Re[2]: plea

> On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:48:00 -0500 Alan G Isaac <[email protected]> wrote: 
>> I am hoping that someone will soon alter the code that 
>> determines Mahogany's behavior when a new message arrives in 
>> an open IMAP mailbox.  The current behavior, as I have 
>> reported before, often causes a crash. 


On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Xavier Nodet apparently wrote: 
> I don't remember this report.  Could you please re-state the problem, or 
> provide a link in the archive?  Thanks.  
> Note that I don't use IMAP, so I will probably not be able to help... 


Essentially, if new mail arrives in an IMAP box while that 
box is open in Mahogany, a crash is very likely.  This has 
been true for some time and remains true in the most recent 
Windows snapshot.

In the past I reported this and provide links to the dmp 
files:
http://www.american.edu/econ/problems/mdump.htm
Hopefully that information is useful.
Thanks for anything you can do!

If I were to guess, I'd guess its a malloc problem:
something has a different size than expected, and for
some reason this is hit when M tries to update the folder 
view.

Separately:

The new crash reporting procedure is inconvenient.
1. M tries to send the report by email, but the email 
   bounces.
2. Alternatively M stores the report on disk, but in 
   contrast with the old practice of naming the .dmp file 
   with the date and time the .dmp file is now put an 
   a directory that is named by date and time. The .dmp file 
   (and associated xml file) no longer have a unique name,
   and the files are much less convenient to upload this 
   way.  Please keep all the files in a single directory and 
   give the files the date-time-stamped names!

Thanks,
Alan






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