Re: searching

[Jack Coates <jack monkeynoodle org>]

hmmm -- I wouldn't recommend letting your life depend on Balsa, though it
is more stable since passing the 1.1 mark...

The nice thing about Balsa is it respects existing maildir or mbox
systems, so you can still use Pine. I alternate between Pine and Balsa all
the time, depending on the task and my mood.

The big message problem was caused by the GTK text widget, and I don't
think there's a work around yet. Pine would have no problem there (though
of course, Balsa can display MIME attachments without making you set up a
file association to ee).

-- 
Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: It's what's for dinner!

On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Stephen Adler wrote:

> Since my life is now going to depend on Balsa, I'm going to send you
> lots of suggestions to make it eaiser to work. OK?
>
> 1) When I save a message in a folder, the way I do this is by left
> button mouse clicking on the e-mail. This pop's up a menu. At the
> bottom of the menu is a "transfer" button which when highlighted,
> pops up a window with a list of all my 300 or so mail folders.
> I then have to scroll through the 300 mail folders looking for the
> right one.
>
>   -- Is it possible to just pop open a dialog box with a text entry
>      where I can type in the name of the folder and it transfers the
>      mail to that folder? The window with the list of mail folders
>      is cool, but a bit combersom when you have 300 odd mail folders
>      like I do.
>
> more suggestions are sure to follow....
>
> The mail filter is very important, I hope you guys have this at the
> top of your list.
>
> Just thought of another suggestion
>
> 2) I opened an e-mail which had a lot of text. (1000's of lines) and
> it sent balsa into a CPU state trying to do something with all that
> text. I couldn't view the text since blasa froze up. I had to basically
> delete it.
>
>    -- Is it possible to set a limit on the size of the e-mail to be
>       rendered in the e-mail viewing box. OR have a dialoge box pop
>       up warning that the e-mail is greater than 5000 lines of text or
>       what not and making sure that the user really wants to read such
>       a long e-mail?
>
> Ok, that's two suggestions, the Filter stuff is very important tho....
>
> Steve.
>
>
> On 2001.02.05 19:23:03 -0500 Matthew Guenther wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Stephen Adler wrote:
> > > Guys,
> > >
> > > I've currently have 682 e-mails in my inbox. I need to find an e-mail
> > which
> > > I recieve about 2 or 3 weeks ago. I would like to search for all
> > e-mails
> > > which have a from: address of .ca. Is this possible with balsa?
> >
> > Not at the moment.  Should happen when we get filters going.
> >
> > MBG
> >
> > --
> > Matthew Guenther                     A hermit is a deserter from the army
> > guentherm@asme.org                   of humanity.
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> >
> >
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