[SOLVED] SimpleMail Corruption...

Dear All,

I'm been using SimpleMail for quite some time... But (and it's the second time) it got corrupted !
I managed to launch it, but as soon as I click "Fetch", I have a DSI error, and I can not kill it... After a ahile the A1 generally freeze as well !

Did anyone else ever got that problem ?

Jerry

@AmiGame

Sorry, thankfully mine is working correctly. You updated any MUI libs or such like lately?

@AmiGame

using latest simplemail too but no corruption so far, and I do regular backups

@AmiGame
happened to me a couple of times. I don't think it is SimpleMail's fault. It is usually caused by a message that has been fetched and which contains maybe spyware or worse. I manually delete the offending message from the inbox folder before starting Simplemail after a fast reboot.

@Swisso

Thanks. I will try that tonight or tomorrow. That might well be the problem indeed !

@Mikey_C
After the first corruption a couple of weeks ago, I had my AOS4: partition entering a validation state which then corrupted my MUI folder (impossible to open it then)... After restoring a "fairly" old MUI backed up folder (about 6 months old), I managed to restore my system to its normal self...

Jerry

@Swisso
I guess this is a case where full memory protection would be a good thing, because the problem isn't strictly speaking SimpleMail's fault. Although it should really do better input validation...

Perhaps something to add SimpleMail's bug tracker?

@AmiGame
You might want to hook up a serial cable and see if you get anything out that way. When an application freezes input.device you have no way to interact with the reaper.

@All,

Thanks all. After removing a few recent email from the incoming email folder (physical folder not through SimpleMail), no more problems !

The emails causing me trouble were Emails with a PPS attached from a trusted source (no virus detected when I opened it on the wimpblows machine with Avast AV loaded)...

Jerry

@All

I just changed the Thread Title to "SOLVED"...

Now this corruption... Could it be caused by the attachment being too large (I think it was over 2MB) ?

Jerry

@AmiGame

Well, I had this "corruption" from time to time in the past and I had the deep impression that it originated from the HTML view part of SimpleMail.

Size seemed to be no point, as I had this corruption even with very small mails (there was a very small mail breaking SimpleMail, something about 2K of size). For the last months, the corruption problem didn't occur for me anymore, don't know exactly what the reason is.

But I can tell you that PPS files are not the cause, because I received several PPS, even very big ones, and SimpleMail doesn't crash because of them.

Regards