Re: certain emails crash balsa for me

[Pawel Salek <pawsa TheoChem kth se>]

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On 2001-02-07 16:27 Timothy Flechtner wrote:
> hi everybody,
>   i've had consistent crashes in balsa on certain email messages since
> 0.6 or so, and i have no idea why.  currently, i'm running 1.1.1, on a
> sun ultra 5 running solaris 2.6.  i have one pop3 account, and i can't
> find any consistancy in what type of message crashes it (no
> attachments necessarily, not part of a thread). 

This is not really a balsa crash but a crash in a regex library. The
string that is passed seems to be OK so... Can you set the regex in
Preferences/Mail Options to one with syntax error (say '[') and see how
balsa behaves then (well, versions older than 1.1.1 will most likely
crash).

/Pawel

> #0  0xeebf883c in match_re_C ()
> #1  0xeebf8c90 in match_re_C ()
> #2  0xeebf8940 in match_re_C ()
> #3  0xeebf8940 in match_re_C ()
> #4  0xeebf82c0 in __regexec_C ()
> #5  0x59634 in is_a_quote (str=0x28fc08 "> \n", rex=0xefffe0c8)
>     at quote-color.c:80