help!

From: Stephen Balbach <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 18:27:19 -0400 (EDT)

Hi,

Solaris 2.5 SPARC. /var/mail is NFS mounted on a dedicated mail
server.

Problem: About every 10 minutes or whenever I need to write to my
inbox (new mail comes in or deleteing mail) there are error messages
regarding the INBOX and pine aborts and asks to quit and restart. The
error messages include "INBOX length 0 aborting..".."invalid mailbox
format".." unknown error consult an expert".. They all relate to
the inbox and it appears the inbox is being written too when it should not
be.

I have tried:

o Diffrent versions of pine
o removing all .pinerc, .pine-conf, .pine-debug? and restarting
o removing sent-mail
o running pine directly on the mail server (no NFS)
o deleteing the INBOX to 0 length
o running from a bare shell (no .login .profile .csh)
0 creating a new account and forwarding mail to that account. the new
  account works on so the mail headers are fine.
0 watching the creation of /usr/mail/stephen.lock is created and deleted
  when the inbox is needed to be written too. verified ok.

Im at a loss. This problem is not effecting anyone else but me. What other
files does pine open/use? Any help appreciated.

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Stephen Balbach  "Driving the Internet To Work"
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From: [email-masked] (Marcin Cieslak)
Date: 16 Oct 1996 15:47:59 GMT

Perhaps there is a problem with NFS locking.
Generally, it is not a very good idea to have a mailbox imported via NFS.
Do other users have similar problem?

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              << Marcin Cieslak // [email-masked] >>