Re: certain emails crash balsa for me

[Timothy Flechtner <Timothy Flechtner tellabs com>]

wow, my first response sent via balsa. :)

uname -a yields 'SunOS sunbc558 5.6 Generic_105181-11 sun4u sparc
SUNW,Ultra-5_10'.
i believe there is a 5.7 release, but i don't control os upgrades for my
work station.

i grabbed regex-0.12 from the gnu ftp site, but it appears to be the same
as the version i had
installed.  is there, perhaps a different regex package i should be using?

thanks,
-tim

On Wed, 07 Feb 2001 14:08:25 Pawel Salek wrote:
> 
> On 2001.02.07 20:51 Timothy Flechtner wrote:
> > hi,
> >   thanks for your (very quick) response!  i tried changing the text in
> > the box for 'quoted text regular expression' to '[' (although i have no
> > idea what any of that is about), and since, i haven't found an email
> > that crashes the app.  i tried both of the supplied strings, and with
> > either chosen, crash.  do i need to tweak something in regex?
> 
> '[' is an improper regular expression. Setting the field in question
> disables usage of regexec() functions (since the regular expression
> cannot
> be compiled). I will read the documentation again but my first impression
> is that the regex library that is installed on your box is buggy (has
> anybody got an earlier experience with it?). I know that for example
> MySQL
> comes with own regex library and there must be a reason for it.
> 
> What OS version do you use (uname -a)? You mentioned solaris 2.6, is this
> a
> most recent version?
> 
> /Pawel
> -- 
> Pawel Salek, pawsa@theochem.kth.se
> 
> 
>