Subject: INBOX locked READ ONLY

From: "Charles Deemer" <[email-masked]>
Date: 17 Mar 1997 01:07:16 GMT

Anybody know how I can unlock my INBOX that is stuck in READ ONLY?   I
can't delete messages etc.

Thanks.  Reply to: [email-masked]

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From: Charles Deemer <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 14:37:13 -0800

Thanks, someone sent me the kill -9 -1 instruction, which fixed it.

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 17:00:50 -0500

> can't delete messages etc.

    It all depends.  I couldn't tell from the headers on your message
for sure what kind of system you are using.  However, probably the
majority of Pine installations are on some kind of Un*x system, and on
those systems, probably the most common cause of getting an INBOX in
read-only is starting a second Pine session, usually without realizing
it, and thinking that that second session is "Pine," whereas a prior
Pine session is running in the background with a lock on the INBOX. 

    Resolving such a situation is usually simple but *does* require
rudimentary Un*x knowledge, and I'm not in a position to provide a Un*x
tutorial this afternoon.  Try simply quitting from Pine, and then
completely logging off from your server.  Wait a minute or two and log
back on to see if the problem is cleared.  (If you know some Un*x, you
don't have to go through these gyrations.)

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