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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:32:47 -0500 (EST)
From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu>
Subject: Re: Netscape 4.5 mail problem (keep crashing)
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To: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>
Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Peng HaiJie <phj@www.transfar.com>,
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I fixed the problem by selecting the type of mail editor to use as "Text."
The HTML editor always gave me problems.  But if I choose to use the text
mail editor by default, it seems to work fine.  This is set in
Edit|Preferences...|Mail & Newsgroups|Formatting.

Joe Clarke

On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Malartre wrote:

> Greg Lehey wrote:
> > 
> > On Friday,  8 January 1999 at 16:52:58 +0000, Peng HaiJie wrote:
> > > Malartre wrote:
> > >
> > >> Well, I upgraded to Netscape 4.5 on my FreeBSD 2.2.8 system.
> > >> Netscape himself is really more robust.
> > >> But not the mail application. It's nicer, but it keep crashing.
> > >> (exited on signal 10 (core dumped)
> > >> And can someone explain me why both program are in one program? When the
> > >> mail crash, netscape crash too. Argh.
> > >> And sometime, it simply crash when getting mail.
> > >> Am I the only one? Do there is a know problem?
> > >
> > > Try give more memory to yourself ,I'm sure that it would not crash often.
> > >
> > > in login.conf:
> > >
> > > default:\
> > > :cputime=infinity:\
> > > :datasize-cur=40M:\
> > >            ^^^^^^^^
> > > :stacksize-cur=8M:\
> > > :memorylocked-cur=10M:\
> > > :memoryuse-cur=30M:\
> > > :filesize=infinity:\
> > > :coredumpsize=infinity:\
> > > :maxproc-cur=256:\
> > > :openfiles-cur=256:\
> > > :priority=0:\
> > > :requirehome@:\
> > > :umask=022:\
> > > :tc=auth-defaults:
> > 
> > I don't use (nor recommend) netscape mail, but I had a visitor who
> > did, and he reported the same problems.  I checked login.conf, and
> > datasize-cur was set to 64 MB.  So if the problem is memory, you'll
> > need even more.
> > 
> > Greg
> > --
> > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers
> > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key
> And how about
> xuser:\
>         :manpath=/usr/share/man /usr/X11R6/man /usr/local/man:\
>         :cputime=4h:\
>         :datasize=12M:\
> ?
> I will change to 24M.
> Anyway, is there a way to know "why it crashed"? I mean, netscape.core
> is not created for nothing, neh?
> -- 
> [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/]
> [French piss me off - Cartman, South Park]
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