Re: screen lock on imap message transfer

[Peter Williams <peter newton cx>]

On Thu 13 Apr 2000 13:32:10 micah craig wrote:
> when i transfer messages from one imap mailbox to another, my screen locks
> up completely until the transfer is complete.  i can still use my mouse, but
> clicks have no effect, my panel doesn't slide out, and my window manager
> (sawmill) doesn't respond to clicks or hot keys.  this is really annoying,
> especially over slow links, as it keeps me from being able to do anything in X
> until the transfer is complete.  i'm using a fairly recent balsa from cvs on
> debian unstable.  thanks for any help.
> 

Is your Balsa compiled with threading? It should say at the end of your
./configure; do ./config.status --recheck to see. I doubt it's built with
threading, and I guess somewhere we've got a mouse and keyboard lock that
we shouldn't. Is this on the bug tracker?

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