[Cscmail-devel] Minor problems/bugs

[Geir I. J. <Gei...@Fa...>]

Hi,

Thank you for making a decent mailer that has most of the features one would
require. I have tried most mailers out there, and I think I'm going to stick to
this for a while (it's fast and responsive). Kinda overkill to use a relational

database to store status info, but it's a nice concept. I have also used a 
mailer called 'ml' which has a similar approach to filters and folders as 
this one, but the development has unfortunately died out. 

I'm running it on FreeBSD, and it looks good so far. However, I have noticed
a few glitches here and there, and they might of course be caused by either
my perl libraries or FreeBSD.

I'm running 1.7.9 from cvs as of Saturday. Most (if not all) of my libraries
are
current.

The most serious bug seems to be that CSCMail has problems reading 
multipart/mixed emails when all parts are plain/text. You only get the
first part. It recognizes the fact that it has attachments, but are unable
to read the other parts.

CSCMail doesn't pay attention to the Status field when importing mail
folders. It just assumes everything is read (which might not always be
the case when converting from another mail system).

CSCMail get into serious problems when importing non-email based
files (might happen when you are importing a directory hierarchy).

CSCMail will core dump perl (might be a perl problem on my system), when
you select all messages in a folder and either delete or move them to another
folder. It will do the task, and then die. (Of course, this also happens on
the search folder when searching and selecting all for delete/move).

CSCMail doesn't wrap lines in messages when viewing them with HTML
turned on (I'm using Gtk::XmHTML). I think the best solution is to use
<pre>message</pre>, but a <br> on each line might do the trick.
I can't use this feature as it is now. Maybe Gtk::HTML is better.

CSCMail doesn't store the order of my Folders view. It is rearranging them
the next time I start it up.

CSCMail doesn't scroll to the highlighted text when spell checking.

CSCMail doesn't scroll to the first new message when using Date
sort downward (new mail at the end of list).

CSCMail can't spell check a single highlighted word.

I know you are in a feature freeze right now, but could you please
consider some of these features for 1.8.1?

 - Filter based on Sender (not only From). Many mailing lists are
    recognizable by this field.
 - Add a button for adding signature in the compose window. I normally
    don't attach my business signature, but in some cases I have to. 
    A button to do this might make things easier.
 - Reapply filter rules on specific folders (or all of them). I'm using 
    search/move to right now (which also works fine except for the core
    dumping).
 - The possibility to scroll through several matches in the addressbook 
    when filling in the To: field.
 - Documentation :) I find myself guessing about key bindings....


Thanks for a great mailer,
Geir Inge.