Re: Startup strangeness

[Pawel Salek <pawsa0 gmail com>]

On 06/12/2009 10:52:33 PM, Jack Ostroff wrote:
> On Balsa 2.3.28 (although it was the same on several previous  
> versions) balsa seems to have latched on to a particular mailbox to  
> open at startup, no matter which one I'm in when I close, and whetner  
> I close by closing the window or using Ctl-q.  "balsa -i" has no  
> effect, and "balsa -o folder" gives me a popup 'Couldn't open mailbox  
> "folder"' and I've tried several of my folders with the same result  
> (all mbox format).  I'm on Gentoo Linux, and I can't find any mention  
> of problems on their forum or bugzilla.
>
> Any thoughts on how to troubleshoot or figure out what's going on?

There are three problems here:

1. the ordering of open mailboxes is not preserved.
2. -o option does not work as expected.
3. -i opens the inbox as far as I can see - but in your case, it is  
hidden by other open mailboxes...

Re 1: I have looked at the implementation. This changed order is a  
feature: the order in which the mailboxes are opened are determined by  
the iteration over a hash. Making the reopening code preserve the order  
as well requires some changes and understanding why less-than obvious  
way of storing the set of opened mailboxes is used... I am inclined  
actually to preserve only the most recently displayed mailbox, i.e. do  
not pre-open other mailboxes that were accessed recently. What do you  
think?

Re 2: Did you specify full URL of the mailbox, as described on the  
manual page (I can agree that specifying URLs is not exactly the  
obvious way but we could not think of better alternatives)...


Pawel