Subject: pine on debian

From: nick <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 14:25:11 -0800

Hello,

Does anyone here have experience with Pine on Debian? I'm
not sure what happened with my Pine installation. It freezes
shortly after opening when it goes to the Inbox (I think.)
The progress monitor in the centre near the bottom simply
says Busy. At first it complained about an incorrect email
address before it froze. I have removed it and tried to
purge all the configuration files (.pinerc). Then I
reinstalled and it started freezing all over again. I can't
seem to configure it to a clean setup. Strangely it works
fine for the other user accounts on my system.

Any help would be appreciated. I've installed Mutt in the
meantime and I'm kind of eager to get back to Pine.

Cheers,
Nick

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From: Alessandro Selli <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:11:28 +0100 (CET)

Il giorno Mon, 4 Nov 2002, nick così ha scritto:

|From: nick <[email-masked]>
|To: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>
|Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 14:25:11 -0800
|Subject: pine on debian
|
|Hello,
|
|Does anyone here have experience with Pine on Debian?

  Mine works all right.  I complied it from the official 4.44 sources.  What
sources did you use?  The official ones or the non-free Debian ones?

| I'm
|not sure what happened with my Pine installation. It freezes
|shortly after opening when it goes to the Inbox (I think.)

  "I think"?  Please, try to find out the exact circumstances when the problem
occures, it will make debugging much easier.

|The progress monitor in the centre near the bottom simply
|says Busy. At first it complained about an incorrect email
|address before it froze. I have removed it and tried to
|purge all the configuration files (.pinerc). Then I
|reinstalled and it started freezing all over again. I can't
|seem to configure it to a clean setup. Strangely it works
|fine for the other user accounts on my system.
|

  Can "mail" access the local mailbox?  Are the local mailbox's permissions all
right?  Try a ls -l /var/mail/$USER .  I suspect the problem lies in the
configuration file, since mutt apparently does not experience any difficulty.

  Sandro

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