Re: Threading of messages

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

On 2017.03.10 14:56, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> On 03/03/2017 10:39:47 AM Fri, Jack wrote:
> > On 2017.03.03 10:36, Jack wrote:
> …
> > > Only used it for a short time so far, but it looks good for me.   
> > > First few mailboxes seemed threaded on opening (mbox and maildir).   
> > > Found one mailbox not initially threaded (JWX with date ascending  
> > > sort) but the threading was there after closing and relaunching  
> > > Balsa (caching?).  I wont have much time to play with it more  
> > > carefully until next week.
> > However, when my reply arrived, it was moved to a "balsa" folder per  
> > a filter, but stayed at the bottom until I manually re-threaded,  
> > when it moved into the correct place within the thread.  Not sure if  
> > that particular issue was something you addressed yet or not.
>
> I found a couple of issues that might be related. One was a stale  
> GSource id that didn't get cleared, and the other was a failure to  
> lock the mailbox during threading-related activity. I'm not sure if  
> either could have caused intermittent nonthreaded messages, but the  
> locking issue is in the sorting/threading code. Master has been  
> patched for both--please report success or failure!

I finally got to recompile, and I claim success.  I don't know how much  
or what does or does not get cached, but my largest mailbox (maildir)  
with over 2000 messages just displayed almost immediately, correctly  
threaded.  I can also watch the threading happen in the inbox as  
messages arrive.

Thanks for the fixes.

Jack