I recall at least a couple of people who were having trouble with the getting the Maildir-patched pine-4.10 to work, so I thought I'd forward this insight from Larry. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 20:22:43 -0400 From: Larry Morley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: James Smallacombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: PINE Patched Source James - By George, I think I've got it! Once I removed the mbox directory from any users $HOME (~/mbox), everything started working correctly. The answer seems to be: (mbox2maildir.pl; rm -rf mbox) (of course, you'd probably want to make sure step 0 worked before going on to step 1 :( ) Upon inspection of the source, this is what is supposed to happen if drivers are used (mbox first, then something-else-I-can't-recall, etc.). Cavetat emptor (programmerus?) Thanks again, Larry Morley James Smallacombe wrote: > > You're the third person that's mentioned this problem to me, and I have > yet to figure out what's happened. If works fine for me using > > $HOME/Maildir > > in my pine config, so I can only think of 2 things: > > 1: maybe your global /usr/local/lib/pine.conf is overriding your .pinerc > > 2: check your MAIL envronmental variable. It should look like this: > > [richard2 james james]$ echo $MAIL > /usr/home/james/Maildir > > This worked for me no problem on both Sparc Solaris 2.6 and FreeBSD 3.2. > If you find the solution, please let me know. > > Thanks, > > On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Larry Morley wrote: > > > Hi James - > > > > Thanks for posting the patched source. One problem though. On Solaris > > 7, messages find there way to ~/Maildir fine. And, pine (from the > > patched source you posted) can read old pine messages in mbox. > > > > Unfortunately, I can't for love or money get the thing to read from > > Maildir. I tried (in pine setup) specifying $HOME/Maildir, ~/Maildir, > > /export/home/whoever/maildir - everything I could think of. The best > > I get from PINE is "Maildir - not a selectable folder." (or something > > very similar). Even tried leaving the inbox-path set to it's default. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > Larry Morley > >
