Re: Balsa crashes after sending message

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On 2001.08.31 04:46:43 +0100 Matthew Guenther wrote:
> 
> On Aug 30 2001 16:26 Carlos Morgado wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 09:30:44AM +0800, Ismas Suraya wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ** CRITICAL **: file address.c: line 190 (libbalsa_address_to_gchar):
> > >  assertion `LIBBALSA_IS_ADDRESS(address)' failed.
> > > 
> > > Can anyone tell me on how to solve this problem? Thanks very much for
> > > your help!
> > 
> > I've noticed that too, meanwhile the code was cleaned up somewhat and
> should
> > work on pre3. 
> > The best way to solve that is not to have empty identities anyway ;)
> > 
> 
> I don't think this would actually have solved the above problem,
> since it was possible to blank the from field manually using
> delete, which would have caused the same crash regardless of
> whether empty identities are allowed by Balsa. IMHO the sanity
id does ? hum. ok makes sense but didn't think about that.

> checks belong (for the most part) in the sending code, as it is
> impractical to put validation code in the identity section
> unless we force people to only use identities to fill certain
> fields.
> 
yeah, what i meant was "idents with no from line make no sense". 
if someone is trigering this bug they're doing something wrong with
the configuration. of course, it's still a bug and needs cleaning up.

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