On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 08:00:12AM +0100, Pawel Salek wrote: > Fred, > > there are number of reasons syncing mailbox state may fail - exactly > as you figured out! Does anything get printed when you run balsa in > a terminal window?
yes there is, though it wasn't obviously meaningful to me. I'll try again later on today and see if I can find something there, and will post some of it to the list for you to see. > > The hardcore was is to run strace -olog -ff /path/to/balsa and grep > for failed accesses to the mailbox - but this is bit more > demanding... if nothing else works... > > Pawel > > Den 14.01.2016 02:50:59 skrev Fred Smith: > >On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 08:04:20PM -0500, Jack wrote: > >> On 2016.01.13 19:20, Fred Smith wrote: > >> >Hi all! > >> > > >> >I've just compiled Balsa 2.5.2, which went without significant > >> >issue. but when I open my main mailbox, clicking on some messages > >> >elicits a warning box pop up saying "Failed to sync mailbox xxx". > >> > > >> >I see that message could originate in any of a bazillion (more or > >> >less) places in the program, but haven't yet figured out which > >> >one, nor know what it actually is trying to tell me. what problem > >> >causes this? > >> > > >> >anyone know a magic incantation to solve it? > >> > >> When you say your main mailbox, do you mean inbox? What type of > >> mailbox is it? mbox, maildir, MH, ...? Are you having trouble just > >> opening the local mailbox, or actually trying to sync with a remote > >> server? POP3 or IMAP? You can also start balsa from the command > >> line using -d (debug POP) or -D (debug IMAP) to get more information > >> on what might be going wrong with syncing. > > > >sorry for the lack of details. > > > >I run a mail server on my personal Linux box, at home, with my own > >domain. Sendmail delivers to procmail which does the final delivery > >to mbox mail folders. > > > >in my home directory is a subdir named "Mail" that contains a symlink > >to /var/spool/mail/fredex, so that mutt (what I have always used) > >accesses all my mail folders in ~/fredex/Mail. > > > >So, I can't prove the message I mention doesn't happen in other > >mailboxes, > >but I've seen it in the "fredex" mailbox. usually if there's an unread > >mail, I click on it and get that message. > > > >ls -l /home/fredex/Mail/fredex /var/spool/mail/fredex > >lrwxrwxrwx. 1 fredex fredex 22 Feb 24 2013 > >/home/fredex/Mail/fredex -> /var/spool/mail/fredex > >-rw-rw----. 1 fredex fredex 2309646535 Jan 13 20:43 > >/var/spool/mail/fredex > > > >I don't see any reason why -rw-rw---- isn't adequate, as long as the > >mailbox is owned by me, which it is. Does Balsa need more relaxed > >permissions than that? > > > >This is a new installation of Centos-7. Previously I was using > >Centos-6 > >and it had Balsa 2.4.14. In looking at the backup of that prior > >system, > >I see that /var/spool/mail/fredex looks like this: > > > >-rw-r-----. 1 root root 2300888945 Dec 2 14:53 fredex > > > >is Balsa complaining because the permissions are TOO permissive? > > > >Thanks for the reply! > > > >Fred > > > >-- > >---- Fred Smith -- [email protected] > >----------------------------- > > The Lord is like a strong tower. > > Those who do what is right can run to him for safety. > >--------------------------- Proverbs 18:10 (niv) > >----------------------------- > >_______________________________________________ > >balsa-list mailing list > >[email protected] > >https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/balsa-list > > > -- ---- Fred Smith -- [email protected] ----------------------------- The Lord is like a strong tower. Those who do what is right can run to him for safety. --------------------------- Proverbs 18:10 (niv) ----------------------------- _______________________________________________ balsa-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/balsa-list
