Re: ANNOUNCE: balsa-2.1.90 released

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 07/04/2004 05:24:23 PM, Craig Routledge wrote:
>  I assume this is why I didn't get a response to my questions   
> regarding   "Backporting a fix for the .desktop menu file", because  
> you are so  close to  another stable release and so it wasn't worth  
> the trouble.

I am just about to commit that to balsa-2-0 branch as I test building  
it under FC2. balsa-2-0 has not been recently a center of developers'  
attention as far as I can tell.

>  has been released ( http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/ )   
> and if  2.2.0 isn't out soon, 2.0.17 will be what everyone sees for  
> the next  nine  months or so.  It's been my experience that Fedora  
> and Red Hat  releases  tend to, if not freeze, go into a slush as of  
> the first test release  and it  becomes hard to get things updated  
> after that.

I personally aim at releasing 2.2.0 this week - before Saturday, in any  
case. Whether it will actually happen is another question :). There are  
still some open problems but I believe it is still worth to push for  
this release.

1. there ws a problem with filtering messages containing multiple same  
headers with different values. There is a patch that almost fixes the  
problem.

2. mail signing and encryption is a more serious problem but I think  
the right way to go about it is just to state the list of the problems  
and attack them one after another. I am not a heavy crypto user in this  
sense so I do not really know what is to be fixed. The things that come  
to my mind are:
a. interoperability of crypto and Imap mailboxes.
b. boundaries problem with gmime.

I do not think a. is a show stopper. b is more serious one and I do not  
quite know what to do about it.

Pawel