Re: JFYI: sent folder FCC wrong

[Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>]

On Apr 13, 2012, at  7:33 AM, Ildar Mulyukov wrote:
> 	Hi!
>
> to anyone who misses his/her sent mail:
> it could drop into some other then "Sent" folder. Look here:
> $ grep MRU1= $HOME/.balsa/config
>
> In my case it became
> [FolderMRU]
> MRUCount=2
> MRU1=file:///home/ildar/Mail/_some_random_folder
> MRU2=
>
> dunno why and how it happened while upgrading to the recent GIT gtk3  
> branch build.
>
> Everything is fine after fix.

Ahh...my fault.  When you move one or messages to a folder, Balsa adds it  
to a "most-recently-used" list, and offers them in the "move to" submenu.   
Likewise, when you set the fcc box to some folder, it is added to a  
"m-r-u" list, and Balsa offers that list in the drop-down menu.  In the  
past, those have been separate lists.  A recent commit replaced them by a  
single list, updated when you access a folder either by moving messages to  
it or setting it as the fcc box.  You must have moved one or more messages  
to _some_random_folder, which was then added to the fcc list, and became  
the default destination for fcc copies.

The reason for dropping separate lists is that they can be clumsy.  I'd  
reply to a mail in my inbox, setting the fcc copy to a relevant folder,  
then file the mail in the same folder, so it seemed convenient to have  
that folder in the m-r-u list for moving.  With separate lists, I'd often  
have to choose "other" in both drop-downs, and negotiate the whole mailbox  
tree twice.

But your use case highlights an issue: moving messages to a folder  
shouldn't make it the default fcc box, though perhaps setting the a folder  
as the fcc box should make it the first choice for moving messages.  I'll  
revert the change and rethink the issue.

Best,

Peter