I have been using balsa for few years -- the latest one, which came with fedora 10-64, since January. However, it regularly (say once a day if I leasve it on) causes X to crash. This is sort of okay, since I do not need to leave it on all the time, and usually it is only a small hassle to restart X.
However, it is starting to get slightly embarrassing as I am now working with a vps server where I must maitain a persistant connection to manage certian details -- if my connection is lost, the server must shut down, meaning other users are also disconnected. This will happen when X crashes, since the client at my end is a GUI. Even tho it may only take me a minute or so to re-establish things, I have still created a hassle for my users. So short of running two computers, using my email is now a risky affair. Also, I would like to use gtkspell, since currently I have no spell checking at all in balsa. So I would much prefer to build from source, which is what I do with a lot of software (I am a C programmer, I have some gtk projects and my desktop at home is source built from gtk on up, so using packages is sometimes awkward or undesirable). I believe I tried to build balsa once or twice in the past and failed and just left it at that, but I would really, really like it to work out since I cannot find ANY other viable GUI email clients for linux. The latest attempt was: configure --enable-pcre --disable-static --without-gnome --with-gnu-ld --with-gtkspell and it crapped out here: address-view.c: In function ‘lbav_entry_setup_matches’: address-view.c:230: error: ‘internet_address_unref’ undeclared (first use in this function) address-view.c:230: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once address-view.c:230: error: for each function it appears in.) I don't really want to debug this myself and was wondering if anyone had any advice or (egad) had actually gotten 2.3.28 to build! _______________________________________________ balsa-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/balsa-list
