Might not solve the problem as I don't use IMAP (too much of a security risk IMNSHO) but my wife uses Pine 3.x and I had to remove the comment lines (grep -v ^# /etc/mime.types) or her instances were crashing when you tried to add an attachment to a message... Respectfully, Jeremy Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn was said to been seen saying: > On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > > On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > > > > Sorry for the late reply I'm way behind on my debian-devel reading. > > Better late than never :) You seem to actually be the only one that > bothered answering. I appreciate that. That's much, much better than > pine's own maintainers/developers did. > > Debian communiy is great! > > > Is there any reason why you aren't using uw-imapd-ssl? As the name > > suggests it has built in SSL capabilities. > > Yes, potato distribution on the server and, of course, inertia :) > One doesn't upgrade a server (install packages that were not > originally meant for that distribution) unless one _has to_. > > > imapd locks the mailbox so only one client can access it at a time. If a > > second client connection is attempted it can't get the lock and gets that > > error message. You should check to see if you have stale imapd > > processes lying around. These can be caused by client timeouts in some > > cases or by the SSL taking too long to start up or shut down. > > No stale imapd processes lying around. Most likely the "SSL taking too > long" thing applies in my case. The pine-sslwrap-imapd chain seems to > have totally collapsed, lately. Do you know if stunnel performs > better? > > > IMAP 2000 (packages: uw-imapd2000 and uw-imapd-ssl2000) should be a lot > > better in this regard. > > I'm in the process of building those packages (ripped from sid) on a > potato box, bu see above. > > > > PS. Incidentally, looking through the log, I see traces from an > > > earlier pine buffer overflow flopout caused by lengthy message > > > header entries, and which are now glued to the famous first > > > message in the mailbox. > > > Is there some way to wash that out? > > > > > > > You can actually delete that message now, imapd doesn't use it anymore. > > pine 4.33 does not show that message. Is there another way of deleting > it I'm not aware of? > > Cheers, > Cristian > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org -- ,-----------------------------------------------------------------------------, |Jeremy T. Bouse, CCNA - UnderGrid Network Services, LLC - www.UnderGrid.net | | Public PGP/GPG fingerprint and location in headers of message | | If received unsigned (without requesting as such) DO NOT trust it! | | undrgrid@UnderGrid.net - NIC Whois: JB5713 - Jeremy.Bouse@UnderGrid.net | `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'
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