Re: Balsa crashes on virus-laden emails

[Wesley Haines <kremit wrpn net>]

> >  Ironically, Balsa seems to crash on the latest Email viruses (Windoze  of   
> > course) going around. Someone who has my email address in their  address  
> > book  is infected and the virus is obviously emailing itself to me a couple   
> > of  times.  If I turn off the preview  pane (Preferences --> Display -->  
> > Show  preview pane)  Balsa doesn't crash, so it looks like something is  
> > happening with the  parsing  of the message body. I have to turn off the  
> > preview pane so I can  move  the  message to Trash.
> >  If someone wants a copy of the email(s) that are causing the crash,   
> > please let  me know and I will forward them.
>
> I cannot reproduce the crash with soon-to-be 2.2.1 and FC2. Which balsa  
> version do you use?

2.2.0 (RPM) on FC2. It might be fixed in the latest version then, I'll have to  
wait for 2.2.1 and see.


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