Re: initial thoughts on 2.1/HEAD - trouble checking mail and otherproblems

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 04/29/2004 05:58:37 AM, Kacper Wysocki wrote:
> Cheers all,
> so I finally checked out HEAD, and I generally like the  
> improvements

Good!

> - but of course I wouldn't be writing home if I didn't run into  
> hitches along the way. Here's what I had problems with:
> 
> 'make install' the following trouble
> /usr/bin/install: `./Balsa.idl' and `./Balsa.idl' are the same  
> file
> (full text attached)

I get that too--`make -k install' gets you past it.

> For some reason, I couldn't check my mail. Sending worked, and  
> so did an APOP account I rarely use, but the vanilla POP I'm  
> currently mailing from, I keep getting these:
> POP3 mailbox online error: -ERR authorization failed
> This is the hitch that will keep me from using HEAD :-(

Could you run from the command line with the -d option?  You'll  
get the dialog with the server dumped on the console--that might  
help diagnose it.

> I got one of those "free(): invalid pointer 0x8574798!"  
> messages on exit. What actually happened was that I exit balsa  
> while a message was still open, and this message just hung  
> instead of exiting along with the rest of balsa, giving the  
> above error. I'll try my best to reproduce it.

Yes, please--a stack trace would be invaluable!

> Old mail with no subject gets consistently tagged as unread,  
> and doesn't have an entry in the "From:" column until I  
> actually open the message.

Can you post an innocuous example?

> There was some discrepancy in the message sorting- initially,  
> the mail boxen I opened would be sorted by subject, although  
> the little arrow was in the 'Date:' column.

That was the first time you started 2.1?  I wasn't aware of any  
changes that would do that...

> So, what is the best course of action here? Tomorrow I'll try  
> wiping my config and configuring HEAD from scratch, mayhap  
> it'll fix some of these problems.

Yes, that seems like a useful step--please follow up with the  
results!

Peter