I'm unable to reproduce this with mutt 1.3.11i. Have you tried to
reproduce it? Do you have a few short lines I can add to my muttrc to
reproduce it?
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 02:54:44PM -0700, CB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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).
>
> ------------>Forwarded message
> 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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Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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