Re: [evolution-patches] 59717, evolution mail crash

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 14:25 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 12:31 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > 
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > Another mailer crasher fix.
> > 
> > This is in two parts, one is low-risk but has unpleasant user side-
> > effects, the other part is higher risk and may need more testing first
> > but fixes the side-effects.
>
> Should we move to 2.0.1 since this is fairly difficult to trigger and it
> would be nice to have some extra testing?

I'm fine either way.  The problem is it can crash 'sometime later', e.g. 4 minutes after the 'check for supported types' button is pressed, which gives the user enough time to finish configuring their mail (duh this button doesn't work, i'll close it and keep going), and be doing something else leading to spurious bug reports.

If they mis-type something and check it, and go 'oops thats wrong, lets cancel and retry a new value', which isn't inconceivably difficult to do; then they may also have the issue.  If the check call was async it would also fix the issue (but leads to other complications anyway, so might not be a good idea).

I didn't send the mail to the release-team since i thought we should work it out before bothering them with it.

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> "born to die, live to work, it's all downhill from here" Novell's Evolution and Free Software Developer