Subject: What if attachments not found?

From: Chrysos Thanassis <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 13:13:29 +0200 (EET)

Hi there.

  When sending a mail with attachments in pine v3.96, the mail goes
away even if the attachments are not found, with only a warning:
(I have "background sending enabled", dunno if it matters)
As a result, you have to resent the mail correctly afterwards, and ask
pardon for the previous mail.

  Is that a bug or a feature? :)

  Greetings,
  Thanasis.

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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 10:16:24 -0600 (CST)

>From: Chrysos Thanassis <[email-masked]>
>Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 13:13:29 +0200 (EET)
                                        ^^^
We were having a discussion of time zones. What does this stand for?

>When sending a mail with attachments in pine v3.96, the mail goes away even if
>the attachments are not found, with only a warning:  (I have "background
>sending enabled", dunno if it matters)  As a result, you have to resent the
>mail correctly afterwards, and ask pardon for the previous mail.

I assume you mean attachment in the MIME sense. I cannot reproduce your error.
With the cursor in the headers, I hit ^j, typed in a nonexistent file name and
got an immediate error message. I was prevented from adding that file name.

Then, after ^r, I put the cursor on Attachments and added a bad file name. I
got an error message upon leaving that line, but the line wasn't blanked.
However, I was still prevented from sending with a bad attachment name.

Can you post additional details of your platform and setup to the list?

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 10:06:01 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

Hard to argue that it's a feature...
"background sending enabled" almost surely matters.
(Without that feature enabled, you'd be put back in the composer
 when Pine realized the attachment didn't exist.)

-teg

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 11:23:35 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

Adam just pointed out to me that he had "background sending enabled" 
when he tried and failed to reproduce this problem, so just pretend
I didn't open my mouth... I have no clue why Thanasis might be having
trouble.

(Thanks Adam).

-teg

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From: Drachen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 08:49:50 -0800 (PST)

EET=Easter European, USSR Zone

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On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 10:16:24 -0600 (CST)
> From: "Adam H. Kerman" <[email-masked]>
> To: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Re: What if attachments not found?
>