Subject: Hi

From: MATTHEW RANDALL <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 12:26:26 -0500 (CDT)

Hi, I recently started using Pine at college, and I have an annoying
problem.  Every time I log in to check my mail, I get the screen that says
that it's my first time to use Pine, and it wants to send me an email
about Pine.  How can I get it to stop doing this?  Thanks.

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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 13:25:01 -0500 (CDT)

Man, you've got to use proper Subjects. His Message-ID says he's using SCO
Pine 3.96.

>From: MATTHEW RANDALL <[email-masked]>
>Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 12:26:26 -0500 (CDT)

>Every time I log in to check my mail, I get the screen that says that it's my
>first time to use Pine, and it wants to send me an email about Pine.  How can
>I get it to stop doing this?

You have bad permissions on your home directory or your .pinerc. You must be
able to write to the directory, so its permissions should be 755; .pinerc
should be 644. Check these permissions and correct them.

Generate a fresh .pinerc with the command "pine -pinerc" and see what happens.