Re: Balsa crashes on virus-laden emails

[Wesley Haines <kremit wrpn net>]

> > >  Ironically, Balsa seems to crash on the latest Email viruses (Windoze  of   
> > > course) going around. Someone who has my email address in their  address  
> > > book  is infected and the virus is obviously emailing itself to me a  
> > > couple  of  times.  If I turn off the preview  pane (Preferences -->  
> > > Display --> Show  preview pane)  Balsa doesn't crash, so it looks like  
> > > something is happening with the  parsing  of the message body. I have to  
> > > turn off the preview pane so I can  move  the  message to Trash.
> > >  If someone wants a copy of the email(s) that are causing the crash,   
> > > please let  me know and I will forward them.
> >
> > I cannot reproduce the crash with soon-to-be 2.2.1 and FC2. Which balsa  
> > version do you use?
>
> 2.2.0 (RPM) on FC2. It might be fixed in the latest version then, I'll have  
> to wait for 2.2.1 and see.

Looks like it's fixed in 2.2.1... no more crashing on viewing those messages.

Thanks!


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Wesley Haines
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