Re: Re: Cone lockup bug and other comments

On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 07:14:22AM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> Anand Buddhdev writes:
> 
> >5535  read(5, 0x4001c000, 4096)         = -1 EISDIR (Is a directory)
> >5535  read(5, 0x4001c000, 4096)         = -1 EISDIR (Is a directory)
> >5535  read(5, 0x4001c000, 4096)         = -1 EISDIR (Is a directory)
> >5535  read(5, 0x4001c000, 4096)         = -1 EISDIR (Is a directory)
> >5535  read(5, 0x4001c000, 4096)         = -1 EISDIR (Is a directory)
> >...
> >...
> >
> >The only way to stop it is to kill the process id from another window.
> >
> >Cone wants to open a file at the location pointed to by $MAIL, and
> >when it finds a directory instead, it falls over, so I consider this a
> >bug.
> 
> $MAIL is only used to find the default mbox INBOX.  If you want to use a 
> maildir for your INBOX you must explicitly configure it as such.
> 
> The first time Cone starts if $HOME/Maildir exists it will be set as the 
> default Maildir INBOX.  You must be trying to switch to a maildir 
> afterwards, and setting MAIL is not the way to do it.

I know that Sam. I wasn't deliberately trying to do anything. I just
happened to start the newly installed copy of cone, and it hung, so I
tried to figure out what was happening. All I was trying to tell you
is that perhaps cone should gracefully fail with some kind of error
message when it can't open the mbox file, instead of getting stuck in
an endless loop without any explanation.

> >Cone has joined all lines together, making it very hard to read the
> >report. Any chance you can get cone to just display the headers as
> >they are?
> 
> No.  E-mail headers are, by definition, use folded whitespace to 
> wraparound. Cone rewraps all headers to fit within the current
> screen width.

Ok. Will cone provide a way to a pipe a raw message to a pager like
less in the future, so that I can view a message's headers as they
are?

> >3. Is there any easy way to import an address book into cone?
> >Specifically, how can I import the mutt aliases file into cone? Mutt's
> 
> Nope.

I have 470 addresses in my mutt addressbook. If you provide no
way of importing addresses into cone, then I'd have to enter 470
entries by hand, and that's not a nice thought. In fact, much as the
interface of cone is very nice, with all these powerful features, I
think I'll stick to mutt for now. There are just too many features in
mutt that I find useful, which are missing in cone, and sometimes I
get the feeling that you're not too keen on accommodating users who
come from another mail client.

-- 
Anand Buddhdev
Celtel International


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