Re: problem parsing mbox files

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 09/07/2008 10:16:05 PM, Jack Ostroff wrote:
> Recently, Balsa (2.3.22 under Gentoo Linux, AMD64, 2.6.25 kernel) has  
> started misparsing some of my mbox mail files.  (I know, as soon as a  
> I resolve this, I'm switching to another format.)  Manually looking  
> at /var/mail/jack with emacs, there are a dozen messages.  Balsa  
> shows seven in my inbox.  If I copy that file to ~/mail/xxx, Balsa  
> only shows one message.  I have several other mbox files in ~/mail/  
> and Balsa reads most of them correctly, but misses messages in a  
> few.  I don't see anything obviously wrong looking at those  files in  
> emacs.

Would you please report the version of your gmime library? I think  
2.2.16 to 20 had various bugs, some of them could cause similar  
symptoms. I am on 2.2.21 and it behaves very sanely. You can also clear  
your header cache in ~/.balsa/ directory. You should do it preferably  
by changing the name so that one could inspect them if the need be.

Pawel