Attaching a 1.2 megabyte jpeg to an email results in the same behaviour. Running karmic beta with updates, evolution 2.28.0-0ubuntu4, kernel 2.6.31-12-generic. In my case I have to hit the power button to regain control. Definitely a showstopper for me.
-- [karmic] attaching certain file causes evolution to choke taking more than 600MB of memory, while composing an e-mail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/393534 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs