RE: Release soon?

[Peter Williams <peter newton cx>]

On Wed, 01 Dec 1999 11:49:45 you wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I would like to see a release soon, or a least before Debianīs freeze so it
> get into potato.

Well, I would advocate not rushing a release out before it's ready. But compared
to previous Balsas this one looks pretty nice. We *need* to have threading
optional, though.

> 
> But before the release we need to make sure there are no seg faults (or at
> least not known errors producing seg faults).

How about: press 'B', then hit ok. oops! This is the only one I know... I'd like
to have the addrbook detect when it has no message and just close... see if I
can take care of this.

> 
> We also need to make sure that people with libc5 system are able to compile without threads.
> 
> Personaly, Iīm rewriting balsa_send_mail to be able to send ofline messages
> and to use outbox correctly. Please David wait at least until Sunday before
> working in the threads for sending mail, I wouldnīt want for you to waste your
> work.
> 
> Two more things, one I vote (if this can be vote) for using gnome-config.
> And the other, please answer me at this question (4 times now) why donīt we
> take cripted password for pop3 accounts off (letīs write them in plain text),
> the way it is now we only give a false sense of security to the users, just
> like windows programs do, and I belive this is the worst approach to kepping
> passwords secure.
>

Well, ls -lA your home directory... the permissions on *my* balsarc are 600.
Can't get much more secure than that. Theoretically we don't need to encrypt
them at all; I believe the justification for such a weak encryption system is
'accidental' peeks at the file...

> BTW, good work to whoever made message state icons work, only one petition 
> why donīt move deleted messages to trash instead of deleting them directly?

That is a fairly separate issue from the icons. But it is one that makes
sense... I'll add it to the list.

> 
> Hector
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Peter Williams peter@newton.cx