Re: Nathans comments [was: Initial Setup]

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 19 Mar, Nathan Clemons wrote:
> 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.

  My explanation is that one has to have some kind of inbox. To what
  file would POP3-delivered messages should be appended? I think it's
  better to quit in this case cleanly at the very beginning than to
  drop a downloaded mail after realizing that inbox is not writeable.
  
> 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?

Agreed. One should be able to make this step back.

> Postponing a message puts it in the Draftbox... where you can then continue
> it and send it later. The outbox (from reading old traffic on the list) 
> is for when you're not online? Am I the only one that thinks that these
> should be merged into one general bin?

  Mails in outbox are supposed to be sent on first succesful connection
  to the SMTP server. Sometimes one may wish to postpone message for
  somewhat longer time and this is what Draftbox is for.

> When you select mailbox configurator from Mailboxes, Add, the two options
> are:
> * Local
> * IMAP

> but if you go under Settings, Preferences, Mail Servers, Add, then it
>  defaults to adding a POP3 mailbox. I propose that we:
> * add POP3 to the option list
> * have the same wizard pop up in both locations

Well, I don't know. Note, that POP is handled differently from IMAP and
local. The latter types can be modified remotely, POP - AFAIK - allow
only downloading mails so it would be difficult to tread it as
"mailbox" in full meaning of this word. It's rather drop point. If one
feels confused, one can add explanatory message to new mailbox dialog,
that POP stuff can be configured somewhere else.

> Side note, I notice that the word-wrap is set to 79 when you do the ctrl-z.
> What is the viewer set to? It does not seem to be the same...

The wrapping code may to be a bit broken now (but only a bit). They
should wrap to the same width but apparently don't.

The Status bar problem is most probably located in IMAP access code.

Uff! Good luck to all balsa developers!

/Pawel