Subject: pine crash on osx

From: Matt Ackeret <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 10:42:38 -0700 (PDT)

On Sat, 20 Oct 2001 [email-masked] wrote:
>Subject: Pine error on Mac OS X
>I had Pine running fine (v4.33) then I updated to OS 10.1.  Now, no
>matter what version of Pine I use (have tried a variety of binaries
>and self compiled versions of 4.33 and 4.40) I always get a recurring
>error.  Pine functions fine, except when I hit ^X to send a mail.  If
>I have a filter installed (PGP4Pine), the error occurs after I get
>through the filter's prompts.  Without a filter installed, it happens
>right away.  It seems that right upon the moment of sending, Pine
>gives me the following message:
>
>Problem detected: "Received abort signal".
>Pine Exiting.
>Abort
>
>It drops me back to the command line here.  The interesting thing is
>that the mail does actually get sent.  What is going on here and how
>might I fix this?

I don't have any filters of this type (send filters?) installed, so I'm
not getting this error.  I use pine as my primary mail program on OSX.
(actually I want to get XPine installed to have a SLIGHT GUI shim on top of
a nice, fast, mostly-text-based email program.. so I can have multiple messages
open for example..  but XPine is based upon an older pine, and it looks like
a pain, etc..  I someone knows of another GUI mail program that
1) does IMAP, 2) lets you PREFER plain text, and 3) does > style quoting, and
4) runs natively on OSX, let me know about it..  I bet I've tried the few that
do, and they all have serious problems.  Mail comes the closest, but especially
doesn't do #3)

Anyway, sorry, to your problem..

Turn on crash logs in Console.app  /System/Applications/Utilities/Console.app
It's in the preferences there

Then make pine crash, and when it does, a log will come up in the Console
program to show where it crashed.  Mail that log (ONLY the last crash log,
if there are multiple ones) to the pine list and maybe we can figure
something out.

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 19:36:28 +0100 (BST)

On 22 Oct 2001 Matt Ackeret ([email-masked]) wrote:
> I someone knows of another GUI mail program that 1) does IMAP, 2) lets
> you PREFER plain text, and 3) does > style quoting, and 4) runs
> natively on OSX, let me know about it..  I bet I've tried the few that
> do, and they all have serious problems.  Mail comes the closest, but
> especially doesn't do #3)

Have you tried Mulberry?  2.1.1 was just released and according to

 <http://www.cyrusoft.com/mulberry/>

it "includes a Mac OS X 'native' version." I have a comparison of
Mulberry and Pine here

 <http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/#mulberryVpine>

I think it satisfies your 4 wishes too.

Let us know if Mulberry is what you're looking for,
Nancy

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