Re: Balsa crashes when receiving email

[Paulo Andre' <l16083 alunos uevora pt>]

On 2002.01.18 08:21 Pawel Salek wrote:

> As always with autoconf-generated configure scripts, check contents 
> of config.log file. The configure script basically tries to link a 
> dummy object file with libesmtp.(a|so). Assuming that you installed 
> libestmp in /usr/local/lib, and libraries in this directory are not 
> taken into consideration by your ld, you may want to run
> LIBS=-L/usr/local/lib ./configure <options>
> instead.

As a matter of fact, I have libesmtp correctly installed in /usr/lib. 
This happens as I always use --prefix=/usr for apps/libs I'm building 
from source (as I do all the time).

> We should probably use libesmtp-config to determine the location of 
> the libesmtp library.

[balsa]$ libesmtp-config --version
0.8.8
[balsa]$ ls -al /usr/lib | grep esmtp
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jan  1 20:28 esmtp-plugins
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       313178 Jan  1 20:28 libesmtp.a
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          724 Jan  1 20:28 libesmtp.la
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           17 Jan  1 20:28 libesmtp.so -> 
libesmtp.so.5.0.8
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           17 Jan  1 20:28 libesmtp.so.5 
-> libesmtp.so.5.0.8
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       168426 Jan  1 20:28 
libesmtp.so.5.0.8

It's all there as you can see. And this is the same libesmtp I was 
running before with no problems whatsoever. I did actually 
--enable-require-all-recipients (otherwise it wouldn't even build) and 
I ran `ldconfig'.

> Apart from this, the error you experience seems strange. I am using 
> daily balsa with POP and never saw something like this. I am tempted 
> to blame it on library mess (I do not know which distribution do you 
> use but it is easy to make one by abusing rpm --nodeps on RPM-based 
> systems). Anyway, I look forward to more information from you.

I retrieve email from three different POP servers. As I said it crashes 
when there IS mail to be retrieved and it crashes just before the 
'checking mail' mini-window should have gone away, ie. instead of 
getting closed, it crashes. So it is after I get the last email from 
the last POP server.

It is indeed strange. I find it even more strange as it DID NOT happen 
prior to me reinstalling my system from scratch.If it helps I'm running 
Debian 2.2 stable, but half of it is not debian anymore as I've built 
most things from source afterwards. I'd also hint it is library mess. 
I'm going to look into it and I'll provide you with further information 
on this one if needed and as soon as possible.

Thank you both for your replies.

// Paulo Andre'