Re: Startup strangeness

[Jack <ostroffjh sbcglobal net>]

On 2009.06.14 13:24, Pawel Salek wrote:
> On 06/12/2009 10:52:33 PM, Jack Ostroff wrote:
> > On Balsa 2.3.28 (although it was the same on several previous  
> > versions) balsa seems to have latched on to a particular mailbox to  
> > open at startup, no matter which one I'm in when I close, and  
> > whetner I close by closing the window or using Ctl-q.  "balsa -i"  
> > has no effect, and "balsa -o folder" gives me a popup 'Couldn't open  
> > mailbox "folder"' and I've tried several of my folders with the same  
> > result (all mbox format).  I'm on Gentoo Linux, and I can't find any  
> > mention of problems on their forum or bugzilla.
> >
> > Any thoughts on how to troubleshoot or figure out what's going on?
>
> There are three problems here:
>
> 1. the ordering of open mailboxes is not preserved.
> 2. -o option does not work as expected.
> 3. -i opens the inbox as far as I can see - but in your case, it is  
> hidden by other open mailboxes...
>
> Re 1: I have looked at the implementation. This changed order is a  
> feature: the order in which the mailboxes are opened are determined  
> by the iteration over a hash. Making the reopening code preserve the  
> order as well requires some changes and understanding why less-than  
> obvious way of storing the set of opened mailboxes is used... I am  
> inclined actually to preserve only the most recently displayed  
> mailbox, i.e. do not pre-open other mailboxes that were accessed  
> recently. What do you think?
>
> Re 2: Did you specify full URL of the mailbox, as described on the  
> manual page (I can agree that specifying URLs is not exactly the  
> obvious way but we could not think of better alternatives)...
Ah - perhaps I really didn't explain properly.  My issue is really not  
which mailboxes are open, but which is the selected mailbox.  I have 33  
mbox mailboxes (including Inbox, Outbox, ...) tha largest is 22M, the  
rest well under 10M, and I keep them all open.  Startup is a few  
seconds at most - quite acceptable to me.  What I really want to  
control is which mailbox is displayed.  I would like it either to be  
the last selected one, or else the Inbox, but it always picks one  
called "house" alhtough I can't think of anything that distinguishes it  
from the others.

So - to your #1 - I don't really care about the order of opening them.   
However, if the one displayed is the last one opened, then I'd like it  
to just remember that one.  Perhaps -i would overwrite this and open  
Inbox last.

#2 no.  I just said "balsa -o balsa".  However, per your explanation, I  
don't think it would matter, since the mailbox IS open, just not  
selected.