Problems with 2.0.7



I'm experiencing the following bugs with Balsa 2.0.7 (running Gnome 
2.2):

* In former Balsa releases, if I had the Inbox open and a new message 
arrived, the Inbox would automatically refresh itself and scroll down 
to show the new message. In these last two versions, the status bar at 
the bottom of the main window changes to announce for example "Inbox 
with 20 messages, 1 new", but in order to see the message I have to 
switch to a different mailbox and then back to the Inbox.

* Twice when I've written a message in Russian (KOI) and saved it as a 
draft, it subsequently disappeared from the Draftbox and was lost 
forever.

Incidentally, I'd like to take a moment and complain about Balsa's 
general handling of mailboxes. I think the entire "commit" idea is 
silly, as most users come from mail programs where changes are 
automatically commited. I've been using Balsa for about six months now, 
but too often even I move some messages, exit without commiting, and 
upon launching the program again see the messages in their original 
positions. The Preferences option "Drag-and-drop moves messages by 
default" was a good step in the direction of making Balsa act more like 
other clients, but IMHO having to commit changes should be tossed out. 
Or is this some kind of limitation caused by using libmutt?

Christopher Culver



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