Re: problem parsing mbox files

[Jack <ostroffjh sbcglobal net>]

On 2008.09.07 16:22, Pawel Salek wrote:
> 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.

I just upgraded to balsa 2.3.25 with no  change.  Renaming .balsa just 
made things worse (it got confused about filters and other things.)  My 
gmime is 2.2.17.  I have 2.2.22 available as a masked version - so I'll 
give that a try.  (sorry for the bad webmail quoting)