Re: Several minor issues

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

Hi Albrecht:

On 2018.08.28 15:13, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Hi Jack:
>
> Am 28.08.18 20:57 schrieb(en) Jack via balsa-list:
> > 1) If I do File/Print when viewing an HTML part, Balsa does not  
> > actually print the HTML.
> Yes, I know…

> > If it can render the HTML to screen, how hard would it be to also  
> > print it?
> IIRC, the problem is that Webkit can print the HTML like a browser,  
> but /not/ embedded into the remaining part of the message (headers,  
> etc.).  I have no idea if it is possible to let it render into some  
> kind of bitmap buffer, and then embed that buffer into the usual  
> printout (which then probably has a bad quality).  So, for the time  
> being, the only solution seems to open the HTML part into a browser,  
> and print from there.
That's certainly an acceptable workaround.  As a possible approach,  
what about a pop-up that lets you choose between the current (Print  
headers and just an icon for the HTML content) or new (Print the HTML  
content without any email headers)?   I started to wonder if at leas  
some header info could be printed as header/footer (like many browsers  
print the URL) but I realize that browsers do that as part of their  
rendering, so it's not really an option here.

> > 3) For the past several weeks, I have been noticing an occasional,  
> > unpredictable hang/pause in Balsa when downloading messages.  […]   
> > I'm looking for any thoughts on how to troubleshoot this better.
> You might want to run Balsa with all debug messages  
> (G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all) or only low-level networking messages  
> (G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=libnetclient) enabled and check if anything unusual  
> happens with the problematic mailbox.  Remember that passwords will  
> be printed in the output, so please sanitise any files before posting  
> them.
I've tried that once or twice, and the output is so voluminous it's  
hard to digest, but so far, at least, I have not noticed anything  
suspicious.  I'll continue to try.

> > 4) This is completely unrepeatable - but I've had a number of  
> > crashes recently, of course never when running from command line,  
> > although I keep trying. […]
> Can you build balsa w/ debugging symbols and run it in gdb?
It should be easy enough to add the flags to my configure script - then  
I just have to remember to run from gdb.  I'll certainly let you all  
know if I do find anything useful.
> Best,
> Albrecht.
Jack