When an app crashes, you should be getting a little dialog box with
the option to send a problem report of some kind to Apple. Send in the
report. This sends in some diagnostic details about Mail.app state
when the crash occurred to Apple. Like crash reports are grouped
together in a database and in a few weeks someone inside Apple gets a
automated bug report with a title something like "172 crashes in
_funcname" along with some crash stack backtraces. If you have the
opportunity to do so, please also send in information about what steps
you can take to reproduce the crash. Usually, the hardest thing about
fixing bugs is reproducing them.
If you are a software developer registered with ADC you can short
circuit the process and directly file a bug through
bugreporter.apple.com. Please attach a crash log and explain how to
reproduce the problem.
This one sounds serious enough that it might be a candidate for a
quick fix for the next MacOS X.4 support update, provided that the
right people find out about it soon enough.
Ian
On Jul 7, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Douglas L. Theobald wrote:
Hey, I have the exact same problem. I haven't been able to read
SMIME signed/encrypted emails now for some time (Mail just
crashes). It is an intel apple bug of some sort. If you find the
email in ~/Library/Mail, you can plain text cut out the sig and read
the email. [Ick] This is especially annoying since apple Mail used
to have such nice native integration of SMIME.
