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Bug 333983 - [PATCH] found cause of 'crash on send' bugs
[PATCH] found cause of 'crash on send' bugs
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.24.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal critical
: ---
Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
: 508238 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-03-09 06:15 UTC by Jason Clinton
Modified: 2012-06-16 22:49 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.23/2.24


Attachments
Fix (1.07 KB, patch)
2007-02-09 12:08 UTC, Sankar P
rejected Details | Review

Description Jason Clinton 2006-03-09 06:15:50 UTC
Steps to reproduce:
I don't know wether this is the root cause of all of the crash on send bugs
which are open but I can reproduce this 100% of the time.

What you need to reproduce:
1. a domain with hostname wildcards (where *.domainname.com all point to the
same IP)

Background:
I have been using IMAP mail on my own domain "jasonclinton.com"; I recently
moved the IMAP server to "mail.jasonclinton.com". This caused the 'crash on
send' bug to start.

Steps to reproduce:
1. add a new IMAP account account
2. sent the "Sent Mail Folder" to something on the IMAP server
3. in the IMAP account properties, change the hostname of the IMAP server

The crash is occuring because the camel provider URI's for the Sent mail folder
are still pointing to the old domain name. In my case, they were pointing to
"jasonclinton.com" instead of the new "mail.jasonclinton.com".

Steps to stop crashing and get a meaningful error message:
1. delete the .evolution/mail/imap/username@OLDdomain.com folder

Steps to resolve entirely:
1. manually reconfigure the Sent mail folder so that the internally stored URI
points to the new domain name

Stack trace:
No stack trace.

Other information:
Hope this helps the several people who have open bug reports on send mail crashing.
Comment 1 Poornima 2006-08-14 08:10:28 UTC
Jason:Thanks for reproting bug. Attach stack traces of crash. Refer to http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces to get stack traces with debug info.
Comment 2 Jason Clinton 2006-08-14 14:28:19 UTC
Seeing as how it took 5 months and several e-d-s releases for someone to get around to even triaging this bug, it seems relatively unlikely that anyone will do anything about it. It would be a momentous amount of work for me to downgrade to the reported version. It should be obvious from the above description how to reproduce it. If indeed someone cares, they can generate the stack trace.

I don't want to spend the time to do it only to have it sit here for another 5 months.
Comment 3 Sankar P 2007-02-09 12:08:12 UTC
 May not be the reason for all the crashes on send. A good find though.
Comment 4 Sankar P 2007-02-09 12:08:52 UTC
Created attachment 82220 [details] [review]
Fix
Comment 5 Srinivasa Ragavan 2007-02-12 11:39:16 UTC
Varadha: Can you review Sankar's patch?
Comment 6 Srinivasa Ragavan 2007-04-05 08:33:45 UTC
Why do you check for mbox only? What about other types of accounts.
Comment 7 Sankar P 2008-05-18 18:08:24 UTC
*** Bug 508238 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 André Klapper 2008-09-28 21:12:03 UTC
*ping* - Srag, Sankar, this patch is waiting for 18 months now. Shall this go in?
Comment 9 Srinivasa Ragavan 2008-09-29 05:45:19 UTC
Andre, I don't think so. It still lacks clarity to me, why its required. 
Comment 10 Matthew Barnes 2012-06-16 22:49:58 UTC
Closing this as OBSOLETE since em-account-editor.c no longer exists.