Message-Id: <m0vTMsU-000Cn6C@kite.ml.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 01:56:50 -0500 (EST)
From: joey@kite.ml.org (Joey Hess)
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: pine has problems with locking inbox

Package: pine
Version: 3.95L-1

I can get pine to crash when it's trying to read the inbox. Evidently, it
doesn't honor the lock procmail puts on /var/spool/mail/joey, or procmail
doesn't lock the file correctly when mail is being added to it.

To reproduce this problem, simply send a message to yourself in pine. As
soon as the message is sent off, and you're back in the inbox folder index,
press the down arrow key repeatedly. At the bottom of the list of messages,
pressing the down arrow key asks pine to go check for new mail in the inbox
immediatly. If pine does that while the new peice of mail is being
delivered, it says "Unexpected changed to mailbox (try restarting)", and
then "Mailbox closed due to access error". Then it refuses to access the
mailbox anymore. 

Most of the time, I just restart pine and nothing is wrong with the inbox,
except the last few messages I've read arn't marked as read. On a few
occasions, the mailbox has been corrupted with a few messages running
together.

I think that pine should be a little more careful when reading the
mail spool. It's disturbing to think I might lose mail this way.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 1.2
Kernel Version: Linux kite 2.0.26 #1 Fri Nov 22 14:07:06 EST 1996 i586

Versions of the packages pine depends on:
libc5        Version: 5.4.13-1
ncurses3.0        Version: 1.9.9e-1
mime-support        Version: 2.08-1
I'm using procmail version 3.10-4 as my MTA.