Several minor issues
- From: Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>
- To: Balsa Mailing List <balsa-list gnome org>
- Subject: Several minor issues
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 14:57:52 -0400
In the process of catching up after vacation, I've tripped over a
number of issues with balsa (compiled from git head about two weeks
ago). None are terribly serious, but all put some (hopefully)
unnecessary bumps in the road.
1) If I do File/Print when viewing an HTML part, Balsa does not
actually print the HTML. It seems to print the plain text version (if
there is one) or what seems like a list of the MIME parts, where the
HTML Message is just one part, and printed as a small icon with "Type:
HTML document (text/html). If it can render the HTML to screen, how
hard would it be to also print it? (This has actually bitten me a few
times in the past when I printed to PDF, and only later realized the
PDF didn't actually have the message.)
2) If I use the "Subject or Sender Contains:" filter at the top of the
message list, and then do a "Mailbox/Expunge Deleted Messages" ALL
deleted messages are expunged, not just the ones displayed with the
filter. I suppose this isn't actually wrong, but it has surprised me
more than once. I'd be tempted to open a (wishlist) issue, but I'm
sure the opposite behavior would surprise other folks, and I'd hate to
ask for yet another configuration checkbox to make is user choice. Any
other thoughts?
3) For the past several weeks, I have been noticing an occasional,
unpredictable hang/pause in Balsa when downloading messages. I'm
guessing there is something in the processing of some subset of my
messages that ties up a thread so badly, that nothing else happens for
anywehere from a few seconds to over a minute. Even the "downloading
messages" popup stops responding - the progress bars stop moving and I
can't even move the popup window itself. I don't think it's happened
with any mailboxes except my gmail one, but I get so few from the other
ones, I can't be sure. (This is all POP3 fetching.) The CPU gets
pegged at 100%, but the load is often not much over 1, depending on
what else is running on the PC. I've tried running from command line,
even with some of the debug options, but I have not yet noticed
anything that seems consistently related. I'm looking for any thoughts
on how to troubleshoot this better.
4) This is completely unrepeatable - but I've had a number of crashes
recently, of course never when running from command line, although I
keep trying. It usually happens when I either close a mailbox, or hit
the "Expunge" button on the toolbar. On several of the occasions, I
note that when I restart Balsa, only the Inbox is open, even though I
had multiple mailboxes open prior to the crash. However, it is
possible that they were all opened during the session that crashed, so
if the list of open mailboxes is only saved on a clean exit, then
that's no surprise.
5) Trying to do a git pull today, I got an error about not being able
to reach git.gnome.org. I was able to just edit my .git/config file to
use the URL copied from a new clone, per the instructions on the source
page. While I do recall seeing something about the migration of the
gnome sources, I do not recall instructions on needing to update
existing repositories. Did I just manage to miss it, or was there some
transient problem?
(I know I still need to test both the new threading options and
Albert's patch for IMAP stuff - hopefully I can get to those soon.)
Jack
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