Re: few balsa annoyances and one bug

[Mario Mikocevic <mario mikocevic t-com hr>]

On 08/21/2007 11:31:00 AM, Pawel Salek wrote:
> Thanks a lot for these reports - we really appreciate them. See below for
> some suggestions and follow-up questions.
>
> On 08/21/2007 10:49:20 AM, Mario Mikocevic wrote:
> > upgraded recently to 'official' rpm packet -> balsa-2.3.17-2.fc7
> > and then problems started surfacing -
> >
> > sometimes when I compose and send new message, along with that message
> > balsa sends one _more_ message from outbox, old one that is sent few
> > hours/days before.
>
> Oh, this is bad. The old one should have been removed permanently from
> the outbox. Do you get any indication about what could go wrong? If you
> start balsa from a terminal window, does anything get printed on the
> console? Do you have your home dir on  local directory, or is it some
> kind of NFS? We should really solve this problem as it may be a tip of an
> iceberg, really.

It's local ext3 fs. Nothing is printed anywhere. Only indication were coworkers
asking me why I did send same msg again. It *is* new msg since it has new,  
distinct
msg-id, checked it on mail server (perks of working for ISP :).

> > when composing new message, if I'm idling for some time popbox with some
> > _very_ confusing info about UTF-8 converting show up, confusing because
> > I'm
> > not sure what will happen if I click Cancel or Ok ..
>
> Good point. I think we could just safely save such messages as UTF-8
> unless the user requests otherwise.

Thats ok, my only concern here is popup box and misleading text in it, whenever
it happens I have a feeling it'll send my incomplete msg when I close popup  
box.
Popup box text is ->

<quote>
Message contains national (8-bit) characters

Balsa will encode the message in UTF-8.
Cancel the operation to choose a different language.
</>

Maybe we could add note 'Message will not be sent at this time..' or something  
..

> > my balsa process is started along with X, meaning that I never exit it
> > while
> > my desktop is running,
> > sometimes when I log in the next day and press 'Check' balsa just pops
> > info
> > box and never ever
> > finishes checking new email ..
> >
> >
> > desktop is F7 updated with all incoming mail fetched with fetchmail and
> > processed with procmail
> > into mailbox local files.
>
> If I understand correctly, you do not use balsa to fetch mail via POP3?
> If that's, the case, it will simplify debugging...

Nope, fetchmail does that, then it's preprocessing via .procmailrc into local  
mbox-es.
Balsa only checks those local files.



thanks for help,

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