[ale] binhex attachments and Evolution 1.0

[Chris Woodruff]

I also submitted the bug so maybe it will be fixed quicker.  Seems like
Evolution thinks it is a graphic file but doesn't know anything about
the format so it crashes.  The best result would be that it would
internally decide it is not a acceptable format and treat it like a
typical attachment.

Otherwise Evolution has worked flawlessly.  Good product.

Chris Woodruff

On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 10:23, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Wow! What a bug!
> 
> The binhex attachment from the aler needing help opening the PICT file
> has consistently crashed the Evolution mail section every time I tried
> to do anything with the email. The retrieval to delete it and subsequent
> crash indicates that evolution may wind up succeptable to similar types
> of email bugs that M$ Outlook has. If one must open the email to delete
> it that violates any sense of mail security. 
> 
> I have reported the bug to Ximian. Unfortunatly, it appears to be a more
> fundamental design flaw. Maybe a single click to select the message in
> the index view for moving and file operations, and a double click to
> open.
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