Re: [Evolution] Mail Delivery (failure evolution ximian com)

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 00:25 +0100, James Ascroft-Leigh wrote:
> All,
>
> On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 09:57 +0900, fejj ximian com wrote:
> > If the message will not displayed automatically,
> > follow the link to read the delivered message.
> > 
> > Received message is available at:
> > www.ximian.com/inbox/evolution/read.php?sessionid-8463 
> >  
>
> I am using the 1.5.7 build from Debian unstable + experimental.  The
> message I am replying to causes Evolution to die on display (in my case
> in the preview pane).  Displaying as email source does not cause the
> crash.  I have observed two different crash modes, I think:
>
>      1. Die saying something like "The application has crashed...
>         [restart] [crash] [report]"
>      2. Just die
This is a known bug.  I get about 5-6 of these every day.  It is a crash in Pango.

> I normally view the message from a vFolder, the crash does not seem to
> happen when I look at the message directly from my IMAP inbox.  I should
> also mention that I am replying in plain text but there is some artifact
> being rendered to from the original HTML message.  Strangely now that I
> have viewed the message properly from my real inbox it displays without
> crashing from the vFolder now.  
Its probably just luck. It doesn't always crash for me, but it stomps all over memory, hence the following effects.
> Okay, this is getting really strange now - as I compose this message I
> find all kinds of crazy effects.  Placing the cursor at the top of the
> message and using the down arrow to move firstly makes it jump from the
> artifact back to the beginning.  Then, as I continue pressing down, it
> continues beyond the artifact and even beyond the end of the message.
> The page down key has similarly unexpected consequences.
>
> I would like to attach some debugging information but am now unable to
> recreate because it has stopped crashing.
Well 'known', but no known fix yet.  Its getting to the serious end of the devel cycle, so should be addressed I guess.

> Thanks for a great MUA,
>
> James Ascroft-Leigh

Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> Ximian Evolution and Free Software Developer

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