GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 271295
Spam with Bcc line over 900KB nearly kills evolution
Last modified: 2014-12-02 01:08:18 UTC
No idea how the Bcc: field made it to my mbox, but evolution takes minutes on my Athlon 2500+, 1.5 GB of RAM to receive/process it and many more minutes when I ask to delete it. I'm attaching the compressed SPAM (well I hope bugzilla will let me do that).
Created attachment 44565 [details] The compressed SPAM as found in .evolution/mail/local/FOLDER
this is actually a rendering issue
Here are my SuSE 9.2 versions for gtkhtml RPMs: libgtkhtml-2.6.1-3 gtkhtml2-3.2.2-3 Hope this helps
i imported that test message to evo2.4.0 (whatever that format is, i got the message by running "less message.compressed > message.uncompressed"), running an 1.7GHz Pentium M and 512MB RAM here, with some other processes (namely firefox, gaim, kword, xmms, nedit) running here, evolution became unresponsible after 3 minutes and 10 seconds. killed evolution after five further minutes. adding perf keyword, retargetting to 2.5.
Andre: While I tried to import the saved message using File->Import option, it did not succeed. Basically, in next tab of import single file, even on selecting the file, the file type shows greyed out, and Forward button remains disabled. Could you please let know how you imported the message ?
Created attachment 53071 [details] uncompressed mail freezing evolution hi kaushal, sure. :-) either see my comment #4 or just use the message i'm attaching here.
reopening due to attachment
Uhm... 'less'? Uhm... Trying to import a gzip'd file? Dudes... Just use 'gunzip'. (Yeah, less pretends to be smart.) $ file zspam.gz zspam.gz: gzip compressed data, was "zspam", from Unix, max compression
also see bug 337439, bug 343424, and bug 273171
retargetting.
Moving milestone.
Displaying the mail in comment 6 works fine with WebKit rendering in 3.5.1-pre as it only displays a very limited number of the addresses in BCC, plus a huge cursor is blinking at the left of the mail header box. Looks like a small bug.
Since version 3.6, Evolution uses WebKit instead of GtkHtml for displaying messages. (And for completeness, Evolution 3.14 is planned to use WebKit also for composing and editing messages so GtkHtml will not receive any fixes anymore.) Hence I am closing this GtkHtml rendering bug report. We are sorry that your request was not handled in time when it was reported but unfortunately manpower is very limited (and does not allow testing every single reported issue separately again either). Please feel free to reopen this report (and move it to the "Evolution" product and the "Mail" component) if the problem described in this bug report still happens in a recent supported Evolution version which uses WebKit (the current stable Evolution version is 3.12).