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

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

> > 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).
>
> Your call, if you feel confident enough with this patch go ahead for
> 2.0.0.

I'll just put it in 2.0.1.  Its a bug, but although it can happen and we'll probably get spurious bug reports about it, it isn't really a show-stopper bug.

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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