Bug 159214

Summary:	Kmail uses large amount of memory when opening multiply forwarded mails with big atachments (similar to bug 110574)
Product:	[Applications] kmail	Reporter:	Alex Dănilă <alex.danila.web>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Alex Dănilă 2008-03-12 23:06:18 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 3.5.8)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
OS:                Linux

Using kmail 3.5.8

When receiving emails forwarded multiple times which also include large atachments kmail will start to use more and more memory. It gets to aprox 500 MB and maybe would go even more but the swapping makes to computer freeze and I have to kill it.

This looks like
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110574
but it doesn't need such big e-mails, 10 MB is enough. 
Also, kmail is able to work with 20 MB mails, but these where no multiply forwarded. I can provide such an e-mail if needed.

Comment 1 Thomas McGuire 2008-03-13 17:43:55 UTC

Yes, KMail uses too much memory, but that has already been reported in bug 75045 and bug 110574.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75045 ***