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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Spontaneous Crashes
From:       Don Sanders <don () sanders ! org>
Date:       2000-05-30 20:43:36
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On Wed, 31 May 2000, George Staikos wrote:
> On Tue, 30 May 2000, Don Sanders wrote:
> > Maybe I spoke to soon :-(
> >
> > KMail has crashed twice on me tonight when I selected a new folder (and
> > message) once during checking of a pop3 account and once immediately
> > after the check had completed.
> >
> > This is unusual, though I can't be sure why it's happening.

I didn't mean to point the finger at you George, it could be due to a problem 
in the libs for instance (html widget bugs are the normal reason for this 
kind of thing) as I just upgraded these.

BFN,
Don.

>
>    Hm I would expect that the IOSlave would crash, not KMail.  The diff to
> kmail itself in the pop3 code is tiny...  Then you would get a bug dialog,
> right?
>
>    I made two non-ssl related patches to the pop3 ioslave.
>
> 1) use getservbyname() instead of hardcoding 110 (although it still
> defaults to 110 if all else fails)
>
> 2) there was a section that had this:
>
>     return false;
>      pop3_close();
>
> which I changed to:
>
>      pop3_close();
>      return false;
>
> Anyone else commit something recently that could cause these problems?

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