Re: Balsa hangs when turning off SSL for IMAP

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels cistron nl>]

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 00:53:02, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> On 08/21/2004 03:21:40 PM, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> [ snip ]
> > 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.

No, that isn't the case. As soon as I enable SSL (thereby
disabling TLS), the following happens right at the moment
I click the "Update" button:

- INBOX/Sent/Drafts/Trash folders are shown at the top of the tree
- IMAP Server tree gets collapsed (normally I have it expanded
 up to three levels deep). I have scan depth set to one, so
 it shows the tree one level deep.
- In the IMAP server tree I still see the INBOX/Sent/Drafts/Trash
 folders, only they are not marked as "special mailbox" anymore

When I disable SSL (going back to TLS) everything gets back to
normal the very moment I click the Update button.

Mike.