Hi. I am working on the next release of the patch to show the contact photo of the "from:" address in the mail messages (bug #360184). I have some doubt about how memory is managed during mail message formatting. If I am not wrong, the formatting of single elements such as icons is asynchronous and is managed through em_format_add_puri(), where em_format_add_puri requests a CamelMimePart object as a parameter Now the critical question: I create a CamelMimePart object from a memory buffer obtained from e-d-s interaction (the contact photo from the addressbook). The EContactPhoto is not a GObject, but just a struct that I must free on my own (no g_objet_unref magic can help me). The problem is that I have not a clear idea on *when* g_free must be called. Freeing memory in the main thread is not a good idea and leads to random crashes (especially when reading mailing lists in digest mode -- tried on the currently available patch). *Not* freeing memory seems to be even worse because it looks like a memory leak. Is there some document that helps me understand the inner details of mail message formatting? Do you have any advice? -- Best regards, Riccardo
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