[Bug 161544] New: Kmail eats all memory and crashes

[envite at rolamasao.org]

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           Summary: Kmail eats all memory and crashes
           Product: kmail
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Debian testing
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs kde org
        ReportedBy: envite rolamasao org


Version:            (using KDE 3.5.9)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

I have 5 accounts in Kmail. 4 POP and 1 IMAP. One of the POP is disabled, and the other four accounts are set up in such a way that they always ask for password.

Since upgrading to Debian version 4:3.5.9-2 (Sorry, I do no tremember the previous version) I have the following problem:

When I start Kmail it behaves correctly and asks me for the four passwords. Even if I do not give them, the applications starts correctly. It just do not check for messages in the servers.

Then, when I click on _any_ folder with messages, Kmail hags, starts eating all available memory (confirmed by top and similar apps) and CPU goes 100% accessing disk (kernel 2.6.24) and when no more memory (RAM nor swap) is available the application dies. No backtrace available:

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Esta traza inversa parece inútil.
Probablemente se deba a que sus paquetes están generados de forma que eviten la creación de trazas inversas adecuados, o la pila se ha corrompido seriamente durante el fallo de la aplicación.

(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
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I repeat: the problem is NOT downloading e-mail from the server, but just accessing a local folder in which e-mail is stored.

du shows that the _total_ size of my .kde/share/apps/kmail subdirectory is less than half a GiB, and Kmail crashes even if I give it more than ten times that space in available Swap.

...And I do not want to change to any other e-mail client. I love my maildir folders, since I do not trust mbox.