Icedove+Gmail IMAP: crashing when reading message

Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
>> Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
>>
>>> Has anybody tried gmail's IMAP interface in icedove? In my case,
>>> icedove
>>> is able to retrieve the message headers, but crashes as soon as I
>>> attempt to read a message.
>>>
>>> I am using icedove 2.0.0.6-1 on sid.
>>>
>>
>> Try running iceweasel with the -safe-mode option and see if the
>> problem is
>> reproducible then also.
>>
>
> Thanks for the tip. Iceweasel stopped crashing in safe-mode. I have
> then disabled all addons and enabled them one at a time to determine
> what is causing the crash. It turned out that the "Reply to list"
> extension was the culprit. Updating the extension did not help, so I
> just disabled it. It was not working anyway. Now icedove appears to be
> happy :)
Yes I discovered that a couple of days ago, the mail function was ok but
if I tried
to access a news group Iceweasel just ground to a halt, strange, I have
never been
able to get that extension working on any version of T'bird/Iceweasel on
any OS.

>
> Still having to manually delete the "To:" address after hitting
> "Reply-to-all" though.
>
> Thanks,
> Raj Kiran
>
>

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Bill

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Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:

> Still having to manually delete the "To:" address after hitting
> "Reply-to-all" though.
>

Try knode instead of icedove. It has better support for mailing lists. In
particular, you can have a shortcut to reply to a post and it gets sent to
the mailing list automatically.

hth
raju
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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/

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