GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 333983
[PATCH] found cause of 'crash on send' bugs
Last modified: 2012-06-16 22:49:58 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.
Jason:Thanks for reproting bug. Attach stack traces of crash. Refer to http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces to get stack traces with debug info.
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.
May not be the reason for all the crashes on send. A good find though.
Created attachment 82220 [details] [review] Fix
Varadha: Can you review Sankar's patch?
Why do you check for mbox only? What about other types of accounts.
*** Bug 508238 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*ping* - Srag, Sankar, this patch is waiting for 18 months now. Shall this go in?
Andre, I don't think so. It still lacks clarity to me, why its required.
Closing this as OBSOLETE since em-account-editor.c no longer exists.