Re: Balsa's thread handling very buggy.

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels cistron nl>]

On 2003.07.17 16:33, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> On 07/17/2003, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> > On 2003.07.15 16:54, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> [ snip ]
> >> Try unchecking `Settings => Preferences => Misc => Delete  
> >> immdediately', and uncheck `Hide deleted' on the same page.  If the  
> >> parent is left in the view but marked as deleted, nothing else  
> >> changes.
> > 
> > Okay, that is a workaround, but only works in one session.
> 
> If it works in only one session, you've uncovered another bug! Settings  
> are supposed to be saved and restored between sessions.

No, I mean, the messages have to be deleted eventually. I usually do
that before I close balsa. The next time, those messages are gone.


> [ snip ]
> > Well, mutt does it fine, and so do most newsreaders ... a thread is  
> > handled as a group. Among threadgroups, you sort by the earliest or  
> > latest messagedate in that group. In the thread itself, it's simply  
> > thread sort order. If the parent is missing, sort messages on the  
> > same 'level' on date again. (substitute 'date' for whatever is being  
> > sorted on). Yes, this can change sorting order, but at least all  
> > messages remain part of the single thread. That is my main problem,  
> > the fact that the thread is broken into multiple threads spread all  
> > over the mailbox ...
> 
> The only time I see subthreads `spread all over the mailbox' is when I  
> delete the head of the thread.

That is what I mean.

> If the thread is:
> 
> a
>  b
>   c
>  d
>   e
> 
> and I delete b, I get:
> 
> a
>  c
>  d
>   e
> 
> ...still a single thread--is this not what you get?

Yes, but I mean if I have

m1
m2
m3
a
 b
  c
 d
  e
m4
m5

and I delete a I get

m1
m2
b
 c
m3
m4
d
 e
m5

and I'd prefer

m1
m2
m3
b
 c
d
 e
m4
m5

or even

b
 c
 d
  e

It's kind of hard to explain what makes the most sense - IMHO, how mutt does
it is the most 'natural' way. If you have mutt installed perhaps you should
try it to see what I mean, with the following in .muttrc

set sort=threads
set sort_aux=last-date-received

Mike.