Re: Balsa questions

[Marko Rauhamaa <marko pacujo net>]

Thanks for getting back, Peter.

Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>:

>> Can I make Balsa read mail from ~/Maildir?
>
> Yes. I assume it's a maildir-style folder (with cur, new, and tmp
> subdirectories);

Yes.

> if so, you should set your "local mail directory" to
> something else, say ~/mail, then you can use "File: New: Local Maildir
> mailbox" to make Balsa access ~/Maildir. If not, just make it your
> local mail directory.

Maybe I misunderstood you but I ended up confusing the GUI: the contents
of my home directory appeared in the left pane.

After some trial and error it looked as though I had to edit
.balsa/config manually. I changed the type of all the mailboxes from
LibBalsaMailboxMbox to LibBalsaMailboxMaildir (a wild guess). I also
created the cur/new/tmp structures accordingly, and Balsa seemed happy.

However, when I try to send a message, it ends up in outbox and never
goes out, even when I try a "Send queued mail". No error message. Only
the message stays in outbox. I changed the port number and ran netcat to
verify that Balsa doesn't try to make a connection.

What follows is my .balsa/config:

========================================================================
[mailbox-Inbox]
Path=/home/marko/Mailbox
Type=LibBalsaMailboxMaildir
Name=Inbox

[mailbox-Outbox]
Path=/home/marko/mail/outbox
Type=LibBalsaMailboxMaildir
Name=Outbox

[mailbox-Sentbox]
Path=/home/marko/mail/sentbox
Type=LibBalsaMailboxMaildir
Name=Sentbox

[mailbox-Draftbox]
Path=/home/marko/mail/draftbox
Type=LibBalsaMailboxMaildir
Name=Draftbox

[mailbox-Trash]
Path=/home/marko/mail/trash
Type=LibBalsaMailboxMaildir
Name=Trash

[Notifications]
GtkUIManager=true
LibBalsaAddressView=true

[identity]
CurrentIdentity=Default Identity

[InformationMessages]
ShowInformationMessages=3
ShowWarningMessages=2
ShowErrorMessages=1
ShowDebugMessages=0
ShowFatalMessages=1

[Geometry]
MailboxListNameWidth=80
MailboxListNewMsgWidth=20
MailboxListTotalMsgWidth=25
IndexNumWidth=30
IndexStatusWidth=16
IndexAttachmentWidth=16
IndexFromWidth=128
IndexSubjectWidth=180
IndexDateWidth=128
IndexSizeWidth=40
MainWindowWidth=640
MainWindowHeight=480
MainWindowMaximized=false
MailboxListWidth=130
SendMsgWindowWidth=640
SendMsgWindowHeight=480
SendmsgWindowMaximized=false
MessageWindowWidth=400
MessageWindowHeight=500
MessageWindowMaximized=false
NotebookHeight=170

[Interface]
ShowPreviewPane=true
ShowMailboxList=true
ShowTabs=false
ProgressWindow=0
LayoutType=0
ViewMessageOnOpen=true
AskBeforeSelect=false
PageDownMod=false
PageDownPercent=50
ShowMainWindowToolbar=true
ShowMessageWindowToolbar=true
ShowComposeWindowToolbar=true
ShowStatusbar=true
ShowSOSbar=true
HideDeleted=true
ExpungeOnClose=true
AutoExpunge=true
AutoExpungeMinutes=120
MessageWindowActionAfterMove=0

[SourcePreview]
EscapeSpecials=true
Width=500
Height=400

[Printing]
PaperName=iso_a4
DisplayName=A4
PPDName=A4
Width=210
Height=297
MarginTop=6.3499999999999996
MarginBottom=14.224
MarginLeft=6.3499999999999996
MarginRight=6.3499999999999996
Orientation=0
LeftMargin=0
TopMargin=0
RightMargin=0
BottomMargin=0
PrintHeaderFont=Monospace Regular 10
PrintBodyFont=Monospace Regular 10
PrintFooterFont=Sans Regular 8
PrintHighlightCited=false
PrintHighlightPhrases=false

[MailboxList]
ShowMailboxContentInfo=false

[MailboxChecking]
NewMailNotificationDialog=0
NewMailNotificationSound=1
NewMailNotificationIcon=1
OnStartup=false
Auto=false
AutoDelay=10
CheckIMAP=1
CheckIMAPInbox=0
QuietBackgroundCheck=0
POPMsgSizeLimit=20000

[FolderScanning]
LocalScanDepth=1
ImapScanDepth=1

[MDNReply]
Clean=1
Suspicious=0

[smtp-server-Default]
Server=[deleted]:25
Anonymous=false
RememberPasswd=false
SSL=false
TLSMode=1
BigMessage=0

[Globals]
MailDir=/home/marko/mail
OpenInboxOnStartup=false
Debug=false
AutoCloseMailbox=false
AutoCloseMailboxTimeout=0
RememberOpenMailboxes=false
CurrentMailboxURL=
EmptyTrash=false
DefaultAddressBook=address-book-1

[FolderMRU]
MRUCount=0

[FccMRU]
MRUCount=0

[PipeCommands]
MRUCount=1
MRU1=sa-learn --spam

[address-book-1]
Path=/home/marko/.balsa/addressbook.ldif
Type=LibBalsaAddressBookLdif
Name=Address Book
ExpandAliases=true
IsExpensive=false
DistListMode=false

[identity-Default Identity]
FullName=Marko Rauhamaa
Address=marko@[deleted]
ReplyTo=
Domain=
Bcc=
ReplyString=Re:
ForwardString=Fwd:
SendMultipartAlternative=false
SmtpServer=Default
SignaturePath=
SigExecutable=false
SigSending=true
SigForward=true
SigReply=true
SigSeparator=true
SigPrepend=false
RequestMDN=false
GpgSign=false
GpgEncrypt=false
GpgTrustAlways=false
GpgWarnSendPlain=true
CryptProtocol=4
ForceKeyID=

[MessageDisplay]
DateFormat=%x %X
ShownHeaders=1
SelectedHeaders=from to date cc subject
ExpandTree=false
SortField=0
ThreadingType=0
MarkQuoted=true
QuoteRegex=^[ \\t]*[|>:}#]
MessageFont=Monospace
SubjectFont=Monospace Bold
WordWrap=false
WordWrapLength=79
QuotedColor0=#000088888888
QuotedColor1=#888800000000
UrlColor=#000000008b8b
BadAddressColor=#ffff00000000
DisplayAlternativeAsPlain=true
ConvertUnknown8Bit=false
ConvertUnknown8BitCodeset=0

[Spelling]
SpellCheckLanguage=
SpellCheckActive=false

[Sending]
WordWrap=false
WrapLength=72
AutoQuote=true
StripHtmlInReply=true
ForwardAttached=true
AlwaysQueueSentMail=0
CopyToSentbox=1

[Compose]
ComposeHeaders=Recipients Subject
ExternEditorEditHeaders=false
QuoteString=> 

[Toolbars]
WrapButtonText=1
========================================================================


Marko