[Alpine-info] Re: Unexpected exit on opening certain message

[Doug Barton]

On 09/06/2010 10:21 PM, Mike Miller wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Sep 2010, Doug Barton wrote:

>

>> On 9/6/2010 7:22 PM, Mike Miller wrote:

>>> On Mon, 6 Sep 2010, Doug Barton wrote:

>>>

>>>> On 09/06/2010 08:02 AM, Mike Miller wrote:

>>>>

>>>>> That message has a PGP signature. Think that has anything to do

>>>>> with it?

>>>>

>>>> No. Alpine has no knowledge of PGP anything on its own.

>>>

>>> It had help, but the PGP signature in the message was triggering the

>>> crash.

>>

>> Can you explain a little more about how the PGP signature caused the

>> crash? Aside from my natural curiosity, I maintain a set of filters to

>> integrate PGP with Alpine, so you're causing me concern. :)

>

>

> The message by Dan from about 8.5 hours ago noted that he had been

> usiing Alpine 2.00 on Gentoo with a topal patch that they distribute.

> When he recompiled without the patch, the problem went away.

>

> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/phil.brooke/topal/

>

> Somehow the topal "glue" was causing alpine to crash on some messages

> with PGP attachments.


Aha! So it was Topal that caused the crash, triggered by the pgp 
message. Got it, thanks. :)

In case anyone cares, my method doesn't involve patching Alpine, and 
operates strictly on the basis of external programs run either as 
filters or pipes.


Doug

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