balsa, the most important mua? (was Re: The future of gnome-pim - and Balsa, too?

[peerceval <peerceval karubik de>]

le Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:58:19 +0200
christophe barbé <christophe barbe lineo fr> à ecrit concernant Re: The
future of gnome-pim - and Balsa, too?:
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>Balsa start nearly in one second.
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hello to all;

in the discussion about evolution, balsa has been handled as the
alternative. that's not adequate:

i'm very sorry, but i had to say that balsa is not really supported by
their developers: they do what they wan't (ok) without reacting on
messages (not very polite, but ok) and want their application in the same
moment to be the(!) gnome mail client (see open office) (silly). here are
some problems, made known for more than a half year and never korrekted.
here is the essence of the gnome-installtion-guide comment:

there are some problems which must be solved before you will be able to
successfully install balsa: Although balsa requires the pspell library,
its configure-script can't handle the latest versions of pspell but the
source code itself can (using the workaround offered by pspell itself).
And the configure script evokes too many gcc-warnings for having a
successful compilation. For solving the mentioned problems do this:
		
a) install the latest pspell-library
b) edit the configure script and delete «exit 1» inside of the line where
can you find «libpspell not found»
c) instead of the normal configure step call «configure --prefix=$INSTP
--disable-more-warnings --without-esmtp

And in version 1.2pre there's antoher highlight: if with th option
--without-esmtp the configure-run ends in the messages

checking whether to build ESMTP support... yes
checking for smtp_start_session in -lesmtp... no
configure: error: *** You enabled ESMTP but esmtp library is not found.

silly.

i'm not very happy with balsa, definitely not. the alternative?
sylpheed: fast. standard. nice. and simply to install. even in version
0.5.2

perhaps this mail can evoke the right reactions by the balsa developer.

salut bis denne
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