This is from a Mandrake mailing list. I wanted to point this out to the
developers and let them know that an audit might be in order to
verify/disprove that this exists in other config options as well (the
segfault on a blank option).
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I just wanted to update the group on this issue.
For those of you that use Mutt, you know how customizable it is via
your .muttrc file. Well that's where the problem was.
In the .muttrc you can specify who you are, your email address and the
organization that you belong to. The lines would look something like
this.
my_hdr From: Tim Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
my_hdr Organization: UNIXTECHS ORG
my_hdr Reply-To: Tim Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Well there's often another line in the .muttrc that tell tells it to
remove
all "extra" headers as well. That looks like this.
unmy_hdr *
Well, from what I've been told by others, if you have the line for
unmy_hdr
in your .muttrc, it will ignore error messages that you may have from
reading
the .muttrc.
That's what allowed the problem to slip through, but the problem was
caused
by the line for Organization. If you leave my_hdr Organization: blank,
it
causes an error. It will allow you to open your mailbox and move around
in
them and read messages, and even right them, but as soon as you try and
send
them, you recieve a lovely segment fault, and sometimes a core is
dumped.
Instead of just ignoring the blank field is dies on you. Personally
this being
the case is completely retarded, but that's just me. I spent almost an
entire
day trying to figure out why I had two users, that would continue to get
segment
faults each time they sent mail. But 5 other users were just fine!
That's what
pointed me towards the .muttrc.
After rebuilding my .muttrc file line by line, (Which was a pain in the
@%$ if you
ask me!) and finally found that it was the Organization line that was
causing my
problem. I removed that line, and the problem is gone. I think the
people with
mutt were retarded for doing that! But again... that's just me.
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