[Kde-pim] How can attachments cause segmentation faults?

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Monday 15 March 2010, Thomas McGuire wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Monday 15 March 2010 22:38:17 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Monday 15 March 2010, Thomas McGuire wrote:
> > > On Monday 15 March 2010 13:45:20 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > A user writes
> > > > <quote>
> > > > Actully problem is related to attachments. because Kmail crash
> > > > on the messages who having attachments. But when i have change
> > > > View->Smart to View->Inline or View->As Icon than it will not
> > > > crash but again when i have change for inline to smart than
> > > > again it will crash.
> > > > </quote>
> > > > 
> > > > Has he hit a bug, or is there something else that could be
> > > > causing this?
> > > 
> > > That sounds like a bug triggered by a specific attachment. I
> > > can't say more without seeing the backtrace.
> > 
> > It might also be related to "Load attachments on demand". I did
> > experience a few crashes which went away when I disabled "Load
> > attachments on demand".
> 
> In 4.4.0, we introduced a regression that causes crashes with online
> IMAP + attachment loading on demand + encapsulated messages. Should
> be fixed/worked around in 4.4.2. Might be your bug here.

Yeah, sounds like it. It mostly crashed on "requests for approval" (with 
encapsulated messages) from mailman. Great to hear that it's fixed.


Regards,
Ingo
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