Comment 13 for bug 233990

On 2009-03-21 19:53, John Vivirito wrote :
> http://cr.yp.to/docs/smtplf.html does not show a dialog box.
That is obviously not the description of the bug.
It's a description of the rule that Thunderbird is violating.
The bug is described in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/233990
> can you please give us a screenshot of the problem.
>
Do you need any other shot than the error message I attached in
Screenshot-Alert.png?
Feel free to ask a screenshot of a normally running Thunderbird (before
the crash) and/or of an empty desktop (after the crash), I can make them.
> I do not see anything in any of the links that shows us your problem.
>
Do you think the 6 messages like this one in the syslog file excerpt I
attached are normal?
> /var/log/kern.log:May 22 12:36:52 daria-ubuntu kernel: [52297.778220]
> thunderbird-bin[27840]: segfault at 4072c00c eip b6e4f6e4 esp bff1cfb0
> error 4
> what is the bare lf in the example you attached?
A bare linefeed is not a nudist fisher but a LF that is not preceded by
a CR.
In order to find a bare linefeed in the mdnmsg message file I attached,
you need to look inside the file to find it, for example, by doing this :

$ hd mdnmsg
00000000 44 61 74 65 3a 20 54 68 75 2c 20 32 32 20 4d 61 |Date: Thu,
22 Ma|
00000010 79 20 32 30 30 38 20 31 33 3a 31 37 3a 33 35 20 |y 2008
13:17:35 |
00000020 2b 30 32 30 30 0d 0a 46 72 6f 6d 3a 20 41 2e 50
|+0200..From: A.P|
... ----- (fully clothed)
000000b0 70 63 6d 46 79 5a 41 3d 3d 3f 3d 0a 20 3c 41 5f
|pcmFyZA==?=. <A_|
... -- (bare)

Once again, if you showed my bug description to a developer, he would
not ask all those questions but he would make a patch in less than one
hour. Almost one year ago.
I hope you're in the believing state now.
And that the bug is in the confirmed state.
Thank you.