Re: image in email causes emacs crash (SEGV/hang)

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From: Kevin Rodgers
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 15:36

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Ronan Waide wrote:
 > the email message at http://www.waider.ie/misc/EMACSCRASHINATOR when
 > viewed in VM with the appended settings causes one of two fatal Emacs
 > events: a SEGV somewhere deep within X Image handling, or a hang. It
 > decodes the first two strips of the image and displays them before
 > this happens.

What happens if you set vm-mime-display-image-strips-incrementally to
nil?

What happens if you set vm-mime-use-image-strips to nil?

 > I'm sending this to both VM and Emacs bug report
 > addresses as VM should possibly be aware of it but Emacs should not be
 > crashing, either.

I didn't see your report on gnu.emacs.vm.bug, but I'm posting this there
(and sending to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org).

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

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