From: Steve Wampler (swampler@noao.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 20 1999 - 11:09:38 CDT
I've got some, uh, rather large email folders that I've
been trying to convert to html with hypermail. I've been
tyring the newer alpha releases because of the MIME support,
but see lots of problems with header parsing. The results
vary with the type/size of folder, but I see:
- segmentation faults part-way through the mail
(one case is on email message 340, another folder
has if on message 94)
- quietly dropped email - one 2.6MB folder with 700+
messages results (quite nicely, however, no seg
fault) in 3 email messages being extracted and
converted - these are not the first three, or last
three, but three messages from the middle of the
file - they are not consecutive messages either.
Another (much smaller, with only 9 email messages)
file calmly produces no email extracted.
I've applied the patch to 2.0a18 to remove the spurious
"level" argument in the threadprint.c file, incidently.
2.0a15 shows similar (identical, in fact) problems.
Now, just to confuse things, 2.0a3 has no problem extracting
the messages correctly.
What these folders all have in common is that they are
folders holding copies of *outgoing* mail. I don't think
I've seen the problem on folders on incoming mail (though
none of those folders are as big on my system).
Is anyone else seeing this?
-- Steve Wampler- SOLIS Project, National Solar Observatory swampler@noao.edu