Re: odd behavior with empty sentbox

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

On 2021.10.22 14:25, Jack via balsa-list wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> It's been quiet here, so I thought I'd post about a new mystery which  
> I've been noticing for the past week or so.  I have no real idea if  
> this is due to some recent change (git master) or if I just never  
> tripped over it before.
>
> My Sentbox folder is mapped to a mbox file sent-mail in my main mail  
> directory.  If I delete all messages from that folder and expunge  
> them, everthing seems fine.  However, if I then quit balsa and  
> restart it, the Unread and Total numbers in the mailbox pane are  
> blank (not 0) and Balsa thinks there is an unread message in that  
> folder.  If I click "Next unread" Balsa opens that folder, which is  
> empty, the message numbers stay blank, and the mailbox name in the  
> tab is shown in bold.  In addition, if I hit "Next unread" again,  
> nothing happens, even if there is an unread message elsewhere.  If I  
> select a different folder and hit "Next unread" it may go back to  
> Sentbox or the other folder with an unread message - I assume which  
> it chooses depends on the order in which it checks all mailboxes for  
> unread messages.
>
> My assumption here is that when the last message is deleted from  
> sent-mail, rather than creating an empty file, the file is just  
> deleted (or at least not created when it is "rewritten" with no  
> messages.
>
> I have not yet dug into the code to see if I can actually confirm any  
> of these assumptions.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions.
I checked more carefully, and sent-mail is not deleted, it does exist  
as an empty file.  However, outbox and trash are also empty files right  
now and are recognized and behave as expected.  Sentbox did have  
"subscribe to new mail check" selected, but deslecting it make no  
apparent difference.