Subject: PC-Pine crash when filtering

From: Steffen Kaiser <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 11:53:47 +0200 (CET)

Hello,

my PC-Pine v4.21 keeps crashing now and then when it filters mails.
It then says: Problem detected "Bad msgno 0 in mail_eltm nmsgs = 665" Pine
exiting.

The "nmsgs" specifies the number of message _before_ filtering.
When I login into an Unix machine and run pine there, all the filtered
messages are tagged "D"; when I remove them, I can start PC-Pine.

Is there some work-around for this crash?

Bye,

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From: Gopi Sundaram <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 12:42:58 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Steffen Kaiser wrote:

> my PC-Pine v4.21 keeps crashing now and then when it filters
> mails. It then says: Problem detected "Bad msgno 0 in mail_eltm
> nmsgs = 665" Pine exiting.

This is a known bug. When there are no new messages in your INBOX but
the ones that were filtered out, your highlight bar will be on message
n+1 where n is the number of messages in your Inbox. After you read
the filtered messages in their respective folders, when you come back,
Pine will be at message 0.

The work-around is to move the highlight bar to some visible location
by moving it UP, BEFORE you go to your other folders to read filtered
messages. You can also move it down after you come back to the Inbox.
Make sure you don't try to view any message or move the highlight bar
further out of bounds when it is in such an invalid state.

A fix was posted on comp.mail.pine by, Jeff Franklin, some time ago.
Here's the link on Deja.com for his patch:

http://x68.deja.com/[ST_rn=ap]/getdoc.xp?AN=625482349&CONTEXT=966444090.1183055898&hitnum=7

Hope this helps,
Gopi.

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From: Gopi Sundaram <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 12:45:05 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Steffen Kaiser wrote:

> my PC-Pine v4.21

My mistake. I didn't remember you were talking about PC-Pine. My
previous reply may not be valid. Well, it's still a known bug. I'm not
sure how you'd fix it :-(

The work-around is still valid though.

Gopi.

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