[plug] pine problems.

[Shayne O'Neill]

seems to be a mbox. By the look of it, blowing away the pine-debug and
pinerc files isnt working. (As was suggested to me offlist).

Hmm. Maybe it is unicode crap. Bloody spammers.

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On Wed, 11 May 2005, W.Kenworthy wrote:

> 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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