Ugent: ccn: inbox is not in valid mailbox format

Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 16:57:14 -0300
From: David Trueman <david@cs.dal.ca>
To: Andrew Dacey <ac213@chebucto.ns.ca>
cc: beta-pine@chebucto.ns.ca, csuite-tech@chebucto.ns.ca,
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I have backed out the new pine on CCN until the problems can be tracked
down.  Andrew, I have tried to restore your mailbox -- it was well
trashed with the beginning of each header mangled.

On Wed, 14 May 1997, Andrew Dacey wrote:

> When I logged on today and opened mail I got an error saying unparsable
> date format. It didn't seem to be affecting me at all though other than it
> kept beeping at me for awhile. When I quit pine to do something (planning
> on returning in a moment) it was fine. When I reopened pine I got a
> message:
> [inbox (file /usr/spool/mail/ac213) is not in valid mailbox format]
> 
> and now I can't open my inbox! I've got easily another 50 messages that I
> can't read now! Help!
> 
> I've sent this to csuite-tech too in case it needs to be fixed in the
> distribution too.
> 
> Update!: I'm now writing this message from a mailto link that I created in
> another window as my original bug report hung when I tried to send it from
> inside pind. (it's hung on sending mail 0%)
> 
> 

  David Trueman,
    Systems Manager, Dalhousie Math, Stats and Computing Science
    Technical Chair, Chebucto Community Net



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