Several minor issues

Jack via balsa-list <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.balsa
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In the process of catching up after vacation, I've tripped over a  
number of issues with balsa (compiled from git head about two weeks  
ago).  None are terribly serious, but all put some (hopefully)  
unnecessary bumps in the road.

1) If I do File/Print when viewing an HTML part, Balsa does not  
actually print the HTML.  It seems to print the plain text version (if  
there is one) or what seems like a list of the MIME parts, where the  
HTML Message is just one part, and printed as a small icon with "Type:  
HTML document (text/html).  If it can render the HTML to screen, how  
hard would it be to also print it?  (This has actually bitten me a few  
times in the past when I printed to PDF, and only later realized the  
PDF didn't actually have the message.)

2) If I use the "Subject or Sender Contains:" filter at the top of the  
message list, and then do a "Mailbox/Expunge Deleted Messages"  ALL  
deleted messages are expunged, not just the ones displayed with the  
filter.  I suppose this isn't actually wrong, but it has surprised me  
more than once.  I'd be tempted to open a (wishlist) issue, but I'm  
sure the opposite behavior would surprise other folks, and I'd hate to  
ask for yet another configuration checkbox to make is user choice.  Any  
other thoughts?

3) For the past several weeks, I have been noticing an occasional,  
unpredictable hang/pause in Balsa when downloading messages.  I'm  
guessing there is something in the processing of some subset of my  
messages that ties up a thread so badly, that nothing else happens for  
anywehere from a few seconds to over a minute.  Even the "downloading  
messages" popup stops responding - the progress bars stop moving and I  
can't even move the popup window itself.  I don't think it's happened  
with any mailboxes except my gmail one, but I get so few from the other  
ones, I can't be sure.  (This is all POP3 fetching.)   The CPU gets  
pegged at 100%, but the load is often not much over 1, depending on  
what else is running on the PC.  I've tried running from command line,  
even with some of the debug options, but I have not yet noticed  
anything that seems consistently related.  I'm looking for any thoughts  
on how to troubleshoot this better.

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.  It usually happens when I either close a mailbox, or hit  
the "Expunge" button on the toolbar.  On several of the occasions, I  
note that when I restart Balsa, only the Inbox is open, even though I  
had multiple mailboxes open prior to the crash.  However, it is  
possible that they were all opened during the session that crashed, so  
if the list of open mailboxes is only saved on a clean exit, then  
that's no surprise.

5)  Trying to do a git pull today, I got an error about not being able  
to reach git.gnome.org.  I was able to just edit my .git/config file to  
use the URL copied from a new clone, per the instructions on the source  
page.  While I do recall seeing something about the migration of the  
gnome sources, I do not recall instructions on needing to update  
existing repositories.  Did I just manage to miss it, or was there some  
transient problem?

(I know I still need to test both the new threading options and  
Albert's patch for IMAP stuff - hopefully I can get to those soon.)

Jack
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