Subject: Trouble: empty inbox

From: Sacha Horowitz <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 18:21:04 +0000 (GMT)

Hi.
I'm a student using PINE in a UNIX environment.
Sometimes - most of the time - when I open PINE recently, I have no
messages in my inbox, whereas other mail readers do show messages. It even
happens that messages that were in my inbox during one session are not
there anymore when I use PINE another time.

The local staff cannot help me because they're not using PINE, even though
is on the network.

Can anyone help me?

Sacha

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From: "Dr. Jigang Liu" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 15:01:56 -0500 (EST)

Change your password, then send a mail to yourself and see if the
mbox is still empty.

Good luck!

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 18:06:43 -0800 ()

If you go to your setup/config screen, from the Main Menu, what do you see
shown for "Inbox-path" ?

-teg

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From: [email-masked] (Orjan Johansen)
Date: 17 Nov 1996 17:46:04 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Kendall P Bullen <[email-masked]> wrote:

>drw-rw----   2 root     mail         1024 Nov 15 14:40 mail/

That's your problem. It should be:

drwxrwxrwt

Full access to everyone, but the sticky bit set to prevent deletion of
other people's files.

Greetings,
Ørjan.

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From: [email-masked] (Kendall P Bullen)
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 23:54:36 -0500

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Orjan

>Full access to everyone, but the sticky bit set to prevent deletion of

You're an amazing person, thanks!  :)  It worked like a charm.  I wonder
why the default access was different. . . .

Kendall

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