[Bug 167584] New: selecting big mail eats all RAM and swap

[Łukasz Ligowski]

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           Summary: selecting big mail eats all RAM and swap
           Product: kmail
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Gentoo Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs kde org
        ReportedBy: orangewarrior gmail com


Version:            (using KDE 3.5.9)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:                Linux

I use maildir's.

steps to reproduce:

1. receive mail with huge mime-encoded attatchement (I've got 600MB one)
2. select unread message 
3. kmail eats all RAM and starts swapping (I've got 2GB of ram)

conclusion:
1. there's no chance to know if you got such weird mail until you try to open it (and then it's hard to know what's going on without manually checking mail)
2. when trying to delete it, it needs to be selected, but this triggers swapping

workaround:
1. move mail from maildir somewhere else
2. use "head" to read the mail ;)

expected behaviour:
1. kmail opens mail without showing attatchements
1. kmail allows to select message without eating so much RAM