Fix tickets #4698 (prefs not saved) and #4765 (draft dirs placement) in Mail application.
completed by: Alex11223
mentors: Siarhei Zharski
Your task is:
- Setup Haiku in Virtual Machine (Virtual Box recommended) or on real hardware;
- Download standalone version of Haiku Mail application from the link below;
- Take familiar with the code and both problems description;
- Use make to build the application. Resulting executable binary you'll find in 'objects-...' directory;
- To fix #4698 you have to investigate the source of problem and fix the erroneous behaviour;
- To fix #4765 please bring in order placement of directories for draft mails and for queries (see the comment);
Links:
- https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/4698 - settings are not saved on leaving e-mail;
- https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/4765 - placement of drafts and queries are wrong;
- http://siarzhuk.dyndns.org/mail-gci-kit-08.12.2011.tar.bz2 - standalone version of Mail application project;
- http://siarzhuk.dyndns.org/mail-gci-kit-INBOX-11.12.2011.zip - a set of sample mails compatible with Haiku Mail application;
- http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/apps/mail - sources of Haiku version of Mail;
- http://haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/bebook/index.html - BeBook - system API reference;
- http://haiku-os.org/development - information about development for Haiku;
- http://haiku-os.org/development/coding-guidelines - Haiku Coding Guidelines;
Good luck!