Subject: Pine: problem with Inbox...HELP PLEASE!!!

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 20:21:10 -0600

Please help:

When I log into my system to check my mail with pine my Inbox goes crazy.
 First off, a message comes up saying that it's checking the inbox for
new messages which it does every time, but now it's taking an unusally
long time(minutes rather than seconds).  Then a message says that inbox
was open with mail lock process 8001 and that the folder is read-only. 
So I can't delete any messages from the inbox.	All of my other folders
seem to be working fine, I can move files to and from them.  I can save
messages to other folders from the inbox, but they still won't delete and
I've got close to 200 messages and growing.  Also, every time I log in it
still counts all the messages in the inbox as new, even if I've read them
before. Does anybody out there know what's going on and can possibly help
me? I've called my sys admin but she didn't know what was going on and
said that she had never seen anything like this happen before.

If you can help me please mail me direct.

Thanks

rs

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From: Joe DiBenedetto <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:35:29 -0500 (EST)

Sounds to me like you've got another process (or session of Pine) which is
locking the INBOX. That would cause both symptoms you're describing. Make
sure you're not running Pine on another terminal and if you still get the
same message, you must've disconnected ungracefully and left a lock file
behind somewhere. Have your SA look in /var/mail and /var/spool/locks for
stray lockfiles with your name on them.

Joe:D