Initial Setup

[Nathan Clemons <nathan windsofstorm net>]

Under my Mandrake 7.0 system, when I ran the CVS version of balsa, it
walked me through the setup very nicely. However, I did have a question.
Because I never had any mail sent to me on that machine, my mail file
(/var/spool/mail/nathan) had not been created. Balsa tried to do so and
could not, due to permission sets.

Is it intentional that after this, one cannot continue? I would think that
someone should be able to do so, since it may not exist at the moment, and
balsa might not be able to create it, but the path may very well be valid.

Also, after changing that to /home/nathan/mail/inbox and continuing, I
added an IMAP mailbox. However, I found out that when I tried to connect,
since I upgraded my server, I haven't re-installed the IMAP daemon. Balsa
did not coredump, but it did exit after not being able to connect. Is this
intentional? Ie, if someone makes a typo in the servername and it can't
connect, why should they have to open it back up to fix the mistake?

Some thoughts of mine that I will be willing to work on if so desired.

--Nathan

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