Re: Opening mailboxes from the command line

[Konrad Hinsen <konrad hinsen fastmail net>]

On 20 Oct, 2011, at 18:55 , Jack wrote:

>> Thanks for your reply!  This sounds like the opposite of what should happen, right?
> Well - to be picky, -o says open mailbox, not select mailbox, although it would make sense to select a mailbox if you explicitly say to open it.

What would "open" possibly mean other than show/select it? All the mailboxes are always sitting there anyway.

> I'm not sure I would expect balsa to try to open a mailbox it doesn't know exists.

Me neither. I discovered by accident that it works in 2.4.1. I'd be perfectly happy being able to open previously added mailboxes. But then I don't really see the point of specifying an URI, a name would be sufficient. Anyway, I won't complain about any idiosyncracies if it just works ;-)

> Unless one of the developers can think of what commit might have caused this change in behavior, it might take a bisection approach to identify it.

Or I just use 2.4.1 until I hit a serious bug...

Konrad.