Re: Balsa hangs when turning off SSL for IMAP

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 08/21/2004 03:21:40 PM, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
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> But I changed TLS to SSL, and after that INBOX/Sent/Drafts/  
> Trash got shown at the root of the folder tree, and listed  
> seperately under Settings -> Preferences -> Mailservers, even  
> after a restart. Changing the setting back to TLS fixed things  
> again. Weird eh ?

Hi Mike!

What you're seeing may be a consequence of having the IMAP scan  
depth set to 1.  Balsa defers scanning a full IMAP folder tree,  
but needs the special mailboxes all the time, so it creates  
specific entries in the config file to get access to the special  
mailboxes even before they've been found in the folder tree.  As  
the tree is scanned, when it comes across a mailbox that's been  
marked as special, Balsa removes the top level instance and marks  
the instance in the tree appropriately.

Here's how it works for me:  I've put my Sentbox and Draftbox on  
an IMAP server, which (because it's a Cyrus server) means they're  
INBOX.Sent and INBOX.Drafts, respectively.  If I start up with  
the folder collapsed, Sentbox and Draftbox are at the top level;  
Settings => Prefs => Mail Servers shows them individually, in  
addition to the server.

If I expand the server node to show INBOX, the tree is scanned  
one level deeper, and INBOX.Sent and INBOX.Drafts are added to  
the mailbox list and marked as special, and the top level Sentbox  
and Draftbox disappear.  Now Settings => Prefs => Mail Servers  
shows only the server entry.

I'm guessing that the different displays you see depend on  
whether the folder is expanded, not on whether it's configured  
for SSL or TLS.

Best,

Peter