[sylpheed:32727] Re: Intermittent problem moving messages 2.6.0beta1

[John Shane]

On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:57:12 +0100
Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:49:37 +0200, John Shane wrote:
> 
> > > On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:31:01 +0200, John Shane wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Sylpheed 2.6.0beta1
> > > > Xubuntu 8.10 
> > > > 
> > > > Every now and then when I highlight a message in the inbox and
> > > > then try to move it I find that the "Select folder"
> > > > dialog/menu is not responsive to keyboard input for finding
> > > > the folder nor is it responsive to the cursor. If I close
> > > > Sylpheed and start again all is well.  So far I have not
> > > > found a pattern that precedes this condition. I'll try to
> > > > watch for that.  John
> > > 
> > > What type of inbox? IMAP? In that case it could be a network
> > > connection problem where Sylpheed waits for a timeout. Meanwhile
> > > the GUI is non-responsive.
> > 
> > POP3
> 
> Well, consider running Sylpheed with debug options in a terminal
> to get a bit of information about what it does. Or attach a debugger
> to it when it stalls.

Thank you.  Hadn't thought of running in debug mode from a terminal
although it's obvious now that you mention it. ;-)  I'll keep my eye
on it and post the results the next time it happens.  John