Re: Balsa crashes vs. unread messages

[Pawel Salek <pawsa TheoChem kth se>]

On 2001-07-31 16:16 Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> The problem when this happens is that all messages that I have been
> reading are (after restart) set to 'unread'. Now trust me on this, If
you keep

This is pretty high on my TODO list. There is just a minor remapping
procedure to be figured out. The temporrary workeround would be just to
close&open the mailbox to commit the changes to the disk.


> 
> Heh, this one has happend before to. Lets say your /home is full and
> you restart balsa. It looks like then balsa rewrites an empty config
file
> because all config is gone then. Btw. this happens with other programs
> to (xchat, pan, galeon -> So all the programs that I frequently use)
so
> it's a design error in most programs I guess :(. 

This is design/implementation error in gnome-config library, this is why
is it shared by all gnome programs. I wonder how the (in)famous GConf
behaves in this respect...

/Pawel
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