Re: CVS HEAD, crash [SOLVED]

[Ildar Mulyukov <ildar altlinux ru>]

	Hello, Jean-Luc!

I by no means didn't want to diminish your report. In fact, it's the  
real help to de-bug the product.

On 25.11.2006 15:08:44, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote:
> Le 25.11.2006 09:54:17, Ildar Mulyukov a écrit :
> > On 24.11.2006 17:11:00, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote:
> > >  I've deleted my filters then rebuilt them one by one.  And this  
> > > fixes the problem (I remarked balsa crashed when there  was  a  lot  
> > > of incoming mail being processed and sorted by the filters)
> >
> > Use the procmail, Luke!
>
> I use procmail for the spam...
> But balsa filters are very handy... much easier to manage than the  
> cryptic procmail syntax. And as long as the feature exists, it should  
> work.

Agree. But In My Humble Opinion, having MANY filters is a good reason  
to redesign your mail-flow in order to make it
* reliable
* flexible
* MTA/MUA/etc. independable

So the unix-way here is: spend 1 hour for configuration, then use it  
forever. ;)

> >  Though balsa tends to take features of them all, it's still a MUA,   
> > not   a Mail Processing program.
>
> I disagree. MUA is also to process adn sort mail.
> Orherwise, you can alos use mailx to do everything.
> And even puch some cards to enter your data ;) (I began this way)

Didn't understand everything, but agree.

> There is a rule when writing a program: the user *never* does a  
> mistake.
Agree.
> Or, if you prefer, there are no action that should lead to a
> program crash.
Yes
>  In this case, if the filter format in the config file  is wrong,  
> balsa should tell "invalid config file format or something  like  
> that"...

Maybe it's a good idea to make a stopper or warning, when the number of  
filters > 10?

BR Ildar
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