[kde-linux] Problems with KMail filters

[Gaffer.]

On Monday 09 July 2007 12:32, Anne Wilson inscribed thus:
> On Monday 09 July 2007 07:26:21 Boyan Tabakov wrote:
> > On Monday 09 July 2007 01:16:22 John Meyer wrote:
> > > I'm giving KMail a spin, and I seem to get this problem where I
> > > create a filter and try to apply it to all the messages in my
> > > folder and selecting them, then pressing ctrl+j, and it keeps
> > > on giving me a segmentation fault. The odd thing is after I
> > > reopen KMail and do that again, it works just fine (no crash or
> > > anything).
> >
> > I can confirm this. Happens also when trying to expire a big
> > folder. I don't do that often so I don't get the crash often.
> > That's why I never looked deeper into it.
>
> The answer to this is almost certainly the same as that for
> deleting or moving huge numbers of files - do them in batches.  I
> find that trying to process 100 messages causes a crash. 
> Processing 50 doesn't.  I don't know where the limit is, but I
> think I got as far as 70 being OK.
>
> Anne

It would be nice to know what version & flavour this happens on !
I am using Kmail 1.8.2 on SuSE 10.0 and don't seem to have this 
problem. However I don't keep any HTML mail at all ! If this matters.

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             Derrick.