Re: [Evolution] Evolution chokes on huge jpg attachments

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Although it may be useful filing a bug report with a backtrace - we can
at least confirm whether evolution is directly responsible and maybe
forward it to the gdkpixbuf maintainers (whoever that is anymore).

On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 06:36, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> This wouldn't be an Evolution specific bug, it'd be a gdk-pixbuf bug
> most likely.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 16:15, David Hoover wrote:
> > (Evo 1.0.5 from RC on redhat 7.2)
> >
> > A friend of mine sent me a draft of a poster she's working on as a jpg.
> > The picture's obscenely huge (28704x13102 pixels (11x17" at 150dpi)),
> > although jpg compression scrunched it down to only about 3 megs.
> >
> > The first draft of it I got crashed evolution when I loaded the message;
> > it showed the body, and the attachment box at the bottom, but without a
> > thumbnail. About a second later, the mail component died.
> >
> > The second draft of her poster (same number of pixels, updated content)
> > didn't crash evo, however it got displayed wrong (it was almost
> > completely changed to greyscale)
> >
> > There was the same pause as the first time; the attachment thing was
> > shown, with no thumbnail, then a second later, the (greyscalish)
> > thumbnail appeared, as opposed to with the first file, where a second
> > later, the mail component crashed.
> >
> > Are there any known issues like this? I didn't see anything with a quick
> > search in bugzilla. 
> >
> > If not, I can file a bug on it (although I'm waiting to hear back
> > whether I have her permission to use these posters in the bug report; I
> > might need to try & create my own ones that reproduce the problems)
> >
> > --
> > David Hoover
> >
> >
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> Jeffrey Stedfast
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