Subject: What to do about a locked INBOX?

From: "Glendon M. Gross" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 21:59:12 +0000 ( )

Hello to all,

I run linux pine at home, and up until recently have had virtually no 
problems.  Now, however, when I start pine it gives me the error message 
"[Can't open mailbox lock, access is readonly]" and won't allow me to 
delete messages from my INBOX.  I have checked the permissions on my 
INBOX file and my mail directory, so I don't understand why this is 
happening (there are no other instances of pine running.)  Can someone 
tell me how to correct the problem?   Thanks for your time.

				Sincerely,

					Glendon M. Gross

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From: Andrew Le <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 08:49:58 -0700 (PDT)

This usually means you (or someone) is running Pine with your account
somewhere else.. on another box maybe...

You cannot have 2 Pines running, or one of them will be read-only.

Andrew

> tell me how to correct the problem?   Thanks for your time.

Andrew Le           (206) 254-9925 phone
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