From: Bruce Cohen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 00:01:02 MET

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Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 23:26:04 +0100 (MET)
From: Bruce Cohen <[email-masked]>
To: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>, 
     <[email-masked]>,  <[email-masked]>
Subject: real weird pine behavior (4.33)
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I always keep a very large number of messages on the pop-3 server (at
present 1794 showing - there have been more on the past without problems).
This is a unix system running pine 4.33 for several months now - there had
been problems before with 3.96 and then 4.05, with 4.05 constantly giving
aborts and core dumps.

Today upon opening the INBOX could immediately see that it was corrupted:
1st msg appears three times (as msg 1, 2, and 3) - it's been there for
months and has always appeared properly. Follows several msgs with a blank
screen then 1 with subject, etc., then more blanks, J(ump) to msg number
or Space to page causes an abort (with core dump) with the error message
on abort:

[Error writing scratch file at byte 8191][><][]
Problem detected: "Received abort signal".
Pine Exiting.
Abort (core dumped)

Since this first happened I have been unable to actually open or read any
messages.

Perhaps I should mention that for some strange reason the popper kind of
"wraps" the msgs: msgs from approximately 120-1794 are old (and
chronological), then it continues with msg 1 (follows 1794
chronologically) and inserts new msgs around 107 (yesterday's new message
point with a slightly lower count of total messages). Neither pine nor
webmail seems to be bothered by this - and webmail is presently functional
while pine certainly isn't.

the core dump is immense and I haven't really looked at it yet:

cat core only shows the word ELF and two cute moonlike (sunlike?) faces

Has anyone experienced anything remotely similar or does anyone have the
faintest idea what is going on?

Kind of reminds me of the old "message to save shrank" behavior with
earlier versions of pine....

To make things worse: tried to postpone this message (error writing to
scratch file, no space left on device) - not true: I'm at least 3 megs
under quota

Nor could I send this message from pine: 

Error 252 - [email-masked] - Insufficient

(goes off line - assume says insufficient space on device or something!)

what's going on here?

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