[PLUG] Pine and IMAP question

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Tue Feb 7 18:06:53 UTC 2006


On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Brent Rieck wrote:

> Paul Heinlein wrote:
>> Check to see if you have a ~/.mailbox file. If so, try shutting down
>> pine, moving .mailbox out of the way, and restarting pine.
>>
>> Beyond that, you might try checking your mail or system logs to see if
>> your imap server is reporting problems with broken indices or unreadable
>> files.
>
> No ~/.mailbox file to move out of the way, no errors reported in the logs.
>
> The missing folders have messages in them as well as sub-folders, but
> there are other folders containing messages and sub-folders that do show
> up fine.

You might try opening one of the missing folders manually:

   G   # goto folder)
   ^N  # cycle through collections until you get to the right one

Type the name of the folder using '.' instead of '/' as the path 
separator, e.g.,

   mailinglists.plug

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> www.madboa.com



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