From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 11 19:39:56 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA18947 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 19:39:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA18938 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 19:39:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA19099; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 14:09:16 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id OAA33725; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 14:09:16 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 14:09:16 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Joe Marcus Clarke Cc: Malartre , Peng HaiJie , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape 4.5 mail problem (keep crashing) Message-ID: <19990112140916.R8886@freebie.lemis.com> References: <369ABC4C.3A48CF70@aei.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Joe Marcus Clarke on Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 10:32:47PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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