Re: Opening mailboxes from the command line

[Konrad Hinsen <konrad hinsen fastmail net>]

Peter,

> The change in '-o' behavior stems from around commit  
> 6412f6aa5ddaf3e9ea598c98fa1e7d0ff3fef3e5
...

Thanks for looking into this!

> We added some code to ensure that the mailbox that's selected when  
> Balsa closes is reselected when Balsa is restarted; that wasn't  
> previously the case: all open mailboxes were remembered and  
> reopened, but the mailbox that was selected on reopening was usually  
> not the one that was selected on closing.

So what exactly does "opening" a mailbox mean? I thought it was the  
same as selecting it. I don't see operations for opening or closing  
mailboxes, just adding/removing and selecting.

> According to the ChangeLog, one change was to respect the current- 
> mailbox-url even when -o was used.  I don't recall the exact  
> reasoning that led to it, but it seems to have been a conscious  
> decision.  However, it may have been a bad one.  Fixing it, to  
> ignore the current-mailbox-url when -o is used, should be possible-- 
> currently testing a fix.

If opening and selecting are distinct operations, one solution would  
be to introduce a command line option for selecting rather than  
opening a specific mailbox.

Konrad.