Re: Please make Balsa more robust

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

On 2019.04.10 13:28, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Hi Helmut!
>
> Am 10.04.19 13:56 schrieb(en) Helmut Jarausch via balsa-list:
> > sometimes I get emails which crash Balsa on my machine (Gentoo Linux  
> > / Balsa GIT).
>
> Ouch – bad news!  Are these crashes reproducible, i.e. is there any  
> message which does *always* trigger the crash?  Did you try to run  
> balsa in gdb, and did the crash produce a usable backtrace (enter “bt  
> full” in gdb)?
>
> > If you need some example emails I'd like to supply these - please  
> > tell where I should
> > upload these since they are too large to be appended here.
>
> Samples which trigger the crashes would be extremely helpful!
>
> Probably the easiest way: create a new mbox mailbox, copy some of the  
> offending messages to it, and then gzip the file and send it to my  
> private address.  As I can test on Debian and Ubuntu only, maybe  
> Peter is also interested in it?
>
> *Please remember to remove sensitive private information from the  
> mbox file before submitting it!*
>
> Could you also include the configure command line, e.g by calling  
> “head -10 /path/to/balsa/git/folder/config.log”?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Albrecht.
I remember having such crashes a long time ago.  I'm pretty sure every  
message that cause a crash for me was horribly invalid HTML, and I have  
a vague memory of it being related to which HTML render engine was  
being used.  Of course trying to get the sender (generally large  
organizations, either stores or non-profits) was an absolute waste of  
time.  Note I'm also on Gentoo, but compiling from git head with  
meson/ninja.  config.log appears to be left over from a very old build  
in the src dir, so it doesn't appear useful.  I do have a config.h from  
the build dir, let me know if it would be useful as a comparison.

Jack