Re: Three Issues: mh, headers and contents

[Ian Campbell <ijc25 cam ac uk>]

Hi,

MH isn't so well supported (partly because I don't think any of the
developers use it). Also a lot of usefull functionality (like 3 below)
isn't implemented because MH mailbox implementation was tied too close to
the mbox implementation (where it is slow to parse at startup)

A couple of days ago a separated out all the different types of local
mailbox into different classes, so now it should be easier to add things
like this. I might do it if I feel inspired...

I will have a look at 1 and 2 though, they seem like bugs.

Ian.

On 2000-12-19 03:14:34 +0000 Julian M Catchen wrote:
> All-
> 
> First of all let me say that balsa development is tearing along and is
> making great progress.  Balsa is a great email client!
> 
> I have three issues that I was hoping someone on the list could help me
> with:
> 
> 1) I have a whole bunch of mH mailboxes that I use actively (left over
> from
> my days with XFMail).  When I delete messages it changes their name and
> never actually deletes them.  So, in my directory ~/mail/balsa there are
> a
> whole bunch of numbered files, 234, 235, 435, 12... When i delte a
> message
> it renames the file to ",234".  However, balsa never expunges these
> messages.  So the other day when I was backing up my email, I realized
> that
> there were hundreds of these "deleted" files hanging around.
> 
> 2) Why, when I select "All Headers" from the view menu does it not show
> any
> of the "Received" headers?
> 
> 3) Lastly, is it possible to make it a configureable option to decide
> whether or not to parse all email upon startup so that all of the numbers
> can be displayed in the mailbox pane?  Also, when there are no new
> messages
> in a mailbox, would it be possible to display a "0" instead of nothing?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> julian
> 
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Ian Campbell
Churchill College, Cambridge.