Hi again,
the problem suddenly solved itself. Mozilla no longer crashes when
viewing these mails and I can now post in this newsgroup as well.
Weird...
However the problem _really_ did exist at some point, and Talkback
documented these crashes...
bye,
Tillmann
Tillmann Steinbrecher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Mozilla crashes when trying to view certain emails which I have already
> downloaded from a POP3 server. So far that has only happened with emails
> that contain attachments.
>
> One of the emails contained the SirCam virus - no problem so far, not
> important. However, another email apparently contained important
> information from a business partner. And, I can't read the email but I
> really have to. Anybody got a suggestion what I could do to get Mozilla
> to display this email anyways (please no suggestions like "install NS4,
> copy the mail file to the nsmail dir, and view it with NS4", I don't
> feel like copying around a 200MB email file just to read a single
> email!)
>
> Also, is there a bug # for this so that I can vote for it? I didn't find
> any on Bugzilla. With this bug present, Mozilla mail is just plain
> useless for production work.
>
> BTW there's also another bug which is not quite as fatal but still
> annoying - Mozilla sometimes crashes when trying to reply certain
> messages in HTML format.
>
> PS: I'm using Mozilla 0.93 under Debian Linux 2.2 (in order to post this
> message I'm using NS4 because Mozilla Mailnews also crashes when trying
> to post to this newsgroup - other newsgroups on other servers work
> fine).
>
> best regards,
> Tillmann
>
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