Re: Pine not saving messages all the time

Nick Tan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a user who is experiencing an intermittent problem with pine 
> 4.64.  When he saves a message to a folder from his inbox (using (s) and 
> then typing the folder name), it only saves it about 50% of the time. 
> The other 50%, the message gets marked for deletion in his inbox, but 
> doesn't appear in the folder.
> 
> If he repeats the save command on the same message, it will work 100% of 
> the time.
> 
> I've tried to replicate this behaviour with my account but I am unable 
> to.  I thought it could be a problem in his .pinerc file, but I've used 
> his exact .pinerc with my account and was unable to reproduce the 
> problem.  The only difference is that he has 2900 mail folders versus 
> 225 for me.
> 
> The IMAP server is dovecot 1.0-beta3 using Maildirs running on RedHat 
> Enterprise 4, and the client is pine 4.64 running on RedHat Enterprise 4 
> (a different machine than the server).
> 
> Does anyone have any idea on what the problem is, or what I can do to 
> try and find out what it is?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nick
> 

Hi all,

I've figured out what the problem is.  Dovecot creates an index file for 
every folder when it is first accessed.  In pine, saving a message will 
fail if the destination folder does not have an index created.  The 
message will get marked as deleted but not saved in the destination folder.

The reason why saving worked 100% of the time the second time around was 
that the user would go into the folder to check if it had saved 
properly.  The act of looking at the folder would create the index file 
for that folder.  Therefore when saving the message again, it would work.

I've tested this behavior in other mail clients but only pine fails to 
copy messages into folders which don't have an index.  Is this a bug 
with pine?

Thanks,

Nick

-- 
Nick Tan
Unix Systems Manager
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
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