Re: Automatic checking of local mail folders.



On Wed, 07 Jun 2000 12:08:48 Terence Haddock wrote:
> 
> Dear Balsa Developers,
> 
> I am quite impressed with the development of the Balsa mail reader and I would
> like to assist in adding a new feature. I would like to add the feature to
> automatically check new mail in all of the local mail folders.
> 
> I was thinking of implementing a thread which would wake up every X number of
> minutes (configured by the mail check variable), and check the timestamps on all
> of the folders, rescanning those which have been modified.
> 
> Is anybody currently working on this?
> 

Somewhat, as this in indirectly linked to the bug that Balsa does not update
local mailboxes correctly when other programs change them. Once this is
addressed your feature would be a simple matter to implement.

> In a related note, is there a Balsa mailing list archive?

http://mail.gnome.org/pipermail/balsa-list/

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