the message did appear already some time ago. Jérôme was asking you to send him that message to jerome at ctmdev dot com. I have the impression you have a serious problem with your mail-server or your mail-setup and not with PM itself. Maybe even a problem with your Mac?
All the best Matthias ----------------------------------------------- Admilon Consulting GmbH http://www.admilon.com Tel. +81-736-56-3905 ----------------------------------------------- Am/On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:41:48 +0200 schrieb/wrote Mikael Byström: >For some reason this earlier message didn't appear onlist for me, nor do >I have any testers inquiring. I'm hoping the message disappeared, so I >resend it here: > > >I managed to isolate one specific message and discovered that this >message CAN BE RENDERED in Mail! So there's no system level problem! >It's PowerMail! Also, there's NO SPAMSIEVE involved! It's the rendering. > >I also tried importing this message into a new fresh otherwise empty >database under a new user. Same crash! > >Next step is to check if this is true also on other Mac OS X machines. >If not I'll check fonts etc on my machine. Stay tuned. > >Any volunteers for testing this specific message on their machines? In a >new database of course, carefully evaluating the results. > > >Initial message supplied as background: > >> >>Since june this year I've been in a recurring battle with the gremlins >>of email that for some reason, which seem to involve rendering of asian >>fonts, appeared in many many spam messages in one of my email accounts. >>I'm assuming the messages are asian langu >>age spam. I've no way of telling for sure what's going on. >> >>What's worse is that beside making a backup prior to every email fetch - >>and accepting all real messages will be lost unless they are saved on >>the server, which cause other problems (see my concerns since a few >>years) -there's no way to recover the DB. It >>just won't help to rebuild, not even deep rebuild. On start, just when >>the main window is drawn it crashes. >> >>Anyway, as a crash seems inevitable in this account I can't live with >>this situation any longer. For the time being I'm connecting and >>deleting all spam messages by hand instead, but this is quite tedious >>and if I make the mistake to check this account eve >>n once I lose my DB again. >> >>The earlier crashes was recovered with PowerMail Salvage, but while it's >>great I get the messages back its operation also takes time and fusing >>the (newly arrived) recovered messages with a backup of the DB creates a >>long line of problem, including umlauts >> being destroyed beyond recovery and also bring an element of >>uncertainty to the removal of unavoidable duplicate messages (which I >>have an applescript that does). >> >>I have not reported this to CTM as doing so and volunteering to bug test >>and look for probable causes seems to be a futile action, for my range >>of problems at least. >> >>What I'm planning to do is closing the account since 6 years. But what I >>do when these types of email hit my other accounts? What other choice do >>I have beside abandoning PowerMail? Unless this problem is stopped now, >>this is what I'm looking at and if so >>chances are this problem may affect all of you sooner or later. >> >>I do realize that chances are that if SpamSieve was better at catching >>these messages they wouldn't even show up in the inbox, which seems to >>be when they crash. But I would still crash when I looked over what >>SpamSieve had put in the spam folder and in th >>e trash. Meaning I would risk losing real messages, which needless to >>say is unacceptable. > > >
