Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 14:09:16 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@miami.edu> Cc: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>, Peng HaiJie <phj@www.transfar.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape 4.5 mail problem (keep crashing) Message-ID: <19990112140916.R8886@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9901112231170.31573-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu>; from Joe Marcus Clarke on Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 10:32:47PM -0500 References: <369ABC4C.3A48CF70@aei.ca> <Pine.OSF.4.05.9901112231170.31573-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu>
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On Monday, 11 January 1999 at 22:32:47 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > 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. >> >> 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? > > I fixed the problem by selecting the type of mail editor to use as "Text." > The HTML editor always gave me problems. So it should do. It gives the recipients problems too. Please use HTML for web pages, and text for mail. > 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. This is apparently not the problem that my friend had. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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