Re: Unidentified subject! (Two Balsas crash)

[Jules Bean <jmlb2 hermes cam ac uk>]

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, David Pickens wrote:

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> 
> On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Jules Bean wrote:
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> I hope you'll take this in the spirit in which it's intended, but we're
> not, after all, talking about the latest version of grep. :)

Of course. I never take offence, anyhow.

> Even
> established text mail clients like Pine don't handle multiple instances
> particularly well.  From a logistical point of view, I wonder if splitting
> balsa into a server/client (libbalsa/libmutt -- balsa) model app. is worth
> the effort considering the limited 'gain', especially while evolution is
> in development.  Even creating a read-only mode would be pretty
> time-consuming, and the version that's operating read-only probably
> wouldn't see new mail, or allow the user to compose new messages (as these
> would be copied to sentbox, etc.).  

There may, or may not, be other solutions to this.  (Superficially, just
flock()'ing the mailboxes should be enough, but I haven't thought it
through carefully). In any case, I'm not going to use balsa as a local
mail reader, I'm going to use it as an IMAP reader, and IMAP *does*
support multiple concurrent connections. [even though, as you say, PINE
doesn't very well]. It would be foolish to deny balsa users IMAP's
functionality, unless there's a good reason.

> 
> IF what you want is the ability to view two Folders/Mailboxes at the same
> time it might be better to add that to balsa at some point.

Of course.  That was a slightly silly example.

Jules

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