Bug 167584

Summary: selecting big mail eats all RAM and swap
Product: [Applications] kmail Reporter: Łukasz Ligowski <orangewarrior>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Łukasz Ligowski 2008-07-28 13:21:24 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 3.5.9)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:                Linux

I use maildir's.

steps to reproduce:

1. receive mail with huge mime-encoded attatchement (I've got 600MB one)
2. select unread message 
3. kmail eats all RAM and starts swapping (I've got 2GB of ram)

conclusion:
1. there's no chance to know if you got such weird mail until you try to open it (and then it's hard to know what's going on without manually checking mail)
2. when trying to delete it, it needs to be selected, but this triggers swapping

workaround:
1. move mail from maildir somewhere else
2. use "head" to read the mail ;)

expected behaviour:
1. kmail opens mail without showing attatchements
1. kmail allows to select message without eating so much RAM
Comment 1 Bram Schoenmakers 2008-07-28 16:40:16 UTC 
@Bug triagers: hasn't this been reported before? Can't find a similar bug.
Comment 2 Thomas McGuire 2008-07-28 16:46:47 UTC 
> @Bug triagers: hasn't this been reported before? Can't find a similar bug. 
Common problem in KMail, has been reported quite often actually. A 600MB mail would certainly not work correctly.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 110574 ***