Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.8) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages OS: Linux Linux adept 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux kontact 4:3.5.7enterprise20070926-0ubuntu2 kmail 4:3.5.7enterprise20070926-0ubuntu2 libqt3-mt 3:3.3.8really3.3.7-0ubuntu11.1 *how to reproduce* : 1) put this into /tmp/article.cfm (using kwrite for example) : <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd\"> <html xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"> <head> </head> <body> </body> </html> 1.1) Save the file :) 2) open kmail 3) click on the "New Message" button 4) drag /tmp/article.cfm in the new message, select "Add as attachement" 5) double click on the article.cfm _in_the_message_your_are_editing_with_kmail_ 6) click on OK when the a message appear "KMail is unable to detect when the choosen editor is closed. To avoid data loss, editing the attachment will be aborted." 7) crash :) here is the backtrace : (no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1". 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() #88 0xb66cbaf0 in QApplication::internalNotify () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #89 0xb66cd91f in QApplication::notify () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #90 0xb6e91ca2 in KApplication::notify () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4 #91 0xb665e209 in QApplication::sendEvent () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #92 0xb66ccb28 in QApplication::sendPostedEvents () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #93 0xb66ccc30 in QApplication::sendPostedEvents () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #94 0xb6672101 in QEventLoop::processEvents () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #95 0xb66e61ce in QEventLoop::enterLoop () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #96 0xb66e5fde in QEventLoop::exec () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #97 0xb66cd699 in QApplication::exec () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #98 0x0805bfe5 in ?? () #99 0xbfeea0dc in ?? () #100 0x00000001 in ?? () #101 0x00000001 in ?? () #102 0x00000000 in ?? ()
I can't reproduce using the steps you posted. After clicking OK, KMail does not crash for me. Please try a newer version of KMail, I think the edit attachment feature was work in progress at the time of your version. If you can still reproduce it with a newer enterprise version, please reopen.