> ----- Original Message ----- > From: guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: evolution-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: [Evolution] Evolution not working - can't find a solution! > Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 21:04:11 +0200 > > > On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 16:56 +0100, Peter Barnes wrote: > [...] > > > If it is the Mailer component crashing, a common cause is a > > > particular mail that crashes while being rendered. To prevent > > > rendering of the mail, you can disable the preview pane and set the > > > message display to 'source', which will display the raw message. > > > > Disable the preview pane: > > > $ gconftool-2 --set > > /apps/evolution/mail/display/show_preview --type bool 0 > > > > Display the raw source message: > > > $ gconftool-2 --set > > /apps/evolution/mail/display/message_style --type int 2 > > > > Thanks for the help Andre. I tried the individual components and it > > was the mail causing the problem. > > > > Then I disabled the preview pane and set the message display to > > 'source' in the way you suggested. I could then open Evo without > > getting a warning message. I tried opening all the mail messages from > > the last download. All opened OK except the one at the top of my list > > which I assume was the last one to download. When I clicked on this it > > gave the dreaded warning message, so I closed and opened Evo again and > > deleted it. > > > > This message, as I have mentioned elsewhere, was a press release from > > a respectable German manufacturing company and I have opened and read > > it on a Windows PC. The only things I could see that might be regarded > > as potential trouble were the facts that it had an umlaut in the title > > and that it had five attached files amounting to several MB in total > > size. But surely Evo can cope with this? So perhaps it was nothing to > > do with the message itself. > > Yes, it can. :) > > Neither of those facts seems to be the issue here. If you still have > that mail somewhere, I'd like to have a look at it (if it does not > contain sensitive data). The *raw* mail, that is.
Guenther, I put in the account the details and got back to normal. The email is in Trash so I guess it may be possible to let you have it - but I've gone and got myself back into the problem again! To see if the offending email was there, in the View menu I switched off Preview and switched on Message headers, then opened the Trash folder. It was there and I clicked it once - no problem. Clicked it twice to view it and got the warning message and could only close Evo. I opened Evo again and decided the best thing was to ask you what to do with the message. But that's when I went wrong - I guess I'm getting tired. To revert to normal, I went to the View menu and switched Preview on and Message headers off. But I forgot I still had the Trash folder set and the "bad" email was still selected in the list! I've used the commands again as above: Disable the preview pane: > > > $ gconftool-2 --set > > /apps/evolution/mail/display/show_preview --type bool 0 > > > > Display the raw source message: > > > $ gconftool-2 --set > > /apps/evolution/mail/display/message_style --type int 2 but they don't work now. When I start Evo, the Preview pane is still open and the warning message appears and freezes everything. Do I need different commands because the Trash folder is open? When I get Evo back to normal I will forward the offending email if you can explain the best (safest!) way to do it. Thanks, Peter -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 8 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list