Re: balsa update

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 02:37:05PM +0200, Ali Akcaagac wrote:
> On 2001.06.03 14:15:29 +0200 Carlos Morgado wrote:
> > 
> > they kind of work for me. do you have mboxes inside directories ? i have no
> > idea how balsa behaves with that. i should check though :)
> > could you please detail how your maildir is laid out ?
> 
> look at the attached (little) picture and here:
> 
> bash-2.05$ ls -l mail/
> total 13324
> -rw-------    1 galaxy   users     2782536 Jun  3 14:29 balsa
> -rw-------    1 galaxy   users           0 Jun  3 14:17 draftbox
> -rw-------    1 galaxy   users      256856 Jun  3 14:17 evolution
> -rw-------    1 galaxy   users      322589 Jun  3 14:17 ewe
> -rw-------    1 galaxy   users      765511 Jun  3 14:17 galeon
> -rw-------    1 galaxy   users       12302 Jun  3 14:17 guestbook
> -rw-------    1 galaxy   users        3450 Jun  3 14:17 noten
> -rw-------    1 galaxy   users           0 Jun  3 14:17 outbox
> -rw-------    1 galaxy   users     9487080 Jun  3 14:17 sentbox
> -rw-------    1 galaxy   users           0 Jun  3 14:17 trash
> bash-2.05$
> 
ok. this should work.

> > > i usually go may way this..
> > > 
> > > - starting balsa.
> > > - leeching emails.
> > > - going through all mailboxes to see where the emails went in.
> > > 
> > 
> > clicking 'check' again usually does it for me as it will refresh the local
> > mail status *after* all the messages have been droped by procmail.
> > it should be fixed though
> 
> never figured out that but it would be cool to get immediate information
> e.g. i start balsa and it should tell me immediately how many mails i have
> in each mailbox and how many of them are unread. and whenever i pop my
> email it should automatically update the status too (same for sent messages
> and messages that went into the outbox for some reason) this would help much.
> 

it doesn't cause it only checks for new mail when it gets new mail. you
can tell it to fetch new mail when it starts.
i never had the wrong-update thing happen without using procmail so i guess
it's related with the time procmail takes to drop the mail.
i shall have to investigate :\

> 
> no, no messages telling me that there are something left in the outbox
> at least i disabled all dialogs :)

oh your fault then ;)

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