According to the mail-notification applet author Jean-Yves Lefort, balsa does misbehave for moving messages inside a maildir. It should move messages from new to cur when it sees them or when they are opened. Not only when the mailbox is closed. I will include my correspondence with him:
Frank Eising ///////////// On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 23:03:51 +0200 Frank Eising <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Jean-Yves, > first of all; thank you for making the applet! > > question; why does the mail icon stay in the notification bar until > the > message is deleted from .maildir/new? The balsa client only moves the > message from new to cur when either the mailbox is closed or the > program is stopped. There seems to be no way to have it automatically > closed. It can only be closed automatically after 1 minute when you > select another mail folder manually. As I have the balsa client always > on, the icon doesn't function like it does with POP3, unless I ALT-F4 > every time after I read a new email. Balsa is too lazy, it should move messages to cur as soon as it sees them. -- Jean-Yves Lefort [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lefort.be.eu.org/ ////////////// _______________________________________________ balsa-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/balsa-list
