Hello, thanks for the answer. > This operation can generally be time-consuming and not all system > administrators would accept mail clients that issue STATUS for all > existing mailboxes.
Not sure, as the operation of checking statistics on a third or half of my mailboxes executes acceptably fast (significantly less than a minute). And Kmail is very fast on this too > I am sure KMAil imap support is solid in many aspects Yes, I like Kmail very much, but I just wanted to migrate to GTK-only environment, and Balsa at the first look seamed to have all features i could possibly need. > but it is not a one-size fits-all solution. maybe, although it is still my favorite mail client out of all other, for any OS. I has every last feature (well it lacks one, but that was a unique Foxmail feature, I suppose) I need, and the logics is something I understand straight, unlike in-my-opinion strange logic of accounts in most other mail clients, like Mozilla, Outlook and even the "great" Evolution (which i have an allergy for :) ). And I do not want to even start listing all the essential and required features that I miss in every popular mail client... so pure me respects only three mail clients: Foxmail (well, it has its issues, but at least I can use it without cursing), Kmail and Balsa :) Regarding "one-size fits-all"... that what Options and Preferences are for, IMHO... So, I do not know if it is a taboo to say that (forgive me if it is), but I think Kmail is what Balsa should inspire from. > Btw, does setting Mail OPtions/Incoming/Check imap mailboxes + Check > mailboxes automatically changes anything for you? If it does not, can > you provide the dump of imap conversation as obtained when running > balsa with -D option? I will try it on monday... not in the office now. > Is it the lack of exact statistics that bothers > you or just marking which mailboxes may contain new mail would be fine > for you? The most important is to know, where to expect a new message so that you would not have to go through all the folders. The exact statistics is a very good thing too, but lack of it would not be a blocker for me to start using Balsa (although i would like to see this feature soon). It would also be good to see the number of unread messages in parentheses, not like a separate column, which persistently takes up the space on the monitor. Ah, and BTW, I did mention jumping between the mailboxes like crazy on program startup when I enable the "remember open mailboxes between sessions"... that is not very pretty. I am not sure what does the HIG say about flickering program view some three times per second, but I think it still is not very good to do that... but that is perhaps offtopic, and it is also not a blocker bug. Thanks, Dmitry _______________________________________________ balsa-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/balsa-list
