Re: balsa 0.9.4?

[Matthew Guenther <guentherm asme org>]

On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 01:07:18PM +0200, Pawel Salek wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I have just fixed postpone thread deadlock (this was obvoius), mbox
> configuration update hangs (not quite sure if did it 100%) and - most important -
> tested IMAP GSS and CRAM-mD5 authentication methods. They work.

Yay!

> Concerning the balsa crashes when kept for long time open, it is related to
> closing mailboxes on time out. (one can switch off mail checking to get rid
> of zombies). I would rather polish IMAP, so it would be nice if someone
> else looked at this one.

Any idea on why it keeps creating zombies for checking?  Is the thread not
getting destroyed properly or something (this seems very odd)? 

> The mail delete problems some people still experience are related to the
> access privileges to the spool directory - my guess is that mailbox sync quits
> on dotlock failure. Any suggestions how it should work? I mean in general
> dotlock is an extra secuity level and in many environments it could be
> skipped (but skipping it could cause problems in other environments, depending on
> locking mechanism MTA uses, etc.)

Balsa should probably have an option to have lax file locking, which when
turned on would check the permissions on the directory, and if it can do
dotfile locking it would, otherwise print a warning to the status bar and
continue without.  That way it wouldn't happen without some conscious warning
to the user, but it wouldn't prevent the program from functioning on these
systems.

> Any suggestions what has to be done before 0.9.4? Other bugs to be fixed?

I think we should release just to get rid of that postpone bug, but maybe
call it 0.9.3.1 or something.

> /Pawel
> 
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> Pawel Salek, pawsa@theochem.kth.se
> 
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