Subject: Lost attachments

From: Atle Weibell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:05:55 +0100 (MET)

Hello,

I've been using a web-interface for my mail for a long time, due to
travelling and waiting for phone-line to be installed in my apartment.

Now I had 200+ msg in my inbox, and opened it in Pine 4.31. I exited, 
saving all read messages to a local folder automatically. When I look at
the messages in the local folder, it seems like all attachments are just
gone...? Or actually it seems like all msgs that did have attachments
now just have the headers left. The body and attachments are just not
there...??

I suppose they are gone forever, and that's bad enough, but why did this
happen??

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Atle Weibell

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From: Arthur Snoke <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 18:17:32 -0500 (EST)

I had something like this happen before and never understood exactly
why.  In my case, I had opened Sun's Mailtool, not done anything with the
messages in question, but when I went back into pine (an earlier version
than 4.31) I had exactly your symptom: only the header came up in pine.

The good news is that the rest of the file was still there, complete with
attachments.  What I found is that somehow the formatting had gotten
screwed up (Why?...).  By comparing the corrupted files with uncorrupted
ones, I was able to manually edit the problem file using a text editor and
get pine to open them okay again.

In my case, I had only a couple of files to deal with.

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From: Bruce Cohen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 06:27:00 +0100 (MET)

Atle,

Have you tried turning on long headers in Pine? I have had similar things
happen to msgs - especially once they are saved to folders. Most of the
time everything is still there, only Pine sees it all as part of the
header.

Maybe if the people on the development team would finally concentrate on
getting "long headers" really solved we would all have a lot less
problems!

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Atle Weibell