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

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 10:29 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> 
> > > 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.

Milestone moved

-JP


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