Subject: reporting a bug

From: Jacqueline Sarah Young <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 16:55:50 +0000 (GMT)

WHEN TRYING TO OPEN THE INBOX THE MESSAGE 

'INBOX(FILE/LOCAL/MAIL/HG1/HGIB3255) IS NOT IN VALID MAILBOX FORMAT'

APPEAR.  I AM THEREFORE UNABLE TO READ MY CURRENT MESSAGES

THANK-YOU

JACQUELINE SARAH YOUNG

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From: [email-masked] (Sylvain Robitaille)
Date: 5 Mar 1997 05:26:08 GMT

On 3 Mar 1997 09:06:18 -0800,
>APPEAR.  I AM THEREFORE UNABLE TO READ MY CURRENT MESSAGES

Yeeks! Please try not to shout, I can "read" you just fine on this side of the
ocean.  :-)

Seriously, I think this is a question you'll have to take up with the
sys-admins at your site. It appears as though your id on the machine is
hg1b3255, but the program is looking for your mail in hgib3255? (maybe that's
just a typo?)

In any case, check in Setup|Configuration for a value for your inbox-path. It
should point to where your inbox really is. The comment in the .pinerc gives
examples:

# Path of (local or remote) INBOX, e.g. ={mail.somewhere.edu}inbox
# Normal Unix default is the local INBOX (usually /usr/spool/mail/$USER).
inbox-path=

Hope that helps...

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