I sent a little love note to Cox Communications about a rogue machine they had spewing Mytob garbage at my mail server. I sent them excerpts from my log files, and identified the machine name and IP. The problem is that their mail daemon sends back an auto-response with my original message attached. Whenever I try to view that message in Thunderbird, TB segfaults. It only happens with that message, no others. Thunderbird Version: mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin-1.0.6-r3 Extensions: Enigmail 0.92.0 Message contents to follow in an attachment. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start Thunderbird 2. Open Inbox 3. Open Message Actual Results: When the segfault occurs after launching from KDE, Thunderbird simply closes and pops up the Netscape Quality Agent. When the segfault occurs after launching from a shell, I get this: mailCharsetLoadListener: ISO-8859-1 /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 116: 13986 Segmentation fault "$mozbin" "$@" thunderbird-bin exited with non-zero status (139) Expected Results: No segfault, just mail-reading goodness. Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j6" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.davidandgoliathtees.com/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apache2 avi berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin cdr chroot crypt cups curl dga divx4linux dv dvd dvdr eds emboss encode faad fam flac foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gimpprint gstreamer gtk gtk2 icq imagemagick imap imlib innodb java jpeg junit kde lcms ldap lesstif libg++ libwww live mad maildir mmx mng mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg msn mysql ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin odbc ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime radeon readline samba sdl sensord softmmu spell sse ssl svg svga symlink tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales v4l v4l2 visualization vorbis xml xml2 xmms xscreensaver xv xvid zlib video_cards_radeon userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Created attachment 67827 [details] Thunderbird Inbox File This is the Inbox file from my Thunderbird profile. The Inbox only contains the one message, but because the total size of the message is rather lengthy (~230K), it's gzip'ed and provided here as an attachment.
I noticed today that I get the same segfault when opening the original email from the Sent Items folder. Obviously, this email was composed within Thunderbird. I sent out another, similar notice to Cox, since the spam traffic from the same IP address is ongoing, and Thunderbird segfaults on that one, too. The original email, attached to this bug was 211K, which included a text/plain attachment. The most recent message I sent to Cox was over 700K, also including a text/plain attachment. I was holding off on reporting this bug upstream, since I'm using a -bin ebuild.
If it's a -bin ebuild, then that's definately an upstream issue. Using mozilla-thunderbird-1.5.0.7, I was able to view the email without any issues. The steps I took: 1. Downloaded and decompressed the attachment here. 2. Renamed the output to have a .eml extension 3. In Thunderbird: clicked File, Open Saved Message..., picked out the .eml file in question The email was successfully displayed in a new window. Can you try with a newer release of Thunderbird and/or try the source release rather than the binary release? If the source version works but the binary version still fails, then you may need to take this upstream to Mozilla.
Actually, I've been doing both for the past 6 months. I'm running Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 from source, and it seems to have no problem opening the file. This bug may be more academic than anything now, particularly considering the original was discovered under the now obsolete 1.0.6. I'm willing to let it go, but I don't know if any Gentoo users are still using the older version.
Fair enough. Well, for now I'll mark it RESO::WORKSFORME. If you strike further problems, feel free to re-open the bug.
