Well... None of that fixed it, but I just learned that PINE 4.xx does POP3
mail boxes... Which solves the error messages from the mailbox, *and*
eliminates the annoying console broadcast messages... I just lose the
lovely beep everytime I get mail... :-(
- Mike
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Michael B. Trausch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Running Slackware 3.5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kernel 2.0.34 Slackware Distribution: www.cdrom.com
Running Pine 4.05, Lynx 2.81, and learning about Linux along the way!
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I bought my wife a new car. She called and said,
"There was water in the carburetor." I said,
"Where's the car?" She said, "In the lake."
-- Henny Youngman
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> I just downloaded and upgraded to Pine 4.05, and I'm having only one
> problem, and it's a nuisance problem and nothing else... but anyway,
> every time that I open my mailbox or change screens, the Pine says this:
>
> [Mailbox vulnerable - directory must have 1777 protection]
>
> Any ideas? I've ran the following on my ~/mail directory:
>
> chmod 1777 mail
>
> But that didn't get rid of the error message. Help would be appreciated,
> maybe possibly with a (brief) explanation of what that error message
> means...
>
> - Mike T.
>
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> Michael B. Trausch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Running Slackware 3.5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Kernel 2.0.34 Slackware Distribution: www.cdrom.com
> Running Pine 4.05, Lynx 2.81, and learning about Linux along the way!
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>
> "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish
> and he will sit in a boat all day drinking beer."
>
