Re: startup-check and signatures with balsa 2.3.12

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 06/07/2006 10:30:02 PM, Uwe Scholz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> since I've updatet to balsa 2.3.12 yesterday, I remarked two smaller  
> problems with balsa.
>
> First, balsa does not check at startup, if there is another instance  
> already running. This can led to problems, I think, if someone sents  
> his mail from two different instances, maybe from different virtual  
> desktops. I can remember, in another version of balsa, this issue was  
> solved. Or am I wrong?

This should still work (works for me). A way to verify it is to run  
balsa from the terminal and see whether it complains about  
session-manager connection problems.

> Second, there seems to be something wrong with the identity-option  
> "singatures". In balsa 2.3.8 it was possible to pass a command, e.g.  
> "fortune -n 320" to balsa, so it could take the output and include it  
> into a new mail. Now, you have to chose just a file. Hmmm... a little  
> bit confusing. How can I tell balsa now, that it has to include the  
> output of a command with special options?
> For now, I solved this problem only by editing the balsa- config  
> ("SignaturePath=").

This one is a problem: the signature file path selection does not take  
that into account.

Pawel