tags 307314 + moreinfo thanks Re: David Everly 2005-05-02 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Package: mutt > Version: 1.5.9-1 > Severity: normal > > I have a setup where all my mail goes to a local instance of > courier-imap. Then I use mutt to access this imap server. I have a > habit of leaving mutt running on my INBOX on my local machine. Then at > times during the day I ssh to this machine from whichever unix machine I > happen to be near and start a second instance of mutt. It seems that > because this other machine uses a different locale, this practice > corrupts the header cache and causes a segmentation fault some time > later. Here are the exact steps to reproduce this (for convenience, all > on one machine): > > - set the locale to LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and open mutt to the INBOX on an > imap server > - in another window or terminal, unset any locale (LANG) so that it > defaults to "C" and open a second instance of mutt to the INBOX on > the same imap server > - delete a message on the second instance of mutt > - exit the second instance of mutt > - wait until a new message is received on the first instance > (LANG=en_US.UTF-8) of mutt > - exit the first instance (LANG=en_US.UTF-8) of mutt > - open again the first instance (LANG=en_US.UTF-8) of mutt to the > INBOX on the imap server (this is the point where it will seg fault > unless you delete the header cache)
Hi David, sorry for the late followup - can you still reproduce this crash with recent mutt packages? I just tried here and couldn't. Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/
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