Re: Bug#212244: balsa: Balsa keeps downloading old mails

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 10/15/2003 01:13:35 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> Does this have anything to do with the fact that (even with 2.0.15),  
> the "state" of  the system appears not to be updated until one exits  
> Balsa?  For example, I'm running Gnome2 in Debian 3.0 "unstable", and  
> routinely keep Balsa open.  Now and then, the browser Galeon crashes,  
> and sometimes the crash causes Gnome2 to freeze.  If I stop and restart  
> Gnome2, then start Balsa, the messages I trashed in the aborted session  
> appear again in the IN box.
> 
> I have resorted to exiting Balsa several times each day, in order to  
> cause the new "state" to be saved.

Is "Mailbox/Commit" a bad name for a menu entry? there is also a "Misc"  
page in the configuration that allows for periodic "saving" of the  
session.

Pawel
PS. for what is worth, this problem won't exist in 2.2.x, it is already  
fixed for imap and hopefully can be fixed also for local mailboxes as  
well: the flag changes are commited immediately.