Re: Filtering by "Subject or Sender Contains" deletes mails?

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 04/01/2005 06:09:02 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> People,
>
> I have noticed in the past that mails mysteriously disappear but have  
> never had much to go on to find out why it happens.  I just lost a  
> mail again the sequence of events was like this:
>
> I was searching for a particular mail that I knew was still in the  
> inbox (100+ mails) so I used the filter "Subject or Sender Contains"  
> but still couldn't see it.  I then grepped the file and found the  
> item straight away but I still couldn't see it in balsa.  So I did a  
> search for another keyword in the body of the mail with no success.   
> I then exited balsa, thinking that something has been messed up and  
> maybe just restarting would fix it.  However, when I got back into to  
> balsa, I still had no success finding the item but now, exactly the  
> same grep command also did not find anything!  The mail is definitely  
> gone and I didn't delete it . .

This is a critical bug - but I do not see directly it happening since  
all what the filtering code does is to display a subset of messages  
using msg_tree message number structure. The only potential explanation  
is that something does not get initialized properly as it should. Any  
hints how to reproduce it would be appreciated...

Pawel