[plug] pine problems.

[W.Kenworthy]

mbox or .maildir or imap access?

Check out files with unknown/control chars in them: sometimes happens
with unicode subject lines (Chinese glyphs etc).  Can upset the mail
reader when trying to read the file (worse with mbox as it breaks the
whole file, not just one message!)

seen this on corrupted mbox files (does anyone use them these days?)

also seen it on a corrupted filesystem: if using ext2/3 and .maildir, do
yourself a favour and upgrade to reiserfs or one of the other
journalling filesystems (no flames please: I got sick of losing data to
ext2/3 and have not had a problem on that machine since changing to
reiserfs)

pine's imap support was always a bit clunky, but imap provided a good
buffer between problems like this

I have pine setup as a fallback/text mailreader but since getting
webmail up at home I have not bothered with (~18mnths or so) and imap
was the answer back then.

BillK


On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 12:32 +0800, Shayne O'Neill wrote:
> I'm having a rather odd problem with one of my 2 email accts. I'm a
> dedicated pine user. I prefer the simpleminded efficiency of the system
> over the glitz and glitter of gui clients. Plus I can be guaranteed I'll
> never have to view "horse porn" pictures or any of the other spammy crap
> that evaids spamassassin from time to time.
> 
> However one of my inboxes just locks up.
> 
> At first I thought it might of been too full. There was a couple of
> thousand mails in there (never a problem on the guild server, where 30,000
> mails in the inbox barely raises an eyelid from the server). So I copied
> the mail out via the fs into a folder and start up pine. Beautiful pine
> starts, although there is no way in hell it'll open that inbox.
> 
> A few days later however, at just over 100 emails, the new clean inbox
> won't open.
> 
> I dont think its file. And I dont think its memory. We recently upgraded
> the memory on the server, and it was coping with magnitudes larger inboxes
> pre to that.
> 
> Any idea where I should be looking?
> 
> Shayne;.
> 
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