Subject: How to get out of read-only mode

From: Todd Cooper <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 19:54:56 -0800 (PST)

Yesterday, I was stuck in Pine and so I turned off the computer in
frustration not thinking of it.  However when I went back in, it said
"Trying to get mailbox lock for process 16507.  Mailbox is open by another
process.  Access is read-only"  Now I can't delete my mail and the mailbox
is filling up quickly.  Can you tell me what to do to rectify this
situation?  Sincerely, 

	Todd Cooper

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From: "Ken Stevens" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 21:41:52 -0800

Assuming you are using a shell account with pine do the following steps.

mail
1
pre *
quit

Pine should function again properly.

Ken