Hi,

> Hi,
> I am trying to upgrade our mail server to SL4.4. Our linux 
> clients are either SL4.4 or SL3.x (or Redhat EL3). The clients nfs-mount
> /var/spool/mail from the server and some users read their email with 
> pine.
> 
> The problem I am having is that on 3.x clients, pine hangs. Pine 
> tries to open the inbox and just sits there. The version of pine is 
> pine-4.58-3.SL.
> 
> On the 4.4 clients there is no problem. Pine (pine-4.64-1.SL) opens 
> just fine, and I can read my email.
> 
> If I try to install pine-4.64-1.SL on a 3.x system, it fails because 
> the correct openldap libraries are not installed. If I try to 
> install pine-4.64-1.SL AND a newer version of openldap, this fails 
> because of other dependencies. So this doesn't look like a promising 
> approach to pursue.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this problem or have any idea of what could be 
> causing it and/or how I can fix it (short of upgrading all my 3.x clients
> to 4.x)?

Try uninstalling pine SL and installing the pine version from Dag Wieers
(dag.wieers.com) repository, which is currently on v4.64

This may resolve your issue.

Michael.