Re: [Evolution] Crashing evolution preview reliably with a piece of spam

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> Yesterday I received a piece of Spam which, while the message preview is
> on manages to crash evolution reliably - i.e. every single time I try to
> look at it, it crashes. 
>
> Once I switched the preview of, I could handle it and delete it from my
> mailbox. I have stored it for further analysis if you think this would
> be of any benefit.

Run Evolution from the command line and see if it produces any error
messages.

> I have not yet tried to reduce it to a minimal working example, but what
> I can tell, it is a HTML email with a form and a flash object.
I would lay bets on it being the flash content - it's probably some
flash exploit attempt (and there's lots of scope with flash) that will
do something nasty on a PC, but with Linux just crashes the flash
engine.

P.