[CS-FSLUG] Balsa Mail client.

[Davidm at HisFeet.net]

The permissions are the same for each file and directory on the laptop and
on the desktop.  The user name and password is also the same, and the
operating system is the same.  I checked the Preferences on Balsa in both
machines and they are the same.

Baffled!  ~/.balsa/mbox%2Fhome%2Fmintm%2Fmailbox (which I believe
represents the inbox) has a size of 37.4kb on the desktop.  And that's
what size it had on the laptop after copying it over there. Balsa on the
desktop shows 647 emails in the inbox.  Balsa on the laptop also showed
647 files in the inbox (bold faced numbers next to the word "inbox" in the
GUI). But the laptop won't let me actually see any of those files.  Then
when I checked the mail with the laptop, two unexpected things happened. 
The size of that file changed to 336 bytes.  And a file was written in the
home directory ~/mailbox.  That file shows a size of 604216 in MC, or
591.1 kb in the gui file browser.  When I view the file in mc it appears
to be the file that represents the inbox.

Looks like an Mbox file.  Now iuf I can somehow get balsa to read it, or
find an mbox file reader of some sort....??

Dave McMullen


> On Friday 23 October 2009 16:57:11 Davidm at hisfeet.net wrote:
>> I have been using Balsa mail Client in Mint7 on my desktop.  Haven't
>> been
>> able to configure the mail out feature, but that's not my main problem.
>> I'm going to be traveling, so I want Balsa on my laptop (also with
>> Mint7).
>>  I installed Balsa from the repos, and then copied the ~/.balsa
>> directory
>> from the desktop into the laptop.  Also copied the ~/mail directory from
>> the desktop to the laptop.  Result:  Everything seems the same except
>> that
>> clicking on Inbox on the laptop does not display any email letters.  It
>> did  however (right after I copied the two aforementioned folders into
>> the
>> laptop) show the same number of messages in the inbox.  Then the number
>> of
>> messages mentioned there disappeared.
>>
>> Question:  HOw do I get the inbox to show up on the laptop?  did I fail
>> to
>> copy it from the desktop?  is it located somewhere else?
>>
>> Locate doesn't find it
>>
>> Thanks for any help you can give me.
>
> Set the appropriate permissions on the copied folders.
> --
> Blessings
> David M.
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