Riccardo, IIRC while solving some inline image crashes, I came across a similiar issue. For that I added a free function to the puri, which gets called when the puri is freed. You can see em-format.h:119
You can use this to achieve what you need. -Srini On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 19:54 +0100, Riccardo Lancellotti wrote: > Hi. > I am working on the next release of the patch to show the contact photo > of the "from:" address in the mail messages (bug #360184). > > I have some doubt about how memory is managed during mail message > formatting. > If I am not wrong, the formatting of single elements such as icons is > asynchronous and is managed through em_format_add_puri(), where > em_format_add_puri requests a CamelMimePart object as a parameter > > Now the critical question: I create a CamelMimePart object from a memory > buffer obtained from e-d-s interaction (the contact photo from the > addressbook). The EContactPhoto is not a GObject, but just a struct that > I must free on my own (no g_objet_unref magic can help me). > > The problem is that I have not a clear idea on *when* g_free must be > called. > Freeing memory in the main thread is not a good idea and leads to random > crashes (especially when reading mailing lists in digest mode -- tried > on the currently available patch). > *Not* freeing memory seems to be even worse because it looks like a > memory leak. > > Is there some document that helps me understand the inner details of > mail message formatting? Do you have any advice? > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-hackers mailing list > Evolution-hackers@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers