mutt/2802: Mutt *very* slow reading mails with long header lines
>Number: 2802
>Category: mutt
>Synopsis: Mutt *very* slow reading mails with long header lines
>Confidential: no
>Severity: normal
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: mutt-dev
>State: open
>Keywords:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Tue Feb 27 19:05:01 +0100 2007
>Originator: Christoph Berg <cb@xxxxxxxx>
>Release:
>Description:
The following was submitted as Debian bug #290701:
----- Forwarded message from Steve McIntyre <steve@xxxxxxxxxx> -----
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 01:08:58 +0000
From: Steve McIntyre <steve@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: 290701@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: submit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Mutt *very* slow reading some mails
Package: mutt
Version: 1.5.6-20040907+2
Mutt stops responding to me when trying to open certain (spam)
messages. I've attached a gzipped example. strace shows large numbers
of mremap() calls going on, which suggests maybe lots of memory
allocations. The mail has a *very* long line in the Bcc: header, which
I'm guessing may be the cause.
Of course, I don't want to actually read this mail, but mutt should be
better behaved. After waiting a couple of minutes, I killed the mutt
process and had a look at this mail using less instead.
--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@xxxxxxxxxx
Is there anybody out there?
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