Re: Opening mailboxes from the command line
- From: Jack <ostroffjh sbcglobal net>
- To: balsa-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Opening mailboxes from the command line
- Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:44:11 -0400
On 2011.10.22 07:46, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
On 10/22/2011 02:05:41 AM Sat, Konrad Hinsen wrote:
The change in '-o' behavior stems from around commit
6412f6aa5ddaf3e9ea598c98fa1e7d0ff3fef3e5
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.
I vaguely recall that discussion. Prior to that change, the order of
opening mailboxes and the one selected was not predictable - at least
not by the casual user, and the change made things more as expected by
the casual user.
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.
Opening a mailbox means getting information about its messages from
the mail-store (disk, IMAP server, whatever), and Balsa generally
defers that until the first time you select it (for a faster
startup). Once it's open, Balsa keeps the info, so it can switch to
it faster if you select another mailbox and then reselect the first
one. There's also a pref checkbox Startup: Remember open mailboxes,
which makes Balsa save the list of mailboxes that are open when you
quit, and reopen them at next startup; that makes for a slower
startup, but faster switching when you select one of them.
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.
Well, perhaps it should have been -s for 'select' instead of -o for
'open'...but -s is already taken, for 'stats', so it couldn't be
that...so it'll probably always be -o now. BTW, an undocumented
option is a semicolon-separated list of mailboxes after -o. Probably
best to have the first in the list showing when they've all been
opened?
Since multiple mailboxes can be open at the same time, but only one can
be selected, can we look at all this as how to determine which of
several open mailboxes is selected when Balsa starts up? I'll propose
that the first one specified on the command line by -o is selected
otherwise it is the one selected when Balsa last closed. However, if
more than one -o is allowed on the command line, I can see the code
being easier to select the last one rather than the first.
I'll be glad to log this as an enhancement request, if the developers
think it will help track it.
Jack
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