Re: Issues on converting from mbox to IMAP
- From: Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>
- To: MiÅ?u Moldovan <dumol gnome ro>
- Cc: Balsa list <balsa-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Issues on converting from mbox to IMAP
- Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 15:49:59 -0400
On Jun 25, 2005, at 10:30 AM, Mişu Moldovan wrote:
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Annoying to me as a translator is the fact that marking some folders
on the IMAP server as mailboxes with special functions (inbox,
sentbox, trash etc.) doesn't change the displayed name automatically
using the localized version. The "sentbox" in ~/.mail used to be
"Trimise" in my localized Balsa, but the sentbox on the IMAP server
remains "sentbox" even after explicitly marking it as "Trimise" with a
blessed right-click. I've found the "Name" entry in the
[mailbox-Sentbox] field of Balsa's preference file and edited by hand
all the required fields, but it would have been nice if this have
worked out of the box.
You can more easily set the name of any of the "special" mailboxes on
its "Properties" dialog. But you're right, there's an inconsistency
there: a localized name is set initially by the druid, but not
transferred when a different mailbox is marked.
Another annoyance was that it doesn't seem to be a way to mark the
"outbox" on the IMAP server as the special "outbox" for Balsa. A "mark
as outbox" doesn't exist in the right-click menu for mailboxes. Is
this by design? I don't really understand why the "outbox" must lie in
the ~/.mail directory and "draftbox" is allowed on the IMAP server.
However, this was also fixable by hand in the ~/.gnome2/balsa file.
That one has a long history--try searching the list. Briefly: imap
servers are often remote and may not be available, and an unavailable
outbox really hampers Balsa.
Other than that it was quite a smooth transition and Balsa looks and
works as lovely as ever.
Great!
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