Subject: Re: INBOX(READONLY), How can I fix it?! (fwd)

From: Andy Malato <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 22:03:09 GMT

HI Ahmad,

That is really weird.  If you can restart the server, go ahead and do so, I know
that will cause any dead processes to be wiped out that may be left hanging.  
you could also use pkill pine and that will kill all pine sessions open.

hope that helps.

	---Andy

> 
> Hi Andy,
> I have already tried:
> ps fax | grep pine
> no pine process belongs to me on that machine. I can
> restart the server, but I guess it won't solve the problem!
> Any idea?
> Ahmad Anvari
> 
> 
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Andy Malato wrote:
> 
> > obviously there is another pine session that has highjacked your INBOX,
> > causing it to be read only.  Make sure you issue a ps -ef and grep for pine
> > and your user name.  or use ps -aux for BSD systems.  I belive that there is
> > another pine session running.  You just have to find the orphan process and
> > issue a HUP signal and all should be well.
> > 
> > let me know,
> > 
> > 	---Andy
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 00:32:14 +0330 (IRT)
> > > From: Ahmad Anvari <[email-masked]>
> > > To: [email-masked]
> > > Subject: INBOX(READONLY), How can I fix it?!
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi guys,
> > > I have this problem with my pine, whenever I want
> > > to delete a message, it says that your mailbox is
> > > readonly and does not let me delete the message.
> > > I guess I opened my pine last night and I was 
> > > disconnected from the Inetnet accidently. So the
> > > session is still open. However, I checked the
> > > processes of that machine, (ps) there wasn't such
> > > a process!
> > > Somebody, please help! My MailBox is gonna be FULL
> > > and I will be lost among e-mails!
> > > Looking forward for a helping hero,
> > > Ahmad Anvari <http://members.fortunecity.com/anvari>
> > > 
> > > 
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From: Bobby Ezell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:07:56 -0800 (PST)

The only other time I have seen a similar problem on UNIX is when the
permissions or ownership of the INBOX has physically changed, i.e. if it
somehow gets changed by a root process, the INBOX may become read-only. I
thought this was not an issue in later releases of pine though, only older
versions.

Bobby Ezell
Customer Support
Rasmussen Software
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From: Ahmad Anvari <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 01:47:42 +0330 (IRT)

Andy,
Another possible cause of this problem, is a global
mistaken chmod or another permission change done by
root. (in that case, no-one will access the mailbox 
regularly and mailbox of all people will be readonly.
what do you think?!
Ahmad

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From: Andy Malato <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:35:14 -0500

If there are no other pine sessions running and none that have died
randomly then the cause of a mailbox being read only would be the permissions on
it.  Althought file permissions being changed by root would cause this problem,
I don't understand why a mailbox would be changed, unless it was changed by
accident and in that case the person who did change it has to be a little more
careful.  What are the permissions on the spool file?

	---Andy

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From: Ahmad Anvari <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 02:20:23 +0330 (IRT)

The permissions: 660
owner of my spool file: myself
group: mail

It's getting weird!