Hi Marko, On 12/17/2011 02:43:23 PM Sat, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
Thanks for getting back, Peter.
You're welcome!
Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>: >> Can I make Balsa read mail from ~/Maildir? > > Yes. I assume it's a maildir-style folder (with cur, new, and tmp > subdirectories); Yes. > if so, you should set your "local mail directory" to > something else, say ~/mail, then you can use "File: New: Local Maildir > mailbox" to make Balsa access ~/Maildir. If not, just make it your > local mail directory. Maybe I misunderstood you but I ended up confusing the GUI: the contents of my home directory appeared in the left pane.
Ouch--not what I intended! Sorry about the lack of clarity.
After some trial and error it looked as though I had to edit .balsa/config manually. I changed the type of all the mailboxes from LibBalsaMailboxMbox to LibBalsaMailboxMaildir (a wild guess). I also created the cur/new/tmp structures accordingly, and Balsa seemed happy.
There *is* a way to do that within the UI: for instance, to use a Maildir for the draft-box, you create a Maildir with a different name, like Drafts-maildir, then right-click on it; one of the menu choices is 'Mark as Draftbox'. Click it, and it will replace the default mbox-style draftbox; you're then free to delete the now-obsolete mbox version. The same method works for inbox, trash, and sentbox as well, but there's no option to mark it as outbox; the only way to convert outbox is by manual editing, as you found out! I don't recall the rationale for that omission...
However, when I try to send a message, it ends up in outbox and never goes out, even when I try a "Send queued mail". No error message. Only the message stays in outbox. I changed the port number and ran netcat to verify that Balsa doesn't try to make a connection.
Hmm...can't help there. My experience is limited to sending via an ISP's smtp server. Perhaps someone with experience with local sendmail config can jump in... Best, Peter
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