Re: Sv: Balsa 2.5.2 "Failure to sync mailbox xxxx"

[Fred Smith <fredex fcshome stoneham ma us>]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 08:00:12AM +0100, Pawel Salek wrote:
> Fred,
>
> there are number of reasons syncing mailbox state may fail - exactly
> as you figured out! Does anything get printed when you run balsa in
> a terminal window?

yes there is, though it wasn't obviously meaningful to me. I'll try again
later on today and see if I can find something there, and will post
some of it to the list for you to see.

> The hardcore was is to run strace -olog -ff /path/to/balsa and grep
> for failed accesses to the mailbox - but this is bit more
> demanding...

if nothing else works...

> Pawel
>
> Den 14.01.2016 02:50:59 skrev Fred Smith:
> > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 08:04:20PM -0500, Jack wrote:
> > > On 2016.01.13 19:20, Fred Smith wrote:
> > > > Hi all!
> > > >
> > > > I've just compiled Balsa 2.5.2, which went without significant
> > > > issue. but when I open my main mailbox, clicking on some messages
> > > > elicits a warning box pop up saying "Failed to sync mailbox xxx".
> > > >
> > > > I see that message could originate in any of a bazillion (more or
> > > > less) places in the program, but haven't yet figured out which
> > > > one, nor know what it actually is trying to tell me. what problem
> > > > causes this?
> > > >
> > > > anyone know a magic incantation to solve it?
> > >
> > > When you say your main mailbox, do you mean inbox?  What type of
> > > mailbox is it?  mbox, maildir, MH, ...?  Are you having trouble just
> > > opening the local mailbox, or actually trying to sync with a remote
> > > server?  POP3 or IMAP?  You can also start balsa from the command
> > > line using -d (debug POP) or -D (debug IMAP) to get more information
> > > on what might be going wrong with syncing.
> >
> > sorry for the lack of details.
> >
> > I run a mail server on my personal Linux box, at home, with my own
> > domain. Sendmail delivers to procmail which does the final delivery
> > to mbox mail folders.
> >
> > in my home directory is a subdir named "Mail" that contains a symlink
> > to /var/spool/mail/fredex, so that mutt (what I have always used)
> > accesses all my mail folders in ~/fredex/Mail.
> >
> > So, I can't prove the message I mention doesn't happen in other
> > mailboxes,
> > but I've seen it in the "fredex" mailbox. usually if there's an unread
> > mail, I click on it and get that message.
> >
> > ls -l /home/fredex/Mail/fredex /var/spool/mail/fredex
> > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 fredex fredex         22 Feb 24  2013
> > /home/fredex/Mail/fredex -> /var/spool/mail/fredex
> > -rw-rw----. 1 fredex fredex 2309646535 Jan 13 20:43
> > /var/spool/mail/fredex
> >
> > I don't see any reason why -rw-rw---- isn't adequate, as long as the
> > mailbox is owned by me, which it is. Does Balsa need more relaxed
> > permissions than that?
> >
> > This is a new installation of Centos-7. Previously I was using
> > Centos-6
> > and it had Balsa 2.4.14. In looking at the backup of that prior
> > system,
> > I see that /var/spool/mail/fredex looks like this:
> >
> > -rw-r-----. 1 root root 2300888945 Dec  2 14:53 fredex
> >
> > is Balsa complaining because the permissions are TOO permissive?
> >
> > Thanks for the reply!
> >
> > Fred
> >
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---- Fred Smith -- fredex fcshome stoneham ma us -----------------------------
                        The Lord is like a strong tower. 
             Those who do what is right can run to him for safety.
--------------------------- Proverbs 18:10 (niv) -----------------------------