We shall correct this soon, but if you use two different email programs and notice your messages disappearing for no apparent reason, you've got a problem. What's probably happening is that on some machines messages are stored in the “mail“ folder and on others in the “Mail” folder. Check to see if this is indeed the problem. Do you have both folders in your home directory? If you do, your messages haven't disappeared. They're just in two different folders. Here's the fix. Open a terminal (console) window and type:

mv mail mail.bak
ln -s Mail mail

Now move what folders you want from mail.bak to Mail, by typing

cp mail.bak/foldername Mail/foldername.bak

If you don't have both “mail“ and “Mail” folders and your messages are disappearing with Pine, you've a weirder problem. Contact us (staff@math.wisc.edu, room 507).