[Evolution] Re: particular mail crashing Evo (was: Re: Evolution not working - can't find a solution!)

[Des Dougan <des DouganConsulting com>]

On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 01:58 +0200, guenther wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 23:13 -0700, Des Dougan wrote:
>
> > I just got a crash because of a mail. I don't use the preview pane, and
> > successfully viewed it in IMP. The attachment is a JPEG, about 400k in
> > size. I'm on 2.6.0, as you can see, installed from one of the SuSE 10.0
> > apt repositories. This is the first time I've had such a crash; however
> > 2.6.0 is new to SuSE - I only installed it a week or so ago. No further
> > updates are available yet.
> >
> > I can forward the message if it would help debug this. Just let me
> > know...
>
> Now this is interesting. I got a mail on my todo list I got recently,
> with a 294 kByte TIFF attachment (entire mail 400 kByte due to base64
> encoding of the attachment).
>
> Des, I sure would be interested in that mail. Please send it off-list
> with the mail either attached or (preferably) the raw saved mail
> attached in an archive. Well, you may just as well open a new bug in
> bugzilla and attach the raw mail to it. A stacktrace would be useful,
> too. If you prefer, I can do this for you and gather a stacktrace with
> debugging symbols.

Guenther,

When you say "raw saved mail", am I right in thinking you mean via
"File, Save Message"? 

I'd be happy to send it to you.

> Since you explicitly mentioned you do not use the (pre)view pane [1],
> that particular mail crashed Evo for you on opening and displaying the
> mail only, right?

Yes, that's correct.

Des

> ...guenther
>
>
> [1] I hate to call it pre-view, cause it is not. There is nothing being
>     *pre* viewed. That embedded pane displays the exact same data, as
>     opening a dedicated mail window does.
>     FWIW, due to this, it does not matter if one is using the (pre)view
>     pane or not, if the crash happens on viewing the mails contents.
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