Re: Unidentified subject! (Two Balsas crash)

[Mike Palczewski <mpalczew u washington edu>]

I found another instance of balsa crashing when two are open at the same
time (by accident).  here is how to repeat. 
open up two balsas. open up the inboxes of both.  delete a couple things 
from one inbox and close it.  go to the other balsa and try deleting those
same items. 
That's what I did(like a dumbass). sorry no stack trace or debug info.
I don't think this will be fixed anytime soon(being able to open balsa
up twice).  I think there should be an checkbox in the preferances saying
something like this.

Allow multiple instances (unstable)

with the default being disabled.  Then if someone still wants to open up 
multiple sessions they can.   While keeping balsa stable for most people.

Mike 

On Wed, 08 Dec 1999 03:21:20 Jules Bean wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Peter Williams wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 07 Dec 1999 12:03:56 Jules Bean wrote:
> > 
> > > There may, or may not, be other solutions to this.  (Superficially, just
> > > flock()'ing the mailboxes should be enough, but I haven't thought it
> > > through carefully). In any case, I'm not going to use balsa as a local
> > > mail reader, I'm going to use it as an IMAP reader, and IMAP *does*
> > > support multiple concurrent connections. [even though, as you say, PINE
> > > doesn't very well]. It would be foolish to deny balsa users IMAP's
> > > functionality, unless there's a good reason.
> > > 
> > 
> > I believe with David Pickens' multithreading one would not need multiple
> > instances of Balsa to check an IMAP account (or accounts) concurrently.
> 
> But that's not my point.
> 
> My point is, there's no reason, for IMAP, why balsa shouldn't allow me
> more than one simultaneous instance.
> 
> Why would I want more than one simultaneous instance?  Typically, because
> I'm away from my desk and running another balsa on another display.
> 
> Jules
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could sit here and try to figure out who forgot to pick up who till the
cows come home.  But let's just say we're both wrong and that'll be that.

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