Re: Balsa programming questions

["Matthew Guenther" <mguenthe netcom ca>]

On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 10:46:22PM -0500, Peter Williams wrote:
> 
> $ grep 'expanded' src/*.c

[snip]
 
> I believe we use this to keep the expanded state of mailbox nodes between
> sessions... so that if you have a mail subdirectory, it will stay open or
> closed between sessions. I'm guessing this, anyway. In this case I do not
> believe that the GList vs GtkCTreenode discrepancy matters, although it
> should be fixed.
> 

Done.  It was causing segfaults, but it will terrorize the countryside
no more.
 
> 
> Balsa's backend is completely not smart about different mailbox formats.
> It only works with mbox.
> 
> If we wanted to check for new messages the modification time of the file
> would be the thing to watch.
> 

Does libmutt provide a "correct" way of doing this, or should I try
and hack something in myself?
 
MBG

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