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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Bug#19556: reproducable kmail crash on startup when reading 'bad' inbox
From:       Michael =?iso-8859-1?q?H=E4ckel?= <Michael () Haeckel ! Net>
Date:       2001-02-01 14:46:10
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On Thursday,  1. February 2001 14:57, jon.rifkin@uconn.edu wrote:
>
> I've found a reproducible bug in Kmail 1.1.99 KDE 2.0.
> I'm using the Mandrake 7.2 distribution.
>
> By changing two lines in my inbox I can cause Kmail
> to either crash or not crash.
>
> Here's how to reproduce the bug.
>
> (1) Create a new, empty Mail folder
>      mv Mail Mail.bak
>      mkdir Mail
>
> (2) Copy the bad inbox (see below on obtaining bad inbox)      into
> Mail/inbox
>
> (3) Start kmail, it will crash.

Thanks, I can reproduce that. However KMail does not crash, but pgp. KMail 
exits with a SIGPIPE. When trying with gpg it hangs. With pgp2.6.3i it works.
I guess we only can work around the problem.

Regards,
Michael Häckel
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