Bug#269792: fails to move inbox across partition boundary

[Andrew Lau]

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On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 04:21:07PM +0200, Siward de Groot wrote:
> Package: balsa
> Version: 2.0.17-2
> Severity: normal
>=20
> Title : fails to move inbox across partition boundary
>=20
> I have several linux OS's, each on it's own partition,
>  and wanted to have mailboxes on yet another partition
>  that is mounted by each of linux's.
>=20
> Trying to change inbox
>  from /var/mail/xuser
>  to /my/mail/inbox
>  by editing alsa::menu::mailbox::edit::mailboxpath
>  failed with errormessage :
>    'Rename of /var/mail/inbox to /my/mail/inbox/ failed: \
>      invalid cross-debvice link'
>=20
> When new and old filename are on separate partitions,
>  instead of a rename,
>  new mailbox must be created,
>  contents of old mailbox copied to it,
>  and old mailbox deleted
>  (this also works when both are on same partition ofcourse).
>=20
> I "solved" this by editing ~/.gnome2/balsa file (iirc),
>  which resulted in 2 [view]s for inbox,
>  which did not have same options in ~/. file,
>  so i kept both.
> Opening inbox and then dragging a message to other view of inbox
>  duplicated message first time i did it.
> Third time it crashed balsa.
> I'm not filing a separate bugreport about this,
>  as bts has no package called 'siward', unfortunately :-).
>  (a pointer to syntax and meaning of [view] would be nice though).
>=20
> Alsa also crashed 2 times when i was trying to get it to use new inbox,
>  by using menu::preferences, menu::mailbox::edit,
>  and menu::mailbox::delete
> I was shown a window that gave me option to
>  'report this to developers' or restart,
>  and as it did not say to simply send coredumpfile named *.core
>    that could be found in directory ???
>    as an e-mail attachment to you,
>  i chose restart.
> Perhaps it would be a good idea / a great nuisance
> to change text of popup ?

It'd be a "great nusiance" (your words!) considering segfault handling
is done gnome_segv and bug report via bug-buddy and not on an
application by application basis.

So what would you like me to do about this bug report? Does it still
affect Balsa 2.2.x?

Cheers,
Andrew "Netsnipe" Lau

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