Subject: Re: your mail

From: Bahagian Pemprosesan Data <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 11:11:35 +0000 (GMT)

Hello...

I'm Zahuddin from National Library of Malaysia.

I have a problem to login to my e-mail using PINE
The message below appears when I tried to execute PINE after login to my
personal e-mail at [email-masked]

Bug in Pine detected: "Out of free storage".
Exiting pine.

The message also appears when my division director tried to open her
send-mail folder.

Curently, our System Analyst is trying to solve the problem.

Please help/advise.

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From: Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 11:27:51 +0800 (GMT)

> Curently, our System Analyst is trying to solve the problem.

Well, for starters your headers show:

Message-Id: <[email-masked]>

I don't recall seeing such an old version of pine in a long time.  Pine is
now at "3.96".  

I suggest the first step is to upgrade!

Second, how large is your "inbox" and your director's sent-mail folder?

It is very likely that it is too large to be handled by the memory of your
Un*x platform.  (BTW, what platform are you on?  Sun, HP?)

Regards,
Ed

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From: David Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 22:25:30 -0700 (PDT)

> I suggest the first step is to upgrade!

Agreed.  An upgrade is definitely in order.

> Un*x platform.  (BTW, what platform are you on?  Sun, HP?)

I doubt that Pine is actually running out of memory.  I recall at
least one, and I think there were several, bug(s) that would cause
this that have been fixed since Pine 3.05.  If you can't upgrade right
away, you can try to isolate the trigger by manually editing the
folder and splitting it until you find a message that triggers the
crash.  The most likely cause is a malformed header that is causing
Pine's parser to choke.  I think one problem occurred when a header
ended with a backslash (\) character...

Good luck!

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