Re: git version (gtk3 branch) doesn't check for new mail?

[Helmut Jarausch <jarausch igpm rwth-aachen de>]

On 03/02/2012 02:24:44 PM, Jack Ostroff (CT1 D9 TC) wrote:
> On 2012.03.02 02:46, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> > On 03/01/2012 04:03:31 PM, Jack wrote:
> [trimmed...]
>
> > > I wonder if we're all talking about the same thing.  For me,  
> > > "checking mail" means checking either pop3 or imap source.  An mbox  
> > > file is a mailbox, so is the issue that some other process is  
> > > putting mail into that file and balsa is just not noticing that the  
> > > file was changed an updating the view?  They are different issues,  
> > > and I suspect had different changes between the gtk2 and gtk3  
> > > versions.
> >
> > Yes, I'm talking about the latter, i.e. the postfix daemoon appends  
> > new mail to an mbox file while Balsa is running.
> > My problem is, that the gtk3 version doesn't check for any changes  
> > to that file while it's running.
> > The previous version of Balsa (2.4.x) did this!
> > On my machines all email handling (filtering, transforming, etc) is  
> > done by postfix using some user written routines.
>
> What happens if you close and reopen that mailbox?

Hi Jack,

thanks for helping me.

Something is very strange here.

By chance I find out that the new mail goes to 'sentbox'

In the config file there is:


[Globals]
MailDir=/home/jarausch/Mail
OpenInboxOnStartup=true
Debug=false
AutoCloseMailbox=false
AutoCloseMailboxTimeout=1
RememberOpenMailboxes=false
CurrentMailboxURL=file:///home/jarausch/Mail/sentbox
############################################ ^^^^^^^
    even if I change this to .../jarausch by an editor
    Balsa changes this back to  .../sentbox
EmptyTrash=false
DefaultAddressBook=address-book-1

Is there any documentation of the config file?

Thansk,
Helmut.