Re: [Evolution] Inline XML attachments

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Tue, 2016-02-09 at 15:03 +0000, Matthew Crawford wrote:
> Is there any way to disable Evolution displaying XML attachments in
the client, I am often sent files 4MB+ and these seem to completely
crash the client and eventually the entirety of gnome making a hard
reset necessary. If I'm unable to disable this I assume it's trying
to do some syntax parsing and if you are able to disable that?

        Hi,
could I ask what your evolution version is, and whether the attachments
are truly denoted as being displayed inline, please? The later can be
seen in the message source (Ctrl+U), headers like Content-Type,
Content-Disposition and other Content-* related headers. You might look
for those around Content-Type: text/xml.

The thing is that since [1] the attachments are not parsed immediately,
but on demand, unless they are marked to be viewed inline. Maybe you
have it, maybe not, I do not know.

Another related part can be (a backtrace may prove it), that the
text-highlight module is involved. It is an optional part and can be
removed, or it does nothing if a highlight binary is not found.
Thus you can try to remove the /usr/bin/highlight, or (better option)
/usr/lib/evolution/modules/module-text-highlight.so (actual path can
differ on your system) and start evolution. Only note that with the
first option (moving away highlight binary) you can cause
malfunctioning of some other software which could be using it, and with
the second option you get the text-highlight module back after each
update of the evolution.
        Hope it helps,
        Milan

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733877
    I think there were couple follow up fixes in later versions too,
    but I'm not sure.