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Grex Info Item 183: need help with mail on pine.
Entered by tfk on Tue Nov 1 14:58:19 UTC 1994:

I can't access my mail via Pine,
as I usually do. The message says 
consult an expert. Help!

8 responses total.

#1 of 8 by rcurl on Tue Nov 1 15:22:22 1994:

You probably have a corrupted inbox (we have seen several lately).
Move your inbox to your home directory, and read it as a file. The
mail system will create a new inbox for future mail. You can do the
move with   !mv /var/spool/mail/tfk /u/home/inbox, and then read it
with   more inbox. (You can name the file anything when you move it -
I just used "inbox" as an example.)

#2 of 8 by tfk on Tue Nov 1 16:43:47 1994:

I tried this move, but got the response
permission denied. What am I doing
wrong?

#3 of 8 by rcurl on Tue Nov 1 19:16:48 1994:

Whoooops! I messed up the destination. It should work as just 
   !mv /var/spool/mail/tfk inbox     The way I tried to write it, with
the path, should have been to /u/tfk/inbox   (/u/ and /home/ are the
same thing). Sorry!

#4 of 8 by tfk on Tue Nov 1 19:26:47 1994:

Rane: It Worked! thanks for your help!

#5 of 8 by rcurl on Tue Nov 1 19:37:56 1994:

Whew! I'm glad I pulled that chestnut out of the fire... ;->. Glad to help.

#6 of 8 by curby on Mon Nov 14 09:10:20 1994:

Rane:

Do you have any idea what would cause the corrupted inbox?
Pine is usually pretty resilient to most things that you throw
at it.

#7 of 8 by rcurl on Mon Nov 14 23:09:04 1994:

It is believed to be part of the disk errors we have been suffering
(and on which staff is working hard, but its real puzzle). The problem
isn't with pine, butin the mail spool which all mailers use.

#8 of 8 by popcorn on Tue Nov 15 02:45:25 1994:

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