Subject: Re: BIG TIME Folder file problems

From: "Mihai T. LAZARESCU" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 11:42:44 +0000

I encountered a similar trouble several months ago, except
that my folders vanished completely (were deleted).  I was
using 3.95.  I downgraded then to 3.94, but the bug was still
there(!).

I made a bug report then, but got no answer at all.

As countermeasure, now I made my ~/Mail directory read-only,
that is nobody can add or remove folders from there.  Since then
no folder vanished anymore, but pine gets sometimes upset and
crashes! :-)

Just to mention, since on this Sun box I am the administrator,
I am sure there was no configuration change to justify this
strange behaviour of pine.  I was pretty astonished, because
I use pine since 3.89 and never got such problems.

Great tool this pine, however!

Regards,

Mihai L.
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On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Andrew Mathis wrote:

> Hello all:
> 
> Over the past couple of days, I have lost all of the information in my
> INBOX and saved-messages files.  They've literally gone from having,
> respectfully, 5 and 21 messages in each, to going to 0 bytes.
> 
> And the really freaky thing is that I didn't do anything.
> 
> Particularly in the latter case, I'm perplexed.  Since, when the file
> was revised to 0 bytes I was neither running an FTP (which would allow
> me to replace the file), nor was I in Unix mode, I'd have had to have
> deleted all 21 messages manually.
> 
> This I *know* I did not do.
> 
> My ISP claims ignorance.  They claim they didn't delete my messages (I
> have no reason to doubt them on this), and they also claim that
> they've never seen a "bug" of this kind in Pine.
> 
> So has anyone ever seen this kind of bug in Pine?   Particularly Pine
> 3.94?  Particularly Panix users?
> 
> Please reply to me at [email-masked]
> 
> E-mail is preferred, but public responses OK too.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andrew Mathis

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From: [email-masked] (Andrew Mathis)
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 05:04:54 GMT

Hello all:

Thanks,
Andrew Mathis

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