Re: Balsa can't download a mail with a long line, gets stuck in endless dup-creating loop.

[Jack <ostroffjh sbcglobal net>]

On 2012.10.26 12:31, Rob Landley wrote:
> On 10/25/2012 09:05:44 AM, Jack wrote:
> > options.  pop and imap debugging are avaialable.  For smtp  
> > debugging, I quote from a message to this list from last March: "It  
> > is - regretfully - handled in a different way. Mark  
> > Preferences/Misc/Debug checkbox."

> Aha! _that_ was the reason for the random multi-minute hang in the  
> middle of composing an email yesterday. The "expunge messages if  
> Balsa is unused for 120 minutes and that's as high as that slider  
> goes". It:
>
> A) Doesn't consider typing characters into a message composition  
> window to count as "used".
>
> B) Isn't multithreaded enough to let expunge work without blocking  
> message composition.
>
> (That's my guess, anyway. It spent minutes pegged at 100% cpu, but  
> only on one processor, and it didn't finish displaying the sentence  
> I'd typed when it hung until it had stopped.)
>
> (just noticed because it's also in the miscelaneous menu.)

perhaps someone should add a wishlist to the bugtracker to add a  
command line parameter for this.