Re: bug in filtering code - no trash emptying after applying filters

[James McPherson <James McPherson Sun COM>]

On 30 Oct 2001, 12:36:07 AM Emmanuel wrote:
> On 2001.10.29 02:24 James McPherson - TSG Engineer wrote:
>> 
>> Hi there.
>> With balsa 1.2.1 there is a small bug in the filtering code. With
>> the stock filtering code (from Manu's patch), if your filter dumps messages
>> in balsa_app.trash ("Send to Trash") the status flag on the trash folder
>> is not set correctly: you need to send some other message to the trash
>> folder before you can empty your trash folder.
[snip]
>> I've bugzilla-d this and included the above as a patch against Manu's patches
>> for 1.2.1 via bug 61072. The new bugid is 63258.
> 
> OK thanks, I didn't know that I had to call enable_empty_trash (in fact I 
> didn't even know it existed).

You're not alone. The only reason I figured it out was because I was annoyed
that after I'd filtered my mailbox I was unable to delete anything via "empty 
trash"
until I'd deleted something else with the bin icon.

James

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