Re: Opening mailboxes from the command line

[Jack Ostroff <ostroffjh sbcglobal net>]

On 2011.10.19 08:59, Konrad Hinsen wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am trying to open a specific mailbox from the command line, using  
> the --open-mailbox (-o) option. I never got any other result than  
> balsa opening normally and telling me "Could't open xxx", where xxx  
> is the string I give after -o.
>
> I tried both mbox files and Maildir directories, with various  
> variations on the URI, but nothing works. To be sure about the URI  
> syntax, I used the URI from the Balsa config file  
> (CurrentMailboxURL), but that doesn't work either. I tried both with  
> mailboxes that are in my account configuration and with other  
> mailboxes, it makes no difference.
>
> Does this work for anyone else?

It works for me, with balsa 2.4.8 under Gentoo Linux.

   balsa -o file:///home/jack/mail/balsa

opens my mailbox named balsa (mbox) but it also opens Inbox, and Inbox  
is selected.  Hoewver, if I add "-i" at the end of the command, balsa  
is selected instead.

Jack