The 'maildir' patch included in the Red Hat 6.1 and 6.2beta pine RPM causes some very undesirable behavior. It causes pine to do a recursive stat of files in your home directory. If you have a recursive symlink in your home directory, Pine will die instantly when you ask for a folder list: redhat6.2% cd redhat6.2% ln -s ~ maildirsucks redhat6.2% pine [ press 'l' ] Problem detected: "Received abort signal". Pine Exiting. If you strace pine, you will notice that it is trying to recursively stat every file in your home directory up to 3 levels deep. This is bad. If your home directory has a lot of files in it, and is mounted over a network, this is unbelieveably bad. This either needs to get fixed, or else the maildir patch should be removed from Pine. (isn't the patch really intended to be used on the server end, anyway?) Thanks, Chris Wing wingc.edu
I can't reproduce it like that, but: Add a new user Make a symlink, "ln -s ~ foobar" Run pine to create the mail directory exit pine Go to $HOME/mail Make a new symlink: ln -s ~ foobar Go to your home directory Run pine, use "l"
I've removed the maildir patches - look for 4.21-13 or higher in the next rawhide
Fixed in Bug # 18038.